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HealthyPlaces.org > Framework
Overview
The Healthy Places Framework
What is the purpose of the Healthy
Places Framework?
The ultimate goal of building healthy places is to help people lead healthy
lives.
What do Healthy Places look like?
Picture a place where all people can live, learn, work, and play in safety.
Here, children have the opportunity to grow and develop, adults live safe
and healthy lives, and older adults are vigorous. In these places, you'll
find four critical elements.
What roles do Community
Health Institute staff (and other professionals) play when people
use the Healthy Places Framework?
The Healthy Places Framework uses the following
three strategies:
- Provide people in communities with systematic ways to
develop environments where people can choose healthy behaviors.
Having more people leading healthy lives is the desired
outcome.
- Rely upon leaders in places where people live, learn,
work, and play to participate in finding ways to develop
healthy environments. This strategy gives place leaders
the "tools of the trade" to establish healthy
place processes and to institutionalize healthy place efforts.
- Stay in touch with place leaders. By establishing an
ongoing system of contact, teams of professionals can introduce
leaders at the community and place levels to new findings
and strategies.
How does the Healthy Places Framework
work?
The framework, an operating system, connects people and knowledge
to develop healthy places through building community, using
resources,
and documenting success. It helps community
leaders create Healthy Places where it is easier for children, youth,
and adults to regularly make healthy choices.
Community leaders (professionals and volunteers)
lead locally-directed youth, adult, and family efforts to
build healthy places. Involved leaders who live and work
in the community are critical to sustaining healthy places.
With their commitment, the reach of healthy places grows.
The Community
Health Institute is dedicated
to connecting leaders, in a timely way, to what communities
need to achieve their goals — professionals, peers,
products, and ways to measure success.
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to learn about place-based planning.
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