An Appetite for Equity: Ensuring
Access to Healthy Foods
CPEHN’s spring convening, An Appetite for Equity: Ensuring Access to
Healthy Foods, is just a few
weeks away!
We have just confirmed that Karen Ross, Secretary of the California
Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), will be speaking at our Fresno convening, while Jim Houston, CDFA Deputy
Secretary, will be speaking at our Oakland
event.
Focusing on best practices and advocacy strategies, An Appetite for Equity: Ensuring Access to
Healthy Foods will provide participants with:
- Policy
solutions to increase access to healthy foods in communities of color
- Examples
of promising practices for improving access in local communities
- Opportunities
to take action and mobilize on federal, state, and local efforts to
advance healthy food policy
San Diego – April 4, 2012
10:00 am to 2:30 pm
Sherman Heights Community
Center
2258 Island Avenue
Co-hosts: 1 in 10 Coalition, California Food & Justice Coalition,
Foundation for Change, Project New
Village, Roots of Change, San Diego Hunger Coalition
Los Angeles – April 5, 2012
10:00 am to 2:30 pm
The California
Endowment
1000 North Alameda Street
Co-hosts: Alliance for a Better Community, Asian and Pacific Islander
Obesity Prevention Alliance, California Center for Public Health
Advocacy, California Food & Justice Coalition, California Food Policy
Advocates, Community Health Councils, Latino Health Access, Orange County
Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Roots of Change
Fresno – April 11, 2012
10:00 am to 2:30 pm
UC Center
550 E. Shaw Avenue
Co-hosts: California Food & Justice
Coalition, California Food Policy
Advocates, Central California Regional
Obesity Prevention Program, Fresno Metro Ministry, Roots of Change
Oakland – April 19, 2012
10:00 am to 2:30 pm
The California
Endowment
1111 Broadway, 7th Floor
Co-hosts: California Food & Justice
Coalition, California Food Policy
Advocates, HOPE Collaborative, Oakland
Food Policy Council, Roots of Change, Tiburcio Vasquez
Health Center
These convenings are co-sponsored by our ethnic partners, the Asian &
Pacific Islander American Health Forum, the California Black Health
Network, the California Rural Indian Health Board, and the Latino
Coalition for a Healthy California.
Continental Breakfast and Lunch Will Be Provided
Registration is $25 for the General Public, $10 for CPEHN Network Members
Click to register for An Appetite for Equity: Ensuring Access to
Healthy Foods.
A special thanks to our funders, who help make our events possible:
California HealthCare Foundation
The California
Endowment
The California
Wellness Foundation
Kaiser Permanente
Pfizer
The San Francisco
Foundation
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