The Power of Partnerships
June 6-7, 2011
The Lansing Center, Lansing, MI
Monday, June 6
Noon Registration
1:00 p.m. Training Sessions
A. Local Food Policy Councils: Building the Capacity for Real Food System Change
Mark Winne, Community Food Security Coalition, Santa Fe, NM
Jill Myer, Grand Rapids Food Policy Council
Malik Yakini, Detroit Food Policy Council (invited)
Local food policy councils are an emerging multi-stakeholder food system strategy and partnership. This session will examine the role that local food policy councils can play to improve the coordination of public and private food system groups and influence local food policy. Participants will acquire information about food policy council organizational models, the current state of their practice, and the major issues that confront food policy councils.
B. Complete Streets – The Next Steps: From Planning and Design to Community Perspectives on Implementation
Holly Madill, Michigan Department of Community Health
Terry Blackmore, WATS
Norman Cox, The Greenway Collaborative
Josh DeBruyn, Michigan Department of Transportation
Jeff Fordice, City of Saline
Brad Strader, LSL Planning
This session explains policy implementation tools (planning processes, policies, and regulations) and design applications (sidewalks, bike paths, transit stops, road diets, etc.) used to accomplish Complete Streets in a community. A panel of state, regional, city, and township officials then will discuss how they have implemented Complete Streets policies in their jurisdictions and will share lessons learned.
C. If Life Is a Nightmare, Start a New Dream: Using Community Visioning Techniques and Scenario Planning Tools to Shape a Desired Future
Hannah Twaddell, Renaissance Planning Group, Charlottesville, VA
Many communities operate according to an unconscious vision of what they were. Powerful communities operate according to a conscious vision of what they want to be - whether or not it matches up with what they are at this moment. Communities that take the time and energy to consider, test and shape an intentional, clear, compelling vision of their future can develop the partnerships and resources to achieve it.
Visioning and scenario planning provide a framework for communities to evaluate the impacts and possibilities of potential future changes in a technically sound, collaborative, and compelling way. Increasing numbers of public and private community planning agencies and organizations are using scenario planning techniques to stimulate public participation, develop stronger partnerships, and to coordinate economic development initiatives, environmental stewardship programs, infrastructure investments, and community goals for quality of life goals.
In response to the rapidly growing interest in scenario planning across the nation, a plethora of visioning models and GIS-based scenario planning tools has emerged over the past few years. What do these tools do? When and how should they be applied? How can planners ensure they will interface effectively with existing models and planning approaches? How can public input be integrated with technical analyses in meaningful ways? This half-day workshop will help participants answer these questions and more.
4:30 p.m. Training Sessions Adjourn
Dinner on your own
Tuesday, June 7
7:30 a.m. Registration opens
Light Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors
8:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Olga Dazzo, Director, Michigan Department of Community Health
8:30 a.m. Keynote Address: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
Majora Carter, Eco-Entrepreneur and President, The Majora Carter Group, New York
Ms. Carter’s keynote address on Home(town) Security and climate adaptation takes a look at where local economies are failing everyday people, and how these same types of folks are taking on the challenges of climate adaptation, unemployment, and the social problems that accompany those issues. From new business development that builds on local assets, to smarter storm water and erosion management strategies, real security comes from knowing that your community is fostering a sense of hope and success across generations.
Central to her economic argument is addressing our "most expensive citizens.” These are people who are chronically overweight, returning from prison, traumatized veterans, and the generationally impoverished. Drug, alcohol and domestic abuse, prison recidivism, costly pharmaceutical treatments for mental illness, poor educational outcomes for their children, and mounting stress-related health care costs mean that most social service dollars are directed toward a relatively small number of people.
By designing and implementing job creation models that support our green-infrastructure needs for climate-adaptation, and directing those resources to improve the lives of people who are currently seen as tax-burdens, we can create security based on common sense and creative uses for what exists all around us every day.
9:15 a.m. General Session:
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: Healthy Communities and the Third American Century
Tyler Norris, Author and Social Entrepreneur, Community Initiatives, Boulder, CO
In this thought-provoking discussion, Mr. Norris will address the state of the healthy/livable/sustainable communities movement in the United States; the key knowledge that has developed from the field; what's working to create measureable outcomes; the most promising policy and investment opportunities; and the implications for wise leadership, in an era of rabid partisanship and fiscal austerity.
10:00 a.m. Break with the Exhibitors
10:30 a.m. Workshop Sessions: Group A
Session #1: Community Engagement for Food Justice
Erin Caudell, Ruth Mott Foundation, Edible Flint Coalition
Policies and planning decisions are important tools for improving access to healthy food. But before these can be effectively addressed, the community has to be on board. This can mean explicitly confronting challenging issues like racism and investing time in coalition building. The panelists in this session will share their stories on how and why they worked to bring people together before pushing policy changes and the lessons they learned in the process.
Session #2: Innovative Solutions for Safe Pedestrian and Bicycle Designs
Jeffery S. Bagdade, PE, Opus International Consultants, Inc., West Bloomfield
This presentation will discuss a variety of new and innovative designs to accommodate non-motorized road users. Some of the designs which will be discussed include sharrows, hybrid signals, rectangular rapid flashing beacons, bicycle tracks, bicycle signals, bicycle boulevards and shared space. The presentation will discuss the pros and cons of each of these designs as well as where they would be most appropriate for application.
Session #3: Staying Engaged After Success: How to Keep Coalitions Motivated and Ready to Act Sean Mann, Project Director for Let's Save Michigan, Michigan Municipal League, Detroit
True community transformation has become more than just a vision. The changing of physical landscapes and collective mindsets is evident all across the nation, but what's next for coalitions beyond initial success? How do we maintain a highly motivated and civically engaged coalition through the ebb and flow of our achievements? How do we continue to build capacity and funds as priorities change?
This session will answer these questions and explore the important role of community champions in keeping partners collaborating, inspired and effective. Participants will join Sean Mann, project director and founder of the Let's Save Michigan campaign, to learn from some grassroots efforts to get citizens more deeply involved in creating the types of communities they want.
11:45 a.m. Break and Move to Networking Luncheon
1:00 p.m. Workshop Sessions: Group B
Session #4: Policy Approaches to Support Community Agriculture
Megan Masson Minock, ENP & Associates
Katherine Underwood, City of Detroit Planning Commission
Urban agriculture, community gardens and small market farms are popping up in many places but city policies and zoning ordinances may make these spaces illegal or leave them vulnerable to development. This session will highlight some of the Michigan cities that have the most experience on community ag policy as well as progressive policy examples from around the country.
Session#5: Planning and Design for the Livable Winter City
Patrick Coleman, AICP, U.P. Engineers & Architects, Inc., Marquette
Michigan’s four season climate creates a host of benefits; however, it also poses a number of challenges that “winter cities” must overcome in order to best handle the demands of the weather and to fully utilize the winter season as an important community asset. This workshop will introduce the idea of the livable winter city, discuss citizen attitudes and cultural barriers to winter livability, and propose multi-seasonal planning approaches and concepts that will enhance your community’s response to the winter season.
Session #6: Partnering to Create Active Communities in Michigan
George Sedlacek, Director, Community Health Division, Marquette
Lauren Holaly, Active Living Director, Crim Fitness Foundation, Flint
Scott TenBrink, Executive Director, Jackson Fitness Council, Jackson
Active communities are prosperous communities! People want to live, work, attend school, and play in communities where they can easily and safely walk, bike, and choose different modes of transportation. To create this type of vibrant, active community, it is essential to have great partnerships. Michigan communities are revitalizing their hometowns by optimizing local and state partnerships, using community assessment tools, and community planning. Hear from local experts about how Marquette, Jackson, and Genesee County are realizing an active transportation network - sidewalks, bike lanes, trails, safe routes to school, complete street policies – and creating community “jewels” through partnerships.
2:15 p.m. Break with Exhibitors; Move to Concurrent Plenary Sessions
2:30 p.m. Concurrent Plenary Sessions: Partnerships for Policy Change
Concurrent Plenary Session A: Partnerships for Healthy Food Access in Underserved Areas
Dan Carmody, President, Eastern Market Corporation
Todd Regis, Vice President, United Food and Commercial Workers and Member, The Michigan Food Policy Council
Olga Stella, Vice President of Business Development, The Detroit Economic Growth Corporation
This panel will focus on partnerships and policies that support grocery/corner stores, bring greater food access to our communities, and grow our economy. Panelists will discuss programs and policies to improve the conventional grocery sector in the city, partnerships to create alternative food retail options (food boxes, farmers markets, and produce in corner stores), and other grocery industry initiatives that have the power to create better food access and a thriving economy.
Concurrent Plenary Session B: Downtown Developments Incorporating Healthy Community Elements
Facilitator: Bob Trezise, President and CEO of the Lansing Economic Development Corporation
Speakers:
Pat Gillespie, Owner, Gillespie Group, East Lansing
Ray Warner, Director, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Detroit
Joe Borgstrom, Director of Specialized Technical Assistance & Revitalization Strategy Division, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, Lansing
Downtowns are a vital part of communities. They are where people, businesses, schools and faith-based organizations reside and are desirable destinations for high pedestrian, bicycle, public transportation and vehicle traffic. Working together, our downtowns can have elements that support healthy and economically-thriving communities! This expert panel includes a variety of state and local government experience, a large corporation perspective and private developer accomplishments.
3:45 p.m. Break and Reconvene for Closing General Session
4:00 p.m. Closing Session: A Sense of Place
Gary Heidel, Director, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, Lansing
4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks, Evaluations and Adjournment
June 6-7, 2011
The Lansing Center, Lansing, MI
Monday, June 6
Noon Registration
1:00 p.m. Training Sessions
A. Local Food Policy Councils: Building the Capacity for Real Food System Change
Mark Winne, Community Food Security Coalition, Santa Fe, NM
Jill Myer, Grand Rapids Food Policy Council
Malik Yakini, Detroit Food Policy Council (invited)
Local food policy councils are an emerging multi-stakeholder food system strategy and partnership. This session will examine the role that local food policy councils can play to improve the coordination of public and private food system groups and influence local food policy. Participants will acquire information about food policy council organizational models, the current state of their practice, and the major issues that confront food policy councils.
B. Complete Streets – The Next Steps: From Planning and Design to Community Perspectives on Implementation
Holly Madill, Michigan Department of Community Health
Terry Blackmore, WATS
Norman Cox, The Greenway Collaborative
Josh DeBruyn, Michigan Department of Transportation
Jeff Fordice, City of Saline
Brad Strader, LSL Planning
This session explains policy implementation tools (planning processes, policies, and regulations) and design applications (sidewalks, bike paths, transit stops, road diets, etc.) used to accomplish Complete Streets in a community. A panel of state, regional, city, and township officials then will discuss how they have implemented Complete Streets policies in their jurisdictions and will share lessons learned.
C. If Life Is a Nightmare, Start a New Dream: Using Community Visioning Techniques and Scenario Planning Tools to Shape a Desired Future
Hannah Twaddell, Renaissance Planning Group, Charlottesville, VA
Many communities operate according to an unconscious vision of what they were. Powerful communities operate according to a conscious vision of what they want to be - whether or not it matches up with what they are at this moment. Communities that take the time and energy to consider, test and shape an intentional, clear, compelling vision of their future can develop the partnerships and resources to achieve it.
Visioning and scenario planning provide a framework for communities to evaluate the impacts and possibilities of potential future changes in a technically sound, collaborative, and compelling way. Increasing numbers of public and private community planning agencies and organizations are using scenario planning techniques to stimulate public participation, develop stronger partnerships, and to coordinate economic development initiatives, environmental stewardship programs, infrastructure investments, and community goals for quality of life goals.
In response to the rapidly growing interest in scenario planning across the nation, a plethora of visioning models and GIS-based scenario planning tools has emerged over the past few years. What do these tools do? When and how should they be applied? How can planners ensure they will interface effectively with existing models and planning approaches? How can public input be integrated with technical analyses in meaningful ways? This half-day workshop will help participants answer these questions and more.
4:30 p.m. Training Sessions Adjourn
Dinner on your own
Tuesday, June 7
7:30 a.m. Registration opens
Light Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors
8:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Olga Dazzo, Director, Michigan Department of Community Health
8:30 a.m. Keynote Address: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
Majora Carter, Eco-Entrepreneur and President, The Majora Carter Group, New York
Ms. Carter’s keynote address on Home(town) Security and climate adaptation takes a look at where local economies are failing everyday people, and how these same types of folks are taking on the challenges of climate adaptation, unemployment, and the social problems that accompany those issues. From new business development that builds on local assets, to smarter storm water and erosion management strategies, real security comes from knowing that your community is fostering a sense of hope and success across generations.
Central to her economic argument is addressing our "most expensive citizens.” These are people who are chronically overweight, returning from prison, traumatized veterans, and the generationally impoverished. Drug, alcohol and domestic abuse, prison recidivism, costly pharmaceutical treatments for mental illness, poor educational outcomes for their children, and mounting stress-related health care costs mean that most social service dollars are directed toward a relatively small number of people.
By designing and implementing job creation models that support our green-infrastructure needs for climate-adaptation, and directing those resources to improve the lives of people who are currently seen as tax-burdens, we can create security based on common sense and creative uses for what exists all around us every day.
9:15 a.m. General Session:
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: Healthy Communities and the Third American Century
Tyler Norris, Author and Social Entrepreneur, Community Initiatives, Boulder, CO
In this thought-provoking discussion, Mr. Norris will address the state of the healthy/livable/sustainable communities movement in the United States; the key knowledge that has developed from the field; what's working to create measureable outcomes; the most promising policy and investment opportunities; and the implications for wise leadership, in an era of rabid partisanship and fiscal austerity.
10:00 a.m. Break with the Exhibitors
10:30 a.m. Workshop Sessions: Group A
Session #1: Community Engagement for Food Justice
Erin Caudell, Ruth Mott Foundation, Edible Flint Coalition
Policies and planning decisions are important tools for improving access to healthy food. But before these can be effectively addressed, the community has to be on board. This can mean explicitly confronting challenging issues like racism and investing time in coalition building. The panelists in this session will share their stories on how and why they worked to bring people together before pushing policy changes and the lessons they learned in the process.
Session #2: Innovative Solutions for Safe Pedestrian and Bicycle Designs
Jeffery S. Bagdade, PE, Opus International Consultants, Inc., West Bloomfield
This presentation will discuss a variety of new and innovative designs to accommodate non-motorized road users. Some of the designs which will be discussed include sharrows, hybrid signals, rectangular rapid flashing beacons, bicycle tracks, bicycle signals, bicycle boulevards and shared space. The presentation will discuss the pros and cons of each of these designs as well as where they would be most appropriate for application.
Session #3: Staying Engaged After Success: How to Keep Coalitions Motivated and Ready to Act Sean Mann, Project Director for Let's Save Michigan, Michigan Municipal League, Detroit
True community transformation has become more than just a vision. The changing of physical landscapes and collective mindsets is evident all across the nation, but what's next for coalitions beyond initial success? How do we maintain a highly motivated and civically engaged coalition through the ebb and flow of our achievements? How do we continue to build capacity and funds as priorities change?
This session will answer these questions and explore the important role of community champions in keeping partners collaborating, inspired and effective. Participants will join Sean Mann, project director and founder of the Let's Save Michigan campaign, to learn from some grassroots efforts to get citizens more deeply involved in creating the types of communities they want.
11:45 a.m. Break and Move to Networking Luncheon
1:00 p.m. Workshop Sessions: Group B
Session #4: Policy Approaches to Support Community Agriculture
Megan Masson Minock, ENP & Associates
Katherine Underwood, City of Detroit Planning Commission
Urban agriculture, community gardens and small market farms are popping up in many places but city policies and zoning ordinances may make these spaces illegal or leave them vulnerable to development. This session will highlight some of the Michigan cities that have the most experience on community ag policy as well as progressive policy examples from around the country.
Session#5: Planning and Design for the Livable Winter City
Patrick Coleman, AICP, U.P. Engineers & Architects, Inc., Marquette
Michigan’s four season climate creates a host of benefits; however, it also poses a number of challenges that “winter cities” must overcome in order to best handle the demands of the weather and to fully utilize the winter season as an important community asset. This workshop will introduce the idea of the livable winter city, discuss citizen attitudes and cultural barriers to winter livability, and propose multi-seasonal planning approaches and concepts that will enhance your community’s response to the winter season.
Session #6: Partnering to Create Active Communities in Michigan
George Sedlacek, Director, Community Health Division, Marquette
Lauren Holaly, Active Living Director, Crim Fitness Foundation, Flint
Scott TenBrink, Executive Director, Jackson Fitness Council, Jackson
Active communities are prosperous communities! People want to live, work, attend school, and play in communities where they can easily and safely walk, bike, and choose different modes of transportation. To create this type of vibrant, active community, it is essential to have great partnerships. Michigan communities are revitalizing their hometowns by optimizing local and state partnerships, using community assessment tools, and community planning. Hear from local experts about how Marquette, Jackson, and Genesee County are realizing an active transportation network - sidewalks, bike lanes, trails, safe routes to school, complete street policies – and creating community “jewels” through partnerships.
2:15 p.m. Break with Exhibitors; Move to Concurrent Plenary Sessions
2:30 p.m. Concurrent Plenary Sessions: Partnerships for Policy Change
Concurrent Plenary Session A: Partnerships for Healthy Food Access in Underserved Areas
Dan Carmody, President, Eastern Market Corporation
Todd Regis, Vice President, United Food and Commercial Workers and Member, The Michigan Food Policy Council
Olga Stella, Vice President of Business Development, The Detroit Economic Growth Corporation
This panel will focus on partnerships and policies that support grocery/corner stores, bring greater food access to our communities, and grow our economy. Panelists will discuss programs and policies to improve the conventional grocery sector in the city, partnerships to create alternative food retail options (food boxes, farmers markets, and produce in corner stores), and other grocery industry initiatives that have the power to create better food access and a thriving economy.
Concurrent Plenary Session B: Downtown Developments Incorporating Healthy Community Elements
Facilitator: Bob Trezise, President and CEO of the Lansing Economic Development Corporation
Speakers:
Pat Gillespie, Owner, Gillespie Group, East Lansing
Ray Warner, Director, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Detroit
Joe Borgstrom, Director of Specialized Technical Assistance & Revitalization Strategy Division, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, Lansing
Downtowns are a vital part of communities. They are where people, businesses, schools and faith-based organizations reside and are desirable destinations for high pedestrian, bicycle, public transportation and vehicle traffic. Working together, our downtowns can have elements that support healthy and economically-thriving communities! This expert panel includes a variety of state and local government experience, a large corporation perspective and private developer accomplishments.
3:45 p.m. Break and Reconvene for Closing General Session
4:00 p.m. Closing Session: A Sense of Place
Gary Heidel, Director, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, Lansing
4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks, Evaluations and Adjournment
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