Introducing Wellville Stories Videos
September 13, 2022
Announcing the launch of Wellville Stories, a video series that shares stories from the Wellville 5 communities.
Wellville is a 10-year national nonprofit project to achieve long-term, equitable, community wellbeing. We serve as a catalyst for five US communities – the Wellville 5 – as they work to improve their health and wellbeing through resident-centered, multi-stakeholder collaboration. The Wellville 5 will inspire other communities to copy (and improve upon) their work and to promote change in how our nation invests in its people, institutions and systems.
The annual Wellville Gathering brings together people from the Wellville 5, the Wellville National team and Advisory Board, and other advisors and experts, to learn with and from each other. The most recent Gathering took place on May 16-19, 2022, in Lake County, CA.
Announcing the launch of Wellville Stories, a video series that shares stories from the Wellville 5 communities.
Building on early successes, the Muskegon YMCA continues secure funding to expand access to its diabetes prevention program.
Last Monday the Spartanburg City Council approved unanimously a “Healing, Reconciling and Unity” resolution, acknowledging “the historical antecedents of systemic racism” and apologizing to residents for “racial injustices and long-lasting inequities that have resulted from those policies.” The unprecedented resolution also enumerates specific actions Council members will take, including to “promote racial equity through all policies approved by City Council” and “support community efforts to amplify concerns about racist policies and practices.”
"If you want [public safety] policies that actually work [and save $$!], you have to change the political conversation from 'tough candidates punishing bad people' to 'strong communities keeping everyone safe.' "
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/opinion/crime-policies-cities.html
Earlier this week at the @MilkenInstitute's Public Finance Forum, @edyson "predicted" that the US will reframe so-called "spending" - on things like healthcare, education, training, and so on - as critical long-term *investment* in human infrastructure.
| Milken Institute
Permanent disruption appears to be the new normal for American life. Our opening panel brings together cross-sectoral ...
milkeninstitute.org
Wellville founder @edyson: "The money one spends keeping pregnant/new mothers healthy, providing child care (and paying care workers’ wages that honor their work), educating children...
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