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Welcome to Healthy Richmond!
Healthy Richmond is a 10-year community-based project to help Richmond/North Richmond become a safe, healthy, and equitable place to live, work, and go to school.
And you can help! We're inviting local community members of all types -- residents, employees and employers, municipal workers, and nonprofit organizations -- to consider joining the Healthy Richmond Hub Steering Committee, which will guide this important initiative.
Download our Frequently Asked Questions in English or in Spanish.
Download the Hub Steering Committee application form as PDFs in English or Spanish or as fillable Word forms in English or Spanish.
Download a basic summary of the project in English or Spanish.
All applications must be received in our office by July 1, 2011. You may submit by email or by mail to 1452 Fred Jackson Way, Richmond, CA 94801. Committee members will be chosen by July 15th and will begin meeting in August 2011.
What's Healthy Richmond all about?
In 2009, with the support of The California Endowment (TCE), a group of local community members began to work together to plan the first steps of a 10-year project called Healthy Richmond. To put it simply, the Healthy Richmond project has one big goal: To help our community become a place where all children are safe, healthy, and ready to learn.
To accomplish this goal, the planning group identified necessary changes that would also improve life for our entire community: efforts to increase safety, improve access to medical care, and encourage our city leaders to cultivate healthy habits and environments.
In late 2010, the group produced a written plan -- called a logic model -- to outline the steps to turn this plan into a reality. The logic model outlines recommendations for how our community – government leaders, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and residents of all ages and ethnicities – can work together to make a healthier and safer Richmond.
Today, after two years of neighborhood planning, Healthy Richmond is now looking for community volunteers interested in managing this process, by serving on the Healthy Richmond Hub Steering Committee.
What is the purpose of Healthy Richmond?
To put it simply: The purpose of Healthy Richmond is to create a place where all children are safe, healthy, and ready to learn. Healthy Richmond is designed to improve the health and safety of our whole community, but there are six neighborhoods that are the primary areas of focus: Belding Woods, Coronado, Iron Triangle, North Richmond, Pullman, and Santa Fe.
In order to create a place that's good for children, we will also be working to create a place that's better for all of us. For example, we've chosen four smaller goals as the focus of the project's work in the first few years:
- To ensure that families have “health homes” where they can get services to support healthy behaviors;
- To ensure children and their families are safe from violence;
- To ensure that neighborhoods and schools support health and healthy behaviors;
- To ensure that community health improvements are linked to economic development.
To achieve these goals over the next 10 years, residents, community leaders and others in Richmond will work together to enhance our local systems and policies, improve our services and resources, and foster our ability to work effectively as a positive community.
Today, the Healthy Richmond project is moving from planning into implementation. The 10-year implementation process will be managed by a new entity called The Healthy Richmond Hub. The Hub will be housed at 1452 Fred Jackson Way (formerly 3rd Street) in North Richmond. The Hub will be staffed by a paid Hub Manager, and will be supervised by a group of community volunteers called the Healthy Richmond Hub Steering Committee. The Hub Steering Committee will be the lead entity for the Hub, will make decisions for the project, and will be responsible for reviewing and updating the logic model every year.
How can I be involved?
Consider becoming a member of the Healthy Richmond Hub Steering Committee!
Download our Frequently Asked Questions in English or in Spanish.
Download the Hub Steering Committee application form as PDFs in English or Spanish or as fillable Word forms in English or Spanish.
Download a basic summary of the project in English or Spanish.
All applications must be received in our office by July 1, 2011. You may submit by email or by mail to 1452 Fred Jackson Way, Richmond, CA 94801.
E-mail: info@healthyrichmond.net |
