About Healthy Neighborhoods
We are community members dedicated to Lewiston’s Tree Streets Neighborhood.
We live, work, and play in downtown Lewiston. We believe in a bright future as we all work to nurture a healthy neighborhood that offers:
Affordable, safe and lead-free housing.
Access to medical care, healthy food and nutrition education, and safe places to exercise and play.
Available employment and training.
Places and ways to enhance social connections and access social supports.
A safe and welcoming Tree Streets where neighbors care for each other and their surroundings and where everyone can be proud to live, work, and play.
Our Vision
We, residents and those who love the Tree Streets, actively engage in and advocate for positive change in our neighborhood by building community and forging collaborations.
Our Mission
Our Values
Caring & Collaborative Community: We believe that when neighbors, local organizations, businesses, residents, and government work together, collaborate across differences, and care for each other, a shared vision can emerge and common goals can be realized.
Resident Agency & Leadership: We believe that diverse perspectives, talents, and leadership, including those of our youth, are essential for a thriving Tree Streets neighborhood.
Shared Responsibility & Collective Power: We believe that when Tree Streets neighbors and friends take action together, our combined power is transformative.
Get to Know Healthy Neighborhoods
Board of Directors
Ashley Medina
President
Joel Furrow
Vice President
Darby Ray
Secretary
Kayla Goyette,
Treasurer
Elizabeth Eames
Mohamed Ibrahim
Joseph Philippon
Hannah Sadler
Betsy Sibley
Our Partners
A History of Collective Action
Tree Streets neighbors have been organizing and voicing their commitment to a better neighborhood since 2004. The Visible Community stopped a top-down municipal plan that would have destroyed over 850 homes, and spent years creating the grassroots “People’s Downtown Master Plan”, which was adopted by the City Council in 2008. Relationships, trust, and commitment continued to build, and in 2013 a group of neighbors and stakeholders organized around improving the health of the community.
This group evolved into Healthy Neighborhoods. We build and nurture diverse partnerships among individuals, non-profit organizations, local businesses, and community stakeholders. We count on our network to keep resident voice front and center, and adjust priorities to meet current needs in our community.
Our efforts focus on creating a safe, inclusive, welcoming, and thriving neighborhood for all.
We strive to address root causes of poverty, discrimination, and the disparities that result from social inequity.
Our actions try to speak louder than words, and in ways that are valued and understood across all languages and cultures.