Best-Practices to Foster School Readiness

Overview

Communities, programs, providers and families play critical roles in helping children get ready for school. How very young children are cared for teaches them how to interact with the world and profoundly shapes who they will become. This webinar will explore best practices to support school readiness for very young children.

Building Infrastructure to Support Cross Sector Integration in Early Childhood Work

Overview

This webinar, hosted by the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink in partnership with ZERO TO THREE, lifts up how Hayward Promise Neighborhood and other communities are building cohesive systems that coordinate and align services to ensure all children enter kindergarten ready to success in school.

Virtual Meeting: Supporting Cross-Sector Integration in Early Childhood Work: Community of Practice Meeting

Local Food Procurement 101: Policies and Programs

Overview

Food procurement– how and from whom food is purchased – matters when it comes to ensuring the health and well-being for millions of families, workers, and consumers. Local Food Procurement improves access to healthy food for low income families and communities of color and also creates good, quality jobs resulting in significant benefits to workers including increased wealth, quality of life, and purchasing power for food, shelter, and healthcare.
 
A movement to purchase locally, fairly, and sustainably grown healthy food is beginning to build momentum – and these efforts are already helping families gain better access to healthy food, creating quality food system-related jobs, and supporting local entrepreneurship. Cities such as Los Angeles, Oakland, and Chicago and states such as Vermont are leading the way to enact equitable procurement policies that benefit low-income entrepreneurs of color, small family farmers, and sustainable agriculture, while providing consumers access to healthy food.
 
This webinar featured key policy advocates and leaders in the field. Speakers addressed how these efforts can be expanded and replicated.
 
Speakers included:
 
--Allison Hagey, Associate Director, PolicyLink (moderator)
--Navina Khanna, Fellow, Movement Strategy Center
--Alexa Delwiche, Managing Director, LA Food Policy Council
--Doug Bloch, Political Director, Teamsters Joint Council No. 7

Connecting Young Children to a Medical Home

Overview

A webinar hosted by Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, provides an overview of the importance of a medical home and strategies that Promise Neighborhoods are using to connect young children to a medical home.

Growing and Funding Equitable Food Hubs: A Strategy for Improving Access to Healthy Food

Overview

Food hubs have gained momentum as an innovative retail strategy to expand healthy food access in low income communities by creating direct linkages between food growers and producers to consumers.

This webinar will explore the experiences of three organizations involved in the work of creating equitable food hubs in California, North Carolina, and the Delaware Valley region. Speakers will discuss lessons learned, strategies for success, resources, and important considerations for establishing an equitable food hub in your community.

Presenters will highlight how their food hub operations are creating a more equitable and inclusive food system that values not only healthy food access, but also quality jobs, local economic growth, small business development, and sustainable agriculture and farmers.

A Sustainable Future: Preserving and Expanding Biking, Walking, and Public Transportation Funding

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"A Sustainable Future: Preserving and Expanding Biking, Walking, and Public Transportation Funding" Webinar - March 30th, 2011

Strengthening Family Resiliency: The Lane Changer Costs of Financial Disruptions

Overview

Income disrupting life events are more common than we think. Divorce, unemployment, poor health, caregiving all have real costs and consequences that can shift life's trajectories, curtail family-member's dreams, and have devastating long lasting effects on a families' financial security and well being. Some families are more vulnerable to financial disruptions than others and not everyone experiences the same risk of income loss from these events.

What are the real costs to these events? Why do some recover more quickly and easily than others? What kinds of change in policy and practice can help secure present and future opportunities for families navigating life's financial disruptions?

These questions are explored in the latest report in the Leveraging Mobility series. In "Keeping Dreams Alive: The Lane Changer Costs of Financial Disruptions," the Institute for Assets and Social Policy reviews how families bear the costs of income-disrupting life events.
 

Transportation Policy to Build Strong Rural and Tribal Communities

A Sustainable Future: Preserving and Expanding Biking, Walking, and Public Transportation Funding

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