Moving our Community Toward Health...

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Moving our Community Toward Health...

• Policy Environmental Assessment Planning
• to increase
• Physical Activity, Healthy Eating Tobacco Free
  Lifestyles

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The vision (MDCH)

• clean air indoors and out
• well-lit bike paths, sidewalks and walking trails
  that connect residential areas to shopping,
  schools and places of worship
• easy access to grocery stores, farmers' markets
  and restaurants that offer fresh produce and
  delicious healthful foods at reasonable price...

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Opportunities

• support positive community change
• test and utilize new tools from MDCH
• collaborate in healthy region initiatives

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Neighborhoods/Groups

• Northwest Lansing Healthy Community Initiative
• Allen Neighborhood Center
• South Lansing Community Development Assoc.
• MidMichigan Environmental Action Council
• Michigan Rails to Trails Conservancy

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Neighborhood Involvement

• Test HCC, PAC, NEAT, and/or SFCAT
• Engage in a focused community dialogue and
  planning to...
• Participate in regional policymaking, planning,
  and action
• Share lessons learned and successes with MDCH
  and other organizations, communities, and
  regions.
• Other?

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What is the HCC?

• a 40-item online quick assessment of a
  communitys health environment related to
  promoting and supporting physical activity,
  healthy eating/healthy weight, and tobacco-free
  lifestyles.
• Who can use it?Any Michigan community (city,
  village, township, or neighborhood) that is
  interested creating a healthier community
  environment.

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Healthy Community Checklist(HCC) Sections

• Community Policies Planning
• Worksites
• Schools
• Restaurants Grocery Stores
• Community Resources Programs
• Local Media

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Why the Checklist?

• Provides ideas for healthier living
• Offers feedback about the extent to which a
  neighborhood supports active living, healthy
  eating, and adopt tobacco-free lifestyles(indicat
  or?)
• Engages people in dialogue, planning, and action
  on neighborhood, community, and regional levels.
• Other...

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Promoting Active Communities (PAC)

• A detailed online self-assessment with resources
  to support communities in identifying actions
  they can take to make it easier for people to be
  active.

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PAC Sections

• Policies and Planning for Non-Motorized
  Transportation
• Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety and Facilities
• Community Resources
• Worksites
• Schools
• Public Transportationsee http//mihealthtools.
  org/communities/previewALL.asp

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Other Tools

• Nutrition Environment Assessment ToolNEAT
• Smoke-Free Community Assessment ToolSFCAT

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The Grant Action Steps

• Training with MDCH (Mar)
• Meetings with neighborhoods/stakeholders (Mar)
• Form teams
• Environmental health assessments (Apr-May)
• HCC, PAC (and possibly NEAT and SFCAT) will be
  conducted in at least three neighborhoods in
  Lansing.
• Community dialogues (Jun)
• Action plans policy recommendations (Jul Aug)
• Results of the assessments and the community
  dialogues will shape action plans and community
  policy recommendations.
• continued

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Actions (continued)

• Validation / adoption of regional plans
  policies (Sep)
• Assessments, plans, and bold new policy
  recommendations will be brought to the Human
  Services Advisory Committee (and others) for
  development, support, and and action.
• Completion of Phase 1 (Oct Nov)
• Final report, completion of remaining tasks.
• Ongoing action, collaboration, and learning
• Raise awareness of and participation in healthy
  community initiatives related to...
• land use and health
• regional growth
• smart commuting
• environmental improvements
• neighborhood level healthy community initiatives
• Bold new policy recommendations for the region.

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Timeline

• Month 1 Introduce project to community leaders,
  stakeholders and policy makers
• Months 2-3 Complete HCC and PAC Checklists with
  neighborhood partners
• Month 4 Organize Community Dialogue with PWC,
  partners
• Months 5-6 Conduct grass root dialogues,
  formulate policy recommendations
• Month 7 Validate recommendations, implementation
  plans developed and endorsed by the PWC
• Months 8-9 Complete Phase I of Implementation

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Roles of Groups

• Test, use, promote, offer feedback on HCC and PAC
  (SFCAT NEAT are also available)
• Participate in dialogue, planning, action
• Discover new ways improve health -- support
  healthy policies and environments -- locally and
  regionally
• Do exactly what theyre already doing!

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What are potential outcomes?

• Support for neighborhood and regional healthy
  community issues/projects/change
• Learning, understanding, asset awareness,
  leadership, vision, planning, and collaboration
• Awareness of PoW, local initiatives, and regional
  policy opportunities
• Feedback to MDCH useful in development of
  tools/approaches.
• Healthy neighborhoods, businesses, schools,
  communities, and region
• Other?

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For more info...

• Http//www.re-news.net/heal

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Additional Slides

• Human Service Advicory Committee / Power of We
• Approaching the Power of We

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HSAC/PoW(current participants)

• Leadership Lounge
• Learning Institute
• Mayors Initiative on Race and Diversity
• Mental health dialogue
• Neighborhood and Agency Coordination (ICHD
  HSAC)
• Non-profit housing corporations
• North Neighborhood Network Center
• NorthWest Lansing Healthy Communities Initiative
• Old Town Development
• POW Investors Steering Committee
• Regional Economic Development (RED) Team
• Regional Growth Project
• South Lansing Community Development Association
• Southside Community Coalition
• SouthWest Network Center
• St. Johns Healthy Community Initiative
• Substance abuse action plan
• Tri-County Long Term Care Collaborative
• Webberville Healthy Community Initiative

• 0-5 committees
• African American Health Institute
• Allen Neighborhood Center
• Baker Donora Focus Center
• Black Child and Family Institute
• Can Do Charlotte
• Capital Area Multicultural Health Alliance
• City Network Center Advisory Board
• Communications partners
• Community Indicators Project
• Community Rehabilitation Partners
• Cool Cities Projects
• Cristo Rey Community Center
• Data Democratization/Capital Area Community
  Media Center
• Eastside Community Development Inc
• Family-to-Family
• Grand River Family Resource Center
• Great Parents/Great Start
• Lansing City Planning Department

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Power of We / Community Voices Approaches

• Engage community members
• Facilitate dialogue and networking
• listen, respect, build relationships, trust
• Identify and support civic leadership
• honor and respect neighborhood wisdom
• Appreciate community assets
• build on strengths (inside-out development)
• Elevate community voices
• share data, increase communication to monitor
  support change
• http//www.msu.edu/galarzaa/power_of_we/consorti
  um.htm