The spread of coronavirus is an opportunity to rethink community supports. How can we best support quality living for every member of our community? What is in place now and what can we put into place later to better support all?
Food Centers
Rather than meals at school, I'm leaning towards the idea of community food centers--places where people can get a healthy breakfast and dinner, brown bag lunch, and healthy foods for their homes too. These places could be inviting food centers that are connected to year-round gardens on rooftops, vacant lots, or greenhouses. These food centers could also be a kind of community center with information, public resources, and possibly connected to health centers too. To disconnect schools from free lunch, may be a positive disconnection with regard to supporting family nutrition, year-round nutrition, and nutrition and health education too.
Leadership Communication
I also think that leadership communication should be regulated a bit more with regular communication every week via easy-to-access media channels. Many leaders do this already, but regular, accessible communication to all in a community is an essential ingredient to strong communities.
Emergency Communication
I believe that emergency communication is good in some places, but we can better this. With climate change upon us resulting in more severe storms and unexpected events, I think we have to increase access to emergency communication and make sure that everyone knows about those communication channels.
Community Planning
I think that it is very important for communities to embrace community planning in ways that elevate individuals' living. Rather than miles of disconnected neighborhoods, future planning should plan communities that surround quality services such as health centers, libraries, shops, and schools putting people mostly in walking or biking distance from essential services. I also believe that recreation spots, bike trails, and other healthy living attributes should be an essential part of new community development or re-development.
During this virus spread, I'll continue to think about how we may learn from this and elevate living for all community members.
Food Centers
Rather than meals at school, I'm leaning towards the idea of community food centers--places where people can get a healthy breakfast and dinner, brown bag lunch, and healthy foods for their homes too. These places could be inviting food centers that are connected to year-round gardens on rooftops, vacant lots, or greenhouses. These food centers could also be a kind of community center with information, public resources, and possibly connected to health centers too. To disconnect schools from free lunch, may be a positive disconnection with regard to supporting family nutrition, year-round nutrition, and nutrition and health education too.
Leadership Communication
I also think that leadership communication should be regulated a bit more with regular communication every week via easy-to-access media channels. Many leaders do this already, but regular, accessible communication to all in a community is an essential ingredient to strong communities.
Emergency Communication
I believe that emergency communication is good in some places, but we can better this. With climate change upon us resulting in more severe storms and unexpected events, I think we have to increase access to emergency communication and make sure that everyone knows about those communication channels.
Community Planning
I think that it is very important for communities to embrace community planning in ways that elevate individuals' living. Rather than miles of disconnected neighborhoods, future planning should plan communities that surround quality services such as health centers, libraries, shops, and schools putting people mostly in walking or biking distance from essential services. I also believe that recreation spots, bike trails, and other healthy living attributes should be an essential part of new community development or re-development.
During this virus spread, I'll continue to think about how we may learn from this and elevate living for all community members.