Hi everyone. Thank you for joining us today. We will get started at 3:30pm ET. As a reminder, today’s session will go until 4:45pm ET.

Hi everyone. Thank you for joining us today. As a reminder, today’s session will go until 4:45pm ET. For the duration of this call and when sending a chat, please be sure to select “everyone” from the drop down box so we can interact with each other throughout the session.

Rob Sadowsky, Clackamas County (Oregon), Traffic Safety, mood: a bit foggy

Hi Everyone! Amy Eisenstein, RRF Foundation for Aging in Chicago, glad to be here today!

Hi, I'm Christine Marcos. I'm with Moses Taylor Foundation based in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

So happy to be back with everyone! I'm Barb Chidley, Neighborhood Specialist for the City of Rockford - working to ensure residents are connected to resources, services, leaders, and each other!

Rockford, Illinois. LOL!

Hello! Amy Gorn with the Mat-Su Health Foundation in Alaska.

Cassie Shaker, Isanti County Public Health in MN.

Hello! My name is Sara Linn (she/her) and I work for the Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson's in Colorado. I manage our Ambassador Leadership Program!

Cindy Derrow from DOROT in NYC.

Colleen Andrews - Social Connections Coordinator for R.O.C.K. Mat-Su in Wasilla, AK; Current Mood: Tired, Drained...

Hi everyone - Deb Bibbins with CT nonprofit For All Ages. We connect the generations to improve social health & reduce ageism. Happy to be here!

Bill Berkowitz, Community Tool Box. Glad to be here!

Sara Maloney with USAging, and I'm located in Charlotte, NC.

Jesse Ellis, from Fairfax County, VA. I'm with the county Dept. of Neighborhood & Community Services and our Partnership for a Healthier Fairfax.

Hello! I’m Araceli Vera with Dona Ana Communities United. I’m in las Cruces, NM. I’m new so it’s nice to join you all!

First time joining! Candace Davis from the Colorado Dept. of Public Health in Denver

Hi everyone. Thank you for joining us today. As a reminder, today’s session will go until 4:45pm ET. For the duration of this call and when sending a chat, please be sure to select “everyone” from the drop down box so we can interact with each other throughout the session.

Welcome Araceli and Candace!

This is my first time here. Thanks!

John Cochran with the New York State Office for the Aging

So excited to having new folks joining us today! Welcome 😀

Thank you!

Thank you!

Do you have other hopes or ideas for this group? Please put them in the chat!

You can access the Socially Connected Communities report here: https://healthyplacesbydesign.org/socially-connected-communities/

If you select other - please let us know in the chat!

Government insider/agitator

State representative/community liaison

It's great to see the philanthropic leaders here!

If you have any questions for Amy as she shares, feel free to put them in the chat. We’re looking forward to a group dialogue after both Amys share.

The slides will be available as a PDF linked in our session summary to be sent out next week!

Please add your comments and Questions for either speaker here in the chat, any time.

You can access the Socially Connected Communities report here: https://healthyplacesbydesign.org/socially-connected-communities/

The slides will be available as a PDF linked in our session summary to be sent out next week!

will we be able to access slides from presenters? thx. 🙂

Yep! They will be linked when the summary blog goes live. We will send out an email when the summary blog is published - likely sometime next week.

great

If you have any questions for the Amys, please put them in the chat. You can also use the raise hand feature if you’d like to share verbally.

I'm curious to hear about the experience on the ground of enrolling families in these initiatives. What are some unanticipated challenges and areas of strength?

Amy G - I'm really interested in social isolation Qs the CHNA for Mat-Su region. Are any other leaders on our call today using the CHNA to measure isolation at community level?

Thanks for the question, Phil. I can start to answer this in a moment.

https://photovoice.org/

strengths-based lens too not just gaps and weaknesses--strength inventory

How can folx who do the work, like us, encourage other foundations to value and fund social connectedness work?

The Maine Resilience Building Network has also been working on a Youth Matters initiative. They started with some very compelling data from their state youth behavioral survey. A few of their reports are here...https://maineresilience.org/Resource-Library2

^^In 2019, over 40% of Maine middle and high school youth feel they don’t matter in their communities. Among LGBTQ identifying students, that figure is 63%

Our team will be taking notes via Jamboard highlighting key themes/takeaways during the breakouts. Here is the Jamboard link. Note this will be in view only mode: https://jamboard.google.com/d/14y4JvGE9jWv04-PzNntuc9nzlMQB_tkC-hX7SH3u53s/edit?usp=sharing

come back! We hope you enjoyed your small group discussion. Please share how your breakouts went via chat as we share some closing remarks.

Welcome*

Our group wondered if there is already a clearinghouse or place where best practices in measurement can be shared and accessed

Mary Sundland RN Care Coordinator in the Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs in Colorado - Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties

USAging has created an innovations hub where they show a lot programs for older adults in this space, it's a great resource: https://www.engagingolderadults.org/hub

Thank you so much Amys! Excellent discussion

Kari Bachman (she/her) with Dona Ana Communities United in southern New Mexico. We coordinate a timebank and social equity mapping. 575-496-4330, dacukari@gmail.com

Jamboard link - https://jamboard.google.com/d/14y4JvGE9jWv04-PzNntuc9nzlMQB_tkC-hX7SH3u53s/edit?usp=sharing

If you haven’t already, you can register for our next call on Tuesday, June 28 from 3:30-4:30pm ET. This will be an affinity/peer networking style session. You can register now here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAscu-rrT4oGNze1Hzsp0e1HLowJPEyP9bH

Another great resource: https://www.endsocialisolation.org/

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You can also view our website for more information at: https://healthyplacesbydesign.org/socially-connected-communities/

Thank you, Amy and Amy!

Thanks so much!

Great to get connected with others working to make the world a happier and healthier place for all!

Thank you to Amy E and Amy G for being such creative leaders in philanthropy!

Thank you all!

Great discussion Thanks so much for organizing this

I need to hop off, thanks for the great conversation today, happy to follow-up with anyone: Eisenstein@rrf.org

I work for Age Concern New Zealand. We run a national visiting service, plus other social connection programmes, and are testing a Social Connector model currently in various locations round the country. One of the activities that is working well in many areas is tech connect sessions where school or college students work one to one with older adults to help them learn functions on their tech devices.