Network Commons is a live online discussion series on cross-sector strategies to improve neighborhood health and well-being.
The Surgeon General of the United States tours a neighborhood that has transformed its health outcomes through community development.
In Ashland, California, cross-sector partnerships between community development, public health, and city government are building community and reinvesting in housing.
Build Healthy Places Network (BHPN) is seeking an experienced, personable, and entrepreneurial researcher for the role of Research Associate.
What underlies our emerging movement for healthier families and communities?
Research is documenting the harmful effects on children when families must keep moving to find a safe, affordable home.
At a recent community event, someone made a reflection that stuck with me. “The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety,” said Jonathan Goyer, an expert advisor to Governor Gina Raimondo’s Overdose Prevention and Intervention Task Force and a person in long-time recovery. “It’s connectedness.”
Community developers and health professionals often work in the same neighborhoods with the same residents, but they rarely work together in an integrated way to improve people’s health and economic outcomes. That is starting to change.
Data-driven decision-making is nothing new to those in health care. Life and death decisions are made every day based on patient data. However, as health care moves beyond the hospital walls and into the community, understanding the dynamic environment in which their patients reside is critical to reducing costs and improved patient outcomes.