Harnessing the Value of Co-Creating and Stewarding Places for Health, Equity, and Well-Being Proceedings of a Workshop (2022) / Chapter Skim
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3 Stories of Intentional Inclusion
3 Stories of Intentional Inclusion
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2 This section summarizes information presented by Representative Armando Walle from the Texas House of Representatives and Jo Carcedo from the Episcopal Health Foundation. The statements made are not endorsed or verified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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The agency purchased a 60-acre parcel of land with the goal of developing Aldine Town Center, and Walle brokered a partnership with BakerRipley. Following a capital campaign that raised $20 million to build three community center buildings, the BakerRipley expansion to Aldine yielded senior center programming, a maker space and youth fabrication laboratory, and a federally qualified health center.
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She said that Neighborhood Centers had its foundation in the resettlement and child care movements, which helped shape its vision. Carcedo then described the Episcopal Health Foundation as "a public charity and supporting organization of the Episcopal Diocese that owned a hospital system at the time and sold it" (the foundation has no relationship with the hospital)
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18 FIGURE 3-1 Theory of change. SOURCE: Carcedo presentation, February 6, 2020.
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FIGURE 3-2 Logic model for the Community-Centered Health Home. NOTE: CCHH = community-centered health home; SDOH = social determinants of health; TA = teaching assistant.
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, informs the panelists' "thinking about the necessity for inclusive placemaking." Walle recalled Tropical Storm Allison,6 along with numerous storms since then. He explained that the city held a community meeting with various agencies, and community members demanded responsive action to address flooding issues and concerns.
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Designing walking and biking 7 This section summarizes information presented by Alexa Bush from the City of Detroit and Ceara O'Leary from the University of Detroit Mercy and the Detroit Collaborative Design Center. The statements made are not endorsed or verified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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The redevelopment area has made a physical space for cross-sector collaboration, which is known as the Neighborhood Home Base, including office and meeting space and a community shared space for "block club meetings, for community association gatherings, [and] for other nonprofit workshop events." The Neighborhood Home Base is staffed by residents within the Fitzgerald Area Project and provides a welcoming environment.
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Bush said that she had to find partners that were able to establish structures that promoted residential involvement, such as hiring local residents. O'Leary continued by saying that the collaboration between city departments and the Community Development Financial Institutions Funds11 has given a "holistic approach to neighborhood investment." Relationship building should also be cultivated even if there are not any active projects, she said.
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She believed that they would not have been able to have these conversations in a traditional meeting setting and that this alternative setting allowed people to "dive into the issue and see what it could be like." Colby Dailey from the Build Health Places Network asked the presenters what would be the most critical advice to organizations looking to do similar work in smaller or mid-sized cities. O'Leary said the most critical thing was to ensure that residents have a role in the planning and decision-making process.
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as having physical borders created by the Pacific Rail Lines. Arredondo said that as part of the city's general plan implementation, these rail lines are part of the Richmond Greenway, "a 3-mile community bicycle and pedestrian rail–trail bordered by 32 acres of community 12 This section summarizes information presented by Joseph Griffin from Pogo Park and Elm Playlot and Gabino Arredondo from Richmond, California.
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. The Elm Playlot is located in the Iron Triangle, along with Perry Elementary School, Lucas Park, and the Nevin Community Center.
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Ross continued the discussion by bringing up the importance of play and that it is an equity issue because "not all kids have access to play regularly, to play freely, to play safely." She asked Griffin and Arredondo if they could elaborate on how they engaged youth in the development of the Elm Playlot and Pogo Park model. Griffin responded by saying the process to develop Elm Playlot was completed in 2014; however, they continue to change it to respond to community wants and needs.
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Arredondo responded, saying that the city of Richmond brought an outside person to complete training alongside city staff, and city leadership promoted the idea that all staff, from maintenance workers to city managers, were health providers and clinicians. This helped to change the working environment and perceptions.
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He referenced the Global Learning Exchange through the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at the University of California, Berkeley, through which he, Arredondo, and others from Richmond traveled to Nairobi to learn strategies to engage with community members and how to promote investment in areas without existing strong financial support. Another example he 14 Groundwork Richmond is an organization that aims to restore urban forests in Richmond, California, by using youth to replant trees (Groundwork Richmond, 2020)
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In 2007, he noted, that they started a mixed-methods study on "the health impacts of the redevelopment of Elm Playlot," which looks at publicly available data on health indicators and a community sur vey on social cohesion and perceptions. In addition, they are using the PhotoVoice project to capture qualitative data.
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