Mission Statement, Goals, and Objectives

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” – Ben Franklin

We believe health goals should fit into your lifestyle! Our mission statement, goals, and objectives have been carefully created to ensure we provide young women with the tools necessary to succeed in their heart healthy goals while maintaining a lifestyle they enjoy.

Mission Statement

This program is aimed at providing young adult women with the knowledge and skills needed to increase their healthy fat consumption in order to prevent the development or worsening symptoms of cardiovascular disease.

Goals

  • Provide awareness of cardiovascular disease risk in young adult women
  • Teach young adult women the skills needed to provide long-term health changes
  • Help increase self-efficacy of dietary changes in young adult women

Objectives

Participants will:

  • Fill out food frequency questionnaires at the beginning and end of the program to assess their healthy fat consumption (process)
  • Be provided with health statistics to establish prevalence of cardiovascular disease amongst women and importance of healthy fat consumption (impact, learning)
  • Reduce their perceived barriers of increasing healthy fat consumption (impact, learning)
  • Develop and use SMART goals and action plans to help increase consumption of healthy fats (impact, behavioral)
  • Sustain long-term consumption of healthy fats (outcome)