"For many church congregants and local residents, it’s hard to find affordable, safe spaces to be physically active."
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Health Care
It’s been more than 2 years since Hurricane Matthew, but Princeville is still dealing with repercussions from the storm. Life in Princeville still has not returned to normal.
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Healthy Neighborhoods
Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash
"We know the challenges of producing and preserving affordable housing are significant, and attempting to address those challenges within the context of systemic racism requires intentionality, collaboration, and data to center the needs of people."
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Healthy Neighborhoods
Visually representing the impact of policies past and present can help us better grasp the causal pathways between policy actions and results.
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Healthy Neighborhoods
Steven Ramirez, public domain, Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/141290452@N05/27580375221/
Why don’t tobacco-related health problems affect everyone equally? And what can communities do to reduce disproportionate tobacco use among underserved groups?
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Tobacco Prevention
Lydia Daniller
"We organized a team to get more fresh food directly into the community through community gardens."
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Food & Beverages
Local programs are essential for improving the lives of community members, and transforming a program into policy is the most effective way to ensure its sustainability. This training will help you build the knowledge and skills to navigate the policy change process with confidence and contribute to community-driven solutions.
Advancing local policy change involves a complex range of activities, including researching policy development, advocating for institutional and community-wide adoption, and supporting implementation and evaluation efforts. While the scope of policy work varies by issue and community, the principles of successful policy change are universal. Along the way, the process creates opportunities to form new partnerships, strengthen existing ones, improve community power-sharing, and prioritize equity at every stage.
Join us for Fundamentals of Local Policy Change
Our live virtual trainings are designed to improve your policy and legal skills; build authentic, real-time connections between peers that spark insight and growth; and provide practical resources from seasoned facilitators. You also get access to a one-hour follow-up session with ChangeLab attorneys to help you apply learnings to your work.
This 2-hour training will include:
- Information on local and institutional policy change mechanisms
- How to move program success into codified policy
- Strategies for integrating meaningful community engagement into the policy process
- Information on the difference between law and policy and when to use them
- Tools for discerning the types of policies a local jurisdiction holds authority over
- An overview of regulations distinguishing between lobbying, education, and advocacy
- A review of key roles for government, non-profit, private sector, and community members
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DC Central Kitchen
"As a resident, I am happy to see the adoption of a policy that will improve our corner stores and the health of our residents."
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Food & Beverages
Lydia Daniller
"We were interested in policy work, economic incentives and so on. We wanted to change the political context."
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Food & Beverages
Lydia Daniller
"Having a point of contact with attorneys who’d thought about the idea for longer than we had — and believed in it — kept the momentum going."
Success Story
Food & Beverages