Healthy Places Leading to Healthy People:
Community Engagement Improves Health for All

Handouts and Resources

Background information (pdf file, Adobe Acrobat Reader required--free download)

General Information

Pictures of construction of the 24-hour house

PACE-EH Handout

Designing and Building Healthy Places, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Healthy Places Goals, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Principles for Community Engagement, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Indian River County, FL (Wabasso) PACE-EH Project, Florida Department of Health

Community-based Health Assessment, National Association of County and City Health Officials

American Planning Association's Healthy Communities

American Institute of Architects Center for Communities By Design

The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine

Healthy Communities: New Partnerships for the Future of Public Health, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine

CDC's Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Program

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Community Action for a Renewed Environment

Healthy People in Healthy Communities: A Community Planning Guide Using Healthy People 2010, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion ( pdf file, Adobe Acrobat Reader required--free download)

Training

2007 Annual CARE Training Workshop will be held during the week of October 29, 2007 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

NACCHO MAPP webcasts (Usually 4 to 5 web casts or webinars per year)

MAPP Events at APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition, November 2-7, 2007 Convention Center, Washington DC

MAPP Events at NACCHO Annual, July 11-13, 2007 Hyatt Regency, Columbus, OH

NACCHO PACE EH Webinars: Participate in the webinars via your work computer to learn and interact with experts. Webinars are archived and available for download. Over the past six months NACCHO has provided the following trainings via Webinar:

  • The PACE EH Methodology - An Introduction (October 19, 2006)
  • Applying PACE EH – Outreach, Outcomes and Innovations (January 25, 2007)
  • PACE EH and Collaboration – MAPP, EPA CARE and Comprehensive Community Assessment (April 19, 2007)

NACCHO's Peer Assistance Network (PAN): Provides a venue for the exchange of advice and support between peers who are involved in a community-based environmental health assessment process.