FFI’s former Associate Director of Built Environment, Senchel Matthews, shares her journey navigating the messiness of the planning process. The article, “Planning for Wellbeing Can Transform the Planner – and the Practice,” published in the American Planning Association’s Planning Magazine, illustrates how planning for wellbeing has been a game-changer, helping to prioritize community needs over transactions so planners can be a catalyst for sustainable change.
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.