News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Thursday December 18th 2025
Sharing our Story
Communication strategies are designed to promote the story and the lessons of the BYI. Multiple vehicles including: print and on-line media, participation in community events, conference and classroom presentations and word-of-mouth are utilized to reach a variety of audiences. Community strategies are designed to encourage residents to tell their stories from their geographic and cultural perspectives through monthly articles in The Alley Newspaper, a community based newspaper in Phillips and participation at neighborhood meetings and events. Residents and staff also participated in the first ever Midtown Global Market Jazz Festival held in July, 2011.
Our website, www.allinahealth.org/backyard, was revamped in 2011.
sNational communications included a presentation at the national Association for Community Health Improvement conference. An article on the Backyard titled “Being Active in Your Community is a Cornerstone of Good Health” was published on the Institute for Comprehensive Community Development Website by national LISC.
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Communications CHAT
The BYI Communications CHAT is proud to be the conduit helping to get the many voices, images, and wisdom on to these pages. We hope you will be as inspired by the work reflected on these pages as we were.  Alley Communications, Inc. is the fiscal agent of the Communications CHAT. For more info: call Susan Gust, Coordinator, 612-414-6623.
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Latina/o Environmental Health Begins at Home CHAT
This project organizes Latino families to learn about environmental health and how they can contribute to creating a healthy environment for their families and community. The first stage of this effort is to teach Latinas how to make healthy products to clean the home and organize ways to implement what they have learned and to support each other to maintain a healthy environment.
Our vision is to improve the health of the Latino residents and community by creating a healthier indoor environment for Latino families, build community between Latino families, and build momentum in the community to be a part of the bigger environmental justice movement.
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