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Accountability

  • Monitor and evaluate all components of the project using consistent criteria.
  • Abide by agreed upon standards of operation.
  • Communicate on progress, results, and challenges
  • Use verifiable/defensible claims
  • Hold ourselves to high standards in order to provide our communities with a high level of service
  • Hold ourselves accountable at several levels, including communities, each other, our professions, our funder:
    • Act in the public interest
    • Set measurable outcomes
    • Measure performance against standards articulated in advance
    • Follow informed consent guidelines
    • Be open to verification/confirmation by outside independent organizations
  • Use evidence-based principles to guide our work
  • Establish publication and authorship guidelines
  • Be active and creative in disseminating information to participating communities
  • Make as readily available as possible to the public domain all aspects of CHL including data, programs and publications
  • Welcome criticism as an opportunity for change and improvement

Collaboration, Partnerships, Sharing

  • Collaborate at multiple levels,
  • Work as a team
  • Find common ground (alignment with organizations)
  • Build on capacity of communities, using strengths and resources
  • Avoid duplication of efforts
  • Find common language and terms
  • Actively seek collaborators (ongoing)
  • Create communication channel for collaborators and community (theme-based)
  • Create channel for CHL to share with community
  • Recognize we are stronger or more effective by collaboration
  • Respect knowledge and perspective of each partner’s discipline
  • Create process for conflict resolution
  • Promulgate  expectations of each collaboration  with partners
  • Create a space for forgiveness

Creativity, Innovation, FUN

  • Provide and implement hands-on activities with kids and caregivers
  • Present science in an engaging way
  • Be open-minded about ideas, approaches, and including stakeholder-types
  • Use positive words and actions
  • Use appropriate modern technology
  • Promote unstructured, active play
  • Be flexible and adaptable as project progresses
  • Use media as an ally
  • Create meaningful goals (way of life) for lifestyle change and sustain it long term.
  • Include energizers at meetings (practice what we preach)
  • Be willing to try new things, make mistakes, and fix them
  • Provide a safe work/research culture where one can offer ideas without having to lead them
  • Support creative thinking by investing resources in skill development
  • Leave adequate time for discussion
  • Learn  how to give supportive feedback
  • Be open to non-expert opinion Recognize that conflict and differences are opportunities for innovation

Health, Well Being

  • Good health enables a productive and fulfilling life. Health includes mental, physical, spiritual, and environmental aspects to which obesity is a threat.

Community

  • Promotion of facilities and environmental design, such as parks, which promote stress relief.
  • Building and leading coalitions which promote good health.
  • Promotion of sustainable food systems that ensure food security Promotion of community infrastructure in support of optimal health
  • Promotion of safe communities
  • Support training of health professionals

Practice

  • Practice healthy strategies – cope with stress
  • Get adequate sleep
  • Increase water intake – be sure it is clean!
  • Practice personal hygiene
  • Increase good family time
  • Make informed dietary choices and increase active lifestyle

Respect, Diversity, Culturally Relevant

  • Redefine health for cultural appropriateness through inclusion of native languages, cultural, and spiritual practices and arts
  • View community as an asset and engage community as collaborator and contributor
  • Seek elder/community leader for wisdom and guidance
  • Listen and learn, establish rapport
  • Ask permission
  • Communicate in ways that build agreement
  • Celebrate success and acknowledge challenges/barriers
  • Spend time developing/establishing relationships so that they can be sustained
  • Foster relationships by caring for the people we are working with
  • Create opportunities to engage the children so they can make meaningful contributions