Vital Conditions — Thriving Together NCW

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Our Framework: The Vital Conditions.

In times of crisis, urgent services like emergency departments, food banks, and addiction treatment programs are a crucial part of the solution. But urgent services can’t by themselves produce health and wellbeing. For that, we need to build up the vital conditions, a model that addresses the root causes keeping our communities from thriving.

Each vital condition is connected.

When vital conditions decline, it drives demand for urgent services. Thriving Together NCW recognizes that we can’t wait until people are in crisis; we need to work upstream. By strengthening the vital conditions, we can help people avoid crises and lead their best possible lives.

The Vital Conditions framework allows us to do that in a strategic way. By investing in systems and solutions that focus on the source of the issue, we are actively moving toward a future that promotes thriving conditions for all.

Latest Reports

Browse our collection of recent reports for each vital condition in North Central Washington.

Vital Conditions Reports

Belonging and Civic Muscle

This vital condition focuses on the importance of strong social support systems, fulfilling relationships and the ability for individuals to contribute to their community’s vibrancy.

Thriving Natural World

This vital condition emphasizes the impact of a clean, healthy environment, free of environmental hazards as well as the fundamental need to connect with nature.

Basic Needs for Health and Safety

This vital condition explores the elements that make a community safe and free from violence, crime, and hazards, as well as the ability for individuals to access the nutrients and physical activity needed to thrive.

Humane Housing

This vital condition highlights the importance of having stable, safe places to live communities that are diverse and vibrant.

Meaningful Work and Wealth

This vital condition focuses on the foundation that personal, family, and community wealth provides when creating secure living conditions via good paying, fulfilling jobs and careers.

Lifelong Learning

This vital condition speaks to the importance of having access to quality education early in life to ensure that all people, regardless of background or ability, are given the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Reliable Transportation

This vital condition explores the impact of walkable, accessible communities that ensure mobility regardless of a person’s means, mode or ability with safe streets and sustainable transportation systems.

IP3 ASSESS

Thriving Together NCW uses IP3 ASSESS, a web-based data solution designed and built for changemakers using data to advance equitable wellbeing in communities around the Nation. To gain access to our complete list of reports on IP3, please fill out the contact form below and a Thriving Together NCW staff member will follow up with you.

Thriving Together NCW’s Data Staff Support Lead:

Sara Bates
Director of Community Data

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