Description: A set of educational materials that can be incorporated into diabetes lifestyle management programs and diabetes support programs that are offered by Extension across the United States. Materials were developed for the Virginia Cooperative Extension Balanced Living with Diabetes (BLD) program.
Audience: Individuals with type 2 diabetes
Description: A series of one-page educational supplements to be integrated into the CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) Prevent T2 Facilitator Guide. These materials are designed for use by lifestyle coaches during select group sessions. Each supplement aligns with the topic of a specific DPP session and introduces research-based, conversation-ready immunization talking points that connect to the session’s core content.
Intended Audience: DPP program participants
Description: Online training program for health workers to become efficient messengers providing adult immunization education.
Intended Audience: Health workers, including community health workers, personal health navigators, peer wellness specialists, peer support specialists, birth doulas, or other lay health educators.
Description: This program integrates adult immunization education into an existing health literacy program designed to improve patient-provider communication by teaching participants how to discuss vaccines with their healthcare providers using evidence-based information that addresses common hesitancies
Intended Audience: Rural adults, who may have lower health literacy levels and face unique vaccination challenges, including heightened concerns about vaccine safety, long-term side effects, effectiveness, and necessity, compared to urban residents.
Description: This effort is a collaboration between Extension professionals and their land-grant university student health professionals aimed at increasing HPV vaccine awareness and vaccination among university students.
Intended Audience: College students
Format: In-person
The EFNEP program curriculum to include vaccine information that coincides with seasonality or current/emergent public health needs. Pharmacy students have developed talking points around immunization that align with the different topics discussed in the program’s sessions. Talking points have been designed to integrate with existing facilitator guides, as well as new participant material with immunization education.
Intended Audience: EFNEP program participants
The Junior Master Wellness Volunteer (JMWV) Program is a community health education and volunteer leader training program offered through the Extension 4-H Program that partners with students in various disciplines, such as the health science courses, family and consumer science courses, and individually focused clubs or organizations for training and delivery of health messages into the community.
Intended Audience: Teens ages 14-18 with an interest in leadership, advocacy, extending knowledge, serving as role models, and volunteering aimed at improving health literacy and healthy lifestyle choices.
Cultivating Vaccine Awareness Among Farmers and Rural Adults: Toolkits for Extension Professionals. These toolkits give Extension programs a short, credible, agriculture-first talk that reduces vaccine hesitancy by using familiar livestock examples to explain safety, effectiveness, and economics of vaccination, then bridge to human vaccines. There are also small-group conversation cards, materials and social media campaigns designed to help educators lead respectful and productive conversations.
Rural and Ag audiences
Description: A poverty competency workshop for community health partners that applies evidence-based strategies for educating low-resourced populations on preventive health behaviors, such as immunizations. This workshop can result in the real-time development of team-specific action plans for more effectively serving their communities.
Intended audience: Community health partners who work with people experiencing poverty.
Stay Strong, Stay Healthy (SSSH) is a program designed to help older adults improve their strength, fitness, and flexibility. This initiative aims to reduce the risk of falls and osteoporosis, allowing participants to maintain their health and well-being. Additionally, the program includes supplemental educational materials about preventive healthcare services and vaccines specifically for older adults, helping to enhance immunity and overall health as part of the existing strength training curriculum.
This website was developed with support from the Extension Foundation.
This work is supported through an Interagency Agreement (IAA) with the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). AWARD NO: 2021-77041-34831