Take the Pressure Off, NYC! (TPO, NYC!) brings together community-based organizations, faith-based groups, health care systems and other partners to reduce high blood pressure in New Yorkers. TPO, NYC! focuses on neighborhoods where people are most affected by high blood pressure and related health conditions.
The initiatives include:
- Teaching the community about high blood pressure in our Hypertension 101 workshops.
- Distributing educational materials and resources to partners across the city.
- Collaborating with multisectoral organizations across the city to address disparities in high blood pressure.
The one-hour Hypertension 101 workshop explains:
- What high blood pressure is
- How to prevent and control high blood pressure
- How to monitor your blood pressure at home
You can request a Hypertension 101 event for your community group or organization, or a Train-the-Trainer event for group members or staff to learn to conduct the workshop. Email Bloodpressure@health.nyc.gov to schedule training or learn more.
Previous Hypertension Convenings
TPO, NYC! host city-wide hypertension summits, local neighborhood assemblies, and learning collaboratives bringing together diverse sectors from across the city to identify effective strategies for hypertension prevention, management, and control in the most impacted communities. For more information, email Bloodpressure@health.nyc.gov.
- 2025 Summit: Addressing the Disparities in Hypertension through Place-based Initiatives
- 2025 Neighborhood Assembly: Heart Health in Brownsville, Brooklyn
- 2026 Learning Collaborative: Community + Clinical Linkages to Prevent and Control Hypertension
Brownsville Community + Clinical Linkages Project
TPO, NYC’s Brownsville Community + Clinical Linkages Project was a three-year grant-funded project to address disparities in hypertension care through a Community Health Worker led referral pathway connecting community and clinical services supportive of hypertension care. The work was steered through a multisectoral leadership team taking a collective impact approach, with TPO, NYC! as the anchoring program.
Impact:
- Over 30,000 reached through clinical hypertensive care initiatives
- Over 1,000 participant education hours delivered through Hypertension 101 (HTN 101), Diabetes Self-Management Programs (DSMP), Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs (CDSMP), and Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) workshops.
- Over 300 blood pressure monitors distributed to support home monitoring
- Convenings of multisectoral leadership team and Brownsville community members
From 2023-2026 the project:
- Improved connections between clinic and community services.
- Established Self-monitoring blood pressure (SMBP) programs at partnering clinical sites with a created toolkit for clinical sites to adopt programming.
- Supported clinical sites in EMR optimization, enhanced protocols to integrating Community Health Workers within care teams, identification of billing opportunities, and improved hypertension workflows.
- Delivered evidence-based educational lifestyle management programs within community spaces to help residents manage hypertension and other chronic health conditions.
To learn more about this project email Bloodpressure@health.nyc.gov.