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The Eleven
Principles of a healthy neighborhood |
- Leadership
Healthy neighborhoods value and
cultivate skilled leadership and an active citizenry. Healthy
neighborhoods possess a complement of local organizations, civic
associations, religious communities, and/or community
development corporations composed of the diverse, local array of
racial, ethnic, and economic constituencies.
- Vision
Healthy neighborhoods foster the creation of a
"future community vision" and develop a holistic set of
neighborhood strategies to achieve that vision. The ability to
collaborate across barriers and sectors to successfully
implement these strategies is recognized and valued.
- Collaboration
Healthy
neighborhoods exist within a metropolitan setting where
governments and the private, philanthropic, and independent
sectors value and provide coordinated support for neighborhood
association formation and growth, local leadership development,
and holistic community development initiatives.
- Services
Healthy
communities maintain the highest standard of health and human services.
- Education
Healthy
neighborhoods place a high value on intellectual and moral education.
All local institutions and social structures take extraordinary measures
to provide support to local schools. Parents and adults actively
participate in the education of children. Children and young adults are
involved in neighborhood associations and other local leadership forums
that offer civic responsibility training.
- Culture
Healthy
communities offer a wide and varied array of artistic, cultural,
recreational, and spiritual programs and venues to enrich the quality of
life, nurture local talent, and foster creativity.
- Safety
In healthy
neighborhoods, police and citizens partner together to create a safe,
crime-free environment. Healthy neighborhoods create safe and nurturing
venues for children.
- Environment
Healthy communities manage and invest in local properties
and the common environment to maintain the community’s
aesthetic and physical quality.
- Housing
Healthy
communities offer attractive housing as a community asset and a
wealth-building opportunity for local families.
- Business Diversity
Healthy communities possess a complement of retail and
professional services.
- Economy
Healthy
communities have an integrated economic relationship with the
surrounding region that provides both producers and consumers and
generates economic opportunity. Healthy neighborhoods provide a setting
where individuals can participate in the economy, either in the
workforce or through entrepreneurial activity.
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