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Sustaining Families Through A Pandemic

Sustaining Families Through A Pandemic . Self-Sufficiency and Cooperation Through Neighborhood and Community Planning. Objectives. Understand concepts of social capital and community planning Learn steps of community planning Learn about resources to help communities plan.

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Sustaining Families Through A Pandemic

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  1. Sustaining Families Through A Pandemic Self-Sufficiency and Cooperation Through Neighborhood and Community Planning

  2. Objectives • Understand concepts of social capital and community planning • Learn steps of community planning • Learn about resources to help communities plan

  3. Pandemics happen globally, but planning and response happen locally.

  4. Why Should Neighborhoods and Communities Organize? • 1995 Chicago heat wave

  5. Chicago Neighborhoods

  6. Social Capital • The ways in which we connect with friends, neighbors and strangers • Leads to trust, reciprocity, solidarity and cooperation

  7. Social Capital • Reduces stressful conditions, risky behavior, mortality and psychological distress • May increase one’s feeling of control over the environment • Characteristics of neighborhoods, including social capital, have been linked to health outcomes

  8. Community Planning • Community planning may be the only way we can effectively keep people safe in a pandemic • The goal is to reach every person who lives or works in your community regardless of communication or other barriers

  9. Influenza, 1918

  10. Community Planning, 1918

  11. Community Planning Today:How to Do It • Step one • Know your purpose • Define/redefine your community

  12. Community Planning Today:How to Do It • Step two • Identify formal and informal community leaders • Establish relationships and build trust • Identify who lives in your neighborhood • Create a way to have access to this information • Invite community members to join the discussion

  13. Community Planning Today: How to Do It Vulnerable populations

  14. Community Planning Today:How to Do It • Step three • Collectively plan for: • Communication • Food and water, household maintenance • Health care, including medication • Errands • Calming network • Education and employment needs

  15. Community Planning Today:How to Do It • Step four • Maintain the process and stay committed

  16. Dane County Resources Neighborhood Info • Neighborhood Resource Teams • Neighborhood Associations • Community Centers • Neighborhood Planning Councils • Joining Forces for Families • 211 • Time Bank • Websites on Handout

  17. Who We Are • Public Health of Madison and Dane County • 266-4821 • Judy Howard, RN, MS • Public health nursing supervisor • 242-6521 howard@co.dane.wi.us

  18. Who We Are • Jennifer Weitzel, RN, BC • District nurse for downtown Madison/near eastside including homeless shelters • 292-5331 jweitzel@cityofmadison.com • Jenny Lujan, RN, BSN • Community health improvement nurse countywide • 242-6533 lujan@co.dane.wi.us

  19. Plan Ahead to Keep Your Community Safe!

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