Hull Family Hubs adopt new Togetherness model for emotional wellbeing

California’s Alameda County seeks a firm to conduct outreach, education and engagement activities to promote healthy housing and lead safety, reports Kevin McCauley https://odwpr.us/48tZDHP

🏡 🐝 🌸 🦋 🐛 🐌 🕊️ How might we address the housing crisis from a nature-centric perspective? This summer, the Nature-Centric Catalyst (a group of writers, academics and artists from diverse disciplines including ecology, law, ethics and governance) hosted a workshop with academics specialising in the built environment, planning, ecology and law, with representatives from national and local government, and with architects, designers and consultants. Together we explored visions for nature-centric housing, probing opportunities and risks for their realisation. If you are interested to learn more about the insights we generated, read Matt Pritchard's article on the topic below 👇 P38-41 https://lnkd.in/eaMhimR8 University of Reading Tom Oliver Marzia Briel Phil T. James Peplow Powell Kirstin Irving James Barlow Helen Gordon Ali Gordon-Creed Christopher Daniel Joe Ravetz Phil Coker Bryony Scott (Paul) Angelique Chettiparambil Rajan #foresight #visioning #threehorizons #housing #nature #morethanhuman #rightsofnature #naturecentricgovernance

I’m delighted to see this article published in Housing Quality Network exploring a nature-centric approach to housing, a theme that feels more relevant than ever. I was part of the workshop that helped inform this paper, bringing insights from regenerative development and living-systems design. The work highlights an important shift already underway: from designing for nature to designing with it understanding that housing can either diminish or regenerate the living systems it belongs to. The future depends on choosing the latter.

When Charter House residents joined the Aging 360 workshops, they came to learn about safe home adaptations. What they didn’t expect was the confidence and community they’d find along the way. AHC’s partnership with At Home with Growing Older is helping residents make affordable changes for independent living while building connections with neighbors. With three AHC team members now trained as facilitators, the program is expanding to reach even more residents. 🎥 Watch and read more: https://lnkd.in/ephkTXGV

2025 Public Safety Sentiment Research: Key Finding Overall, Nashvillians feel safer in their homes, workplaces, and neighborhoods than they feel in the rest of the city, but perceptions of children’s safety in Nashville are negative: just 45% say children are safe in public. View full findings: https://lnkd.in/eVqEdMrH

Our presentation for the AGM Safer off the Streets Step 1 - Off-the-streets (Eastfield): Immediate placement into safe, supported accommodation. Residents engage with internal and external support to stabilise and progress. Progression: Structured goals, regular reviews, and partnership working to build readiness for independent living. Step 2 - Move-on: Move-on accommodation is planned in partnership with Peterborough City Council, ensuring continuity of support and a realistic, sustainable exit from homelessness. This provision now extends to properties beyond Eastfield. Outcome: We now provide both the off-the-streets pathway and move-on provision-bridging the gap with one provider, one plan, and no return to the streets. The presentation below is what we presented, and all figures are based on data from our launch almost 6 months ago!

Dive into the November/December issue of New Hampshire Town and City for timely insights and resources for local officials. This issue explores strategies for tackling unexpected challenges in municipal budgeting, highlights NHARPC resources for volunteer planners, and examines how longer-term Community Choice Aggregation contracts can benefit New Hampshire communities. You’ll also find the 2024 update on local land use regulations and important details about the new solid waste surcharge taking effect in January. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eawJPjzC

In this week's opinion editorial, I co-authored with Ricardo Smith BEd, CLP, CSM, EMEM(ing). to share some thoughts on equity as the education system reopens schools post Melissa. "This swift reopening highlights a significant inequity as it disproportionately affects students living in parishes still severely lacking basic services. The most affected parishes, including St Elizabeth, St James, Trelawny, Manchester, Hanover, and Westmoreland, remain largely without full electricity and water restoration. Likewise, some parts of Kingston and St Andrew and St Catherine are still without electricity, water, and Internet connection." https://lnkd.in/ex9DUynN

We've just sent an open letter to East Sussex County Council councillors raising concerns about the newly-opened Queensway Gateway road in Hastings. The letter highlights safety concerns, reveals important points about the management of the scheme and backs the growing number of calls for an enquiry into why the road took so long and was so disruptive to finish. While welcoming the final opening of the road, our letter: - highlights that the road has posed a significant risk to safety by being opened without essential signage - reveals that the Council declined our offer to license plans and supporting information which would have made completing the road much faster, less costly and less disruptive to the community - states that the Council appears to have based their works on early versions of our plans anyway - highlights that the Council has adapted the road embankment we built in a way for which it was not designed, risking its stability - supports calls for an enquiry to ensure full transparency about the way the scheme has been managed, with a list of the questions to be addressed appended. You can see the letter below. Or for more details and to see the list of questions, click here: https://lnkd.in/eEdhNMcN

Dumfries and Galloway Council’s new Rural Schools Strategy recognises that while larger rolls are ideal, two-class schools will continue to be supported and “championed” in remote areas where pupils would otherwise face long journeys to attend school elsewhere. https://lnkd.in/e_tiEtGD