I am thrilled to be introducing the West Louisville Vision project and this blog as a way of generating conversation around critical issues and themes impacting our community. Here's a little history of the West Louisville Vision Project (WLVP). In 2006, citizens of West Louisville began meeting in communities across the city to begin conversations on what social issues matters most to the people and what can be done to address those issues. Community leaders partnered with the Center for Health Equity, led by then director Lauri Andress and Louisville's health department leader, Dr. Adouwale Troutman. It was born out of a committment to address health and social disparties in the West Louisville community and to help empower communities to participate in changing policies that affects their lives and the lives of their neighbors.
I invite you to weigh in, let you voice be known, and join in on this important conversation on how to help West Louisville continue to thrive for all its citizens and friends!
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The recent passing of the civil rights giant of Louisville, Rev. Louis Coleman should give pause to reflect on the urgency of working together, cooperatively, to affect positive change in the community. Today's context requires a multi-dimensional strategy involving many approaches and methodologies. No one organization or institution, or individual can forge the kind of transformation that many of us long for. Everyone's talents, gifts, and resources (public and private) are necessary and I think the WLV Project can be simply one of those important resources in this process. But all voices are needed.
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