Participants from Mass in Motion projects across the Commonwealth gathered at the Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, MA for a four-and-a-half-hour session on Planning for Sustainability on July 23, 2014 hosted by the Community Health Training Institute. The continued, consistent implementation of effective prevention policies, strategies and practices is a key component of any successful project. Aleya Martin and Shari Sprong of Health Resources In Action (HRIA) led participants in this workshop in which they were introduced to the many facets of sustainability, including sustaining strategies, outcomes, partnerships and coalition infrastructure. The group then joined an interactive case study of a coalition in order to learn the ABCs of sustainability planning. Click here for photos of the most recent Mass in Motion Action Institute. For more information about Mass In Motion in Fall River, contact Mass In Motion coordinator Julie Kelly at 508-324-2411. 

(Top row) Shari Sprong of Health Resources In Action (HRIA) welcomes the group and arranges them for an exercise that introduces participants to one another. (Row two) Shari goes over the basics of sustainability before Aleya Martin of HRIA outlines the rest of the day at the Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, MA. (Row three) Shari works with one of two groups to develop a sustainability plan for a hypothetical community. (Bottom row) James Wilusz of the Be Well Berkshires project at the Tri-Town Health Department in Lee, MA, and Val Sullivan of Healthy Weymouth contribute to the discussion after Aleya leads the other group.