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Amber Lancaster | California Baptist University
City of Eastvale:
Healthy Community
Initiative
Ami Bhatt | Claremont Graduate University
About Healthy Community
Initiative
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A proposed policy for the City of Eastvale is to
adopt a healthy community initiative that
provides residents with information and
resources pertaining to health and wellness.
According to SHAPE Riverside data, chronic
illnesses related to obesity and substance
abuse are among the greatest health concerns
facing the community.
Health resources made available on the City of
Eastvale’s website that address not only these
health concerns, but other dimensions of
health and wellness.
City of Eastvale:
Healthy Community
Initiative
POMONA’S PROMISE
Amber Lancaster, MPH student California Baptist University
Dimensions of Health
Physical
Health
Environmental
Health
Social Health
Mental Health
Spiritual
Health
Each of the Dimensions of Health will feature
CDC guidelines explaining how to be healthy in
these areas. Additionally, there will be links to
health resources related to these dimensions
that can be accessed in Eastvale and the
surrounding community.
What is Pomona’s Promise?
Pomona’s Promise is a collective impact initiative with the
common agenda of a building “Safe Neighborhoods,
Strong Families and a Healthy Quality of Life”. In October
2019, an assessment of Pomona’s Promise began to define
the structure and current status of the organization. This
information was collected through interviews with the
leaders of the 5 task groups addressing mutually
reinforcing activities. These task groups are: Education and
Career Readiness, Community Safety, Healthy in Pomona,
Economic
Development,
and
the
Community
Engagement Board. The assessment will further define the
common needs within the organization and make
recommendations based on the findings.
GIS Map of Community
Resources
Example of Dimension of Health and Wellness:
Environmental Health
Examining Pomona’s Promise
Strengths The volunteers that make up Pomona’s Promise
have high intrinsic motivation to fulfill the goals of their task
groups and the initiative as a whole. They have been able
to leverage civil sector engagement and existing
infrastructure within the community to complete activities.
This is despite the limited resources made available to
them.
Each of the health resources listed
on the Healthy Community area of
the City of Eastvale website can be
found in an interactive GIS map of
the city and surrounding areas.
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Opportunities The task groups are active in planning
events and activities that are mutually beneficial to the
other task groups and the backbone organizations. As of
2019, a Governance Committee was created to align
Pomona’s Promise to meet their goals and to define the
structure. The fiscal agent makes applying for funding
opportunities possible, this has included the support from
Fairplex, PUSD, and the City of Pomona. There are an array
of annual events, including Pomona Beautiful, Economic
Development Summits, the Homelessness Summit, which
have been useful for promoting engagement and
collecting information. The EDI report was published in
2019 and has made evaluation and tracking progress
possible. The first graduating class of the Pomona
Leadership Network has been actively working with each
of the task groups.
Aspirations All the task groups, especially Economic
Development, aim to build the brand affinity and improve
the brand recognition of Pomona. Additionally, there was
the need to strengthen internal and external
communication mechanisms, and have cohesive
relationships between the task groups to better use their
resources and support one another’s activities was
identified. Because much of the labor is volunteer based,
there is moderately high turnover with no formal transition
procedures, this leads to institutionalized knowledge and
a vacuum when a leader leaves. Finally, one of the most
commonly cited aspirations of the task groups and PPLT
was the activation of the Results Based Framework, with
support to upload and maintain data.
Recommendations/Ways Forward Upon analyzing the
strengths, aspirations, and opportunities of Pomona’s
promise, three recommendations are identified to ensure
the sustainability of Pomona’s Promise:
1. A full-time, paid administrative manager. This
individual would fulfill the logistic needs of the task
groups, streamline the use of resources, improve
collaboration, and manage the data within the
Results Based Framework.
2. A regular funding stream. Pomona’s Promise has
operated on the resources of volunteers and
fundraising through supporting organizations to
complete activities. A regular funding stream
would allow a strategic plan and advanced
planning, which would also optimize the use of the
resources on an annual basis.
3. A well-defined backbone. Currently, there are
many support organizations and a fiscal agent,
however the backbone of the collective impact is
blurred. As one of the key elements of a collective
impact initiative, Pomona’s Promise requires a
backbone organization to fulfill its goals.
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