Upcoming Event
IRHA "Lunch & Learn" Life Cycle: So Much More Than Bicycles
Description:
Life Cycle is a transportation initiative that utilizes the current resources within communities to provide free, safe, and reliable transportation to individuals who are 16+ years or older. Utilizing the stolen and/or unclaimed bicycles from local police department, repairing them on local grant dollars and then giving them away free of charge to community members in need. Life Cycle increases access to basic needs such as food, clothing, housing, employment, and Substance use Disorder-Mental Health Treatment. While also increasing the physical health and well-being of participants. Life Cycle was established in 2017 in rural Miami County, Indiana and has since been replicated in Huntington, Tipton, and Putnam Counties. You will have an opportunity to meet the founder of the program, as well as a community leaser who successfully replicated Life Cycle in the community of Putnam County.
Learn about the impact Life Cycle has had on the communities of Miami & Putnam County
Learn how to replicate Life Cycle in your community
Learn about the tools needed to make Life Cycle successful & sustainable in your community
Presenter:
Antonia Sawyer, B.S., graduated with academic distinction from Indiana University in 2014, with a degree in the science of psychology. Since then, she has lead a successful career in community development. Utilizing her personal and professional experience, Antonia has assisted exceptional leaders in the development and/or implementation of both innovative and traditional programming within communities. Now a Strategic Leadership and Design graduate student at the University of Indianapolis, and director of the Hoosier Health and Wellness Alliance through the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine, Antonia seeks to further improve the overall health of Hoosier families through collaboration of state and community coalitions focusing on the reduction of factors that contribute to the poor physical and mental health of residents state-wide.
Director of the Hoosier Health & Wellness Alliance
Indiana Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute