Communities United for Health: South & Southeast Austin

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Communities United for Health: South & Southeast Austin
August 17, 2018
Dell Medical School
Health Discovery Building
1701 Trinity St, Austin, TX 78701
8:30am - 5pm

GAVA will lead a health equity conversation centered on the communities of Dove Springs (78744) and South Austin (78745), in a multi-stakeholder forum that brings together resident and community leaders, numerous City of Austin departments, 20+ nonprofits and leading public health academics.

Our goal for this meeting is to understand each other’s work, align efforts, and build in measurement and accountability to the community at every step.

We will set complimentary work plans, co-create concrete action steps, and craft evidence-informed outcomes and milestones for non-duplicative work over the next 3 to 5 years, with a focus on South and Southeast Austin.

Main objective of the Forum:

1. Create a stimulating yet open space for Austin residents to inform the population health strategies of institutional partners and stakeholders in the 78744/78745 area;

2. Create a space for residents and institutional partners to collaboratively build concrete and meaningful partnerships and cooperation beyond networking;

3. Foster a multi-angled and lively discussion in respect to physical activity, healthy food access, coordinated school health, early childhood, community safety and anti displacement.

4. Foster space to create a collaborative workplan in which each institutional partner and stakeholder utilizes data and resident feedback to define their shared goals, their specific unduplicated role and responsibility, capacity, assigned milestones, expected outcomes, and target dates.

Volunteer Roles & Tasks

• Setting up of main space
• Setting up tables, chairs, and materials
• Directional signs posted
• Posting directional signs
• Covering sign in table: signing in residents, stakeholders and media people
• Covering translation equipment
• Setting up breakout session room
• Ushers & set up, scribe & photos at sessions
• Usher attendees and support breakout sessions
• Childcare Ushers: usher for child care staff and kids.
• Clean up of main space, break out session, and childcare space
• Runners for breakout sessions
• Volunteers will be available for the needs of facilitators in the event of any requests

For more information please contact:

Andrea Casares

737-529-7100