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Summary
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- Tackle a community project in your community and use the HBE Linkages Toolkit to start conversations and build ideas and strategies for a health focus.
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Objectives
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Explore the links between health and built environment, and how to apply them to a community project
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Develop strategies to link health outcomes into both the process and content of a selected community project or plan.
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Learn more about various agencies’ and key people’s roles and interests for next steps together on the selected project, and other opportunities as well.
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Participants
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It is important that people who play a key role in the selected community project, and the workshop, and that key organizations are committed to the idea/potential to continue to work together on next steps (after the workshop) to bring health considerations and outcomes into the community project.
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Audience would ideally be comprised of a combination of health, local government, and community agencies that affect the built environment, who all work in the same community or region.
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Planning
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Multi-agency planning committee (3-6 people) with representatives that bring various contacts and perspectives.
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Two facilitators – need to have reviewed the HBE Linkages Toolkit, be comfortable working with and discussing issues/opportunities around health and the built environment, and be experienced workshop facilitators.
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