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This month, Dr. Matthew Rossheim presented information on recent shifts in the U.S. cannabis markets and their implications, the harms from using derived psychoactive cannabis products, and regulations effective in mitigating these harms. Access the recording of Dr. Rossheim’s presentation and a link to his slides here.

In this webinar, the APRC will share their recently published Environmental Scan Toolkit, and Counter Tools will share why the point of sale matters for alcohol and your community. Register for the webinar here.

Title: Better Conversations about Health Equity and Tobacco POS Strategies

Speaker: Dr. Julie Sweetland, PhD (she/hers), Senior Advisor, FrameWorks Institute

Date: Thursday, April 13th at 2:30-3:30pm EST

Healthy Active Communities sets out to explore and expand conversations around the impacts of policy and systems change to reduce chronic conditions in communities through health equity, nutrition security with weight-inclusive approaches.

The 2022 conference will be a great place for students and professionals in national, tribal, state and local public health; community organizations and nonprofits; and, health care and nutrition professionals to contribute and learn. We hope insight from across the United States will foster innovation, enthusiasm, and progress in communities around Oregon and beyond.

Counter Tools staff member Mollie Mayfield will be presenting on healthy retail and the retail environment as a social determinant of health. Other conference topics include Strategies for De-Emphasizing BMI for More Equitable Health Promotion, Racist Origins of Anti-Fat Bias, Food Justice, Marketing Unhealthy Foods to Children (especially children of color), Building an Equity Foundation for Sugary Drinks Policy, and more.

Learn more about the conference, speakers, and agenda at HealthyActiveCommunities.com.

Register for the virtual conference here.

We often see innovative policy solutions tested first at the local-level. In this webinar, you’ll learn about alcoholic beverage regulations in Montgomery County, the sole “control” jurisdiction in the state of Maryland and one of very few jurisdictions across the country to use this model. You’ll hear about efforts at the county level in Maryland to advance policies that make the food and beverage options on restaurant kids’ meal menus healthier, with a strategy of spreading these policies throughout the state and an eye towards a state-level law.

We also highlight the City of Berkeley, California, the first city in the nation to levy a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, as well as the first in the country to pass a healthy checkout policy.

In this third webinar of the Local Control webinar series on August 22, CADCA’s Geographic Health Equity Alliance, in collaboration with Counter Tools share details about these local solutions. The three-part webinar series equips attendees with an understanding of why local policy solutions are important, lessons learned from local policy implementation efforts and innovative policy strategies built at the local-level.

View the recording:

Local Control webinar series

CADCA’s Geographic Health Equity Alliance, in collaboration with Counter Tools hosted a three-part webinar series to equip attendees with an understanding of why local policy solutions are important, lessons learned from local policy implementation efforts and innovative policy strategies built at the local-level.

Webinar 1: Building the Rationale for Local Policy Change. Speakers provided a broad rationale for local-level policy efforts and the implications for public health, as well as insight on strategies that have proven successful for local policy implementation.

Webinar 2: Using Local Momentum to Drive State and Federal Policy Change. This webinar featured leaders from the Tobacco 21 and smokefree air movements to discuss how tobacco control policy strategies at the local level helped drive policy change across the country.

Webinar 3:  Innovative Local Solutions in Public Health. The third webinar in the series covered local-level policy solutions in Maryland and California. These efforts advanced policies relating to alcohol and healthy food.

Assessing local policy change through case studies helps identify lessons learned and keys to success, which can help set the stage for state or national change. The Tobacco 21 and smokefree air movements are two examples of tobacco control policy strategies that have seen success at the local level in building support for wider initiatives.

In this second webinar of the Local Control webinar series on August 5, CADCA’s Geographic Health Equity Alliance (GHEA) and Counter Tools brought together leaders from these movements to share insights on how steadfast work at the local level helped to drive policy change across the country.

Watch the recording:

Speakers

Onjewel Smith
Southern States Strategist @American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation

Onjewel Smith has worked in the nonprofit sector for more than 20 years helping organizations and communities build their capacity for sustainable change. She has provided technical assistance on grassroots advocacy, coalition building, strategic planning, and fundraising. Throughout her career, Onjewel has helped develop strategic alliances between local coalitions, community-based organizations, stakeholders, and decision-makers. She currently serves as the Southern States Strategist to the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation.

Ginny Chadwick
Program Coordinator @University of Missouri

Ginny Chadwick, MPH, MA is Program Coordinator for the Missouri Eliminate Tobacco Use Initiative at the University of Missouri where she works around the state to improve tobacco policy, prevention and cessation services on college campuses and in hospital systems. Since 2013, Chadwick has worked on sales restriction laws for tobacco products. She has written ordinances and statues and contributed to the national model language. Her research includes age of sale, penalty structures, decriminalization of purchase, use and possession, and preemption of local laws. Chadwick was the legislative sponsor for one of the first Tobacco 21 policies to pass locally, and the first in her home state of Missouri. She worked across the nation at a local, state and federal level to help build coalitions, identify legislative champions and successfully pass policy. Chadwick received her MPH and MA in Journalism at the University of Missouri and is currently working on a PhD at at Brandeis University.

Local Control webinar series

CADCA’s Geographic Health Equity Alliance, in collaboration with Counter Tools hosted a three-part webinar series to equip attendees with an understanding of why local policy solutions are important, lessons learned from local policy implementation efforts and innovative policy strategies built at the local-level.

Webinar 1: Building the Rationale for Local Policy Change. Speakers provided a broad rationale for local-level policy efforts and the implications for public health, as well as insight on strategies that have proven successful for local policy implementation.

Webinar 2: Using Local Momentum to Drive State and Federal Policy Change. This webinar featured leaders from the Tobacco 21 and smokefree air movements to discuss how tobacco control policy strategies at the local level helped drive policy change across the country.

Webinar 3:  Innovative Local Solutions in Public Health. The third webinar in the series covered local-level policy solutions in Maryland and California. These efforts advanced policies relating to alcohol and healthy food.

Local governments are on the front lines of adopting laws and policies that have the potential to improve health outcomes and reduce inequities. CADCA’s Geographic Health Equity Alliance, in collaboration with Counter Tools is hosting a three-part webinar series to equip attendees with an understanding of why local policy solutions are important, lessons learned from local policy implementation efforts and innovative policy strategies built at the local-level.

This first webinar, “Building the Rationale for Local Policy Change” was on June 21st. Speakers provided a broad rationale for local-level policy efforts and the implications for public health, as well as insight on strategies that have proven successful for local policy implementation.

Watch the recording:

Download the presentation slides (PDF)

Speakers:

• Brooks Rainwater, National League of Cities

Brooks Rainwater is the senior executive and director of the National League of Cities’ (NLC) Center for City Solutions. Rainwater drives the organization’s research agenda, community engagement efforts, and leadership education programming to help city leaders create strong local economies, safe and vibrant neighborhoods, world-class infrastructure, and a sustainable environment. As an advocate for strong local leadership, Rainwater has published numerous reports and articles on innovative solutions that lead to vibrant and successful cities. He also speaks regularly across the country and overseas on issues facing city leaders. Rainwater’s recent research and interests include advancements in technology and city innovation, the sharing economy, and how the rise of state preemption is impacting local authority.

• Nestor Davidson, Fordham University School of Law

Nestor M. Davidson joined the faculty of Fordham Law School in 2011 and was named the Albert A. Walsh Chair in Real Estate, Land Use and Property Law in 2017.  Professor Davidson has published widely in the fields of state and local government law, property, and affordable housing law and policy.  Professor Davidson practiced with the firm of Latham and Watkins, focusing on commercial real estate and affordable housing, and served as Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Professor Davidson founded and is the faculty director of the Urban Law Center.

• Sara Bartel, ChangeLab Solutions

Sara Bartel is a senior attorney at ChangeLab Solutions, where her good governance portfolio covers legal authority and preemption, the policymaking process, and cross-sector partnerships for upstream community health improvements. Her work spans issues such as healthy retail, food systems, tobacco use prevention, maternal & child health, shared use, housing, and support for working families. Sara’s legal background is in health, food, and the environment, as well as civil rights litigation. Sara is based in Fort Collins, CO, where she lives with her partner and their two little kids.

Local Control webinar series

CADCA’s Geographic Health Equity Alliance, in collaboration with Counter Tools hosted a three-part webinar series to equip attendees with an understanding of why local policy solutions are important, lessons learned from local policy implementation efforts and innovative policy strategies built at the local-level.

Webinar 1: Building the Rationale for Local Policy Change. Speakers provided a broad rationale for local-level policy efforts and the implications for public health, as well as insight on strategies that have proven successful for local policy implementation.

Webinar 2: Using Local Momentum to Drive State and Federal Policy Change. This webinar featured leaders from the Tobacco 21 and smokefree air movements to discuss how tobacco control policy strategies at the local level helped drive policy change across the country.

Webinar 3:  Innovative Local Solutions in Public Health. The third webinar in the series covered local-level policy solutions in Maryland and California. These efforts advanced policies relating to alcohol and healthy food.

With the introduction of new preemption bills during the pandemic and existing preempted states, tobacco point-of-sale related preemption presents a challenge to policy action and local control. This webinar equipped attendees with information on the basis of preemption using a legal perspective, provided ways of how to respond to preemption, and gave examples of fighting back such as with local-level community engagement.

The speakers for this webinar also talked about how preemption operates using the newly-released Tobacco POS Preemption Playbook and gave insights from a state and local level of ways to navigate it. If you are interested in learning more about preemption from a tobacco point-of-sale perspective and want to hear from a preempted state, you can view the recording below.

Speakers:

• Sara Bartel, Senior Attorney, ChangeLab Solutions
• Nancy Cripe, Director/Coalition Coordinator, Tobacco Free Allen County (Indiana)
• Brandy Paul, Tobacco Epidemiologist, Indiana Department of Health – Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Commission (IDOH-TPC)

Download the slides here and view the recording below:

Presenters will also review key updates in the 2022 version of the Policy Playbook for E-cigarettes, created by the University of North Carolina’s Vaping Prevention Resource and the Public Health Law Center; provide examples of recent local e-cigarette policies in four jurisdictions; and present a wealth of educational and advocacy resources on e-cigarettes.

Thursday, March 31 at 11am CET / 12pm EDT

View the archived webinar here.

Presenters:

• Meredith Berkman, Parents Against Vaping e-cigarettes (PAVe)
• Kurt Ribisl, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Steph Trilling, MSW, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Julie Amajuoyi, J.D. MTS, Public Health Law Center
• Kyra Hill, J.D., Public Health Law Center

Moderator:

Kerry Cork, J.D., M.A., Public Health Law Center