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Program Locations
 California
Background: The California Department of Public Health WISEWOMAN
program was originally funded as an enhanced research project in 2001,
called Heart of the Family, or Corazón de la Familia. For
the first year of the new five year grant cycle funding for 2008,
California will build upon the lessons learned and successes achieved
during the research or pilot phase.
Lifestyle Intervention: California will use core elements from the
evidence based intervention Spanish version of New Leaf, !Vida
Saludable, Corazon Contento! and the English version curriculum
called A New Leaf…Choices for Healthy Living. The lifestyle
intervention emphasizes readiness for change, individualized goal
setting, healthy eating and physical activity along with self–monitoring
and social support. Counseling is facilitated by bilingual bicultural
community health workers, and consists of individual, group, and phone
counseling sessions.
Screening: Risk factor screening will include: measuring blood
pressure, cholesterol (total and high density lipoprotein), glucose, and
assessing medical and family history, tobacco use, nutrition and
physical activity behaviors, and motivation and readiness to make
lifestyle behavior changes. All screened women receive risk reduction
counseling, along with education on the signs and symptoms of heart
attack and stroke, and when to call 911.
Sites: California will provide screening services to women age
40-64, all ethnicities Spanish or English speaking, and deliver
multi-session lifestyle interventions to women based on their
cardiovascular disease risk factors.
4 Heart of the Family sites located in Southern California - 2 in Los
Angeles County, 2 in San Diego County - provide Heart of the Family program
services. The majority of women in Heart of the Family (70%) will be
Hispanic, as this is the population served by California’s Breast and
Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program called Cancer Detection Program:
Every Woman Counts.
Key Partners: University of California at San Francisco; San Diego
State University Research Foundation.
| For more information contact: Maureen Farrell,
RN, FNP, MHA
WISEWOMAN Program Director
Phone: (916) 449–5319
E-mail:
Maureen.farrell@cdph.ca.gov |
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Page last reviewed: July 24, 2008
Page last modified: July 24, 2008
Content source: Division
for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion
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