Title:Planners4Health Session Six: Sustaining Momentum
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قسمتی از متن فیلم: Good afternoon everyone this is Anna rickland with the American Planning Association planning and community health center and we’re here for our last session of our six webinar series on planners for health this session is about sustaining the momentum of the movement and how to keep everyone engaged as well as to learn
Some new ideas and tricks for doing so we’re going to start off as we have all of our webinars with an overview with our folks who are facilitating from the prevention institute rachel bennett associate program manager and sandra vera also associate program manager if you have any questions as we walk
Through the webinar please chat them into the chat box so that we can be sure to answer them during our two Q&A period at the end of the presentations so for now I will pass it over to Rachel and Sandra to kick us off thank you Anna good afternoon everyone this is Rachel
Bennett and Sandra Vieira and we are so happy to be with you on this Wednesday in what is now firmly midsummer I hope summer is going well for everyone so far and you’re finding ways to stay cool and have fun wherever you are as Anna mentioned this is the final webinar in
The planners for health series and Sandra and I just wanted to start by taking a moment to thank APA for the opportunity to include prevention Institute in the planners for Health Initiative excuse me and to thank all of you for your participation in the five webinars we’ve had so far and in advance
For your participation today I think this has been a really tremendous learning experience for us and we’ve been so pleased to be able to facilitate this learning community and get to meet so many of you so thank you starting off with that word of gratitude so today we’re going to be talking about
Sustainability and looking ahead to what comes next both after the planners for Health Initiative but more broadly speaking see talking about how to sustain the healthy planning movement beyond any one funding opportunity or project which is I think a subject all of us can relate to so
What we wanted to start off with was putting out the idea that sustainability of healthy planning work of any project or any initiative is about more than just money we’re going to talk about financial resources because obviously that’s critical to our work but we really wanted to take a moment to talk through
How everything that we’ve talked about so far in the planners for health series is about building a drumbeat building momentum for an approach and creating new norms in our field and that that is a way of sustaining our work so we have talked over the last five months about a
Number of different facets of healthy planning work we talked about assessing the landscape we talked about building partnerships we talked about how to really meaningfully engage your community stakeholders talked about communications and framing and making the case to funders and decision-makers and one thread that we’ve tried to weave
Through all of this is that how we do this work is just as important as what our outcomes are so as we talked about in webinar number three for those who are on it that focused on health equity it’s really as much about embedding and approach in the process as the
Particular outcomes we achieve in any one project or initiative so that when we get to our outcomes when we have a pedestrian master plan when we complete a street when we establish a new farmers market or develop new affordable housing with protections against displacement for example we’re also simultaneously
Building leadership in the community and among youth that’s going to outlast any one initiative we are establishing and understanding the community conditions influence health and we’re bolstering a commitment to further improving those community conditions and one of the really important themes we’re going to talk about today is that
Partners outside of traditional health and planning are seeing their own roles in this work whether that’s educators builders and developers public works parents you know any number of different stakeholders have a vested interest so like I said a key component of sustainability is really about changing the norms changing the way we do
Business in our fields and that is really what we’re going to talk some more about today and what we want to hear about from you this idea that sustainability is about changing norms building practices is exactly what we’ve been talking about you know for the last five webinars so
It’s not new we did want to share a bit of a description of sustainability that may be helpful for you and your partners and collaborative moving forward which I think there’s a good job of sort of you know capturing what Rachel mentioned which is sustainability is really a community’s ongoing capacity and resolve
To work together to establish advance and maintain effective strategies that continuously improve health and quality of life for all so even though you know inevitably we come to the question and we get asked in fact in grant applications or requests for proposals you know how will this effort or
Initiative be sustained after the funding period we can think about new funding or different funding and leveraging other funding opportunities which is one element of that but there are several to be thinking about so we’ve captured a few of the ones that Rachel has mentioned that we’ve talked
About over the course of the last six months which include engaging and supporting leadership building in the community increasing capacity around policy systems environmental change building those multi sector multi field partnerships and being able to make the case to decision-makers and funders about the ongoing value of the work last
Month we talked to Berkeley Media Studies group about effective communications and messaging and all of that helps to kind of thread together these pieces so we’ll just take a few moments to I like some of the ways that we’ve seen sort of the case made decision makers including policy makers elected
Officials community stakeholders and leaders and funders about the value of this work for prevention Institute for example we really had to land on the fact that for us community prevention is about health equity and social justice and there’s other facets to community prevention that we should share with elected appointed officials with
Business partners in the community etc including that community prevention saves lives and money makes economic sense emphasizes local solutions emphasizes the value of collaboration and partnership and addresses multiple community priorities so those are the elements that we come back to time and time again and that we’ve also seen
Successful successfully take place and take root across the nation so let’s highlight just a couple of ways in which that has come up in different areas so community prevention saves lives and money – this is about you know I think a big public health school around making
Sure that we are saving lives and improving quality of life and that’s incredibly important and an effective strategy for all of the stakeholders that we discussed but we also need to draw in the fact that community prevention can save money as well and that funding community prevention is a
Smart investment that will pay off for building health preventing people from getting sick and injured in the first place so we have to address this in order to really think about our economic viability more holistically mayorchik Johnson from Hernando Mississippi talked about you know if people in our
Community are ready to be healthy and want to go run at the track or walk on the sidewalk but don’t have the infrastructure we have not made it accessible the role of the city is to make health accessible through infrastructure and investments in the places and spaces where people can be
Healthy from mayor Mick Cornett many of you may know him from his work in Oklahoma Adie really thinking about community prevention and infrastructure as a way to draw in business and and to enhance the business community in Oklahoma City so no business wants to locate to a community with bad health they’d wonder
About absenteeism rates and health care costs but if we are truly going to be a job creator and are looking to keep health care cost down you have to do community where health is a priority so again this is you know drawn from public health and planning routes but this is
You know these are elected officials really talking about widest matters for a number of different sectors and partners so we encourage you to find those messages and those quotes that could really advance your own work and this is something that really lends itself you know across the metaphorical
Aisle that this is an opportunity from stakeholders and decision makers and policy makers with different perspectives to sort of say that they found that investing in health and prevention not only helps their friends and neighbors quality of life but it also gives our limited budgets the most
Bang for their buck and this is coming from a joint statement an article from again mayor chip Johnson but also from Mayor John Reardon around talking about health investment for cities so important ways to really move the conversation forward and what we’ve been talking about you know throughout this
Time together is that prevention community prevention is local it’s about local solutions and partners coming together and what we’ve seen happen in the case of like Maryland and other communities that are part of the great Allegheny passage which is a hundred and forty-one mile system of biking and
Hiking trails is that it’s important to show how these efforts really contribute to different facets of the community in this case there was an economic impact study on the passage which showed that there was an estimated 800,000 trips taken annually on that trail system and they were able to tribute some
Impact data annual direct spending attributed to trail users with forty point eight million in 2008 up from seven point two six million in 2002 total annual wages attributed to trail user spending seven point five million and business owners attributed a quarter of their revenues to the proximity of
The trail so really drawing on the community context local values and priorities and showing impact data and opportunity helps to create a strategy that engaged different types of partners and allows sort of this approach to be sustained in ways that are locally relevant over the long term again we’ll
Come back to some of the specifics around funding mechanisms and opportunities but we wanted to really open up this conversation an overview to you know an expert and colleague partner of prevention Institute Shaniqua Alou sue who is a program director at change lab solutions where she works at the intersection of Community Development
And health she leads a multidisciplinary team supports localities and organizations across the country and helps them to create healthier communities previously Shaniqua served as a director of strategic partnerships and community engagement for the New York Academy of Medicine where she led community development and participatory planning initiatives and oversaw
Government relations there’s a lot that we can learn about Shaniqua and we hope to do so in the coming moments and we’ll also open up questions for her and Prevention Institute so at this time I will invite Shani Quetta to join us in this conversation welcome Shaniqua thank you so much and
On behalf and change lab solutions we think the American Planning Association in the prevention Institute for inviting us to be a part of this exciting and important conversation and I will tell you first a little bit about change lab solutions and so our vision and this kind of
Depicts our vision of what a healthy community is and I’m pretty sure we all share this vision our mission is to create healthier communities through better laws and policies we support communities in developing and implementing legal and policy solutions in support of a culture of health and we
Believe that laws and policies as well as direct engagement with communities are the foundation for health equity and the broader and and the healthy communities movements so what I’m going to do today is walk you through tell you a story about a neighborhood in New York City and then focus on two specific
Strategies that can support sustainability but I want to start with this really great quote from Michael Ossur from Riverside County’s health department because I think it encapsulates what’s on top of mind for everyone and you know let’s face it and be honest the lack of resources is often
The first excuse or barrier that people give for not trying a new approach and that’s why this quote is so exciting so you said nobody has money we have people and resources not money but we can help we can help them do a health fair we bring those resources and then we would
Work our way up we have we have to have a big view and realize that while there’s no money to do this there are a lot of groups that are doing similar work if we all work together you can actually make it all work so you know
Key to sustainability is not just the financial resources but it’s leveraging the expertise the talents the will of people based in the community and local agencies and taking that collective willpower and dreaming of something big and then working to achieve it so you may have seen this our ready plan for
Health has a sustainability checklist and organized in four domains champions communications diversifying funding organizational structure and each of these domains talk back to a number of the previous and webinars that some of you have participated in and what I’m going to do today is talk to you about
East Harlem New York through the point of view of a champion so let me tell you a little bit just to set the context East Harlem has a median income of $31,000 32 percent of people live under the poverty level it’s got a high unemployment rate is that the second
Highest density of public housing in the country and it’s got huge health disparities including children and adults have a high rate of hospitalizations due to asthma and so the picture you see to the right is Melissa mark-viverito and she is the councilmember for this district and in
Present day also is the Speaker of the New York City Council the second most powerful person in the city and she became the champion for her district she knew that she was going to be focused on health because she heard loud and clear that this is what her constituents
Wanted and needed as she looked at the data she started to connect with partners in the community and she realized that she had one key public health partners the New York Academy of Medicine which so happened to be one of the oldest public health institutions in
The country and so I want to take this back ten years ago and I think you all can we call that there was the breakthrough session and on this very day and 2008 when Lehman Brothers crashed the New York City decided to launch an initiative called age-friendly NYC
Not sure what’s going on with the slide here but I’m age friendly and mighty and the focus was on older adults I think we’ve passed a slide um I’ll just keep going but the focus was to think about older people on how to plan for a city for them she had a large
Percentage of older adults in her district and the goal was to bring together various stakeholders in the community various industries and to get local government to start working together collaboratively so the deputy mayor brought together all agencies and people thought about how best to serve older adults as well as the City Council
Started gathering across all of his different committees what legislative actions they could take and then East Harlem became the testbed because they had this great champion and Melissa mark-viverito and so there was great outcomes from this first they started consulting with older adults themselves older adults led to designing new bus
Shelters for East Harlem and thus the cities of 3,000 bus shelters were created utilizing funds from the Department of Trent US Department of Transportation and then so the maintenance for those bus shelters paid for themselves through advertisements they created a city bench program where residents can write into the local
Department of Transportation and request a bench in their community or business owners anyone a myriad of different initiatives furred out of East Harlem and it began the interworkings of local agencies working together as well as collaborative in the community beginning to work together so that was 2007 they established in East Harlem age-friendly
Neighborhood in 2010 and all that work then moved to the creation of Consortium called the East Harlem community alliance with that is made up of over 100 nonprofits and businesses and they came together to think about buying in East Harlem serving East Harlem hiring in East Harlem and
Promoting East Harlem and so all those businesses that the age-friendly and they should have worked with them rolled up into this new initiative and then got connected to the healthy bodega initiative and then the New York Academy of Medicine as the backbone organization and with Melissa mark-viverito as the
Champion for the community a lot of healthy procurement policies began to happen within small businesses and larger anchor institutions like a major hospital that’s in the community and then working towards local purchasing and so a group purchasing organization came into the community and started working with those small businesses so
That they could become part of the supply chain and now for example a hot grid kitchen which develops artisan breads in East Harlem now provides their bread for hundreds of clinics and hospitals throughout the Greater New York City region and because they’re now folded into this GPO and as we go hot
Red kitchen saw impact on their bottom line and a decrease in their overhead costs so as we keep going and 2014 and the slide you see before you is the East Harlem healthy neighborhood initiative so as the champion Melissa mark-viverito continues to move along in her process and different initiatives come to the
Fold she tastes and connects each collaborative together so that you see this organic growth of different industries different partners coming to work together for the overall health of East Harlem and she’s leveraging opportunities that are coming her way that have no money typically attached to it and Tobie neighborhood initiative starts and
۲۰۱۴ and funding did come from the New York State Health Foundation and their goals were to increase availability of healthy foods and improve the built environment and we presidents to programs that support lifestyle changes and to bolster economic opportunity at the same time the mayor of New York City
New mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio unleashed a pig’s affordable housing plan which meant that several neighborhoods throughout New York City were going to be resumed and one of those teen neighborhoods was East Harlem and at this point Melisa the champion has become speaker
Of the New York City Council and she decided to change the way that the planning process was going to go typically in New York City it is the city’s Planning Department that leads the process and she decided that she would do that she would be the lead and
She would establish a steering committee of 21 community stakeholders and the focus for this plan was all about health and thinking about it through the various social determinants and so we unveiled a participatory planning process and various domains there was a whole health domain we walked residents through the technicalities of affordable
Housing and helping them think through what the trade-offs would be where would you cite new sanitation depots the bus depots lots of mapping activities that I’m sure all in this call are familiar with but it was really the community driving this process and particularly older adults because they had been at
The table for several years at this point and really being the mouthpiece and spreading the word about the different things that were happening in East Harlem and they were all so invested and so word of mouth of marketing can be a way of doing communication the other piece is that
Throughout each of these initiatives and the backbone organizations and others involved always reported their outcomes early and often small things add up and it keeps people interested in the momentum going and because she led such a process a change there was an opportunity for change and so the traditional process for rezoning is
Under consideration for a new process where community were communities to find their needs first versus the City Planning Department coming after decisions are made and this is an example of various partners working together you can see on this wheel that some of these talkback and various social determinants of health and then
You’ve got you know the speaker’s office involved you have state elected officials involved you have unions involved schools involved um just the meri and businesses involved and this is all from this outgrowth from 2007 at the start of this age-friendly initiative in the small neighborhood of East Harlem
Luckily about money that came from as the eeprom healthy neighborhood initiative decided that they would take part of that money so it’s $600,000 and allocated two hundred and seventy five thousand for a neighborhood fund and community residents decided how to allocate this money so over ten organizations received and seed money in
The amount of $25,000 for their programs and it was the community as a whole that decided who would receive the money and there was a small health and action panel that was selected from the community so folks were able to apply they were screened and then they came up with the
Criteria of how organizations would be chosen and all of course led by the champion Melissa mark-viverito and then attached to the work for the rezoning and there was a companion health impact assessment and so because of the success of the assessment recommendations are calling for the implementation of HIA
Principles into the city’s environmental quality review guidelines and so that helps to start codifying and some of these principles and health impact assessments are a way of drive can be a way of driving equity particularly the process in it of itself and now the New York City Council is also considering
Introducing legislation to require health impact assessments for particular projects and for rezoning so I want to talk a little more in depth about approaching sustainability with limited resources through two approaches health and all policies and then leveraging policy change as a tool to promote sustainability so you heard Rachel and
Sandra mentioned Pfc change which is key and doesn’t cost money but does take a lot of elbow grease so just a quick overview about health and all policies it really and in a nutshell is about bringing public agencies together let’s face it we often can’t it takes everyone
At the table to really have successful initiatives that will promote healthy communities you can’t improve how the reduce health disparities without bringing everyone’s insight and expertise together in service of a common goal and so I know for us here changelog solutions and many years and working with public health
Practitioners trying to reduce the incidence of chronic disease and health disparities we’ve come to find that public health department’s can’t do it alone and we explain why they can’t do it alone and they need planners like you to help make these improvement happen you need transportation engineers to think about
Innovative ways to change the structure of roads you need a school district to help you open pool yards in the weekends you need city council representatives to prioritize health and health equity and just like public health departments need your insight and expertise to improve the health of your community you’re
Going to need everyone to be on board with you for your plan and this is something that New York City took upon itself to take a health and all policies approach and that’s why many of its initiatives including age-friendly healthy building healthy neighborhoods have been able to sustain itself because
They earmark their budgets in order to support that work and also codify policies that that also come and wraparound so there are basically five tenets of health and all policies one you want to convene and collaborate so that’s talking to communities that’s talking to meeting your stakeholders and really thinking about designing
Collaborations for people to work together and defining a common vision and goal you want to engage in a vision more and then you make a plan you make a collaborative plan what agency is going to do what can money be reallocated or repurposed or ten money and funding do double or
Triple duty um you want to also think about investing in change so there’s some business conversation about diversify and funding soul Anthropy you can’t do everything government can’t pay for everything so public-private partnerships become key here if you know that you’re going to be receiving money from the federal government or state
Government I’m taking a local approach here then you want to earmark it for opportunities that are going to promote health as well as for example advance economic development priorities and then most importantly you want to track their progress having a collective data sharing those data sets of monks of
City agencies and with the community is also cheap and then there’s just plain old policy development which is more than just legislation and we all think about you know schoolhouse rocks and the bill that’s sitting on Capitol Hill and yes that certainly is policy but there
Is a broader definition I find it easier to define policy through examples and through a dictionary style then through a dictionary style definition you know we consider everything from local ordinances to contracts TV policies and the character makes is that these all have in common are that they are all
Written down they establish rules the principles to be applied broadly and not all policies are equal in terms of effectiveness of strength but the clinical practice guidelines it’s all about more of the application and implementation of set policy and enforcement of it so this gives you a greater depiction of different types of
Policies you’ve got small key policy big P policy institutional policy and you can you can derive to great change on so an example can be like in East Harlem the major health provider Mount Sinai changed its procurement policy so that small businesses within the community could also bid on contracts
And policies come in different forms but most of all that are binding and that can be applied widely within whatever jurisdiction that they’re passed and there are some great benefits to that namely that because they’re binding they allow for accountability and enforcement which is key and ultimately policy can
Be a way of institutionalizing good ideas and in the case of please these projects is there is a way to institutionalize good projects and to see them go on in the out-years so I’m going to stop there because I know we have very limited time thank you
So much and I look forward to your questions thank you so much Ronnie boy that was incredibly helpful overview I really enjoyed hearing more about you know the efforts and East Harlem but then really sort of how you drew that to what we know is incredibly important which is
You know the opportunity to embed and institutionalize this approach through policy and practice change and also partnerships a whole other new set of P’s there I think that you covered um so folks if there are questions or comments that you would like to bring out you
Know please please send those um to APA and you will make sure to cover that one thing we just wanted to add to this conversation is that you know our focus of course was touching on different elements of sustainability including the partnership piece in policy community engagement but we recognize of course
That you know resources funding to have the staff time to do that engagement in leadership building and be part of these partnerships are needed on one end so we don’t want to ignore that or say you know it doesn’t matter as much it’s it’s part of this equation I think it’s
Important to note you know this has been brought up in many ways through public the health field and planning and folks are really thinking about innovative ways models and mechanisms to create more sustainable funding mechanisms in different ways so we wanted to kind of backtrack a little bit and so you’re
Sorry you’re going to see a couple maybe of slides going through yes the capacity to actually move backwards I’m going to see a little flash of some slides but we’re just going to give you some visual elements of a promising set of models and approaches so we want to share one
Or two ideas to spark some thinking that’s I think been one of the greatest opportunities through planners for help is to talk about what is new and next in the healthy planning field so with that in mind we wanted to share a notion with you that we call closing the loop so
Without going too deep into all the mechanics of the framework and all that the idea here is basically that prevention work which is another way of saying healthy planning work saves lives it saves money and it reduces needless suffering and disease and injury those cost savings you know that’s families saving money
That’s employer saving money that’s insurer saving money that’s our society saving money as one example a University of California at San Francisco study recently found that over about a 20 year period the California State tobacco prevention and control program yielded a return on investment of fifty five
Dollars saved to every one dollar spent huge huge savings that savings in medical costs and it’s a productivity and lives lost and all that and so the idea of closing the loop is that we could capture those 55 dollars saved and reinvest that into more prevention work
That could go on to save additional lives and additional money and promote quality of I think another way of thinking about this is just that we this is the way we do business again since the sustainability of the approach but that we effects actual dollars and investment
To that one form that this model is taking that we’re seeing around the country and even around the world is called a wellness trust can we call different things sometimes called a prevention and wellness trust sometimes called a wellness fund sometimes called a family wellness dress lots of
Different names but the idea is basically that it’s a pool of funding that can support healthy community strategies which are evidence-based and which have been shown to again save lives reduce suffering and save money and revenue can come from a number of different sources so we just quickly
Want to share a few examples just to jog your own thinking some of you may be familiar with what’s been happening in the last few years in Mexico where there is a one peso per liter tax which is about a ten cent excusing a ten percent tax on sugar sweetened beverages and
Also an eight percent tax on junk food and the government is collecting these funds pooling them and then spending some of that money to ensure that every school in the country has access to clean drinking fountains so again it’s not just gathering money it’s reinvesting it in health promoting
Investments here in California where we’re based there is a program where when you purchase a car license plate you can choose one from the Kids plate program so you spend a little bit of extra money and that money is pooled and it goes directly towards child injury prevention programs or in Massachusetts
They have the country’s first statewide wellness trust they charge a small assessment on health insurance companies and private hospitals pool that money to invest in community-based strategies that will then lead to reduced need for those healthcare services over the long term one final idea real quick is that
In North Carolina some of you may be familiar with the tobacco master settlement agreement funds that went out to a lot of states over the last few decades North Carolina is investing their master settlement agreement funds which are about five billion dollars over 25 years in tobacco prevention and
Cessation programs and in community wellness so again it’s the idea of capturing money from these sorts of sources pulling it together and investing back in what we know will keep people healthy in the first place so not just states and countries that are doing this we’re actually seeing
Cities and counties across the country establishing wellness trusts and raising funds from a variety of different sources that can be a great way as Jean equal mentioned you know public-private partnerships can contribute to that can be really diverse array funding that goes into it we know you know this may
Not have traction in every single jurisdiction across the country but we did just want to share it sort of in the spirit of an idea of how to think about having those long-term more reliable funding sources in the future this way thank you Rachel for that brief overview
We’ll send more information on that for folks who are interested we have just a few minutes for a Q&A and I’ll invite Shaniqua back for just a moment there was a question that emerge around I think in terms of sustainability you know in the beginning and at the end of
Initiative particularly related to community engagement in leadership for rezoning are there ways in which you’ve seen community really be involved in rezoning opportunities on the front end rather than you know sort of them oftentimes what can happen is rezoning permits and notices go out and people and community are sort of you know
Oftentimes pushing back against something and I think folks are wondering Shaniqua if you’ve seen any cases or examples in which community leaders are really involved in rezoning on the front end maybe before some of the you know permits and things are issued yes um so and that you know I
Wish I had more time to go and more depth in this rezoning process in East Harlem because it was exactly that the the councilmember recognized immediately once the mayor made the announcement that it was going to the community needed to be involved from the outset and needed to determine
Its own needs first before the Department of City Planning came in and you know executed its own plan and so her her idea of taking over the process and having City Planning at the table but that she was the she was the driver with 21 different stakeholders in in the
Community and then each of those stakeholders were tasked with running large swaths community visioning sessions and so a good chunk of the neighborhood which I should say is over a hundred and twenty thousand people were at the table and also she leveraged other other mechanisms for input through
The community board which are meetings that happen monthly and and of which many community members also attend and because of the work in East Harlem other neighborhoods within New York City pretty much adopted the same process and because of this particular council members status in the New York City
Council as the speaker what she did internally at the council was provided technical assistance so had a whole team provide technical assistance directly to other council members about how to do this work and she also leveraged the participatory budgeting process to have this aligned with the rezoning work so
Yeah I mean I would say New York City has been there various neighborhoods have been setting the tone about you know connecting with community first before engaging in the the technical aspects of doing a rezoning that makes a lot of sense that it’s really you know a broader engagement and
Leadership opportunity there I think you know coming from a question and just just rolling off of the example that you gave you know it sounds like this particular counsel number is very engaged is really helping to lead these efforts are there any plans or thoughts from the partners involved on this on
Really kind of how to pass the torch to future leaders um in addition to this council person are there others that are kind of emerging to to co-lead or really be part of the implementation process of this work yes absolutely um because of the you know there was a
Positive impact in the City Planning Department recognized that it had allies in the steering committees and now the steering committee has basically been formalized and is considered that the East Harlem plan committee and it was important to the City Planning Department that that group stayed intact through the process of developing the
Plan ratifying the plan so they will continue to be engaged and I know at this point the plan is due to pass towards the end of the year and that’s the schedule in terms of scaling up what has happened as the Harvard Kennedy School of Government innovation has
Recognized the speaker and the key parties of the steering committee that did the work and so the best practices and learnings from that experience are being shared with other cities and local leaders around the country through the Kennedy School of Government that’s great thanks Shaniqua we had a comment
Come in that mentions that through the affordable care act nonprofit hospitals are required to do community health needs assessments for investments of their house Community Benefit dollars so the participant wanted to mention just for any of the planners on the line that this is something that’s happening in terms of assessing existing conditions
And then determining how Hospital Community Benefit dollars might be spent and actually one of the allowable uses for those dollars which can be pretty significant in some places are community conditions that do things like increase physical activity increase access to healthy food and so on and so forth so
In terms of building sustainability of partnerships and of funding we would also encourage you to check out any hospital and healthcare partners to see what they’re already doing in terms of community benefit projects and what more they might be interested in um so Angela can I can I touch on that really quickly
To also say that um in this project in East Harlem and some of the other neighborhoods the hospitals are at the table and leveraging their community develop Community Benefit dollars to invest in different projects the community would like to see around New York City as well as there’s a point to
Make about data in it of itself and so the same type of data that community that hospitals nonprofit hospitals are collecting for their community health needs assessments often overlap with the same data that planners would be looking for to develop either a neighborhood plan or even a broader comprehensive
Plan that’s great thanks for that Shaniqua absolutely true so we are going to transition to the next part of the session but I did want to mention that APA will be posting a few of the materials we talked about on the planners for Health website after the session including I think some resources
From change lab solutions they have excellent material so I do encourage you to follow up on those and we’ll send some of ours too as we move towards the next part we do just want to take a moment to reflect on the fact that you know we’re talking about
Sustainability and the planners for health initiative has been relatively short-term and that’s something we heard from many of you that we heard that we met in New York at the NPC session but we think it’s been such an important infusion both of resources but also energy and attention for each of the
Different chapters to have a moment in time here to really say what is the status of our healthy planning network in our chapter and where do we want to go next who else can we bring under this big tent so it’s been really an honor to participate in this and as Jean equal
Mentioned with the health and all policies approach and many of our sustainability strategies it’s really important not just to be building partnerships between planning and public health but also to look to sectors and partners and even professional associations beyond our own beloved APA and APHA and that’s what the call to
Action is all about so we are going to hand it over to Anna and some other folks that we have on the line to hear more about what’s next thanks Rachel and thanks to niqua and Sandra yes exactly right we are thinking about how can we at the
National level also continue to sustain this work and support this work and I really liked how she niqua talked about the multiple sectors that need to be involved in sustaining any community health effort and the importance of diversifying the work both for the importance of diversifying the work and
Diversifying the potential sources of funding that are used for organizing and implementation and Shaniqua also talked about partnerships as helping provide these sources for providing data defining the joint goals so that different organizations and different stakeholders and players are reaping benefits that help them and in their individual sectors but there’s these
Common actions that can be used to do so and so that everyone is bought in so a few months ago APA and all of these partners that are listed here and it can become acronym alphabet soup came together and and talked about all of the work that we’re doing individual e’s or
National organizations to promote public health and the built environment the connection between our members was becoming more and more apparent obviously through plan for health and planners for health we’ve been able to support linkages between planners and public health professionals but we’ve also seen a number of our coalition’s
Involve members and professionals from these other sectors over the past three years and know that people from these different sectors are really important for sustaining the work for all the reasons I just mentioned it and many more that you know even better than I do working at the local level so I wanted
To give an opportunity for our partners to talk about what they’re doing so that it’s not just me telling you that they’re doing great work they can actually highlight some examples of their work but first I wanted to pass it on to Kate Rob who’s a policy analyst
With the Center for public health policy at the American Public Health Association who can talk about the different components of the joint call to action and give some more details it’s okay you should have some control great thanks so much Anna and I just wanted to mention because I didn’t hear
At mention and I think this is quite impressive that all the organizations who signed on to the joint call to action combined we can reach almost 450,000 individual members to really embrace this joint call to action if you just think about that that’s almost a half a million members that we’re
Reaching with this joint call to action and we know we’ve heard through this webinar already how important collaboration is how important it is to have many partners at the table to make sure that something’s sustainable and you’re really addressing health equity so the joint call to action
So that we’re going to be talking about today has four different colors to it and as you can see the first the first color of the joint call to action is to build relationships create and foster partnerships that advance health and so under this pillar we have four
Suggestions that our members could do and I’ll just read one suggestion from from each theme so this one I’ll share with you is to engage with community members form coalition’s and collaborate with organizations to understand health challenges and devise strategies to address them and we’ve heard already how
Important that is and Anna I try to click on the next size it’s not working to be perfect thank you so much the the next color we have is a joint call to action is to establish health goals build an understanding of health data and establish measurable health
Objectives for plans and projects so one of the one of those suggestions we have is to establish metrics for health and well-being concurrently with other project goals and measure health impacts and outcomes after her projects are completed next slide great the third third color is to implement strategies to improve health
Advance policies programs and systems that promote community health well-being and equity so one suggestion here is to establish internal organizational policies that promote health within work forces including worksite safety and workplace wellness program and then the last pillar that we have over the drink call to action is to share expertise to
Really communicate the importance of health so everyone on on this webinar today knows how valuable our health is and how how much we all have to work together and in order to achieve health equity so one one sure to show you we have here is to really participate in
And collaborate on public awareness and education campaigns to promote healthy communities including campaigns related sustainability and community resilience next slice so I’ll finish it up here and we have a quote here from our easy dr. Benjamin which you can read there and it just showed us how important this
Collaboration is APHA as I’m sure you’re aware champions the health of all people in all communities and we try to be the nation’s leading public health of choice and we have affiliates across the u.s. fifty-four affiliates and we focus on working where we live work play and pray
And working across sector to really strive for creating healthy communities for all so thanks again for having me on here and Anna go ahead and take it away thanks Kate so we also have so obviously the American Public Health Association their entire mission is focused on public health but the missions of these
Other organizations are not necessarily have fully focused around health but we wanted to have staff from all of our partners from a handful of our partners talk about what their organization’s vision is for healthy communities and how their members are currently engaged and also how they see their organization’s responsibility to
Contribute to the to the plan a healthy communities movement obviously APA has been contributing over the past several years particularly through the plan for health project but we would like to see our member APA members and our plan for Health’s participants and planners for health participants begin to think more
Broadly about how they can also engage with these other sectors so that’s what we’re going to learn about over the next few minutes our first presenter is Matt Welker who is the senior manager for strategic alliances and initiatives at the American Institute of Architects and that I’m passing the control to you so
That you can click through your slide great thanks and thanks everybody I’m thrilled to be able to join you all and talk a little bit about some of a is activities and specifically as they compliment APA and the other organizations as part of the joint call
To action but about AIA most folks may be familiar we’re about a ninety thousand person membership organization based in Washington DC primarily serving architects or aspiring architects but also including international experts in design and construction and allied members from fields just planning and construction interiors and others we’ve
Been working at AIA on health in earnest for about four years now and one of our primary messages if I have yeah excellent is that help is not a typology the really moving our membership along the journey that says we can look beyond health care to understand health in our
Communities in our schools where we live work live work learn and play as others have mentioned the initiative is inclusive of well-being and equity issues and from the beginning we set out at AIA to consider definitions across scales so not only of the building sector that we’re usually pretty good at
But to try to be more inclusive and welcoming for perspectives from planning and from policy and other disciplines it’s part of a larger strategic initiative around sustainability which is on a four-year horizon toward 2020 to help make what we mean by health and well-being make a little bit more sense
To architects we’ve focused our education policy tools and resources around six approaches including environmental quality natural systems access to nature access to healthy and nutritious food physical activity safety sensory environments the sort of how we feel the space is compared to the nuts and bolts and metrics of a space and
Social connectiveness recognizing the importance of community both in terms of the larger neighborhood sense but also the people who comprise it highlighting a couple of AI a sort of primary strengths that we’ve been working toward as we approach health and well-being in our work are by pushing on our communications we’ve created a
Series of infographics and illustrations of other regular features on AI org we’ve also published a series of reports that span the scale from very specific materials and microbiomes up to the community resilience scale all of which address health and can be found on the website AI org we’re continuing
To develop more in 2018 and beyond similarly similarly we’ve worked to expand the traditional definition for architects pursuing hsw and other continuing education criteria to be more inclusive of well-being and of equity and we’re launching an online curriculum later this year on AI au and online learning platform for folks on the call
There are also some free courses that were underwritten by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that are available on the relationship of health in the built environment that are also available on a IU and are free of charge to anybody who’s interested and lastly through industry leadership really advancing
Some of our longer standing programs like our coop top ten awards the longest-standing sustainability award at the Institute which I’ll includes health and well-being explicitly two partnerships with universities and firms and local member groups in establishing a handful of community based discussion forums where architects primarily the
Others can come together to talk about the challenges they’re facing and outline opportunities for improving it and making continuing and complementing a lot of the work that you all already through the planners for health program the map to the side highlights our University consortium we currently work with 19 universities schools of Public
Health and either architecture or planning to advocate for new research and community-based projects that incorporate health well-being and equity objectives we will be adding to that later this year and welcome you all to consider partnering with them or reaching out to them especially where they overlap with your work regionally
One quote here from the University of Florida just talks about how it’s been an invaluable Ally in similar to what we talked about today expanding the partnerships and identifying new sources to continue the work and build momentum really ensuring sustainability for the organization’s information on joining
Certainly is at AI org /join and I’ve listed my contact information and welcome the opportunity to collaborate and work with more of you all as we move forward in our programs Anna yes thanks Matt a really great overview of all the great work you’re doing at the AIA and
Wonderful to be partnering with you our next speaker is shawn balan from the American Society of landscape architects Shawn is the career discovery and diversity manager and also a landscape architect himself as well as being on staff at the organization so Shawn please go ahead thanks Anna and once
Again I would like to echo Matt’s statement of thanks and excitement to be part of this effort really enjoyed working with everyone on the joint call and I’m really looking forward to moving forward with it so first off just a little bit about the American Society of landscape architects we’re at membership
Organizations about 15,000 members including landscape architects with affiliate members student members associate members as well we have 49 professional chapters throughout the country as well as 72 student chapters and one of the the mission of Ala is to lead the stewardship planning design or built a natural environment so landscape
Architects you know in a way or have always been designing for health but not necessarily conscious of it so this is definitely an exciting effort to be able to put those efforts forth to make sure that we’re designing for the right reasoning so a couple things that’s going on at ASL a
Recently I like to say practice which he preached but essays headquarters which is now the ASL a sentence for Landscape Architecture was recently renovated to showcase sustainable design excellence and healthy occupancy so the headquarters was built in 95 so it wasn’t it’s not considered a historic
Building but in 2016 we renovated it to achieve LEED Platinum with the focus on maximizing energy efficiency occupant comfort and sustainable design so this is just a little bit before and after so you can see in the top right corner we had you know the cubicles very dark
Space since we’re very narrow kind of building in Chinatown here in Washington DC we had minimal lights so one of the big things was to open up the the roof where we have our existing green roof and bring light down into them into the main atrium so it definitely is a great
Space now and the project integrates new construction into the existing space and footprint and we’re also pursuing well Silver’s of a certification for well building building standard with the focus on improving indoor air quality lighting nourishment and promoting active lifestyles in such lifestyles as
We do yoga here at esli and we also do bootcamp class during the week as well so we’re looking forward to using our building as the Center for landscape architecture but also a center for health to show how you know how a building its elements of the building
And all of everything that happens as far as water collection on top to this side courtyard can all be incorporated into a healthy lifestyle also one of the efforts that’s been going on for many years is the sustainable sites initiative and this is the incites and better than the site’s it’s a
Sustainability focused framework toward practices to protect ecosystem and enhance the benefits provided to our communities such as such as climate regulation carbon storage and flood mitigation so like to say you know think of Li but for sustainable landscapes and this was a collaborative interdisciplinary effort of the Amer consignments gave architects Lady Bird
Johnson and wild wildflower center at the University of Texas at Austin and as well as the United States Botanic Gardens and it’s now administered by the green building certification Inc and also some of the things that’s going on within our as slave government affairs i okay Network folk network is a focus on
Federal and state legislation and a lot of this is is in support of healthy and sustainable solutions that landscape architects can provide to problems facing communities one of the things we do annually is have our members come to Washington DC for advocacy day where they have the opportunity to talk to
Their state representatives about the need for programs regarding green infrastructure sustainable community design safe and walkable transportation systems and another thing that was developed earlier this this year in anticipation of the income and administration was a look at how we can prioritize and strengthen all forms of infrastructure and how landscape
Architect’s can work towards that and teach about bettering infrastructure and health systems and some of these includes fixing our nation’s water management systems upgrading to a multimodal transportation network in designing for resiliency so we have you know a few programs in hand and we have a lot of resources as well on our
Website and these are just a few of them we have our health benefits nature which includes hundreds of free research studies news articles in case studies on long and short term mental and physical health benefits we have our designing our future sustainable landscapes case studies which includes about forty case
Studies that illustrate the transformative effects of sustainable landscape design and one of our latest things that that was complete completed last summer was a resilient design guide which is organized around a disruptive event such as drought extreme heat fire flooding landslides and biodiversity loss and these are all found on SLA org
And here’s any of the links as well and I’ll echo again matt has just talked about a is online learning platform and that’s definitely something that si is working towards we have our existing online learning platform and learned at ASAE org and one of the things that we’re working towards
This year is is creating a lot of our existing webinars that we have online to be free and we’ll definitely be focused on on more of a health initiative as well as we continue for us with this joint call so once again I just want to
Thank you all for having having me on a call and I look forward to moving forward with the joint call thanks Sean it’s so great that all of us have so many free resources available to share with one another so if you’re not talking could you put
Yourself on mute please just hearing an echo our last presenter is Rachel banner who is a program manager focusing on built environment and health at the National Recreation and Parks Association and Rachel I’ve given you control speaking passersby so I work at an our PA as we like to
Call it our mission is to advance parks recreation by our mental conservation efforts and enhance the quality of life for all people and we have about 60,000 Park and Recreation members across the United States as well as 52 state affiliates and our members are typically at their Park and Recreation C they may
Be working and out-of-school time for older adults they may be park planners themselves we do have quite a few planners who are in our membership or our maintenance staff or our aquatics okso really a wide variety of people working in parks and recreation so ‘kiss our education and our professional development events on
Programming policy and environments that support our three pillars of health and wellness conservation and social equity so as you can see how health and wellness is one of our through only three pillars and so it’s a large part of what we do throughout our organization I mean we
Really aim to reach people through physical activity and nutrition and I specifically work on our built environment programs throughout our organization and we do that through programs specifically these here and so we have our meeting at the park initiative which is actually building playgrounds and increasing play across
The United States safe routes to parks really looking at the built environment and increasing access to parks commit to health which is focused on out-of-school time I’ll be eating in parks our wildlife explorers program focused on connecting kids and as we know that connecting quneitra also improves their
Health we also focus on infrastructure improvements to parks so with each of these initiatives we provide free webinars free resources on our website that has materials on each of these and how to implement them in your community and we also offer grants to communities to implement the strategies to achieve
Their the goals of health and wellness Rio parks and recreation I just wanted to highlight really quickly our conference which is coming up in September and I have listed probably only a quarter or less of the sessions here that focus on health and wellness at our conference um and they span a
Wide variety of topics from our 10 minute walk campaign a gun really focused on increasing walking access to parks and committees and the quality of parks to diverse voices diverse needs so how do you engage folks and strengthen your community and efforts to tobacco policy tobacco-free policies and tobacco County
Speed sessions that include things like creating sleep space to play pocket parks and others like reclaiming infrastructure increasing access to public space for community health so we’re really wide variety of sessions all focused on increasing health and then we also offer our traditional member benefits and so that gets you
Into conferences we also have schools so our um manage our schools as well as certifications in a kwatak facility operating on playground safety have online learning opportunities and as I mentioned most of our health initiatives offer free online learning opportunities but there’s also paid and member only opportunities we have our Career Center
And then we offer a chance for networking and again that networking has several health topics where folks can post on a discussion board and get answers from their peers advocacy support so one of our big advocacy initiatives is health and like the others have mentioned we support transportation initiatives initiatives
That are increasing support for parks and green infrastructure and and also on out-of-school time programs so increasing food access to those underserved in our community and then we do also compile not our knowledge base that include research our magazine apartment park metrics and email newsletters again all of which have
Health very ingrained and of those our park metrics for example looks at the health of commute and polls reports from ESRI and ESRI business data to help recreation center than parks understand their community with a health lens and we do research and surveys on our membership to understand how our local park and
Recreation agencies are engaging in health at a local level and then we also offer a part of our membership is actually Industry suppliers and so that might be your bench folks your playground equipment folks and something there are some member discounts on some of those apply type of Ida I’m so feel
Free to contact myself or Tiffany who’s in management our membership if you have any questions super thank you Rachel what is so great about hearing about all these resources from all of you is that not only have you highlighted some things that are available to anyone for
Free but also just knowing that your members which Kate mentioned 450,000 total across all eight organizations have these resources at their fingertips and go to your conferences and are really ready to partner on building healthy communities and working in coalition as many of our collective members already are so we’re now
Transitioning to our last 15 minutes of Q&A and this is certainly an opportunity to ask questions about the first part of the webinar as well as this latter part from our partners in the built environment and public health fields one partner asked about one participant asked about the free courses that Matt
Mentioned that AIA is offering and so we’re posting that link now to send so that all of you can find those free courses we also had a question about new partners and if we’re considering inviting other national organizations to partner with us on the call to action
And the short answer is yes we started with this coalition of eight organizations but we are looking to include other national associations and other national organizations as partners so that we can reach even more professional than different fields such as transportation for example medical doctors could be another option as well as other
Organizations potentially like Chileans lob solutions as advisors and partners who can help provide technical assistance to our members across the country and they and you already do but having more folks be part of this formal network we really do welcome so yes please send in any questions you have
About sustainability and at the local level and as well as at the national level in this national effort I will call your attention to the handout that we have posted that you can see on the right hand side of your screen you can download APA sustainability checklist
Directly from the webinar right now it’s also available on our website of course but you can you can collect it here so now I’d like to invite any of our panelists to give any thoughts or reactions as you have participated and listen to some of the comments from some
Of our partners if Rachel and Sandra do you have any thoughts on how some of these national organizations members can tap into our planners for helps communities since you have since you know our grantees probably the best of any other people on this call sure thanks and thanks everybody for
Sharing an overview of your work in your organization and how you’re thinking about health I wanted to just say from personal experience having worked in Los Angeles for a number of years that the American is AIA American Institute of Architects representatives in a in Los Angeles excuse me was someone who turned
Out to a lot of meetings this was a person who I felt like I was really impressed by his commitment which demonstrated to me AIAS commitment to really show up both for coalition meetings and to give public testimony in terms of policies and networking and all
That so I offer that just as a way to say I think not under estimating the value of just developing those personal relationships and thinking to invite architect colleagues landscape design colleagues healthcare colleagues and so on and so forth all of the different folks covered by the call to action I
Think I’ve seen in my own work how powerful having those constituencies and those professions represented at the table and for for example you know an architect to stand up and say I’m a designer I’m an architect and I support health that that brings that other dimension and it just as we’ve been
Talking about builds the sustainability of the healthy approach that much more so I think that you know that echoes many of the themes we’ve talked about before about building that collaboration and the partnership but really not under estimating the value of those relationships yeah we completely agree and certainly the lessons that we’ve
Seen from plan for health and planners for help them emphasizes that we’ve had another question come in about the role that arts and culture play in the health of cities and how we can increase the perception and Vala value that artists artists and creative bring to the goals that we’re sharing around healthy
Communities and healthy planning and I’m wondering if Matt Welker you could begin an answer to that question that anyone else can jump in who might have some comments on increasing the visibility of art and creativity as it contributes to help yeah I think that’s an interesting question something that we struggle with
I think we see a lot in creative placemaking and I’ve been really excited to see some philanthropic organizations some organizations and many nonprofit and local groups sort of considering what the relationship is between a creative placemaking and health outcomes there have been a couple in New York
State that I’ve seen them been familiar with certainly Kresge has made some innovations or some in Minnesota as well they’re looking at that relationship and I believe it’s arts place is also invested in sort of a long-term study to help clarify that relationship certainly from the architects perspective I think
Another way when you think about public art which is perhaps not the entirely the question here but I think when we look at public art it’s a it’s a great intersection I think between planning an opportunity for Hell an opportunity for architects and even folks with like the
Parks Association for example right if we’re creating beautiful stimulating places that encourage children to play and to interact all of this are working toward a fun and joyful City and you know I think we certainly see in some of our emerging literature that the quality of place matters not only the quantity
Of place but I’d welcome the other folks to weigh in as well Shaniqua do you have any thoughts on this or perhaps Rachael from from the parks and recs perspective oh my gosh unequal follow you um yeah I mean I would agree with what Matt had to say um
For me the examples that I know most are also in New York State keeping with the theme of our conversation today and Mike spent a shin and East Harlem that is one of the cultural and it’s a cultural touch point for the city as a whole
And so arts and culture was thought of about this plan and money was earmarked to support the cultural institutions and just to give some context for those who may be on the line who are familiar with New York City or those who have visited New York City part of Museum Mile like
Where the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim all along Fifth Avenue is a part of East Harlem but also the community-based arts organizations and then with respect to place making the actually the city department has teamed up with the culture affairs department to really think through how to make that
Spread happen through other queries within New York City and to train community residents and placemaking principals and then lastly the city’s Department for Business Services oversees over 70 Business Improvement Districts and those are also the place makers for for New York City so together they all work together to really
Increase or fold in arts and culture and to overall healthy communities and overall planning specifically since it’s such an economic engine for the city great thank you um yeah it’s great to hear multiple perspectives on this if no one else has any other comments on that question
I thought you know in our last couple minutes here before we wrap up we could talk about some of the next steps from the call to action because some of the it certainly is a broad call we have these four pillars we have some specific actions within them
But truly the make it actionable we need to have a little bit more of a specific work plan and I I think I’m going to ask Shawn Balan from the American Society of landscape architects who’s been helping to lead a conversation with us among the partners to jump off with a couple of
The neck ups that we think are going to help make it to implement the call to action particularly when it comes to engaging our local members exam I think one of the things that we’ve been talking now that the call to action press release went out in April the next
Step was pretty much like what now how are we going to push this forward and keep going so one of the things that we’ve been doing is trying to create a framework for the next you know six months to a year so we can figure out exactly what are the tangible items that
We can work with at both the national level in the local level a couple of things that have been considered within the group one of the things has been a shared calendar both that’s really the national level in the in the local level but just having the opportunity for
Local members to share you know whether it’s a SI members aap a so forth to have a calendar in which they can share and not have event having appening at the same time or you know if there are events that are planned at the same time
Maybe we can work together to to create an event together especially for the opportunity for continuing education credits and so forth um another things that thing that’s been considered in line with the shared calendar is is more of a shared organization of contacts and local members as well so that it’s just
A running list of people to reach out to that might be professionals in a specific area and I think one of the biggest things that you know is it was kind of a no-brainer that’s come up in discussion as well that I encourage everyone on the call to really do you
Know you can do it tomorrow if you wanted to but one of the things that we discussed was just encouraging everyone to have a conversation with someone from a different profession about health so they you know if you’re a planner you could go talk to an architect or talk to a
Contractor so far it’s about health and how and how it affects your work and how important it is to move forward with so I think those are just a few of the things that we started to talk about in building the framework as we as we move forward but we definitely look forward
To pushing it for us and making sure that we you know that the ball keeps rolling and we’re successful in these efforts anyone else have any other next steps that that we talked about that they want to jump in with I know that we to kind of build upon the
Shared calendar idea the idea of having collective events where we invite to one another’s conferences we make sure that health is one of the lead topics at our conferences whether it be national or chapter level conferences I think it’s going to be one of the best ways to get
Traction and keep the conversation alive at APA we’re also building a network of members who are engaged with Public Health and healthy communities many of you are probably aware of it already if you’re been part of our plan for health family over the past couple of years but
We’re calling the interest group the healthy communities collaborative and it involves it can involve members from the American Public Health Association and APA together and certainly members of these other organizations are welcome to join as well you don’t have to be a member of APA to be part of it and it’s
Becoming an important place for continuing the conversation both as a social support network for people so you know you’re not alone and working on this and also to share ideas of lessons learned and challenges and resources so that like Sean said we know who we can
Call and if we need a speaker or we need ideas and also to raise the profile of health within the organization having that interest group alive and active keeps it at the forefront and make sure that our leadership at the national level and the state level continues to
Think about health as a primary goal for that so we’ve reached the the 4:30 mark and thanks to all of you who stuck with us throughout this entire webinar we’ve had pretty active participants and really great set of speakers today so I am going to now conclude our sixth
Webinar in this series of per plan errs for health and appreciate everyone followed us along over the past six months we couldn’t do this without you this is this is why we’re here is to promote healthy communities and it was a great session and we’ll be sending out the
Recording as we always do so have a great rest of your day enjoy the rest of your summer everyone
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