The City of South Tucson

Cassidy Leroux, Amanda Nguyen, Shane Pendleton

NURS 473
February 07, 2019
City of South Tucson (CT 23.0)

● Physical Environment
● Community Core
● Health and Social
Services
● Education
● Recreation
● Safety and
Transportation
● Economics
● Politics and Government
● Communication
 Key Informant Interviews
1. Managing Librarian at 1.
Sam Lena Library
2. Health, Gym, and 2.
Science Teacher at
Las Puertas 3.
Community School
3. Manager of the Young
Women’s Christian
Association House of 4.
Neighborly Service
4. Fire Captain of City of
South Tucson 5.
Principal of Pueblo
High School
Owner of Medicare
Benefits Center
Intake Coordinator at
the Salvation Army
Men’s Rehabilitation
Center
Sergeant at the City
of South Tucson Police
Department
Director of Operations
and Training at La
Frontera
Community Stressors and Strengths

Stressors Strengths
• Low socioeconomic • Family oriented
status (high homeless • Strong community
population) ties
• Drug and alcohol abuse • Hope
• Poor access to healthy
foods
 Community Problem

• Unhealthy eating in
youth
• Reported as a
problem by
multiple key
informants
• Diabetes is one of
the four priorities in
the Pima County
Needs Assessment
 Health Education Project

• 2/5/19
• Sam Lena Library
• 16 fourth and fifth
grade students
from John
Valenzuela Youth
Center
 Evaluation

• Pre-Test & Post-Test • Increased

• “Raise your hand if you understanding of
know what a fat and a
sugar are”
healthy/unhealthy
• “... if you know what too snacks
much fat and sugar can do • Increased knowledge
to your body”
• “If the snack is healthy,
of what a sugar is
raise the green flag. If • No increase in
unhealthy, raise the red knowledge of what a
flag”
fat is
• Increased knowledge
of what it does to the
body
Lessons Learned

• Showing up vs making
appointments
• Picking key informants
• Talking to actual
residents of South
Tucson
• Seeing the community
in person vs looking at
statistics
 Lessons Learned

• Use of activities during

presentation
• Library as a setting
presentation
• Importance of precise
evaluation questions
 Lessons Learned

• Pride
• Spirit of hope
• Long-term residents
care about the city
• Doesn’t need saving
Future Work with South Tucson

• Direction to available
resources
• Access to healthy food
• Increasing connection
to health care
• Bilingual Resources
• Potential partnership
with Sam Lena library,
“Healthy South
Tucson” - coalition to
build healthier
community