HEAL MAPPS: Healthy Eating & Active Living Mapping Attributes Using Participatory Photographic Surveys

IMPACT. 1: The community plan created in collaboration with the MAPPers, community stakeholders, and community members, will set a path to addressing barriers uncovered in the mapping and other CBPR exercises and in the community conversation. -- 2. A task force will implement the recommendations of the community plan related to the conversation around food insecurity in Wester Chester, Ohio (Butler County) -- 3. The leadership skills that the youth mappers are developing will benefit them throughout their education and into their adult lives.OSU PARTNERS: OSU South Centers (extension); The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; Butler County (extension); Knowlton School, City and Regional Planning Department; College of Education and; Human EcologyCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: Meadow Ridge Apartments; West Chester, Ohio; Butler County SuccessPRIMARY CONTACT: Glennon Sweeney (sweeney.270@osu.edu)HEAL MAPPS is designed to identify barriers to prevent and assets to facilitate healthy eating and active living in the rural context. The team expanded HEAL MAPPS, incorporating additional CBPR methods in order to assess the nuances of the lived experience of food insecurity in any food environment: rural, suburban, urban. It is currently working with families in Suburban Butler County to assess healthy food access and create a community plan to increase food security