Jenn West Email & Phone Number

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Jenn partners with community organizations to identify best practice lifestyle programs and deliver lifestyle education services. Services include but not limited to lunch and learns, facilitating evidence-based education programs, cooking classes/demonstrations, yoga workshops, and nutrition/physical activity presentations.

Salisbury, North Carolina, United States

Worked with Community Care Clinic of Rowan County to integrate Lifestyle Medicine into clinical practice. Pioneered a meal kit-based food pharmacy program for patients of participating Lifestyle Medicine clinics in partnership with a local community market. Created a pathway for providers from three healthcare facilities to complete the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Board Certification in Lifestyle Medicine. Facilitated Chronic Disease Self-Management classes and one-on-one wellness coaching sessions for clinic and food pharmacy patients.

Kannapolis

Healthy Partnerships for Active Living (PALS) was a diabetes awareness and advocacy program partnering with faith communities including Hood Theological Seminary. Churches participate in diabetes awareness programs that provide basic diabetes education with emphasis on the importance of physical activity, nutrition, and stress management. In addition, event attendees learn about local community resources including the National Diabetes Prevention Program and Stanford Model Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (DSMP). The PALS program partnered with Hood Theological Seminary to offer community-based Lifestyle Medicine education to HTS students and faculty as well as local clergy and congregational health promoters (CHPs). Participants have the opportunity to complete the Faithful Families 9-week nutrition and physical activity behavior change program that also included policy, systems, and environmental education. Monthly workshops are offered to train clergy and CHPs to facilitate walking programs, cooking demonstrations, and other specialty educational opportunities within their congregations.

Kannapolis, Nc

The Lifestyle Medicine grant focused on reducing the risk of chronic diseases in such as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke in underserved communities through nutrition and physical activity education classes in English and Spanish. In addition, faith community nurses and health promoters received training in delivering cooking demonstrations in their communities.

Kannapolis

The REACH grant, funded by the Centers Disease Control and Prevention, focused on the following: 1.) increased access to healthier foods and beverages through the healthy corner store, community garden, and healthy food pantry initiatives, 2.) increased access to physical activity opportunities through the safe and active routes to school and shared use agreements, and 3.) improved community and clinical linkages through the Exercise is Medicine healthcare and Network of Care Service Directory initiatives. Through this project, Jenn pioneered Exercise is Medicine and received the Exercise is Medicine Global Leadership Award in 2018. This work paved the way for Lifestyle Medicine integration in local health departments and free clinics.

The Healthy Lives, Healthy Futures (HLHF) program was a train the trainer community-based wellness program funded by the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust. The program was designed to reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke among underserved communities in Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, and Rowan counties. Volunteers were identified and trained from selected faith communities to become Certified Fitness Instructors (CFIs). They participated in physical activity, nutrition, and stress management trainings designed by a team of exercise physiologists, personal trainings and health coaches. Through these trainings, volunteers facilitated classes in their community and partnered with program staff to coordinate education programs and fitness testing to support program evaluation. Program goals include increasing fruit and vegetable consumption and time spent being physically active, as well as reducing body fat, circumference measurements, and blood pressure.Strong partnerships were established with the Atrium Faith Community Health Ministry, University of North Carolina Charlotte Kinesiology Department, and faith communities throughout three counties.Through this work, Jenn earned the 2012 President's Council of Sport, Nutrition, and Exercise Community Leadership Award.

Shelton, Connecticut, United States

This position involved the start-up of a new employee wellness program for Health Net Insurance Company in Shelton, CT. This new program included employee wellness programs for local and satellite locations and the opening of a new fitness center. As part of the fitness center start up, a new group exercise program was developed consisting of a wide variety of classes including low impact aerobics, kickboxing, yoga, Pilates, and group strength and core. Members of this wellness center received personalized exercise routines and fitness assessments including goal setting, body fat, blood pressure, aerobic endurance, and muscular strength and flexibility.

Danbury, Connecticut, United States

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Ms, Exercise Science

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