America's City for Health

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: DMC EDA

Contact: Kevin Bright ; Email: kevinbright@dmceda.org ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: DMC EDA ; Diversity Council ; Lotus Health Foundation ; Olmsted County Community Services ; Olmsted County Housing Redevelopment Authority ; Olmsted County Public Health Services ; OpenBeam ; Rochester Area Family Y ; Rochester Community & Technical College ; Rochester Public Library ; United Way of Olmsted County ; Well Living Lab (A Delos and Mayo Clinic collaboration)

Potential Collaborators: AARP Rochester, MN ; Community Mobilization Resource Coalition (CMRC) ; In the City for Good Steering Committee ; Salvation Army/Samaritan Medical Clinic

Related Projects

Bus Rapid Transit (2nd Street SW Link) ; Community Health Assessment Process ; DMC Discovery Square ; Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; Discovery Walk Co-designing ; Envisioning a 21st Century City: Regional Issues, Global Perspectives ; Families Matter Mental Health Collaboration ; Housing Alliance Coalition ; Lifestyle Wellness Awareness Month ; Planning To Succeed: Rochester 2040 Comprehensive Plan (P2S) ; Rochester Y Community Health Living Index Assessment (CHLI) ; The Village Community Garden & Learning Center (VCGLC) ; Update Intercultural Cities Initiative (ICI) Index

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Vision/Identity

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Aging, Best Practice, Business Process, Civic Engagement, Commitment, Diversity and Inclusion, Governance/Public Policy, Health, Housing, International, Intelligence, Mental Health, OpenBeam, Sustainability, Technology Enablement, Transportation, Workforce Development

Level 2:

DMC Impacts:

Livable City, Health & Wellness, Education/Learning Environment

Community Health Impacts:

Comprehensive

Type of Project

Planning, Special  

1. Policies that bring potential health and social impacts into the decision-making process.
2. Project approval criteria that evaluate the potential health and social impacts of a project before it is built.
3. Metrics that gauge progress toward positive health and social outcomes that promote and sustain an inclusive and healthy community.

CNG Letter to DMC

Public Health Recommendations

Feb 2023 Business Development status; Nov. 2021 Presentation to DMCC Board in November 2021 Board Meeting. Focus on attracting more companies coming in.  America City for Health as lead generation asset. 

DMC EDA initiated Community For Health group effort notes 2018 and 2019 logging of notes and activities. 

Engage area leaders about the need to converge various health/wellness initiatives to drive collective impact. (1) Memo to CNG Steering Committee (2) Memo to Mayor Norton re Community City of Health conversation. 

Summary of December 2018 work and next steps.

"As we get closer to the public comment period for the Rochester Comprehensive Plan, I thought I’d pass along the “final” version approved by the Public Health Services Advisory Board.  Content hasn’t changed significantly since last year, but put into a different format (2 documents attached).  Feel free to share with CNG."

In the 2016 January CNG meeting, Pete Giesen presented to CNG an approach to engage City Comprehensive Plan based on healthy community design principles.

Pete asks CNG friends and community members to consider the following healthy community principles as we evaluate the 3 P2S scenarios.

CNG advocacy letter to DMCC Board in support of community health design principles.

2. Career Opportunities for Women of Color

Application Due April 5, 2024: Workforce Development, Inc. is seeking a friendly and professional Career Navigator to join our team.  

City Council Approved Requests for City Council Approval of two DEI Contracts: 

Contract 1: 2024: Professional Development: Cultural Humility Series $41.3K; 

Contact 2 : Critical Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Audit ($30K); Cultural Humility Professional Development Series: Digging Deeper $13.5K ;  

Video clip of council discussions and voting and related info about GoodEnough.

We invite community organizations and partners who expressed interest in the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) initiative to participate at no cost in several opportunities hosted by CEACR.

To act on September 21, 2020 council resolutions for the city staff to develop a Intercultural City action plan.  

P2S Implementation Report

P2S Update Request for Proposal 

Employer subsidies: 1. The state of Minnesota Job Skills Partnership (MJSP) program offers grants to help train or retrain your workforce.; .2. New Minnesota Fund Reimburses Employers for Costs of Reasonable Accommodations

2024-03-10 Added Video Clip Loop of Sep 2022 DMCC board meeting

2023 Annual Report

DEI Presentation Topics: Language Access and Accessibility; Equity in the Built Environment; 2024 Initiatives

Economic Development Incentives for Housing

Mayor Updates: Black History Month, Luther College: Mutable City; International Relations Committee

“This new model positions us to better learn from our residents and address community needs.”

Open Beam Comments : Accountability of actions and results

1Q 2024:

Feb 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report

Jan 2024: Admin Message, TBE Report

Special callouts 

Promotion Post Bulletin Wraps 

Actionable Steps

Quotes from BIPOC voices

Video Mayo CEO

Mayo News June 2023

Related News: Community Reactions ; City of Rochester Support of Bold (2/1/2024)

DMCC Board Updates:

1. Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting: Video Clip of Discussion at Feb 1 2024 DMCC Board - DMC part of MedTech 3.0; Memo to DMCC

2. Nov. 2023 Video Clip of Discussion at DMCC Board Meeting about MN MedTech 3.0 Description and Webinar

References: US DEA Tech Hub Awardees