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PARTNERS | HEALTHY CITY | HOW HEALTHY | VISION | SUMMIT | PRIORITIES | FUNCTIONS | CITY OF FALL RIVER |
Dr.
David
Weed and Wendy Garf-Lipp of Partners for a Healthier
Community organized a forum on April 7, 2016 at the Yale
West Campus Conference Center for the six Culture
of Health Prize winning communities in the North East from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation (RWJF). The new
winning communities included Everett
and Lawrence,
MA as well as Bridgeport,
CT, and The
Bronx, NY, in addition to Fall River. Following a warm-up exercise led
by Kitty
Jerome from the University
of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, participants engaged in two hour-long conversations
on their best practices led by
representatives each of the six winning communities. Participants also had
a chance to connect with others over lunch to permit connections among
those doing similar work. Click
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(Top row) Fall River Youth Services Coordinator Christian McCloskey boards one of two vans that took ten Fall River participants to New Haven where United Neighbors of Fall River Executive Director Wendy Garf-Lipp checked in some of the sixty participants, including Kitty Jerome and Carrie Carroll from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. (Row two) Fernando Tirado, Director of New Initiatives for the Center for Healthy Equity in the Bronx District Public Health Office, talks with Partners School Wellness Coordinator Marcia Picard and Cambridge Public Health Department Officer Claude-Alex Jacobs while Ms. Garf-Lipp greets Carrie Carroll and Amy Slonim. (Row three) Kathleen O'Brien of the Everett Community Health Partnership describes her work in one of the conversation sessions before lunch, and Partners Fitness Challenge Organizer Annemarie Holly leads the group in a stretching exercise. (Bottom row) Wendy Garf-Lipp and Claude-Alex Jacobs wrap up the session before a final group photo. |
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