Alameda County Public Health Department staff is strengthening collaborations with planners, engineers, policy makers, community-based organizations, and community members to improve the health and well being of our communities. The goal being to create system changes in the planning and design of the built environment by incorporating the relationship of the built environment to health. Staff is collaborating with cities (including Oakland, Fremont), county agencies (Community Development, Environmental Health, Fire, Public Works, Redevelopment), regional agencies (ABAG, MTC, Caltrans, BART, BARHII), and community groups (TALC and Urban Habitat). Work Group Regular meeting time - fourth Fridays from 10am to noon. Next Meeting Friday, September 25, 2009 No meeting scheduled Contact: Mona Mena: mona.mena@acgov.org, (510) 618-2035 Previous Meeting Planning and Public Health: Partnering to Achieve Health Equity - January 30, 2009 Download notes from brainstorm session Presentations: Joan Twiss - California Healthy Cities and Communities Program – from August 28, 2009 Dr. Tony Iton – Health and the Built Environment – from June 14, 2007 – Land Use, Transportation, and Public Health: Collaborating for Healthy Communities Workshop Relevant Data and Reports: Health data: Health Indicators for Cities in Alameda County, 2007 – includes health data on each of 14 cities, 6 unincorporated places, and county regions. Data and Reports – link to many reports on the Alameda County Public Health website including city and regional reports. School data: Education Data Partnership – fiscal, demographic, and performance data on public K-12 schools. California Basic Educational Data System – an annual collection of basic student and staff data; includes student enrollment, graduates, dropouts, course enrollment, enrollment in alternative education, gifted and talented education, and more. Crime data: U.S. Department of Justice – crime trends from the FBI’s uniform crimes reports, homicide trend statistics, and justice expenditures and employment. California Criminal Justice Statistics Center – crime, clearances, arrests, dispositions, expenditures, and personnel. Injury data: California Injury Data – available at the EPICenter. SWITRS – download Access 2000 database of geocoded traffic injuries in Alameda County from 1996-2007. Also download the explanatory document. For more information, contact: Matt Beyers, matt.beyers@acgov.org, (510) 267-3225 Tools: BARHII Healthy Planning Guide – policy recommendations for various built environment issues, as well as action steps for public health. Healthy Development Measurement Tool – a comprehensive evaluation metric to consider health needs in urban development plans and projects. BARHII Built Environment Work Group – a regional group creating links between planners and health professionals. Healthy Planning – Planning for Healthy Places, a program of Public Health Law and Policy, has toolkits and other resources. Public Health Terms for Planners and Planning Terms for Public Health Professionals Planning Communities: What Health Has To Do With It – Contra Costa County document about the history of planning and health and effects of planning on health. LEED for Neighborhood Development – rating system integrates the principles of smart growth, urbanism, and green building into the first national system for neighborhood design.