Hoosier Communities for a Lifetime

Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority

Letter of intent informational webinar3 pm - Dec. 13 & 16, 2011

Megan Coler, Real Estate Production Analyst Northeast Region, IHCDA

Phil Stafford, Indiana University Institute on Disability and Community, Director, Center on Aging and Community

Agenda for the call

• Introduction: Megan Coler, IHCDA• Background: Phil Stafford• The Planning Framework: Stafford• Q and A: Coler & Stafford

You find a good place, you want to

stay.

…the place can benefit from your presence

So what helps people stay put?

• Stable employment/income• Strong and stable social/familial

relationships• Access to home & community based

services• Emotional attachment• Financial/personal investment• A home that works over time• Neighborhood housing options• Mobility options available

Environments for a (limited) Lifetime

The first national study, Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Physical Activity, Obesity, and Morbidity, found that people living in counties marked by sprawling development are likely to walk less and weigh more than people who live in less sprawling counties. Inaddition, people in more sprawling counties are more likely to suffer from hypertension (high blood pressure). These results hold true after controlling for factors such as age, education, gender, and race and ethnicity.

• Homogeneous • Auto-dependent• Isolation zoning• Uninteresting• Disorienting• Ahistorical• Unhealthy

ELDER-CENTRIC VILLAGE MOVEMENTEnvironments for Aging 2011 | March 22, 2011

7©2011 Morrison Kattman Menze, Inc.

•Accessible bldg. design•Shopping w/in close proximity•Drugstores, grocery,& hospitals w/in close proximity•Recreation opportunities•Safe, well-designed sidewalks •Complete Streets

•Design on a human scale•Provide choices•Mixed-use development•Preserve urban centers•Vibrant public spaces•Protect environmental resources•Conserve landscapes•Design matters

Livable Communities: Physical Environment

AARP “Livable Communities”

AIA “Principles for Livable Communities”

Communities for a Lifetime

Steering Committee

2012

Partnerships for Lifespan Communities (2005)

Div. of Aging NORCs (2007)

Indiana Grantmakers Alliance EngAgement Initiative (2008)

IHCDA Aging in Place priority/IACED (2010)

Governor’s Planning Council Livable Communities (2011)

Indiana neighborhoods and communities are transformed into places that promote physical, social, mental and economic wellbeing for persons of all abilities, across the entire lifespan.

Hoosier Communities for a Lifetime

ADVANTAGESURVEY/DISABILITY POLL

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

STATEPOLICY &FUNDING DATA

PARTICIPATION

ACTION

RESOURCES*

COMMUNITIES TRANSFORMED

*Contingent on availability

“Improving a community, from beginning to end, involves

organizing people. Money is secondary.”

• Housing• Transportation• Health Care• Education• Land Use

Planning• Faith

Community

and it means breaking down silos…

Communities for a Lifetime

Data driven

Participatory

The Planning Framework

What you’re in

for!

Data Driven

• AdvantAge Initiative Survey– www.agingindiana.org

• Disability Poll – www.thepollingplace.org

http://www.orton.org/resources/heart_soul_handbook

The Timeline

A long run that starts out fast…

Personnel

Groups

• Executive (steering committee chair, coordinator *, lead organization reps.) the nucleus of your effort

• Steering Committee (15-25 community leaders – diverse, influential, committed)

• Sub-committees – Data (survey recruitment, data summary docs.)– Heart and Soul (story telling, other participation events) – Inclusion (outreach to engage youth, pwd, seniors)

• Disability Awareness: http://www.indianadisabilityawareness.org/

Groups

• Stakeholders group (30-100 invited community activists with a stake in the outcomes)

• General Public – receive communications, participate in project events

• * Coordinator – staff of grantee organization or hired on contract. .25-.5 fte March-August (facilitates, organizes, liaison to CfaL cmte.)

Your budget • Survey costs ($6,000) • Feed people• Staff/volunteer travel• Raffle for survey participants • Consultant travel/honoraria• Meeting room rental• Supplies and printing• Personnel

Community for a Lifetime Committee

A Learning Community• Community of Practice

website• Communicating with the

Public • How to work with existing

assets/community fabric• Concentrating

development to create economies of scale

• Through incentivizing a greater range of choice in housing options and

• Creating policies and programs to incentivize commerce to better serve people of all ages and abilities

Dreams for the future!

Hardware $

Software $

Community

Designation