I think so, but the Awesome Since Month And Year Shirt but in fact I love this reason the block party model works for us is because we have an existing engagement infrastructure, so to speak. In other communities, the engagement infrastructure looks different, so it might be the county fair, or it might be the church picnic. The reason that I ended up posting the Twitter thread was to prove proof of concept, or to say, “Look, this model does work.” “In that lag time between deciding to engage in a health behavior, and actually having access to the health behaviors, you lose a ton of people.” “There is no silver bullet strategy, but my hope is that we can allow ourselves to continue to be creative.”
People are committed to the Awesome Since Month And Year Shirt but in fact I love this narrative that there’s nothing more to do, that this will be a waste of time and resources. And it does take a little bit of effort to say to the powers that be: “We really think this can be successful. Please support us.” In places where the community doesn’t have a relationship like that with the powers that be—city officials, or state government, or the Department of Public Health—it is going to be a heavier lift. There is no silver bullet strategy, but my hope is that we can allow ourselves to continue to be creative and continue to try diverse strategies with the belief that they can be successful.
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