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Through a grassroots approach, integrating community leaders and neighborhood liaisons and influencers, technology-based resources including fun incentives, and public policy initiatives to drive improved access, we plan to offer access to MIND Health-based improvements for all residents.

HMI will introduce a Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) process for reaching, engaging, and fostering scalable and researchable behavioral shifts within people through their communities.

Through a tiered approach via identified groups in self-selected communities, HMI will:

• outreach via community groups (churches; community centers)
• clubs and associations
• establish relationships with influencers (politicians; elders and thought leaders; community celebrities)

HMI will also utilize technology to target and access communities digitally, with the purpose of building relationships with:

• individuals (grouped by demographics, interests, or hobbies)
• social media (Facebook, Instagram, etc.), including groups formed around specific topics like Alzheimer’s, and online clubs and associations
• forums and digital communities

HMI will work directly with each community through their invested leadership to identify specific needs, determine areas of scarcity versus current positive resources, and establish community outcomes and determinants of impact.

HMI will lead the research and interventions based on each community’s pain points. Data secured through this research is shared with interested researchers globally.

At the core of HMI’s ability for data sharing is a web platform that allows easy and secure, HIPAA-compliant data sharing that is not only fast but borderless.

This platform will also provide communities with their own webpage, allowing community members to access community-specific information, resources, timely research, and two-way communication between community leadership and participants.

Also integrated into the process and research is the use of marketing and social media technology to increase awareness of and drive engagement in traditional, in-person events and workshops.

Through a fun, gamified approach, we will encourage increases in self-identified needs such as vegetable intake, exercise, mindfulness and meditation activities, sleep modification, and increased socialization.

HMI will initiate new research and access data from which new potential protocols can be developed and shared by scaling our communities and opening HMI chapters over time.

New HMI chapters will be prioritized based on interested parties completing orientation and training on the Mind Health protocol and having sufficient experience within health and wellness fields.

Once the process is in place and initial outcomes are achieved, HMI anticipates communities will be positioned to take over and allow HMI staff to provide periodic coaching rather than a more hands-on leadership role in project implementation and data collection.

We will conduct both summative and formative evaluations. Success will be determined by outcome metrics as defined by communities and focused on greater awareness and end-stage disease measures. HMI’s researchers will conduct these analyses and share the results among all HMI partners.