BHPN Network Commons: Healthy Neighborhood Investments Policy Scan & Strategy Map

Watch the recording of the Build Healthy Places Network’s March 25, 2021 Network Commons, where Renae Badruzzaman from BHPN and Jen Lewis-Walden from Shift Health Accelerator introduced the Healthy Neighborhood Investments: A Policy Scan & Strategy Map. 

On the March 25th Network Commons, Bobby Milstein from ReThink Health provided an overview to the Thriving Together Springboard that was used as a fundamental framework for the Policy Scan. The Policy Scan & Strategy Map operationalized the Springboard, by adding federal, state, and local policies that have potential impact for health and racial equity within the vital conditions. This process was informed by a 38-member Policy Council.

Featured speakers included:

• Julia Caplan, MPP, MPH, Program Director, Health in All Policies
• Laura Choi, MPP, Vice President of Community Development, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank
• Bich Ha Pham, JD, Director, Communications and Policy, Healthcare Anchor Network, Democracy Collaborative

Audiences learned about belonging and civic muscle as a priority vital condition to advancing health and racial equity. Through a moderated discussion, the featured speakers shared the impact that policy has on health and explored the roles that multi-sector coalitions, healthcare systems, community development organizations, community leaders, and policy makers can take to promote policy change that advances health and racial equity and cross-sector healthy neighborhood investments.

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Learn More 

Check out these resources to learn more about the organizations and topics profiled in this event:

• Tool: The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership
• Video: Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery & Resilience in Communities Across America
• Websites:
  • Health in All Policies (HiAP) 
  • Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE)
  • Healthcare Anchor Network
  • ReThink Health 
  • Lead Local
  • Thriving Together Springboard – All people and places thriving. No exceptions.
  • WIN Network
  • Community Commons Seven Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being
• Podcast: Commons Good Podcast
• Workshop: Community Led Initiatives for Population Health Improvement A Workshop
• Blog: Why Lead with Race?
• Publications:
  • Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Mental Health and Community Development — Volume 13, Issue 1 
  • Surgeon General’s Report: Community Health & Economic Prosperity
  • Amplifying Stewardship: Characteristics and Trends Stewards Consider When Expanding Equitable Well-Being 
  • Wiesner PJ. Four diseases of disarray in public health.  Annals of Epidemiology. 1993;3(2):196-8.
  • Chambers LW. The new public health: do local public health agencies need a booster (or organizational “fix”) to combat the diseases of disarray? Canadian Journal of Public Health 1992;83(5):326-8.
  • Milstein B. Hygeia’s Constellation: Navigating Health Futures in a Dynamic and Democratic World

Continue the conversation 

If you’re interested in learning more and finding partners to work on policy change, join us at our upcoming convening: Healthy Neighborhood Investments: Policy Convening for Advancing Health and Racial Equity 

May 19th: Plenary Session

May 20th: Concurrent Tracks 

1. Track 1 Multisector Collaboratives and Local Policy

1. Track 2 California Policy Priorities  

Please take a moment to give us feedback and let us know how you are using the scan. Email us at: policyscan@buildhealthyplaces.org. 

Finally, we received so many great questions during the event. Thank you! You can continue the conversation via Twitter @BHPNetwork or join us on LinkedIn. #NetworkCommons. 

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