Letter from the Healthy DuPage Executive Director

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A Letter from the Healthy DuPage Executive Director

Healthy DuPage is part of the international Healthy Communities initiative, a grassroots movement that focuses on understanding and acting on the systemic connections and underlying causes that make communities healthy. Healthy DuPage is dedicated to creating local partnerships that measurably improve community health and well-being. Our aim is to achieve measurable results through the collaborative efforts of individuals and organizations in all community sectors—education, business, health care, government, human services, and spiritual.

This Tapestry document can serve as a resource for those efforts. The document assembles and interprets information about the complex weave of physical, social, economic, and environmental factors that affect the health of our community. In doing so, it serves as a guidepost for monitoring, improving, and sustaining the quality of life enjoyed by residents of DuPage County. By understanding the indicators that contribute to good community health and how they interact, together we can focus on policies and actions that address any problems with those indicators, and thereby shape our future.

This document is a part of our effort to fulfill our mission—to stimulate and encourage collaborative action and efficient use of resources as we work together toward creating and sustaining a healthy community for our children and ourselves.

The Tapestry is intended to be a living document. As our county continues to grow and improve, so will the Tapestry. We welcome your ongoing feedback.

Donell Bullock

Executive Director

Healthy DuPage