A LiveWell San Diego representative said the regional health initiative, launched in 2010, began as a goal to improve wellness for 3,300,000 residents and has grown into a coalition of more than 600 partners working across communities.

The representative said education levels and incomes have risen in the region since the initiative began and that deaths linked to chronic conditions have dropped nearly 20% in 15 years. "During COVID-19, during the pandemic, that San Diego had better outcomes than many other communities. And that's in large part because of our LiveWell San Diego vision and model," the LiveWell San Diego representative said.

The presentation highlighted community events and mobile outreach as central components of the initiative. The representative said LiveWell-organized events such as "Love Your Heart" provided free blood-pressure screenings to more than half a million people across San Diego and Mexico. A fleet of LiveWell on Wheels buses, the representative said, has supported about 1,500 outreach events and served more than 127,000 individuals to date.

The representative described local partnerships used to reach neighborhoods, citing cooperation with community emergency-response teams. She said LiveWell partners worked with CERT to visit Borrego Springs High School to teach students and families how to build home evacuation plans and distribute emergency blankets and educational materials.

The presentation also pointed to community-led facilities created with local input. The LiveWell San Diego representative said the Southeastern LiveWell Center was developed with direct community involvement from start to finish.

On coordination, the representative said LiveWell uses "bi directional kind of interfaces" to connect sectors — classrooms, clinics, boardrooms and neighborhoods — and to learn priorities from partners while sharing public-health perspectives.

Closing the presentation, the representative urged continued partnership and investment in the LiveWell vision: "Now is the time to lean into the LiveWell vision. We need each other now more than ever because together, we can do more than any 1 of us can do alone. And together, we will live well," she said.

The remarks were a program overview and did not include any formal votes or policy actions recorded in the meeting transcript.