Full time and temporary staff connected with community residents at over 60 existing gathering spaces, meetings, and cultural events: including non-profit partners, libraries, schools and colleges, community centers, apartment buildings, food shelves and more. The process was designed to be a face-to-face conversation. Residents entered responses into an electronic or paper survey, if needed staff were available to record responses. To address potential language barriers, multi-lingual staff engaged residents in their primary language, including Hmong, Karen, Somali and Spanish. The survey asked for demographic information and six questions about individual, family and community health: for example What helps you stay healthy? and What keeps you from being healthy? Sixty percent of respondents were from under-represented communities, people usually not reached by surveys. These communities were selected to better understand the successes and challenges they face in maintaining health.
