| Principles of Healthy
Neighborhoods |
Indianapolis is a community of common purpose
composed of individuals and distinct neighborhoods with diverse
assets and needs.
We establish these eleven Principles of Healthy Neighborhoods as
a framework for working together to affect sustainable social
change through a comprehensive community development system that
integrates civic, social, physical, and economic development to
create spaces and relationships where we live, work, raise our
families, and participate in our community. |
| Civic |
- 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.
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| Social |
- 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.
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| Physical |
- 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.
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| Economic |
- 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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