Healthy Communities

A Healthy Community creates opportunities for each resident to meet his/her potential physically, mentally, socially, emotionally and spiritually, building on the strengths of its people and systems to improve the quality of life and creating a sense of hope. Area Healthy Communities activities build community capacity and empowerment individually and collectively, through community organizing, leadership development, partnership and coalition building.

External Community

• Quality of Life Initiative

  A project that builds community capacity to respond to specific quality of life issues through organizing, advocacy, education and partnership, currently focused on Sonoma County's mental health system.

  For more information please contact Stella Rijeka at 525-5300 ext. 3219.

• Neighborhood Care Staff

  A team of community organizers bringing neighbors together to improve their quality of life. Currently working in Windsor, Southwest Santa Rosa, Sonoma Valley, Rohnert Park and Petaluma.

  For more information please call NCS at 522-1540. Read more about NCS.

• A.C.T.I.O.N. (Agents of Change Training in our Neighborhoods)

  A bilingual grassroots leadership development program serving local residents, community groups and organizations to increase community capacity for effecting social change.

  For more information please contact Dory Magasis Escobar at 522-1552.

• Community Partnerships

  Working with various persons and organizations committed to Healthy Communities, providing linkages and contributing to building community capacity in order to improve the quality of life in Sonoma County.

  For more information please contact Dory Magasis Escobar at 522-1552.

Internal Community

• Mental Health Roundtable

  Currently in formation, a forum for employee involvement in dialogue and action to strengthen and enhance the local mental health system.

  For more information please contact Stella Rijeka at 525-5300 ext. 3219.

• Asset Mapping & Mini-Grants

  A Budget Philosophy initiative to apply Healthy Communities principles and practices internally in order to improve the Quality of Worklife through asset mapping and small team building projects.

  For more information please call NCS at 522-1540. Read more about NCS.

• Cultural Competence Assessment and Planning

  A Budget Philosophy initiative to engage an area-wide, multidisciplinary team in assessment, planning and activities geared towards improving the Cultural and Linguistic Competence of SJHS-SC, based on the Federal Standards.

  FY03 Baseline Assessment and FY04 Plan (PDF)

  For more information please contact Dory Magasis Escobar at 522-1552 or Arnie Barragan at ext. 3217.