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2021 SUMMIT

NORMALIZING HEALTH IN ALL POLICIES
July 23, 2021

​The Planners4Health Virtual Summit is the annual event where planning and public health practitioners connect, network, learn and discuss issues impacting community health across California.  The leadership of California’s planners is the main driver of this inclusive event organized under the auspices of the American Planning Association California Chapter and in collaboration with public agencies, private firms, professional organizations, academia and community based organizations.  As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, the summit will focus on the role of “health in all policies” on climate resilience, housing and displacement, community safety and community organizing.
​Thank you to everyone who attended the summit.  The recordings are available below to anyone who did not make it.  Our deep appreciation goes to all the speakers, organizers, supporting organizations and the behind the scenes volunteers.
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PROGRAM

9:00 am PDT  
11:00 pm CDT/ 12:00 pm EDT


Welcoming Remarks
​​Diana Benitez, MURP
​Chair
​Planners4Health California

9:10 am PDT 
11:10 pm CDT/ 12:10 pm EDT


Keynote
​
José Ramón Fernández-Peña, MD, MPA (he/him)
President
American Public Health Association

9:30 am  PDT
11:30 pm CDT/ 12:30 pm EDT
​Climate Resilience: A Focus on Equity
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Communities across California continue to experience and prepare for the devastating impacts of climate change, such as increasingly frequent and damaging wildfires, abrupt and severe rain events, or worsening health impacts due to increasing extreme heat days. Extreme Heat is the leading weather-related cause of death in the United States, accounting for at least 600 deaths per year. [1] As temperatures continue to rise, the number of illnesses and fatalities are expected to increase. It is important for cities and counties to start taking actions as soon as possible to ensure the wellbeing and health of residents. To eliminate disparities, cities must prioritize advancing equity and justice in disadvantaged communities. This panel’s discussion will center on climate change and learning about recent equitable resilience efforts to mitigate its impacts.


​Learning Objectives:
  • Describe health impacts of climate change  
  • Describe adaptation strategies for extreme heat
  • Describe and provide examples of recent resilience efforts  
  • Describe recommendations that will provide guidance on how to combat impacts of climate change impacts
  • Describe what planners can do to incorporate equity, into planning and decision making

Facilitator:  Natalie Hernandez- Climate Resolve- Urban Cooling Project

​Panelists: 
  • Jacob Alvarez- Assistant to the City Manager of Coachella- Coachella Tree Planting Project 
  • Daniel Woo- California Department of Public Health- Climate Change & Health Equity 
  • Fatima Malik- Del Paso Heights Growers’ Alliance - Advancing Equity and Justice in Disadvantaged Communities
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 [1] Atkin, E. A Post Laura Heat Wave Has No Name. Heated. (2020). https://heated.world/p/a-post-laura-heat-wave- has-no-name

10:30 am PDT
12:30 pm CDT/ 1:30 pm EDT
​Break

10:45 am PDT
12:45 pm CDT/ 1:45 pm EDT
Housing and Displacement: Bay Area Equitable Policies and Investments
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Housing is a human right and a public health issue. During the pandemic many (8.5% unemployment rate) people lost jobs and their access to shelter has been put at risk. Recent studies show that Blacks and Latinos are the most at risk of eviction. And for more than a year, we have seen how COVID has increasingly impacted the health of working class communities and people of color. The state is currently under an eviction moratorium, and continues to promote Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) policies. People are nervous about the back rent (national average is more than $6,100) they will owe once the moratorium ends and AFFH policies don’t protect all populations from being denied housing. Communities across that state have need stronger tenant protections. How do we keep people housed?
 
This panel discussion will focus on what city staff and advocates have been developing in the last year to protect tenants from displacement in the Bay Area. In the last year, three Bay Area Cities have developed policies, plans and investments to provide much needed tenant protections which include Fair Chance Housing policies in Oakland and Berkeley that prohibit the blanket discrimination of rental applicants based on criminal histories, the San Jose Affordable Housing Implementation Plan that strengthens tenant protections and the Community Stabilization and Opportunity Pathways Fund with unique community-led fund governance model that provides the City of San Jose with $154.8 million in initial funding.
 
Learning objectives will include:
  • Describe Oakland and Berkeley’s Fair Chance Housing policy and work to extend it to Alameda County.
  • Describe the innovative Community Stabilization and Opportunity Fund and Affordable Housing Implementation Fund in the city of San Jose and how they support and protect tenants.
  • Describe what planners can do to support this work.
  • Describe how organizations can work to center the needs and wants of residents and specific communities to protect tenants.
  • Describe efforts that hold promise for real and sustained change.
  • Describe considerations that should guide evaluations of these efforts.

Facilitator:
Tina Yuen, Senior Planner at Changelab Solutions

Presenters:
  • Margaretta Lin, Executive Director at Just Cities
  • Jacky Morales-Ferrand, Director at City of San José Housing Department
  • Anita Wills, Activist and Advocate, Fair Chance for Housing Coalition

11:45 am PDT
1:45 pm CDT/ 2:45 pm EDT
​Lunch

12:30 pm PDT
2:30 pm CDT/ 3:30 pm EDT
Health Leadership: A Conversation with Michael Osur, Riverside County's Healthy Communities Visionary
Join in for a lively conversation with award-wining Michael Osur, the "architect of the healthy communities movement in Riverside County."  Mr. Osur will reflect upon his transformative journey seeking to improve health outcomes through community design.

1:00 pm 
3:00 pm CDT/ 4:00 pm EDT
​Hallway Chat

1:15 pm
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3:15 pm CDT/ 4:15 pm EDT
​Re-imagining Community Safety
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Traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries have long been regarded as a public health issue, and now it is becoming clear that traffic enforcement is as well. Police officers in the United States pull over more than 19 million vehicles annually, making vehicle stops the number one reason for contact between citizens and the police. Multiple studies have demonstrated that Black drivers are stopped disproportionately, a gap that cannot be accounted for by factors such as differential driving behavior or greater poverty.[1]  The inequitable impacts on people of color mean that police traffic enforcement itself poses a danger to these communities. This panel’s discussion will center on reconsidering the traditional role of the police in traffic enforcement and learning about recent efforts to reimagine community safety.

Learning objectives will include:
  • Describe the traditional role of police in traffic enforcement and the associated issues and harm.
  • Describe alternatives to traffic enforcement and the associated benefits.
  • Describe how organizations can work to center the needs and wants of residents of specific communities in efforts to reduce traffic safety issues and the harms that come with it, and to bring about healing. 
  • Describe community efforts that hold promise for real and sustained change.
  • Describe considerations that should guide evaluations of these efforts.
 
Facilitator:
  • Michelle Lieberman, Safe Routes Partnership
 
Presenters:
  • Natasha Riveron, Safe Routes Partnership
  • Barnali Ghosh, Walk Bike Berkeley
  • Eric Bruins, Office of Councilmember Mike Bonin
[1] Pierson, E., Simoiu, C., Overgoor, J. et al. A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States. Nat Hum Behav 4, 736–745 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0858-1

2:15 pm 
4:15 pm CDT/ 5:15 pm EDT
​Break

2:30 pm
4:30 pm CDT/ 5:30 pm EDT
​Riverside County Emergency Response Effort: Prioritizing the Most Vulnerable Essential Workers Amidst COVID-19
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According to the New York Times, ”at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, agricultural workers were deemed “essential” by the Trump administration.”  What this meant was that they were exempt from the stay home orders resulting in the possibility of contracting the virus.  In fact, according to the Public Health Alliance of Southern California, farmworkers in the eastern Coachella Valley have been some of the hardest impacted community members throughout COVID-19 pandemic.  This session will bring members of the Riverside University Health System-Public Health COVID-19 Task Force to share how farmworkers have been prioritized for testing and vaccinations efforts.  The panel will discuss the role of data for decision-making; emergency preparedness and response; community organizing, outreach and engagement; empathy and humility as traits of leadership; collaboration and how to use their response approach to address other chronic  crises threatening the well-being of the heart and soul of our food supply chain: the farmworkers.
 
Learning Objectives:
  • Adapt Riverside County COVID-19 Task force's lessons-learned to other community on-going community crises.
  • Build understanding for prioritizing vulnerable communities in planning efforts.
  • Discover the value of partnerships between government agencies and non-government agencies (ngo’s) when launching efforts grounded on equity.
  • How to incrementally embed health in all policies.

Facilitator:​
  • Miguel A. Vazquez, AICP  Healthy Communities Urban and Regional Planner, Riverside University Health System-Public Health

​Presenters:
  • Robin Bishop, Planning Section Chief, Emergency Support Function 8​
  • Sergio Carranza, Executive Director, Pueblo Unido CDC
  • Conrado Barzaga, CEO, Desert Healthcare District and Foundation
  • Melinda Cordero-Barzaga, Associate Director, Vision y Compromiso
  • Alex Fajardo, Executive Director, El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center
  • Salomeh Wagaw, Epidemiologist, Riverside University Health System-Public Health

3:30 pm PDT
5:30 pm CDT/ 6:30 pm EDT
​Adjourn

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