Faith-Based Toolkit
This faith-based activities toolkit contains ideas and resources you can use to conduct activities to promote The Heart Truth for women in your faith community. Campaign background information, faith-based resources, and other promotional and educational materials, as well as the activity
ideas contained in this kit can help you formulate a plan for your own faith-based program.
Campaign Background Information
Activity Ideas
Faith-Based Resources
Promotional and Educational Materials
Campaign Background Information
Learn more about The Heart Truth campaign and how we are reaching out to women about the dangers of heart disease.
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The Heart Truth: Campaign Overview
Provides an overview of The Heart Truth campaign and its Red Dress Project, including campaign messages, components, and partner information.
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Activity Ideas
Consider these ideas for planning an event to promote the heart health of women in your faith community.
- Organize a "Red Dress Sunday" or "Red Dress Sabbath" event for your place of worship. You can put a notice in the bulletin,
hold an educational session (Speaker's Kit), and distribute brochures and fact
sheets. Also see the Ten Commandments for a Healthy Heart and Talking
Points for Red Dress Sunday/Sabbath.
- Ask the female leader of your place of worship to become an ambassador for heart disease awareness for women in your congregation.
- Ask your ministry leader to deliver The Heart Truth messaging from the pulpit. Consider using Talking
Points for Red Dress Sunday/Sabbath.
- Organize a session using The Heart Truth for Women: A Speaker's Kit (Speaker's
Kit), during a Women's ministry or Health ministry meeting.
- Organize a health-themed Bible study.
- Form partnerships with retail/clothing outlets to stage a Red Dress fashion show that donates a percentage of the profit for every red dress sold
to a non-profit heart disease organization. (Sample partner outreach
letter)
- Incorporate a Red Dress theme for your women's ministry brunch or Mother's Day event.
- Organize a heart health screening event and health fair for women at your place of worship.
- Distribute Red Dress Pins (Ordering Information).
- Place a link to The Heart Truth Web pages (www.hearttruth.gov) on your place of worship's Web site.
- Include an article on heart disease and The Heart Truth in the church's newsletter/magazine.
- Consider including Ten
Commandments for a Healthy Heart.
- Organize a heart healthy meal for you community.
For additional activity ideas and educational resources that can be adapted for your faith community, visit The Heart Truth Online Toolkit and
Activity Registry.
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Faith-Based Resources
The Heart Truth and its partners have developed these faith-based resources. If you or your organization has faith-based resources that you
would like us to include in this toolkit, please submit them to partners@hearttruth.org for review and consideration.
- Talking Points for a Red Dress Sunday/Sabbath
Your ministry leader or lay health ministers can give these talking points from the
pulpit.
- Ten Commandments for a Healthy Heart
These "commandments" can be included in your Sunday/Sabbath bulletin as part of
a health announcement for women about heart disease.
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Promotional and Educational Materials
Use these downloadable materials to conduct your activity.
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The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women
The 122-page, full-color, 20th anniversary edition of The
Healthy Heart Handbook for Women provides the most recent
information on women's heart disease and practical suggestions
for reducing your own risk.
Fact Sheets
These easy-to-read fact sheets give essential information women need to find out their risk of heart disease and take action to reduce it. Read
them for your own information, or order multiple copies to share with women in your community and workplace.
- The Heart Truth for Women: An Action Plan
Gives women the information they need to talk with their doctor about their risk of heart disease and provides an action plan.
- The Heart Truth for African American Women: An Action Plan
Provides The Heart Truth facts and figures specific to African American women.
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The Heart Truth for Women: If You Have Heart Disease Explains what heart disease is, reviews screening tests, describes treatment options, lists heart attack warning signs, and gives you the key steps
for developing your own plan.
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Terms of Use for Heart Truth Campaign Materials
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