252042 Creating sustainable communities to preserve prevention and wellness

Friday, June 24, 2011 : 4:00 PM

Mildred Thompson, MSW , The PolicyLink Center for Health and Place, PolicyLink, Oakland, CA
     
This session will focus on work that is being done to create a sustainable community and how engaging local organizations and residents to work together can be a model for non-traditional partners to work with federal, state or local grants to address health inequities in communities around the country.

Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Public health or related education

Learning Objectives:
Design a sustainable community model for non-traditional partners to work together with federal, state or local grants to address health inequities

Keywords: Sustainability, Community Participation

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: As the Senior Director and Director of the PolicyLink Center for Health and Place, I lead the organization's health team conducting research focused on understanding community factors that impact health disparities, and identifies practice and policy changes needed to improve individual, family, and community health.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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