The Design Lab held on June 28-30, 2006 in Reston, Virginia allowed participants to meet and network with colleagues participating in the PLACE MATTERS project.  The event accomplished the following goals:

• Sharing the Joint Center Health Policy Institute’s vision for Place Matters and expectations for participants.
  
• Learning about the progress and active work to address social detriment of health in the participating counties.
• Exploring current social detriments of health frameworks.
• Discussing the Joint Center Health Policy Institute’s technical assistance capacity regarding data/indicators.
• Brainstorming and testing new approaches to addressing social detriments to health. 
• Identifying primary areas each county plans to address.