A Collective Impact strategy to improve health and build community

1. Vibrant Community, Healthy Garden:
A Collective Impact Strategy to
Improve Health and Build Community
Athena Ramos, Albert Varas, Anita Soto,
Deibi Sibrian, and Jose Labrador

2. Session Objectives
● Understand how collective impact thinking
can be used to foster community health
● Recognize opportunities to incorporate
community gardening into an overall
strategy of improving health and wellbeing
● Discuss the development of City Sprouts
South at Dorothy Patach Environmental Area

3. Collective Impact

5. Benefits of Community
Gardens
● Eat healthy fresh fruits and vegetables.
● Engage in physical activity, skill building, and creating green
space.
● Beautify vacant lots.
● Revitalize communities in industrial areas.
● Revive and beautify public parks.
● Create green rooftops.
● Decrease violence in some neighborhoods, and improve
social well-being through strengthening social connections.
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. (2010). Community Gardens.
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/healthtopics/healthyfood/community.htm

6. VACANT LOT TOOLKIT:
http://www.cityofomaha.org/planning/hcd/images/stories/pdfs/VLT%20Reduced.
pdf

7. A Bird’s Eye View

10. ●NEED TO INSERT PHOTOS
FROM ACTIVITIES

11. Kite making

12. rubbing party.

13. Tree removal

14. Block Party

15. Halloween Village: Creation

16. Halloween Village:
Festival

18. Building Community

19. City Sprouts South…
An Example of Collective Impact

20. Think about an idea to
improve our community…
1. What issue(s) are you
passionate about?
2. What type of collective
impact strategy could
you develop?
3. Who would be your
partners?

21. CitySproutsSouth
https://www.facebook.com/DorothyPatachPermaculturePark/