**Our meetings are currently virtual. We meet on the first Wednesday of every Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct, and Dec from 9am to 11am.**
Our Purpose and Goals
The VibeSolano Alliance (VSA) is a county-wide partnership that brings community members and cross-sector leaders together to create a more vibrant, equitable and healthy Solano, with an emphasis on chronic disease prevention. We strive to help each of our seven municipalities, and Solano County as a whole, to create an environment where everyone has an opportunity to thrive.
Our goals are to improve:
- Easy access to healthy and affordable fruits, vegetables, snacks, food, and water, including local, sustainable farm products whenever possible
- Our places and spaces to support healthy choices, to encourage safe and compelling opportunities to be physically active, to have improved connectivity; and to make default options healthier
- Access to smoke-free environments
- Access to activities and services that encourage healthy behavior change
- Oral health as it is a major contributor to chronic disease
- Collaboration, integration of health, and investments in healthy strategies and policies as part of our culture.
How We Create Change
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Educate and Advocate
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Grow public awareness of how investments in healthy policies and community settings boost both health and the region’s economic well-being
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Educate organizational leaders and policymakers
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Advocate for specific policy and environmental change
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Leverage social media, data and stories
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Build Capacity
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Connect organization and sector leaders with training and technical assistance, including city and county staff
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Provide tools, model policies/practices and data to county change makers
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Support peer learning across municipalities
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Bring proven examples and/or experts from the outside into Solano
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Coordinate
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Maintain or be a part of a dynamic website with resources to support education, advocacy and capacity building efforts (e.g. tools that can easily be shared across platforms; live on multiple sites, etc.)
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Contribute to resources that depict health improvement initiatives, policies and strategies in Solano
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Link different efforts, resource sharing (e.g. tools, training, grant funds) and reduce duplication
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Convene
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Support Action and Learning Teams (committees) that help drive learning and action around priority VSA goal areas (see section on VSA committees)
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Support fun events that bring the community together and reinforce priority goals/investments
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Sponsor or convene processes that lead to innovations or pilots, including cross county learning collaborative(s) (possibly through Action/Learning Teams or stand-alone)
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Reinforce a culture of learning and innovating together
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VSA typically meets every other month on the first Wednesday of the month from 9-11 am virtually. The current community co-chair for the VSA is Ron Kinney of The Salvation Army KROC Center. To join or for more information, please contact info@vibesolano.com