Creating a Healthy Community Training in Spokane
The Spokane Regional Health District is inviting you to a training to learn more about how you can make your community a healthy community. The training will consist of two sections: Healthy Planning in your Community and Opening your Community to Play.
Robert Ogilvie will be on hand to help. He's the Program Director for Planning for Healthy Places at Public Health Law & Policy (PHLP). Over the past 15 years he has worked extensively in community development and planning to help improve low- and middle-income neighborhoods.
The group focuses on land use, economic development, and redevelopment policies that offer a valuable set of tools to promote and enhance healthy communities. "Local governments, private developers, and community groups can all work to create patterns of development that improve community health–by ensuring that farmers' markets and neighborhood grocery stores are supported, for instance, or by promoting sidewalks, parks and other environmental components that encourage physical activity" says PHLP.
More details for this exciting event after the jump.
WHERE: Spokane Regional Health District Auditorium, 1101 W. College Ave. Room 140, Spokane, Washington
WHEN: June 21st, 2011
TIME:The training will be split into two sections. You can attend one or both of the sections.
Section 1:
Healthy Planning in your Community: How to Incorporate Health into your Plans
12:00-4:30pm
Participants will learn the connection between land use and health and understand the role of land use policy in a wide range of chronic disease prevention strategies.
Sections 2:
Opening your Community to Play: A Training on Joint Use Agreements
5:30-8:30pm
Joint use agreements are a formal understanding between two separate entities for shared use of a public or private facility. With this training, participant will learn more about how to learn the benefits of these agreements, overcome barriers, how to negotiate joint use agreements and how to move forward with providing adequate places for children and their families to exercise and play.
COST: There isno registration fee attached to this training, but registration is required. Space is limited. Please register by June 14th.
WHO’S INVITED:Neighborhood residents, public health staff, parks & recreation professionals, planners, school personnel, faith-based organizations and anyone else who would like their community healthier!
REGISTRATION:You can register at: http://www.srhd.org/chct/
FOR QUESTIONS: Contact Nancy Hawley nhawley@spokanecounty.org
ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH LAW & POLICY: PHLP has provided legal and policy guidance on public health issues for more than a decade. Most notably, it created a legal resource center for the tobacco control movement in California that has been tested and refined over the past 10 years. This experience has positioned PHLP to now launch a similar model for the movement to prevent childhood obesity.
To learn more about Public Health Law & Policy visit: http://www.phlpnet.org/phlp/workshop-training-catalog
Funds provided with a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through a partnership with the WA State Department of Health.
The Spokane Regional Health District is inviting you to a training to learn more about how you can make your community a healthy community. The training will consist of two sections: Healthy Planning in your Community and Opening your Community to Play.
More details for this exciting event after the jump.
