[HealthyTribes] Webinar Follow-up: Place Matters Oregon

[Fisher Leah M]

Hello HC Grantees and others who attended the Place Matters Oregon webinar last Wednesday,

Last week we learned that Place Matters Oregon is an effort to foster conversations about how place influences our individual and collective health.  This campaign explores the health effects of social factors (income, education, race or ethnicity) and risk factors (tobacco use, lack of physical activity, and poor nutrition) in relation the places where people live, work, play and learn. The test site you viewed is under development and will serve as a portal for stories, conversations and facts. The campaign currently uses social media channels  including Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/placemattersoregon> and Twitter<https://twitter.com/PlaceMattersOR> (#PlaceMattersOR) to engage Oregonians in a sustained discussion of how place matters to health.

The Place Matters website is designed with six points of entry into the Place Matters narrative, driving all to "Join the Conversation."  "My Place" gives the perspective of Oregonians in a first person and experiential tone. The launch will include rural, urban, youth, elder, African American, Native American and Latino perspectives. "What the Experts Say" provides the views of community leaders and subject matter experts that complement "My Place" perspectives.  "Could You Do This?" offers challenges, both online and offline, big and small, to journey in another Oregonian's everyday experience of place and health. "Misconceptions" is a place to debunk popular myths and provide additional links and information.  "Get the Facts" provides data, sortable by category, and is presented through infographs and other visual means.

If you have any thoughts, ideas or responses to the following questions, please share with your liaison in the next couple of weeks:

1.       How will this be useful to you in your work?  Do you have clear examples we can share?

2.       Are there conversations you would like us to highlight in "Join the Conversation"?

3.       Are there future storylines you would like us to consider as we move this forward?


Regards,
Leah Fisher

Leah M. Fisher, MPH
Community Programs Liaison | Asthma Program Coordinator
Oregon Health Authority | Public Health Division | Health Promotion & Chronic Disease Prevention
desk:  971-673-1039 | fax: 971-673-0994 | leah.m.fisher at state.or.us<mailto:leah.m.fisher at state.or.us>

PLACE MATTERS: "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us..." ~Winston Churchill
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