Healthy Mountain Communities
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| 2003 Proceedings |
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 Town of Carbondale The Valley Journal The Citizen Telegram |
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State of the
Valley Symposium
Paths to
Prosperity
Friday, May 6, 2005
Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs
2005 Proceedings
Over 110 people participated in the 2005 State of the Valley Symposium, a forum to explore the health and wealth of the Roaring Fork and Colorado River Valleys. This year's event focused on regional economics, planning for prosperity, and the cost and access challenges of healthcare and health insurance. Speaker information and pdf versions of their presentations are available below:
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Director of the Demography Section
Colorado Department of Local Affairs
Email:
jim.westkott@state.co.us
Web:
www.dola.state.co.us/demog/index.htm
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Garfield County
Socio-economic impacts study |
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Doug Dennison
Oil & Gas Liaison,
| Regional Economics: Understanding & Shaping our Economic Future |
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Larry Swanson
Director, Regional Economy Program
Center for the Rocky Mountain West
Dr. Swanson is Associate Director of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West and head of its Regional Economy program. Economic change and restructuring in the region, implications of this change for community and regional development, the region's evolving transborder relationship, and the region's changing economy-environment relationship are all focuses of the program.
He also serves as the economists for Montana on the Move, a Center project that seeks to help Montana's regional communities strengthen and unify local economic development efforts by providing professional support to community leaders for:
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Analyzing national, regional, and local economic trends
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Organizing public and private interests to create a community development strategy
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Networking with other communities to examine issues of mutual concern
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Creating unity of purpose among communities to solve common problems
Handout:
Positioning
Communities and Sub-State Regions for Economic Improvement
Background Info:
Surviving the New Economy, Montana In
Business, Summer 2003
Email:
Larry.Swanson@mso.umt.edu
Web: www.crmw.org
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Harrison Rue
Director, Thomas Jefferson Regional Planning District, VA
Harrison is Director of The Thomas Jefferson Planning District, which strives to be a catalyst for solutions to improve the quality of life in a rapidly growing six-county region with over 200,000 residents. Through regional cooperation, it seeks effective and efficient answers that will contribute to the well-being of the region and preserve its natural and historic resources.
Harrison is a planner, builder, developer, trainer, and founder of the Citizen Planner Institute. Rue has more than 30 years of hands-on experience in construction, real estate development, planning and design, transportation, historic preservation, community organizing and process facilitation.
Handouts:
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8-page summary of the Eastern Planning Initiative Summary (3.6mb) can be downloaded from www.tjpdc.org/community/epi.asp (look at top of right-hand column for the EPI Brochure link)
Email:
hrue@tjpdc.org
Web: www.tjpdc.org
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Panel Discussion
Health care in the United States embodies both the best and the worst of our society. On the one hand it is led by the most talented professionals in the world and the source of miracle drugs and procedures. On the other, it suffers from administrative inefficiencies, poor consumer information, and significant inequities in terms of access to care. Numerous efforts – mostly at the state and national levels – have been tried and have failed to address these problems.
This session will focus on the challenges and opportunities of community / regional approaches to reduce/manage insurance costs, increase health insurance availability and enrollment, and provide health insurance to all residents who need it.
Handout: Community Health Access Initiative Summary
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Small Group Breakouts Sessions |
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Break into smaller groups facilitated by the presenters and panelists for deeper dialogue on the following:
Regional Economics (
Lead by Larry Swanson) [Download notes]- How are we performing?
- What’s working? What do we want to see more?
- What are some next steps for improvement and how can we implement them?
Regional Planning
(Lead by
Harrison Rue)
- How are we performing?
- What’s working? What do we want to see more?
- What are some next steps for improvement and how can we implement them?
Community Health access
- How are we performing?
- What’s working? What do we want to see more?
- What are some next steps for improvement and how can we implement them?
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