141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

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Lasting Solutions: How Public Health Leaders Can Foster Resident and Youth-led Community Health Change

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Oral
The session addresses an important gap by identifying approaches for effective community partnerships, describes grassroots engagement and empowerment initiatives and the health benefits of effective community organizing. Gaps were identified by those at the heart of public health- the public itself.
Session Objectives: Describe effective strategies in community engagement to improve health outcomes by fostering local collaborative partnerships
Moderator:
Beatriz Solis, PhD, MPH
Organizer:
Beatriz Solis, PhD, MPH

4:30pm
Lasting solutions: How public health leaders can foster resident and youth-led community health change   

Beatriz Solis, PhD, MPH
     
4:50pm
Community benefits agreements: A powerful tool used by community residents in securing affordable housing, jobs, small business development, legal services, clinical services and transit-oriented development   

Paulina Gonzalez
     
5:10pm
Faith-based community organizing: Fostering community ownership of health improvement strategies   

Karen Borja
     
5:30pm
Shifting power: Addressing childhood asthma through community organizing and advocacy   

Jessica Tovar, MSW
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Health Administration, Community-Based Public Health Caucus, Caucus on Homelessness

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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