America’s Community for Health

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

Plan Phase

Impacts

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Aging, Best Practice, Business Process, Civic Engagement, Diversity and Inclusion, Governance/Public Policy, Health, Housing, Mental Health, OpenBeam, 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.

(1) City Council approved ICI Resolution (2) City Council Study Session on ICI Index  

Collider is Seeking Passionate Individuals for Three Contract Ecosystem Navigator Positions

(1) Nonprofit grant with RAF (2) SMB grant with RAEDI (3) CARES Act Funds allocation.

2021 Budget Discussions

OpenBeam arranged a meeting between emmright and Collider. Good potential to collaborate especially in the Collider's Navigator program. 

Co-designers will be Rochester residents with strong connections to their communities and local knowledge of their neighborhood and the Rapid Transit Project area. 

August 2020 DMCC Board Meeting

  Olmsted County, the Rochester Downtown Alliance (RDA), and United Way are partnering to ensure a complete count and asking all residents to complete the 2020 Census. The 2020 Census self-response period is set to end Wednesday, September 30, 2020.

Convening conversation on how our region can work together to be a welcoming region. 

Diversity Council is looking for members to join its team: (1) Facilitators (2) Curriculum Development & Delivery Manager

United Way of Olmsted County is seeking proposals: (1) programs that provide high quality childcare or early childhood education and (2) proposal to "build back better". 

More CARES Act Funding to Keep It Local

Diversity Council is coordinating an ask to the City of Rochester for Conservation Funds.  

 Triton Public School District partnership with Diversity Council on equity initiative for student success. 

The City of Rochester Parks and Recreation department is seeking community partners to assist with staffing for the Rochester Conservation Corps.