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Second Chance Re-Entry Program

The Whistle Post

Job search help is offered through a recruitment agency, Engage Staffing. Immediately following prison release, participants gain access to a support team, networking groups, peer mentoring, substance abuse treatment, or emotional wellness programming, financial and legal counseling, transportation, childcare, and housing assistance.

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. Citizen engaged planning practice. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record.

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UC Davis, VALID AI and Google Cloud collaborate to overcome SDOH Challenges with generative AI

Google Public Sector

The initial use cases in the challenge are designed to have a meaningful impact on patient outcomes and include: Transportation : Patients lacking reliable and convenient transportation often skip or delay medical appointments. Health systems can leverage SDOH to identify patients with limited or no transportation options (e.g.,

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Engaging the Public on Climate Action

Barrett & Greene

By Chris Adams, CEO of , Balancing Act , a creator of simulation-based online engagement tools. ? ?. ? The last few years have illustrated, on issues ranging from mask policies to housing, the power of a small number of energized but vocal participants to sway policy. Four Paths To Change. ?.

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Revisiting: Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But I also made the point that the City Transportation Department could have handled outreach a lot better--basically they didn't do any. These are photos of a couple of outreach devices they deployed, including a signboard in the roundabout and a flyer dropped off at area houses.

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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act

GovLoop

The unprecedented law, enacted in 1990, affirmed the rights of the disabled, making public spaces, places of employment and transportation less discriminatory. That March, for example, more than 1,000 people marched from the White House to the U.S. It became known as “the Capitol Crawl.”

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National Community Planning Month: Resource | Planning Whole Communities Toolkit, Puget Sound Regional Council

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In writing the previous post on schools as neighborhood anchors, I referenced the Planning Whole Communities Toolkit , by the Puget Sound Regional Council. Speaking of National Community Planning Month , this could become the foundation of a broader and deeper community planning toolkit, by adding various "missing" sections.