In a PAS Memo for the American Planning Association, FFI’s former Associate Director of Built Environment, Senchel Matthews, joined Urban Institute’s Kathryn Reynolds to share two innovative tools planners can use to harness wellbeing and community co-creation. “Centering Wellbeing in Community Co-Creation: WIATT and C4C” illustrates how planning for wellbeing can be a game-changer through the FFI’s Wellbeing Insights, Assets & Tradeoffs Tool (WIATT) and Urban Institute’s Capital for Communities Scorecard (C4C).
This tool offers a set of questions related to tradeoffs and the Five Domains of Wellbeing that you can use as a “check engine light” for you and your work.
Use this tool to identify how a specific policy, project, program or practice will impact different stakeholders’ wellbeing, allowing you to anticipate and address unsustainable tradeoffs.
Learn how domestic violence practitioners can shift from a singular focus on short-term safety toward increasing survivor safety in the context of creating opportunities to support long-term wellbeing.