A Community-Organizing Approach to Promoting Physical Activity in Older Adults: The Southeast Senior Physical Activity Network

This article describes a community organizing approach to promoting physical activity among underserved older adults in southeast Seattle: the Southeast Senior Physical Activity Network (SESPAN). The organizing strategy involves networking with a variety of community-based organizations, with two br...

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Veröffentlicht in:Health promotion practice 2010-03, Vol.11 (2), p.197-204
Hauptverfasser: Cheadle, Allen, Egger, Ruth, LoGerfo, James P., Walwick, Julie, Schwartz, Sheryl
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This article describes a community organizing approach to promoting physical activity among underserved older adults in southeast Seattle: the Southeast Senior Physical Activity Network (SESPAN). The organizing strategy involves networking with a variety of community-based organizations, with two broad objectives: (a) program objective—to make connections between two (or more) community-based organizations to create senior physical activity programs where none existed before; and (b) coalition objective—to build a broader network or coalition of groups and organizations to assist in making larger scale environmental and policy changes. Networking among organizations led to the creation of a number of potentially sustainable walking and exercise programs that are reaching previously underserved communities within Southeast Seattle. In addition, a major community event led to the establishment of a health coalition that has the potential to continue to generate new broad-based programs and larger scale environmental changes.
ISSN:1524-8399
1552-6372
DOI:10.1177/1524839908318167