Healthy Places by Design

New Resource! We are pleased to announce the release of the Flip the Script website, a new resource generated through the Institute for the Advancement of Minority Health's Tobacco Initiative in partnership with We-Collab | Equity Strategy and Healthy Places by Design. Visit the site to learn about the work of cohorts in the Mississippi Delta Region to reduce tobacco use, with a focus on addressing critical disparities and lack of effective strategies tailored to African American men. This resource has application to other populations and will inform and inspire you! Share this resource, and contact us to learn more about this initiative and how we supported it! https://lnkd.in/eEt-mEM2 #publichealth

This week's tip for nurturing social connectedness in your community: Measure beyond counts and include the quality of connections. A beautiful thing about social connectedness is that it can span a variety of meanings that are deeply personal and also create positive shared community impacts. In addition to measures such as the numbers and frequencies of social connections, define and examine a range of indicators about the quality of these connections to obtain a full understanding of what’s happening in the community. Consider times when less frequent interactions have meaningful impacts because it fills a need for a specific service or support at the right time, or creates a link to one’s cultural or other identity/ies the enhances the feeling of belonging in the community. Subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter to receive more tips and stay up-to-date about our work to support communities and those who invest in them: https://lnkd.in/eGmhVQ38 #wellbeing

You’re invited! Join us and The Foundation for Social Connection on October 16th from 1-2 pm ET as we celebrate the one-year anniversary of launching their Action Guide, a tool that empowers communities to create meaningful connections and sustainable change. Together with communities piloting the guide, we will share our stories and innovative approaches to build a culture of connection. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from case studies, identify best practices, and explore ways to adapt these strategies to their own communities. This webinar is not just a celebration, but a call to action for more communities to join the movement toward a connected and inclusive society. By working collectively, we can create a society where social connection is at the heart of how we live. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eSBMWVNm Explore the guide here: www.action4connection.org

During our Socially Connected Communities webinar last month, we learned why and how to use data in impactful ways to support socially connected communities. Download our new Resource Guide, “Measuring the Impact of Socially Connected Communities Efforts” which is a companion piece that provides tools and data sets on the topic, as well as highlights from the webinar featuring Jillian Racoosin Kornmeier, MPH, Executive Director of The Foundation for Social Connection , and Natalie Bomstad, MPH, Executive Director for Wello. Healthy Places by Design’s Socially Connected Communities Resource Guides are published bi-monthly to help community change agents easily access key information and documents that can shape and inspire their social connections efforts. https://lnkd.in/eZH5896K #wellbeing #community

Visit the Administration for Community Living's Commit to Connect and engAGED: The National Resource Center for Engaging Older Adults Social Engagement's Innovations Hub to access newly added replicable social connection programs, services, and interventions! Innovations Hub summaries contain all you need to know about each example, including resources needed to recreate within your organization. #wellbeing #CommitToConnect @theUSAging, @ACLgov, @engAGEDCenter

This week's tip: leverage the impacts of community initiatives at all scales. Implementing meaningful community transformation strategies at multiple levels is required to realize the broad vision for optimal health and wellbeing for all. Projects implemented at the local levels (e.g., neighborhood, municipality, county) provide the ability to test and tailor strategies to meet the unique needs and contexts within communities. Initiatives at the national, regional, or state levels have the potential for broad impact in terms of numbers and geographies. When well-coordinated by philanthropic or governmental entities, these approaches provide mechanisms to collect data and learnings, and disseminate them to inform the field at large. Subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter to receive more tips and stay up-to-date about our work to support communities and those who invest in them: https://lnkd.in/eGmhVQ38

On October 16 at 1 pm ET, join us and our partners with The Foundation for Social Connection to hear about learnings since the launch of the Action Guide for Building Socially Connected Communities. This session will not only celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Action Guide, it will also share case studies, best practices, and strategies to adapt the Action Guide to your community.

Congrats to the Institute for the Advancement of Minority Health for their fruitful gathering of tobacco prevention champions in Mississippi! See below for more details on this important project from our Senior Project Officer, Jamie E.. To learn more about the impactful work that Healthy Places by Design does in communities and in partnership with those who invest in them, check out our website: https://lnkd.in/emFi-mNT.

Check out this wonderful summary of last week's Impact Alamance Wellness Summit from our Senior Project Officer, Jamie E.! We're so glad Jamie and Teresita Maz could attend and congratulate the Alamance Wellness Collaborative on an impactful gathering.

This week's tip: Develop and implement a trust-building process. We know that trust is an important element of effective community collaboration. Feelings and beliefs about what trust feels and looks like in relationships is impacted by individual lived experiences and values. It is valuable to dedicate time for intentional conversations with community partners to achieve a shared understanding about what trust is, and what behaviors may signal breaks in trust. Consider incorporating your community partnership’s definition of trust and processes for mending broken trust into group agreements and meeting protocols. Sign-up for our monthly e-newsletter to get more great tips like this and details about our work across the US: https://lnkd.in/eGmhVQ38 📸 : lightchaser photography and consulting llc