Southern Kenai Peninsula (SKP) Communities Project

Community Potential in Action

July 29, 2010: SKP Communities Project is soliciting Requests for proposal to create a  One-stop online community resource to link agencies to agencies, individuals to agencies, and individuals to individuals – “virtual Homer”. View the request as a PDF

Developing and sustaining a healthy community requires participation from many diverse organizations and individuals who live, work and play in our community. The Southern Kenai Peninsula Communities Project came together in November of 2008 to create just such a partnership. We conducted the first collaborative, area-wide health needs assessment, with the goal of identifying opportunities for health improvement and to serve as a catalyst for community action. We defined health very broadly, to include not only physical, but mental/emotional, economic, educational, cultural and environmental health.

The resulting report is the culmination of four assessments conducted using the “Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnership” (MAPP) framework to structure our process. The full project reports are at the "MAPP Assessment Reports" link on the left menu

For more information you can read an article in the Homer Tribune explaining our project.