Healthy Neighborhoods Program

City of Fitchburg Healthy Neighborhoods Program

The City of Fitchburg’s Healthy Neighborhoods Program (HNP) is designed to formulate and implement a strategic, collaborative, and holistic approach to address specific issues in four City neighborhoods, in conjunction with community/neighborhood partners and residents. These “Priority Neighborhoods” are identified on the map below:

Priority Neighborhoods 2023

What are Healthy Neighborhoods?

Healthy neighborhoods have the following defining features:

1.    Equity….in access to opportunities.

2.    Diversity….in land uses, housing stock, and people.

3.    Components that are integrated, stable, and sustainable…..education, employment, housing, recreation, public safety, environment, etc.

What is Fitchburg doing to move Priority Neighborhoods towards Healthy Neighborhoods?

The City has developed a strategic plan to guide HNP implementation. The Strategic Plan framework consists of Pillars, Pillar Principles, Indicators, and Action Items. Working in conjunction, these elements provide a foundation for moving Priority Neighborhoods towards Healthy Neighborhoods.

Pillars and Pillar Principles

Pillars serve as HNP “goal categories” and Pillar Principles serve as “goals”, and are as follows:

HNI Pillars

IndicatorsHNI Process Graphic

Evaluation of HNP success and outcomes, and movement towards Healthy Neighborhoods and Pillar Principles, is premised largely on the concept of Indicators and associated targets. These Indicators are organized around Pillars and Pillar Principles and identify desirable and attainable neighborhood characteristics.

Action Items

Action items are specific courses of action to move Priority
Neighborhoods towards Healthy Neighborhoods, Pillar Principles,
and Indicator targets. The HNP has four Action Item categories.
Click on the Action Item categories below to learn more:

           Promotion: Marketing the HNP to stakeholders and identifying sustaining financial resources

           People: Human resources to undertake HNP work

      Places: Physical locations in which to implement HNP work.  

  • Check out the City's plan for a  neighborhood/community "hub" in the N. Fish Hatchery Road Priority Neighborhood.
  • Check out the City's engagement efforts for a potential "teen center" in the Verona Road West Priority Neighborhood.

           Programs: HNP activities, programs, and services (including the City of Fitchburg’s HNP Grant Program)

Annual Report 2021-2023

Contact

For further information on the HNP, please contact the following:

Jessica Wolfe
Community Development Program Coordinator
Phone: 608.270.4257
Email: jessica.wolfe@fitchburgwi.gov