In our collaborative work with community members and local leaders, their funders, and other key partners, our Community Action Model guides our way. The model highlights the importance of a community’s context, defines six essential practices for success, and outlines a 3P Action Cycle: Partner, Prepare, and Progress. It represents more than 20 years of learning and refinement by Healthy Places by Design and is a well-tested approach for local investments.
Relationships are the heart of our work, and our bottom line is helping community coalitions and leaders create lasting change at local, state, regional, and national levels. We bring decades of experience supporting diverse community partnerships and leaders in more than 40 states as they implemented equity-focused policies, created welcoming public spaces, and transformed their communities to improve health and wellbeing for all.
Learn MoreHealthy Places by Design deepens the capacity of individuals, groups, and organizations to work together on improving their community’s policies, systems, and environments. Our collaboration services include tailored learning and networking experiences, cohort support, and our unique Collaboration Lab course, all of which build the capacity of current and future leaders to create thriving communities.
Learn MoreWe are growing a movement to integrate social connection as a vital component of healthy and equitable communities. Through the Socially Connected Communities Network and other services, we help people in communities, philanthropies, and nonprofit organizations weave strategies for social connection into their work.
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Preventing violence in places where people live, learn, and spend time together is essential for both physical and social health and wellbeing. When public places are both safe and welcoming, people are more likely to use them for exercise and social connection. This Action Guide offers policies, programs, practices, and community examples to help public health practitioners, advocates, researchers, and community members create safer, more equitable spaces where all young people can thrive.
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The Michigan Health Endowment Fund (The Health Fund) engages with communities across Michigan to improve social determinants of health. Recognizing that health leaders benefit from training on collaboration and how to make the most of partnerships, The Health Fund is engaging Healthy Places by Design to offer Collaboration Lab to local leaders.
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Narratives convey deep values and beliefs about how the world and our communities operate, and can be harnessed to align values and influence community action. Explore Transformative Narratives for Socially Connected Communities and other resources produced by Healthy Places by Design and the Narratives for Health Initiative.
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