Can we develop a regional well-being report that improves the community's capacity to understand our most pressing issues and then to act on them together?
A New Way to Look at Issues, Ideas, and Impact
NoCo Foundation, the Institute for the Built Environment and I worked for 18 months to develop a new framework for understanding community well-being. We utilized a regenerative framework to help us see this work through a new lens that allows us to see patterns, identify pressure points, and recognize opportunities across scales.
We named it the Intersections report because we were tired of old metrics and reports that kept data about different sectors (i.e., education, health care, housing) fragmented and that looked at single cities or counties rather than regions. We wanted the data from different places and sectors to intersection so we could look at the flows, pressures, and opportunities for action.
We believe that increasing our regional well-being requires a regenerative approach. An approach where we build bridges across people, organizations, and communities. It requires a shift in our perspective. This work is about increasing the capability and capacity for individuals and communities to achieve well-being at every scale in a way that is most meaningful for them.
Sense-Making Leads to Collective Action
This report is the first step in a series of community engagements designed to provides something different – a new way to look at data, a new way to think about how we function as a region, and a new way of understanding our region’s interdependence.
And perhaps most importantly, our hope is that this report is a catalyst to start important community conversations about how we can work collaboratively to address our common challenges.
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