GREEN BAY – More than half of people of color living in Brown County report they’ve suffered or struggled in the last year. Half of LGBTQ+ residents feel similar hardships.
Put another way, just 43% of residents of color consider themselves thriving in Brown County compared with 66% of white non-Hispanic residents. And less than half of LGBTQ+ residents are thriving compared with 59% of non-LGBTQ+ resident.
That’s according to the 2023 Wello Community Health and Well-Being Survey, a snapshot of which was shared at its fifth annual Well-Being Summit Wednesday morning at the Ashwaubenon Community Center, 900 Anderson Drive.
Since 2019, Wello’s biannual survey has tracked social determinants of health, overall well-being, sense of community, demographics, and ZIP code and U.S. Census tracts. Its intentions, Wello Executive Director Natalie Bomstad said Wednesday, are to give individuals access to basic needs while focusing on “closing the gaps in community conditions, including those systems and those structures that can hold people back from thriving in the first place.”