Stroke Ready Program Overview
stroke, acute stroke, Stroke
STROKE, ACUTE STROKE, STROKE
Stroke Ready was conducted through a long-standing community-based participatory research partnership established in 2010. The overarching goal of the Stroke Ready partnership is to improve the health and well-being of the Flint community. The partnership is co-led by a vascular neurologist (L.E.S.) and a community leader (S.B.). The community advisory board consisted of academic researchers, community members, representatives from community organizations, all Flint hospitals, emergency medical services, the county health department, and city government (see Additional Contributions at the end of the article) who partnered on all project phases.The Stroke Ready program was a multilevel intervention that included an ED-based, implementation science–based intervention to optimize acute stroke care and a multimedia community intervention to increase stroke preparedness.From June 2018 to March 2020, we conducted a community-wide stroke preparedness intervention guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior, Social Cognitive Theory, and Behavioral Economics to reach adults in Flint.