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Please Join Us for Our Two April IForums on 4/13 and 4/25!
Connecticut’s Young Professionals:
Can Communities Develop to Keep and Attract Them?
April 13, 2012 8:30-9:00 – Networking & Breakfast, 9:00-Noon – Forum
Can Communities Develop to Keep and Attract Them?
April 13, 2012 8:30-9:00 – Networking & Breakfast, 9:00-Noon – Forum
It has been called “America’s Third Civil War”…
Connecticut – like every state – is competing to attract the skilled, educated young talent that in the coming years will staff its factories, lead its companies,
build its communities and strengthen its families.
build its communities and strengthen its families.
Come hear young professionals, municipal and state policymakers, business leaders, planners and other experts discuss placemaking – the needed physical and social infrastructure that will make Connecticut an attractive place for a new generation to settle.
This event will feature:
Kate Foster, Ph.D., Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution
Kip Bergstrom, Deputy Commissioner, CT Dept. of Economic & Community Development
A panel of young Connecticut professionals, offering recommendations from a larger group of young pros convened before the event.
Municipal and business leaders from cities and towns around the state working to become magnets for the leaders of the future.
Housing and Planning for a Healthy Public:
Land Use, Design and Development to Promote Health Equity
Land Use, Design and Development to Promote Health Equity
April 25, 2012. 8:30-9:00 a.m. – Networking & Breakfast. 9:00-Noon – Forum
Community conditions like access to quality, affordable housing in good neighborhoods actually influence people’s health more than any other factor. We can dramatically improve health outcomes by improving homes and the surroundings in which people live.
Join us for an IForum focused on the connections between housing, land use and public health.
Featured presenter:
Featured presenter:
Robert Ogilvie, Ph.D., Director of the Planning for Healthy Places program at PHLP
Public Health Law & Policy (PHLP) is comprised of attorneys, policy analysts and urban planners who work together to build healthy communities nationwide. As director of PHLP's Planning for Healthy Places program, Dr. Ogilvie works extensively in community development and planning to help improve low- and middle-income neighborhoods.
Sponsored by:
Both events will take place at: The Lyceum, 227 Lawrence Street, Hartford, CT (Directions)
Registration
To register for an event, please email Laura Bachman at Laura@pschousing.org.
Please specify the event for which you are registering.
Please specify the event for which you are registering.
(If you do not receive an email confirmation within 2 business days,
please contact Laura Bachman at 860-244-0066)
The events are free.
Click here for more information about the IForums.
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