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What can we do to expand student health and wellness right now?

As we approach the one-year mark of COVID-19, school closing and disrupted life, education and community stakeholders are convening to develop solutions, participate in dialogue and discussion, and develop personal action plans for their communities to:

• Establish and nurture the whole-child mindset and develop solutions to address inequalities through collaboration and cross-functional relationships.

• Envision post-pandemic solutions to support continued healthier school community growth.

• Emphasize the value of partnerships to create and fund healthier school communities.

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What you will gain:

• New thinking and perspectives about how to meet the diverse and multi-faceted needs of children, especially in a time of great change and challenges.

• Ideas, connections, commitments to action, and a renewed sense of purpose and confidence.

• Your own short- and long-term action plans for expanding on your healthier school community.

Who should attend:

• School Nutrition Professionals
• Educators and School Leaders
• School Health, Wellness and Nutrition Leaders
• Health and Public Health Leaders
• Food, Sustainability and Agriculture Business Community
• Community-based Education Leaders
• Students and Youth Leaders
• Parents
• Civic Leaders
• Corporate and Business Leaders

The Power to Transform Communities

Distinct from community organizing and engagement, power is both fundamental and instrumental to transforming inequitable conditions in communities and tackling structural inequities, including racism. This conversation between researchers and practitioners will offer a baseline understanding of community power—from defining to building and measuring it—and why it should be at the center of any work that aims to advance health and racial equity.

With Manuel Pastor of the USC Equity Research Institute; Lili Farhang of Human Impact Partners; and Paul Speer of Vanderbilt University

Profiles in Community Power: Building a 
People-Centered Movement

Last year, Minneapolis was an epicenter of organizing for racial equity and justice with the police killing of George Floyd—but these kinds of movements aren’t built overnight. Local groups have been building an ecosystem grassroots organizing and experimenting with new strategies to strengthen collective action for decades—all toward the goal of building community power. This conversation will shed light on how state and local organizations are moving forward in these challenging times, sharing resources and skills, and focusing on both legislative and administrative arenas of change.

With Aditi Vaidya of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Doran Schrantz of ISAIAH; and Elianne Farhat of Take Action Minnesota

ISSUES AND ACTIO STEPS:

A National Forum on Expanding Healthier School Communities

March 24th, 2021

2:00 pm to 5:30 pm ET

Profiles in Community Power: 
Multi-Issue and Multi-Racial Organizing  

Long-term change in Texas—a state often defined by its fast-growing urban hubs, shifting demographics, income inequality, and extractive industries—requires strategies to shift mindsets, power, and policy. That’s why state and local organizations have worked tirelessly to align around a long-term vision to tackle voter suppression and defend worker and tenant rights. These organizations were able to leverage these strong relationships to deploy mutual aid in the wake of this year’s devastating winter storm. This conversation will unpack how multi-issue, multi-racial coalitions are built and sustained and their impact in terms of advancing health and equity.

With Aditi Vaidya of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Shoshana Krieger of Building and Strengthening Tenants Action, a project of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc. ; Emily Timm of the Workers Defense Project; and Michelle Tremilli of the Texas Organizing Project. 

The Power to Change Policies and Systems

Why is structural reform necessary to achieve health and racial equity— and how is community power fundamental to it? From Georgia to Maine, grassroots power-building organizations are making transportation, housing, and health care more equitable through policy change and structural reform. Tune into this conversation for insights into the strategies and pathways pursued and what it takes to hold ground when policy change is won. 

Jennifer Ito of the USC Equity Research Institute; Deborah Scott of Georgia STAND-UP; and Jesse Graham of the Maine People’s Alliance 

Lead Local
Exploring Community-Driven Change and the Power of Collective Action

A Four-Part Webinar Series