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NH Employment Security

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The Enfield Village Association's mission is to enhance the Town's cultural, historical, recreational, and natural resources while promoting economicdevelopment.

Our organization is run by volunteers only. We are proud of the wide range of talents and skills represented by our dedicated volunteers, who are residents and/or business owners of Enfield.

To learn more about us, click on the topics listed on the top menu. You'll find information about Us, our Committees, Enfield Community Resources, and information on how you can help strengthen your community by donating or becoming a Volunteer!

Join us Friday, March 18th at the NEW Randy's Car Wash on Route 4!

He will open up one of the bays to host and tell us all about his new state-of-the-art car wash.

A great opportunity to mingle and chat with other Enfield businesses!

Business Coffees start at 8 and generally run until 9 or 9:30 a.m.

We look forward to seeing you!

We are located at 3 Shaker Hill Rd, Enfield

The EVA Business Office is not currently open to the public due to
COVID-19 so please contact us via phone or email
603-632-7197,eva@enfieldmainstreet.org

You will also find an online version of our most recent Businesses and Services Directory.

Make a donation to us via PayPal; or Volunteer

Thank you for visiting and let's "keep the good things happening!"
Like us on Facebook! Join Our Email List
https://www.facebook.com/EnfieldNHEVA

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Enfield Village Association | 3 Shaker Hill Road, PO Box 763, Enfield, NH 03748 ~ 603-632-7197 ~ eva@enfieldmainstreet.org

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The Enfield Village Association's mission is to enhance the Town's cultural, historical, recreational, and natural resources while promoting economicdevelopment. Our organization is run by volunteers only. We are proud of the wide range of talents and skills represented by our dedicated volunteers, who are residents and/or business owners of Enfield.

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With Unite Us, you can build and scale your coordinated care network, track outcomes together, identify service gaps and at-risk populations, and most importantly, empower members of your community to take ownership of their own health.

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Skip to main content Exciting News: Unite Us has Acquired NowPow and Carrot Health. Visit our Newsroom to learn more. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. By clicking "Accept," you consent to the use of all the cookies.

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Social isolation is not a personal choice or individual problem, but one that is rooted in community design, social norms, and systemic injustices.

In recent decades, people in the United States and around the world have experienced soaring rates of social isolation, with profound impacts on health and well-being. Far from being a personal choice, social isolation stems from community designs and systemic injustices that keep people and neighborhoods apart. We must reshape our communities in ways that support meaningful social connection among residents, improve trust between neighbors, and strengthen an overall sense of belonging and community. From architects to educators, faith leaders to health providers, local governments to grantmakers-we all can play a part in creating opportunities that build relationships between neighbors, improve trust, and foster an overall sense of community.

Socially Connected Communities: Solutions for Social Isolation

Socially Connected Communities: Solutions for Social Isolation offers five recommendations for creating socially connected communities, starting with public spaces, transportation, and housing.

The efforts that contributed to this report began in 2017 when the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)'s Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions team invested in an initiative to better understand social isolation and how to address it. In 2020, Healthy Places by Design partnered with RWJF to manage and lead a Social Isolation Learning Network, in which participants from diverse places and organizations candidly shared their efforts to reduce social isolation. Wishing to share what they had learned more broadly, participants in the Social Isolation Learning Network and Healthy Places by Design co-created this report.

Action Guides

During Heathy Places by Design's two-decade history of supporting community partnerships across the United States, we've seen that efforts to create community-led change are more effective when residents have local government leader support (from multiple sectors) and investments (of resources and partnerships) from philanthropic organizations.

To support this need, we developed complementary Action Guides that local government leaders and grantmaking organizations can use as tailored supplements to the Socially Connected Communities report. Future Action Guides may expand beyond these two groups.

Action Guide for Philanthropic Leaders

Action Guide for Local Government and Community Leaders

Healthy Places by Design is profoundly grateful for the generosity and wisdom of each person who contributed to and co-created this report, including those who provided inspiration by sharing their efforts to reduce social isolation; an amazing group of writing advisors who provided additional insights, ideas, feedback, and stories that refined the report; and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions team members, who made these efforts possible.

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Socially Connected Communities: Solutions for Social Isolation

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Social isolation is not a personal choice or individual problem, but one that is rooted in community design, social norms, and systemic injustices. In recent decades, people in the United States and around the world have experienced soaring rates of social isolation, with profound impacts on health and well-being.

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October Meeting Priority Area Discussion: Lack of information about the resources, supports, activities; lack of resources, supports, activities

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October Meeting Priority Area Discussion: Lack of information about the resources, supports, activities; lack of resources, supports, activities

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We are trying to get a better understanding of what ‘community’ means to folks generally and specifically what they like (or do not like) about the Mascoma Valley Region. If you have not done so already please answer the three questions on the form link here: https://forms.office.com/r/2dqgiLvEhA

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Are there words or themes that resonate with you when you consider building resilience in Mascoma? Brainstorm names or taglines you think would be good for the coalition.                                                                                                You can show your preference by Liking Your Favorite Ideas, Comment on an idea or click on the + to Add New IDEAS!       

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Are there words or themes that resonate with you when you consider building resilience in Mascoma? Brainstorm names or taglines you think would be good for the coalition.                                                                                                You can show your preference by Liking Your Favorite Ideas, Comment on an idea or click on the + to Add New IDEAS!       

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Assets and Challenges

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In March 2018, with strong community support, Enfield municipal officials began working the Center for Strategic Governance to adopt strategic governance as a way to help leaders and citizens envision and create a desired future for Enfield. While strategic governance can also be used by school systems, the initiative is focused on Enfield's municipal government.

Strategic governance consists of two related ongoing efforts. The first has to do with engaging citizens and officials in deciding what matters most to their community and in envisioning a desired future in which those values and outcomes are attained and preserved. This is strategic thinking; it aims to help people decide what to achieve.

The second involves managing efforts to make that vision a reality. It entails framing and managing strategic initiatives as well as the day-to-day efforts of running a municipality. This is operational governance; it focuses on how to achieve those desired outcomes.

Strategic governance enables communities to understand their past, envision their future, and manage the present as a way to get to the future they want. It is an ongoing process in which plans are refreshed annually to reflect changes that inevitably arise. It differs from more traditional planning because it: is data-driven, reinforces Enfield's culture and values, links strategy with measurable outcomes, and is a repeatable process Enfield can do on its own.

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In March 2018, with strong community support, Enfield municipal officials began working the Center for Strategic Governance to adopt strategic governance as a way to help leaders and citizens envision and create a desired future for Enfield. While strategic governance can also be used by school systems, the initiative is focused on Enfield's municipal government.

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1. Should Enfield invest in parking lots?

2. If the town were to invest in the construction of additional parking lots, what would be the first priority of additional parking locations?

Answer polls directly from your phone.

Enter session #144-880-337

Check back each week for a new question. All answers are confidential, but recorded for planning purposes.

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1. Should Enfield invest in parking lots? 2. If the town were to invest in the construction of additional parking lots, what would be the first priority of additional parking locations? Answer polls directly from your phone. Enter session #144-880-337 Check back each week for a new question.

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Facebook News for the 5 town area

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Welcome to the new Dorchester, New Hampshire town government web site. In the last few months, the Town and Select Board has been busy laying the groundwork to launch our new web site and we hope you think those efforts were worthwhile.

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Chartered in 1761, Enfield, NH is located in the heart of the Upper Valley and has a rich history influenced by the Shakers. We are now a thriving 21 st century community offering a wide variety of cultural & recreational activities for our residents & visitors.

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We believe in an integrated society where everyone is valued for their abilities rather than their disabilities. Our core philosophy is that everyone has a hidden talent or gift worth sharing with the world, a "spark" if you will. Spark welcomes all community members to take part in a variety of programs, classes and events as well as use the many different opportunities available at Spark!

Spark!'s MISSION is to provide a welcoming place where the lives of all persons of differing abilities are enriched through a sense of community.

Our VISION is to be a vibrant center that embraces a diverse, integrated community where all participants are inspired to realize their fullest potential.

Our PURPOSE is to serve as a drop-in community center where individuals with special needs can feel welcome at all times and find social and educational programming that focuses on independence, encouraging participants to lead happy and fulfilling lives within the Upper Valley. Volunteer and mentoring opportunities at Spark! allow members of the entire community to engage with a diverse group of individuals.

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We believe in an integrated society where everyone is valued for their abilities rather than their disabilities. Our core philosophy is that everyone has a hidden talent or gift worth sharing with the world, a "spark" if you will.

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5/20/21

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George Washington University

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The Building Community Resilience Collaborative

The Building Community Resilience (BCR) collaborative at the Redstone Center seeks to improve the health of children, families, and communities by fostering engagement between grassroots community services and public and private systems to develop a protective buffer against Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) occurring in Adverse Community Environments (ACEs) - the "Pair of ACEs." Connecting community organizations (through a church health ministry or trusted food pantry, for example) with larger systems (including those in health care, education, business, law enforcement) can begin to build a durable network to improve community wellbeing. The BCR sites are in the Greater Cincinnati Region of Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky, Dallas County, TX, the State of Oregon, Washington, DC-Maryland-Virginia, the State of Washington and Kansas City (MO and KS) and St. Louis, MO.

BCR sees community resilience as an essential factor in improving public health outcomes. Community resilience originates from buffers in communities and families to protect individuals from the accumulation of stress due to adverse childhood experiences, such as exposure to emotional and sexual abuse, maternal depression, neglect or incarceration. When these exposures are experienced in adverse community environments (ACEs), characterized by violence, racism, or poverty, for example, the effects are compounded and often lead to multi-generational stress and poor health outcomes.

The work of BCR is to build networks that foster resilience against the stressors that can become toxic to a child's development and long-term health: Adverse Childhood Experiences occurring in Adverse Community E nvironments - the "Pair of ACEs."

As our work evolved over time, we learned more about the relationship between trauma, equity and resilience. We are developing resources for communities to communicate and engage in the equity aspect of community resilience work. Read more about trauma, equity and resilience.

Currently, no process exists to break the multi-generational chain and address the "Pair of ACEs." The BCR design is informed by research on child health care systems and also on barriers to addressing the root causes of community and childhood adversity.

Barriers to fostering resilience include a clinician's lack of training to screen for a patient's social needs that impact health, such as food insecurity, housing needs and financial burdens. Barriers also include a clinician's difficulty or inexperience connecting patients to community-based resources and agencies to address their social needs. Systemic barriers include the inability to share information across large systems - such as housing, health, education, juvenile justice and public safety - in efforts to collaborate and foster community resilience.

BCR employs a systematic approach based on four central components that are applied as a continuous improvement model: creating shared understanding of childhood and community adversity, assessing system readiness, developing cross-sector partnerships, and engaging families and residents in a collaborative response to prevent and address the Pair of ACEs.

There are six sites across the nation currently implementing the BCR approach. Each site begins with different priorities, community makeup, resources, and set of partners. As such, each site develops its own unique strategies. The sites are:

SW Ohio & N Kentucky

Dallas County, TX

Kansas City (KS & MO) and St. Louis, MO

State of Oregon

Washington, DC-Maryland-Virginia

State of Washington

Reducing and eliminating adversity by fostering equity through policy, practice and program change to build resilience.
Using the novel Community Resilience (CR) framework developed at GW, health departments across the country are convening multiple sectors at the local, state and federal level to manage and deliver resources that contribute to a community's health and wellbeing.

Operating as Chief Health Strategists local health departments are Resilience Catalysts, driving initiatives that address the Pair of ACEs. Resilience Catalysts foster integration of cross-sector and community services and community-wide prevention by leveraging a public health approach to prevent the Pair of ACEs with a focus on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), opioid misuse and suicide.

We have a number of tools and resources to help communities develop their own BCR coalitions. They have been instrumental to the work of our BCR test sites in Cincinnati, Dallas, Oregon, Missouri-Kansas and Washington, DC. Click the links below to download.

BCR Pair of ACEs Infographic Templates

​​Coalition Building & Communications

From Our Partners:

Please email us at resilientcommunities@gwu.edu to receive updates about our communities, upcoming events, and new resources. You may also want to join the BCR Facebook community to exchange ideas with others passionate about community resilience.

This project is supported in part by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Kresge Foundation. Implementation of the BCR process was piloted as part of the Moving Health Care Upstream initiative, which is a joint project of UCLA and the Nemours Foundation.

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Find Our Latest News: The Building Community Resilience (BCR) collaborative at the Redstone Center seeks to improve the health of children, families, and communities by fostering engagement between grassroots community services and public and private systems to develop a protective buffer against Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) occurring in Adverse Community Environments (ACEs) - the "Pair of ACEs."

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Policy, Systems and Environmental Change
For many years, health programs have focused on changing individuals' behaviors through education. While education is essential, it is unlikely to drive community- or institution-level change. Systems change is about addressing the root causes of issues, which are often stubborn and woven throughout networks of people, organizations, governments, and historical causes and effects. It is a process designed to intentionally examine and alter relationships, resources, environments and policies that cause an organization or an institution to behave in a particular way. Big and sustainable impacts can be made by changing laws or by reshaping physical landscapes. Well Connected Communities is using policy, systems and environmental, or PSE, change approaches to go beyond programming and address the conditions that can put life-long health and well-being within everyone's reach.

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Policy, Systems and Environmental Change For many years, health programs have focused on changing individuals' behaviors through education. While education is essential, it is unlikely to drive community- or institution-level change. Systems change is about addressing the root causes of issues, which are often stubborn and woven throughout networks of people, organizations, governments, and historical causes and effects.

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Friends of Mascoma Serving the Mascoma School District

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Home - Foundation for Healthy Communities

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The Foundation for Healthy Communities recently revised the Advance Care Planning Guide to incorporate changes resulting from the passing of SB 74 - download the ACPG here for you & your loved ones

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Our innovative, energetic and connected staff and volunteers develop and deliver practical, trusted education and services to meet New Hampshire's needs. Through a long-standing partnership with NH counties, ten well-staffed UNH Cooperative Extension offices are located across the state to provide local expertise and assistance.

We continue to adjust our Extension events and classes to protect the health of the public and staff.

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UNH Extension works in four broad topic areas: Youth and Family Development, Community and Economic Development, Natural Resources and Food and Agriculture. Through partnerships with county governments, UNH Extension offices staffed by specialists, educators, support personnel and volunteers are located in each of the state's 10 counties.

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Dartmouth Hitchcock Community Health  Needs Assessment 2019

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Dartmouth Hitchcock Community Health  Needs Assessment 2019