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.

• 2009 Capital Forum List (Provided by United Way)
• Out of School Plan (Provided by United Way)
• 2011 Juneau Community Indicators (Provided by United Way)
• Middle School Afterschool Coalition Report (Provided by United Way)
• United Way COMPASS II 2005 Full Report
• CBJ Housing Needs Assessment by JEDC
• 2009 Current Status Child Care by JEDC
• 2011 Homeless Connect Event Survey Data
• JEDC 2010 Juneau Economic Indicators
• Best Beginnings Summary
• Best Beginnings Qualitative Assessment
• 2009 Juneau YRBS
• Juneau Assets Survey

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.