The Health & Wellbeing Capacity Building Series: From Vision to Action was a five-session learning experience designed to help cities strengthen their ability to advance community wellbeing through clear frameworks, actionable policy tools, meaningful data, sustainable resources, and creative processes grounded in arts and culture to amplify impact.
This webinar series was designed to help city leaders make concrete decisions – from defining priorities to aligning funding and implementing solutions in real-world conditions. Each session builds toward helping cities answer a core question: How do we turn a vision for wellbeing into sustained, measurable impact?
Through a mix of national expertise and city-grounded practice, the series emphasized impact, alignment, and scalability, supporting cities as they strengthen how they deliver results for residents.
Recordings From This Series
Building the Foundation: Defining and Advancing Wellbeing for Cities
“Wellbeing” is a critical yet sometimes misunderstood concept in public policy. Many cities struggle with how to measure, define, and connect wellbeing to local programs and investments. This session explored how city leaders can integrate wellbeing into local governing strategies and develop a shared understanding of wellbeing that reflects local priorities and resident experiences.
Watch the recording to learn how wellbeing can function as a unifying framework across departments, how to adapt indicators to their local context, and to examine ways to integrate wellbeing into planning, performance management, and community engagement. Led by Anita Chandra, the RAND distinguished chair in American social policy, and Lourdes Aceves, director of NLC’s Health & Wellbeing team, this session sets the stage for the Capacity Building Series by grounding participants in a shared understanding that can be used to guide real policy, funding, and implementation decisions.
4 Practical Steps Cities Can Take to Protect Youth from Flavored Tobacco
- Lourdes Aceves, MPP
4 Practical Steps Cities Can Take Now to Protect Youth from Flavored Tobacco
Informal Tenancy and How Cities Can Step In
- Lauren Lowery
More than Just Murals: How Cities Can Leverage the Arts to Improve Transportation
- Georgia Gempler
What Congress Needs to Advance on Water Infrastructure for America’s Communities
- Carolyn Berndt
FEMA Review Council Final Report Signals Major Shift in Federal Disaster Policy
- Yucel Ors