Action Ideas: Be a part of the plan
Are you looking for ideas about how to improve your neighborhood? In the recent community strategic planning process for Takoma Park and...
Bruce Baker
Jun 9, 2012
Takoma Park and Long Branch Priority Goals
What are the top priorities that should drive our community improvement efforts over the next five years? CHEER recently asked this...
Bruce Baker
May 17, 2012
Mothers at Rolling Terrace Share Knowledge and Experience
CHEER just completed showing three episodes of “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?” to Latin American Mothers who...
Bruce Baker
Oct 1, 2011
CHEER Pilots Community Health Improvement Process
On June 28 CHEER conducted the first of a series of events at Essex House, a Takoma Park high rise on Maple Avenue that houses a large...
Bruce Baker
Jul 12, 2011
CHEER’s Seven Steps to Community Change
CHEER will be implementing a “community health improvement process” in locations throughout Takoma Park and Long Branch. This is a...
Bruce Baker
Jul 6, 2011
What is a Healthy Community?
A healthy community is one where people have good physical and emotional health. But this is more than just the absence of illness. A...
Bruce Baker
Apr 29, 2011
Community Conversation Seeks to Identify Quality of Life Priorities
About 20 Takoma Park and Long Branch residents attended a community conversation where they shared their opinions on health and potential...
Bruce Baker
Mar 20, 2011
CHEER Kicks off Community Health Assessment with Film Screening
There is a direct connection between the health of people and the social conditions under which they live. Lower income, lower social...
Bruce Baker
Nov 6, 2010
