Resources from Canton Township Annual Retreat

Thank you so much for inviting me to join you for your annual retreat. See a copy of the slide deck and resources linked below.

Slide Deck

• Download the presentation slide deck here (PDF)

Project Examples

• Flint Farmers’ Market, Flint, MI

• Downtown City Square, Ironwood, MI

• Negaunee Downtown Enhancement, Negaunee, MI

• Winter Sports Park, Petoskey, MI

Video Examples

Reports, Articles, and Citations sorted by subject

Unstructured play for youth

• Resurrecting Free Play in Young Children: Looking Beyond Fitness and Fatness to Attention, Affiliation, and Affect by Hillary L. Burdette, MD, MS; Robert C. Whitaker, MD, MPH, The Archives of Pediatrict and Adolescent Medicine, Jan. 2005

Loneliness and social disconnectedness in the United States

• What does friendship look like in America? by Isabel Goddard, Pew Research Center, Oct. 2023

• Friendships: Less is now more by Martin Armstrong, World Economic Forum, Nov. 2022

• Face-to-face more important than digital communication for mental health during the pandemic, by S. Stieger, D. Lewetz & D. Willinger, Scientific Reports, May 2023

• Social connection from The Center for Disease Control, March 2024

• It’s time to harness the power of connection for our health and well-being by Etienne Krug, World Health Organization, Nov. 2023

• Our epidemic of loneliness and isolation from The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community, 2023

Mental health and access to care in the United States

• Suicide data, from the National Institute of Mental Health

• National, State-level, and County-level prevalence estimates of adults aged ≥18 Years Self-Reporting a Lifetime Diagnosis of Depression — United States, from the Center for Disease Control, June 2023

The impact of social media on brain and mental health

• Social Media and Youth Mental Health by The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory, 2023

• Social media’s impact on our mental health and tips to use it safely from University of California Davis Health, May 2024

Social associational capital

• Social Associations Capital from University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, 2024

• Revisiting declines in social capital: evidence from a new measure by Inbar Weiss, Pamela Paxton, Kristopher Velasco & Robert W. Ressler, Social Indicators Research, July 2018