November 28, 2017

Meeting Location — MacArthur High School

CONNECTIVITY AND PARTNERSHIP

• Work at organizational level
• Communication
• Involvement
• Public Resources for information
• Multiple ways to communicate
• Create plan to effectively use the previous 2 bullets

HOUSING, BUILDING AND LAND USE

• Residential Housing
  • Attractive housing for young professionals
  • Empty houses
  • accountable property owners
• Commercial Buildings
  • Empty/underutilized buildings
• Land-reuse
  • Community gardens/urban farming

COMMUNITY APPEARANCE

• Corridors — remove eyesores
• Year-round litter collection
• Pride of home ownership
• Uses for vacant lots
• Higher Standards for frontage
• Pride of place
• Regular street cleaning
• more

GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS

• Property abandonment to market
• Improve declining houses — review relevant ordinance and city codes
• Vacant lot use
• Side log
• Residency of city employees
• Empty business fronts
• Results based grant programs — for improving houses

ENERGIZING EXISTING NEIGHBORHOODS

• Neighborhoods have different Needs/Issues
• Blue print for an Urban Village (Indy)
• Representation for/from each neighborhood
• Engagement and Leadership from residents
• Financial Investment Capacity

ECONOMIC & SOCIAL GROWTH & VITALITY

• Training for youth that don’t go to college
• Involvement by parents in school
• Tackle social/emotional issues
• Opportunities for those out of prison
• Household money management – teach
• Communicate opportunities available
• Social barriers to improvements

COMMUNITY HEALTH & WELLNESS

• who is our audience?
  • People who need to/want to be here
  • Retain
  • Current Population health improvement
• What is Community Health?
  • Connecting current populations to existing services
• Assets and Gaps
  • Access to…Individuals ability to access available services and recreation services
  • This is a common thread throughout the 4 priorities

1. Environmental
   1. Water health — perception lake water is gross and unhealthy
   2. Access to outdoor recreation
   3. Air quality
2. Personal Health
   1. Financial health of the individual/family
   2. Quality of life
   3. Physical health
   4. Obesity
   5. Physical Activity — Bike Path
   6. Access to health car, insurance, food, safe housing, etc.
3. Behavioral Health
   1. Drug abuse/Addiction
   2. Substance abuse
   3. Trauma informed care
   4. Access to mental health services
4. School-aged Children
   1. obesity
   2. Develop Workforce
   3. Mental health / early childhood screen
   4. Basic life skills
   5. Partnerships for extracurricular activities
   6. Nutritious foods
   7. Engaged families

JOB TRAINING

• Job Readiness
  • Soft skills that are transferable
  • Employ-ability skills
  • High school/Training
  • Basic math and language skills
  • Earlier exposure to jobs/careers
• Education/Training
  • Career development/awareness
  • Career pathways
  • Internships
  • Reinforcement of soft skills
  • Partnerships with employers
  • Apprenticeship and pre-approved programs
  • Job training programs
• Job Attraction
  • New jobs
  • Businesses/Job retention/Expansion
  • make jobs/careers attractive
  • Small business growth
• Barriers to Employment
  • Criminal history resolution
  • Transportation / Driver’s license
  • Child care
  • Passing drug screens
  • social services cliff
  • Style of communication to potential workers
• Communication Strategy
  • Opportunity awareness