The next virtual FOCUS Forum is Community Dialogue in a Time of COVID on Oct. 16. Speakers are from the El Hindi Center for Dialogue and the Peacemaking Team of the Center for Court Innovation. Click the headline for details and to register and submit questions. September’s Forum – Housing in a Time of COVID – is now up for viewing there, too.
The Citizens Academy Class of 2020 began at Skä·noñh – Great Law of Peace Center with a dynamic overview of the region’s important role in our nation’s history. To learn more about this 8-week interactive course on how local governments work, click this headline.
CNY-CAN brings together patients and caregivers with researchers and health professionals to advance patient-centered outcomes research and help older adults live well and longer at home. The Community Health Information Connection is our current focus.
Melanie Littlejohn of National Grid and Maarten Jacobs of the Allyn Family Foundation are the 2019 Wisdom Keepers. FOCUS honors their devotion to community. FOCUS and the community celebrated with them in a unique event Oct. 2 at the Everson Museum.
Forums and other events have brought together community members and experts to produce reports on topics such as age-friendly planning, transportation, sustainability, and the flu. FOCUS goes beyond convening people and collecting ideas to produce a clearinghouse of information that can be drawn upon in the future.
In 1997-98 thousands of people offered up goals for the Greater Syracuse community that boiled down to 87 categories. Our community is still tackling them, but here are 20 highlights.
Healing the Earth in a Time of COVID features Dr. Neil Murphy, who led O’Brien & Gere engineering and SUNY ESF, and Onondaga Environmental Institute President Dr. Ed Michalenko discussing lessons from the pandemic shutdown. See the August 2020 FOCUS Forum here.
The first virtual Forum on Coping with COVID Challenges features Sharon Brangman, MD, Chair of the Department of Geriatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University; and Tracey Musarra Marchese, Professor of Practice in Syracuse University’s School of Social Work.