included civil engineering firm
Newell, Tereska & MacKay
(NTM) Engineering, Inc. and,
most recently, the FIGG Bridge
Group.
The PSU Bridges to
Prosperity Chapter also
performs local community
service projects in Centre
County’s Shaver’s Creek,
layering dirt and gravel and repairing old bridges along the area’s Black
Walnut Trail. They also raised enough money this year to sponsor
two B2P dancers in the 2017 THON, a student-run philanthropy
committed to enhancing the lives of children and families impacted
by childhood cancer.
The Penn State Chapter of Bridges to Prosperity is a nonprofit
that provides isolated communities with access to their basic needs.
Bridges to Prosperity envisions a world where poverty caused
by rural isolation no longer exists. For more information and
additional photographs, please visit the following sites — National
B2P Website: bridgestoprosperity.org; PSU B2P Chapter Website:
bridgestoprosperitypsu.org; PSU B2P Facebook page: facebook.com/
pennstatebridgestoprosperity/.
ROSE YMCA BLOOD PRESSURE
MONITORING PROGRAM
The Million Hearts campaign was launched in 2012 by the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with the goal of
preventing one million heart attacks and strokes by 2017.
As part of this effort to prevent cardiovascular disease, the Y-USA
designed a program to reduce participants’ blood pressure based on
the successful “Check It, Change It” research study. The YMCA’s
Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring Program supports adults with high
blood pressure in developing the habit of self-monitoring blood
pressure and understanding the role nutrition plays in pressure
management through personalized support.
The BPSM evidence-based program is a four-month program
designed to help adults with high blood pressure develop the habit of
routine blood pressure monitoring.
The goals of the program are:
1) Reduce blood pressure.
2) Develop new skills for managing blood pressure.
3) Gain the ability to identify and control triggers that raise
blood pressure.
4) Increase confidence in adopting healthier eating habits.
Heart Healthy ambassadors from the YMCA will take participants’
blood pressure during face-to-face meetings and will train participants
to take their o wn blood pressure accurately using the American Heart
Association ABCD protocol.
In addition, the YMCA will offer a nutrition education seminar
each month.
For more information, email the Healthy Living Director at the
Rose Family YMCA in Cranberry Township at
[email protected]. n
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