NWCPHP Summer Institute August 3,

Coalition Steering Committee

Early-win, Proof-of-principle Initiatives Palliative Care InitiativeYouth Activity Initiative

Vision Snohomish County is a vibrant and healthy community recognized for its leadership in making our youth among the most active in the nation. Healthy Youth Academic Success Economic Prosperity 4

Strategic Objectives What This Initiative Aims to Deliver HYS Activity/Health Metrics Grade 5Grade 6 Current path Desired results

Gear Up & Go!

Our Aim To reverse the decline of youth activity levels starting with our own local fifth grade students.

Our “Three Legged Stool” Increase Snohomish County 5th grade activity levels relative to 2014 projections Gain and rapidly share insights into what influences movement Create a catalyst and new assets for sustaining private/public sector collaboration compared to projected HYS

Increase activity levels of 10,000 5 th graders Nation’s 1 st online, real- time physical activity map Identify successes & barriers to youth activity Recommend key priorities for Foster public/private collaboration Create sustainable model to scale & extend results Change the conversation: create a community culture of health Strategic Objectives

How did we prepare? Partnered with Sqord and the YMCA Working Group Micropilot  PE Teacher tested  PE Teacher recommendations  PE Teacher approved!  Kid tested and approved! 10

Partnering Organizations

Sqord

Sqord Components

Is it syncing?!? New status bar shows progress towards successful sync 14 The App Easier navigation & multi-sync display! New icons and stack display for multiple syncing

15 Admin Portal Update passwords, add/remove pod IDs from player profile

Who’s Who? 16

3 Phase Design Phase /14 School Year - Orient teachers, students and community about Gear Up & Go! - Focus on student activity levels, participation and engagement - Create a baseline activity level number for schools to encourage goal setting and evaluation - Create a community of support including: superintendents, principals teachers, students, families, businesses and community organizations that are engaged and invested in Gear Up & Go! Phase / Increase activity and engagement levels compared to previous schools year’s baseline numbers - Understand what drives activity and provide insight into best practices - Create opportunity to share information and learnings with others in order to foster planning for School Year Phase and Beyond - Foster conversations and planning for long-term programmatic sustainability in schools - Schools begin to implement programmatic changes based on needs and lessons learned INTRODUCE it UNDERSTAND it IMPROVE it

Accomplishments: By the Numbers 10,300 students and faculty registered 100 participating schools School district participation Users/ Week 17 IT professionals trained 9 teacher trainings and webinars 365 new Snohomish County YMCA memberships 41 community SyncStations countywide 18

What have we learned so far? Does greater engagement in the program lead to more physical activity? Is the level of engagement maintained over time? Is there an impact on overall (school/district/county) physical activity levels? 19

Group Health Center for Community Health & Evaluation (CCHE) – Sqord Data NWCPHP- Surveys, KII and Focus Groups Evaluation Team

End of Year 2- What do we know? 21 EVALUATION Results- SQORD DATA HYS shows slight increase in physical activity Gear Up & Go! students daily activity 10% higher Association between frequency of syncing and activity levels. Individual students that engaged more often also had higher hourly activity levels

HYS 2014 Healthy Youth Survey Addendum ParticipationN%>7 days%>5 daysMean days Did not participate91025%24%54%4.40 Not regularly2657%25%58%4.59 Regularly then stopped123133%25%60%4.73 Regularly all year129735%35%68%5.13

Greater engagement in the program is associated with higher levels of activity, and that effect may persist beyond the year of participation Schools were able to promote greater engagement over time – more participation and involvement in than in the previous academic year Evaluation Results- Sqord Data

Top Quartile Identified and interviewed + surveys Top Quartile Teacher Characteristics 50% of top quartile teachers had Master’s degrees/ 50% had Bachelor’s degrees 75% had more than 10 years teaching experience Half work in a rural community and half in an urban environment 53% of teachers taught more than 6 classes a week Evaluation Results- Surveys and KII

Best Practices SURVEYS + KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEW OF TOP QUARTILE GROUP = 5 COMMON BEST PRACTICES THAT DRIVE ACTIVITY IN SNOHOMISH COUNTY: 1.School-wide support of physical activity 2.Model behavior by encouraging physical activity among staff 3.School-wide program visibility 4.Use engaging and creative motivation strategies 5.Leverage synergy with existing physical activity programs

NWCPHP created a Field Guide to use as resource tool to help address year 3 in goal setting. Students found program engaging and useful. 4 th graders look forward to 5 th grade to become part of GUGO! Field Guide + Student Focus Group

Goal setting Sustainability More parental involvement Financial sustainability Teacher creativity YEAR 3 and beyond

Youth Activity Initiative