Carl Anthony
Paloma Pavel
 on Climate Change

SIX BIG WINS
F E A T U R E D   A R T I C L E
  
Carl Anthony
& Paloma Pavel
on the Opportunities 
Associated with the 6 Big Wins

The concept of "Healthy Communities" appears to be catching on, but health equity issues of land use and transportation appear harder for decision makers to act upon.

Highways Create Health Inequity

Our work with the Six Big Wins and community-based organizations during the past year has resulted in a way of orienting community-based organizations toward significant opportunities. There are huge potential health equity outcomes needing cultivation while engaging in the SB 375 process.   

Breakthrough Communities has developed a number of innovative communication strategies for engaging underrepresented constituencies in processes for building healthy communities.

Recent Breakthrough Communities Events

Integrating Health and Equity into Sustainable Community Strategy Planning (SB 375)

Webinar May 18, 2011      11-12:30 pm PST  

with Carl Anthony 

offered by

California Department of Public Health

Senate Bill 375 created a unique opportunity to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create healthier communities. Former Governor Schwarzenegger created an Executive Order mandating that all state departments should implement "Health in All Policies" as a core value. Breakthrough Communities has been a member of the "Kitchen Cabinet" advising Dr. Linda Rudolph, Deputy Director, California Department of Public Health, Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. The implementation of this policy also bears on the  redesign of local transportation and land use planning. Learn more about this wide reaching law and hear how local health departments and community advocates are collaborating to ensure that the sustainable community planning process incorporates broad health and health equity goals. Introductory remarks by Carl Anthony of Breakthrough Communities. Presentations by:

• Robin Salsburg, Senior Staff Attorney, Public Health Law & Policy
• Tracy Delaney, Chronic Disease & Health Disparities, County of San Diego, Public Health Service

Registration Link

https://publichealthinstitute.webex.com/publichealthinstitute/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=964283727

VIDEO IN PROGRESS 

Breakthrough Communities is collaborating with the HiAP Taskforce to document a series of public dialogues on  transportation, Climate Change, and Healthy Equity.  

One innovative strategy for regional community engagement focused on transportation justice

On behalf of The City of El Cerrito Environmental Quality Committee and the League of Women Voters of West Contra Costa County, Breakthrough Communities brought to the Cerrito Theater an Eco-Film Series that packed the house. We screened local filmmaker, Gabriela Quiros', documentary Tango 73: A Bus Rider's Diary. This film illustrates the vital importance of public transportation in urban areas by exploring one transit corridor and the people whose lives are shaped by the bus schedule and the elements. A series of short films engaged the audience in a riveting journey from the challenges of public mobilization to a visionary metropolitan experience of Bogota's transit innovations. We hope your rode your bike, and took advantage of the Free Bike Valet Parking, or came by public transit.

The screenings were followed by a panel moderated by Paloma Pavel, Ph.D. with vigorous community dialogue engaging experts on public transit:

·    Janet Abelson, former mayor of El Cerrito and transit advocate (featured in the film)

·    Gabriela Quiros (the filmmaker)

·    Carl Anthony (Breakthrough Communities)

·    Anthony Rodgers (AC Transit Bus Driver)

·    Chris Peeples (AC Transit Board Member).

The event was co-sponsored by Breakthrough Communities, Earth House Center, Marvin Gardens Real Estate, Richmond Spokes, Rialto Cinemas Cerrito, TransForm, Genesis, Public Advocates Conference of Minority Transportation Officials, and Transportation Action Partnership.

Please join us for future films in this series on topics including food justice, climate change, land use, and health equity.