Values

Our Values - Diversity; Intergeneration; Opportunities for different generations to connect each other; Collaboration; Natural beauty of nature; Supportive community; Opportunities for all to pursue healthy behaviors; Individual health and health of community as a whole; Opportunities for successful living

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Community Themes and Strength Assessment Subcommittee meeting minutes

5/17/11 2-3pm at United Way of Southeast Conference Room
Agenda topics
  • Juneau MAPP and Community Themes and Strength Assessment (CTSA) Overview 
The community themes and strength assessment answers the following questions:
  • What is important to our community?
  • How is quality of life perceived in our community?
  • What assets do we have that can be used to improve community health?
Some communities start from no data. However, Juneau has many data available. We will first review these data to answer these three questions. Also, looking at the vision statement and Vision Meeting Wordle, we will explore other ways to gather missing data.
We will continue to look for possible grants and fundings for future MAPP effort.
Our Funding wish list: Community meeting locations, refreshments, advertisement, Community assessment tools, such as camera, etc., Website setup & maintenance, Advertisement, radio PSA, printouts about MAPP, Booklet for data share, etc.
Next meeting 7/12/11 at 2pm at United Way of Southeast Alaska
  • Everyone will review data and share summary at next meeting.
  • Everyone will think of gaps in data and ways to collect data to answer three questions: What is important to our community? How is quality of life perceived in our community? What assets do we have that can be used to improve community health? For example, there was an idea of photovoice by Youth.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Community Themes and Strength Assessment 1st meeting

  • 5/17/11 at 2pm at the United Way of Southeast Alaska conference room
Overview of the Steps for this assessment
  1. Review available data
  2. Determine the most effective approaches to gather information from a cross-section of the community - community meetings, focus groups, windshield surveys, individual discussions, or interviews.
  3. Implement activities that gather community themes and strengths and engage the community in the MAPP process. Gather feedback on quality of life issues and community assets.
  4. Compile the results. List issues, potential solutions, and assets.
For more information, please visit NACCHO site: http://www.naccho.org/topics/infrastructure/mapp/upload/ctsa.pdf

We will be reviewing the following documents: