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Aims
This project seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of a study integrating individual, interpersonal, and community-level interventions to promote walking among overweight, rural adults, including those at high risk for diabetes. The program works with the Poplar Bluff, Piedmont, Ellington, Doniphan, West Plains and Mountain View communities.

Methods
Walk the Ozarks to Wellness addresses two modifiable risk factors for type 2 diabetes - regular physical activity and obesity. Interventions to promote physical activity are implemented at the individual, interpersonal, and community levels. Interventions at each level show promise, but their combination has not been evaluated over more than short time periods.

Project Steering Committee
The Project WOW Steering Committee will allow the program staff and communities to partner with Local Public Health Agencies, health professionals, and other public and private organizations to implement health promotion programs focused on physical activity and type 2 diabetes prevention.

What has the Steering Committee done so far?

• Signed up over 1100 Southeast Missouri residents in the newsletter program.
  
• Recruited healthcare providers into PACE trainings that provide skills on how to counsel patients to increase physical activity and improve their diet.
  
• Held fun walks, participated in charity walks, and created waking clubs.
  
• Promoted their community trail and walking for exercise at numerous community events.
  
• Partnered with churches, diabetes support groups, weight loss groups and workplaces to increase physical activity.
  
• Published press releases tin local newspapers to encourage physical activity.

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