The city wishes to support the organizations engaged in improving the safety and healthy of our community.

To that end, the city was an active participant in the 2016 MAPP process and in the creation of the 2016 Community Health Improvement Plan which identified 5 major health priorities for the region: 

1) Promote healthy eating and active living

• Preventing obesity
• Promoting healthy food
• Promoting physical activity

2) Address mental health and substance abuse

• Reduce need for hospitalization
• promote mental health through a stigma-free culture and availability of services
• identifying & enacting policy, system, and environmental changes

3) Improve health disparities and access to care

• identifying and decreasing health disparities
• increasing health equity by improving access to care for everyone
• increasing the diversity of providers and fostering cultural humility within the healthcare workforce

4) Foster a healthy and connected community

• improving child & adolescent health outcomes through trauma-informed approaches
• improving healthy aging strategies

Link to the full Full Report: http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/co...

The Charlottesville Area Alliance exists to ensure the development of an age-friendly community consistent with the research conducted by the World Health Organization. The city has committed to assessing the community's age-friendliness against the World Health Organization's 8 domains as part of membership in the AARP Age-Friendly Community Network:

• outdoor spaces & buildings
• transportation
• housing
• social participation
• civic participation & employment
• communication & information
• community support & health services

Link to AARP Age-Friendly Network: https://www.aarp.org/livable-c...

Link to WHO Guide to Age-Friendly Community: https://www.aarp.org/content/d...