Healthy Communities Delaware:: Accelerating Place-Based Efforts to Improve the Vital Conditions for Health, Well-Being and Equity.

Abstract

Healthy Communities Delaware (HCD) is a place-based initiative to improve health, well-being and equity across Delaware. HCD is a network of community-based and investment partners working to create thriving communities through improvement in the vital conditions. Vital conditions are the components of communities that we all need, all the time, to thrive and reach our full potential-- humane housing, a thriving natural world, lifelong learning, meaningful work and wealth, reliable transportation, basic needs for health and safety, and a sense of belonging and civic muscle. HCD invests in communities through community-based organization partners, who work to improve the vital conditions in their communities, informed by data and resident priorities. The key tenets of the Healthy Communities Delaware approach--place-based, community-driven, equity-focused and improving the vital conditions—work together to create more communities of opportunity across Delaware.