Faculty of Nursing, Khon Kaen University

News agency: Dailynews URL: https://www.dailynews.co.th/article/799091 Publication date: 4 Oct 2020 Over the past 10 years, the ThaiHealth Promotion Foundation and networks have been working together to create livable local communities, driving the creation of social protection network innovations in solving local community problems. The project to drive joint work to create livable local communities under the community health plan has now reached a decade under the support of the Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth), Community Health Promotion Bureau (Office 3) in collaboration with partner networks. Most recently, the Community Health Systems Research and Development Center (CDC), Faculty of Nursing, Khon Kaen University, organized a forum for the best local community leaders on the agenda of a decade of working together to create livable local communities in the central region. The event was attended by Mrs. Prapassri Boonwiset, Chairwoman of the Community Health Plan Steering Committee, Central Region, Mr. Somporn Usibangyang, Chairman of the Network for Building Livable Local Communities, Plan Executive Committee, and qualified persons. Academic Support Center for Network Management (ASCO) and 92 local administrative organizations attended, totaling more than 600 people, at the Miracle Hotel. Ms. Duangporn Hengbunyaphan, Senior Assistant Manager of the Health Promotion Fund, ThaiHealth, and Acting Director of the Community Health Promotion Office (Office 3), said that over the past 10 years, ThaiHealth and its networks have worked together to create livable local communities.

News Agency: Siam Business URL: Link Published Date: 2 Oct 2020 “No matter what we think of initiating to do with the community, I have to ask the local people first if they agree with what we are going to do and whether they will really benefit from what we are going to do for the community.” The end of Mr. Naris Kit-udom, Mayor of Wang Mai Subdistrict Administrative Organization, Na Yai Am District, Nonthaburi Province, who is honored as an outstanding local community leader, who told about the successes in all aspects of Wang Mai Subdistrict at the Outstanding Local Community Leaders Forum, Agenda: A Decade of Jointly Creating Livable Local Communities, Central Region, organized by the Livable Local Community Joint Network, in collaboration with the Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth), through the Community Health Promotion Office (Office 3), and the Community Health System Research and Development Center (CDC), Faculty of Nursing, Khon Kaen University, at the recent Miracle Grand Convention Hotel. Mr. Naris said that for the work to be successful, it must be a collaboration of all 4 parties: local, regional, government, and public sectors. The goals of success are: Responding to the needs of the area that must cover all dimensions of society, economy, environment, health, politics and administration by allowing the people to participate in management is the source of the successful work of Wang Mai Subdistrict. Mr. Thawatchai Fak-angkun, Chairman of the Executive Board, Group 3, Thai Health Promotion Foundation, said that on the occasion of the 1st anniversary

News Agency: Banmuang URL: https://www.banmuang.co.th/news/bangkok/207913 Publication Date: 1 Oct 2020 The Thai Health Promotion Foundation selects “best innovations” in the central region to jointly create livable local communities, focusing on adaptation and readiness to cope with normal situations and crises, setting the goals in 6 areas: “aging society, environment, reduction of health risk factors, community economy, community health and welfare, and food self-reliance”, using the base of 200 top local community leaders/sub-district, the power to change society. On 1 October at the Miracle Grand Convention Hotel, the Local Livable Community Development Network, in collaboration with the Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth), represented by the Community Health Promotion Office (Office 3), and the Community Health Systems Research and Development Center (CRES), Faculty of Nursing, Khon Kaen University, organized the Local Community Leaders Forum, entitled: A Decade of Jointly Creating Livable Local Communities in the Central Region, chaired by Mrs. Prapassri Boonwiset, Chairwoman of the Community Health Plan Steering Committee, Central Region, and Mr. Somporn Usibangyang, Chairman of the Local Livable Community Development Network. The Executive Board of the Plan, experts, Academic Support Center for Network Management (ACM) and local administrative organizations, totaling more than 600 people, attended. Mr. Thawatchai Fak-angkun, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Plan