About Healthier, safer, more prosperous milwaukee

Healthier, Safer, More Prosperous Milwaukee is a group of committed leaders and practitioners that emerged in 2014. Its mission is to create conditions by which community- and evidence-informed policies and practices are advanced across multiple sectors to enhance and assure safety, health and development in Milwaukee communities and neighborhoods.  Core partners of the effort include: the Wisconsin Center for Health Equity, the District Attorney's and Public Defender's offices, Data You Can Use, the City of Milwaukee Health Department, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Milwaukee Field Office, the Milwaukee Police Department, and the Community Justice Council. This leadership team is dedicated to using big-picture, systems thinking, building political will, and leveraging opportunities to drive sustainable change, and following necessary preconditions for successful collaborative work among historically disconnected sectors in Milwaukee.

Our Progress
The purpose of this group is promoting shared understanding, fostering cross-sector alignments, and shaping strategic solutions so all Milwaukee neighborhoods and communities thrive. Examples of the partnership’s accomplishments include:

Our strategic plan
​Starting in February of 2016, the HSP MKE Steering Committee participated in a strategic planning process. The outcomes of our work include:
  • Purpose, Mission and Values Statement:  Purpose defines why we are in existence, the mission articulates what we do to fulfill our purpose and the values statement reflects the philosophy we hold in carrying out our mission and fulfilling our purpose.
  • Vision Statement:  What do we want to see in place in 3-5 years as a result of our actions?
  • Underlying Contradictions:  This transformational step answers the question “What is blocking us from moving toward our vision?”
  • Strategic Directions: What innovative, substantial actions will deal with the underlying contradictions and move us toward our vision?
  • Implementation Plan: What will our specific measurable accomplishments be for the first year?  Under construction.
  • Image Shift: This exercise facilitated a more thorough understand of the complexity and depth required for transformational change at the intersection of public health, public safety and community development and resulted in the creation of messages to communicate the importance of HSP MKE. 

Deliverables

2017 WPHA Poster
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2016 Working Well Together Inventory
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