Guidance on Involving Residents in the Development of a Healthy Living Environment

The Province of North Brabant has collaborated on the guide Creating a Nice Neighborhood Together to involve residents in the development of a healthy living environment.

The Province of North Brabant has collaborated on the guide Creating a Nice Neighborhood Together to involve residents in the development of a healthy living environment. Municipalities, Public Health Services, and neighborhood professionals can use these methods and insights to work together with residents to create a healthier living environment.

Working Together for a Healthy Living Environment

Our living environment influences our mental and physical health. Municipalities are working hard to continue improving the living environment for residents of North Brabant. It is important to involve residents in all their diversity. The province has supported research that looks at which approaches work to reach and involve residents in the development of a healthy living environment.

Guide: Creating a Nice Neighborhood Together

In two neighborhoods in the municipalities of Geldrop-Mierlo and Roosendaal, we invited residents to think along about the design and use of a healthy living environment. This way, we mapped out what residents need for a healthy living environment and how they can contribute themselves. These findings and methods have been compiled in the guide Creating a Nice Neighborhood Together.

In this guide (refers to another website) you will find:

Methods to engage in conversation with residents.
Insights into what diverse groups of residents find important in the neighborhood.
Practical lessons for reaching and involving residents.

Collaborating with residents increases the likelihood that adjustments in the living environment are truly accessible to the target group and meet their wishes and needs. This promotes sustainable involvement and enhances the use of the adapted living environment. And this has positive effects on the personal well-being, development, self-esteem, self-reliance, and social network of the residents.

Collaborating Parties

This project is a collaboration between GGD West Brabant and GGD Brabant-Zuidoost, the municipality of Roosendaal and the municipality of Geldrop-Mierlo, PON & Telos, Tilburg University (Tranzo), the Province of North Brabant, Pharos, and RIVM. The project is funded by ZonMw.