Interested in details regarding the roles, responsibilities and structure of Birmingham’s Neighborhood Associations and Citizens Advisory Board? What about the policies and procedures related to neighborhood leadership elections?  If so, you may find useful the Birmingham Citizen Participation Plan (CPP) posted on the blog of Birmingham’s Central City Neighborhood. The organizational structure of Birmingham’s CPP is illustrated as follows:

The City of New Orleans modeled their Citizen Participation Plan in part based on Birmingham’s CPP. A white paper produced by the Committee for a Better New Orleans offers additional details on the development of the NOLA CPP.

For more info on the history of Birmingham’s Neighborhood Associations and Citizens Advisory Boards, check out the info at BhamWiki.com.

The book, “The Most Segregated City in America”: City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980, provides some history on the genesis of Birmingham’s Citizen Participation Program.

Dr. Hood and his wife Robin live in the Bush Hills neighborhood. In 2014, they were winners of a Community Health Innovation Award of the UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science for NHabit, a social entrepreneurial startup aimed at improving the health of their community by addressing the problem of vacant and abandoned property. Specifically, they are applying the principles of strategy and entrepreneurship to create a repeatable and scalable model for monitoring blight, occupancy and other conditions indicative of community health. Their efforts were recently highlighted by WBRC Fox 6 News as well as in the following articles: Building on an Idea and Local and global outreach land UAB on president’s community service honor roll.