Waterville is hosting a two-day community workshop on the topic of Healthy Places for Healthy People. This program helps communities nationwide who are looking to engage their health partners to create more walkable and economically vibrant communities and to:
  • Use health as an economic driver for the local economy.
  • Revitalize downtowns through economic development by leveraging health partners and assets.
  • Provide primary care and preventive services for those without access.
  • Promote healthy behaviors and lifestyles.
  • Create physical activity programs.
  • Support local entrepreneurs.
  • Foster collaboration between workforce development and economic development to renovate and repurpose abandoned sites into new health center sites.
A team of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) agency partners and their consultants will join local stakeholders to conduct a workshop in Waterville on June 26th and June 27. Your participation and knowledge of the local area is needed to help make this event a success.

The workshop will bring together many key stakeholders from throughout our region to develop an action plan primarily around, but not limited to, these goal areas:
  • Plan and make decisions through a “lens of equity”
  • Actively engage the whole community in planning and decision-making around health
  • Increase access to healthy food, healthcare, and opportunities for healthy living for all residents
  • Tie in health and food equity/access solutions into downtown revitalization efforts

The workshop will help make the connections between local health care systems, community and economic development goals, and place making and includes small group working sessions and discussions on the community’s vision and goals, and specific actions for reaching them. The workshop will lay out an action plan for moving forward.  

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