America’s Community for Health

Project Phase (Pre-concept, Concept, Plan, Develop, Available, Archive)

Plan Phase

Impacts

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: OpenBeam, Aging, Best Practice, Business Process, Civic Engagement, Diversity and Inclusion, Governance/Public Policy, Health, Housing, Mental Health, Sustainability, Technology Enablement, Transportation, Workforce Development

Level 2:

DMC Impacts:

Livable City, Health & Wellness, Education/Learning Environment

Community Health Impacts:

Comprehensive

Collaborators

Contact: TBD ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Lead Organization: DMC EDA

Known/Likely Collaborators: Community Networking Group (CNG) ; DMC EDA ; Diversity Council ; Lotus Health Foundation ; Olmsted County Community Services ; Olmsted County Housing Redevelopment Authority ; Olmsted County Public Health Services ; Rochester Area Family Y ; Rochester Community & Technical College ; Rochester Public Library ; United Way of Olmsted County ; Well Living Lab (A Delos and Mayo Clinic collaboration) ; openBEAM.net

Potential Collaborators: AARP Rochester, MN ; In the City for Good Steering Committee ; Salvation Army/Samaritan Medical Clinic

Related Projects

1. Policies that bring potential health and social impacts into the decision-making process.
2. Project approval criteria that evaluate the potential health and social impacts of a project before it is built.
3. Metrics that gauge progress toward positive health and social outcomes that promote and sustain an inclusive and healthy community.

Public Health Recommendations

CNG Letter to DMC

2019 Community for Health Workgroup Log   Date: 2019/12/20  

America’s City for Health   Date: 2019/03/29  

DMC EDA Community Health Workgroup   Date: 2019/02/22  

Summary of December 2018 work and next steps.

2017 Policy Brief: Incorporating Healthy Community Design Principles into the Rochester Comprehensive Plan   Date: 2017/03/01  

DMC EDA initiated Community For Health group effort notes.

Engage area leaders about the need to converge various health/wellness initiatives to collective impact. 

"As we get closer to the public comment period for the Rochester Comprehensive Plan, I thought I’d pass along the “final” version approved by the Public Health Services Advisory Board.  Content hasn’t changed significantly since last year, but put into a different format (2 documents attached).  Feel free to share with CNG."

In the 2016 January CNG meeting, Pete Giesen presented to CNG an approach to engage City Comprehensive Plan based on healthy community design principles.

Pete asks CNG friends and community members to consider the following healthy community principles as we evaluate the 3 P2S scenarios.

CNG advocacy letter to DMCC Board in support of community health design principles.

DMCC Board Meeting

Keep it local grant recognized by Bloomberg

This storytelling project with CAPM will feature Minnesota Cambodian community leaders in a series of video shorts.

"The council opted to move forward with a modified plan for a single village at Mayo Clinic’s west parking lot along Second Street Southwest and a transit system traveling east and west with a loop around the city-county Government Center."

COVID information in multiple languages. 

In light of all that is going on throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Diversity Council wants to remain a connector and convener for all those in need throughout our community. If you are aware of valuable information and resources, please email info@diversitycouncil.org and we will do our best to increase awareness.

If you have needs to express as an individual or member of a particular community, please reach out to info@diversitycouncil.org. Diversity Council is willing and happy to hear your concerns and connect you with the correct resources.

Topics include: 5 Steps to Reopening your business safely, Liability Concerns for Reopening Your Business

Looking for moments when people are helping other people in the community. In a nod to Fred Rogers, in bad times look for the helpers. So, please consider sharing a story about a helper in your community.

Destination Medical Center Economic Development Agency (DMC EDA) hosted a week-long webinar series titled “Road to Recovery – Navigating the Path to Economic Recovery,” April 27 – May 1 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM.

Survey results on COVID communication resources and challenges. The Olmsted County Incident Command Safety Officer is the point of contact for engaging Public Health Technical Specialists in community outreach efforts: COVIDSafetyOfficer@co.olmsted.mn.us

Techsoap newsletter with information on better usage of collaboration technologies. 

TPT videos to help dispel myths about the census and to help the community see why filling out the census is critical we have created videos in Somali, Hmong, Spanish, and English. 

This time of uncertainty has pushed nonprofit organizations to tap into their creativity and come up with inventive ways to engage and serve their communities. At the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, community is our compass, so we are inspired to see the community-led ingenuity of the nonprofit sector during this pandemic.

Below are several nonprofits we fund that are offering resources and virtual programming during Minnesota’s mandated stay at home order:

C2C Annual Report