Centering Healing, Serving Community: Lessons Learned from Health Action Planning in Chicago

This poem was authored and shared by Leslé Honoré for Enterprise's Centering Healing, Serving Community event, part of the Health Begins with Home webinar series sponsored by Citi.

This brief offers insight into recommended practices for the community engagement step of the Health Action Plan and provides adaptable community engagement strategies to provide a safe way of collecting community feedback during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Enterprise Green Communities Criteria is the nation’s only national green building program designed explicitly for green affordable housing construction.

An illustrated step-by-step guide for do-it-yourselfers and contractors seeking to prevent mold-related health problems and save storm-damaged homes.

Organizations acquired the language, evaluation tools and evidence needed to articulate the connection between their work and individual health outcomes and were equipped to convey their findings in a way that would resonate with current and future health care partners.

This report highlights lessons learned during the design and initial implementation phases of the study of green building practices, explores the challenges encountered, and identifies key strategies used to overcome those challenges.

An evaluation of the process by which affordable housing developers use public health data and forge the key partnerships necessary to create a Health Action Plan and a Monitoring and Implementation Plan, the two components of Optional Criterion 1.2b

People spend nearly 90 percent of their time inside, making indoor air quality central to health and well-being. Low-income populations are disproportionally affected by a range of illnesses and adverse health effects that can be exacerbated by poor indoor air quality, and improvements to the indoor environment can be an important mechanism to address health disparities.