HEALTH MAPPING: HOW DOES IT WORK?

The MAPPING Journey:

1. Meet with a Local Steering Committee to discuss sponsorship, participation, and logistics for visioning sessions.
2. Conduct a MAPPING Orientation Session, in which community members get acquainted with MAPPING and prepare the community for success.
3. Visioning Session One: Where are we now? Look at current trends, economic assets, and historical influences in your community.
4. Visioning Session Two: Where do we want to be? Participants identify high-priority goals for an ideal future and begin to create a shared community vision.
5. Visioning Session Three: How do we get there? Project teams are formed and a framework for the community action plan is drafted.
6. Action Planning Session: Making it happen! Local citizens organize for action and consider options for long-term sustainable development
7. Community-Led Town Meeting: Keeping it going! Community gives input for mobilizing the community action plan. Community commitment keeps it going.