Webinar: Healthier Food for Revitalized Communities
Local efforts to rebuild "blighted" neighborhoods offer a prime opportunity to attract grocery stores and other healthy food outlets to the areas that need them most. During this webinar, we discussed how to plug into redevelopment projects to get healthier food options into the plan.
The webinar was cosponsored by the Community Food Security Coalition and the Healthy Corner Stores Network. We would also like to thank our wonderful presenters: Andy Toy, Philadelphia candidate for City Council At-Large; and Cedar Landsman and Clare Fox, Program Coordinators of the Community Market Conversion program in Los Angeles.
Webinar Presentation
In addition to presenters, this webinar featured PHLP staffers Hannah Burton Laurison and Robert Ogilvie.
The presentation slides are available for download below.
Webinar Resources
The following resources were discussed during the webinar:
- The Healthy Food Network Discussion Listserv
- Changes in the WIC Food Packages: A Toolkit for Partnering with Neighborhood Stores
- Healthier Communities Through Redevelopment
- Economic Development and Redevelopment: A Toolkit on Land Use and Health
- How to Use Economic Development Resources to Improve Access to Healthy Food
- How to Use Redevelopment to Create Healthier Communities
You can also watch the recording here. In order to view the recorded presentation, you will need to install the free ARF Player.
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- Toolkit: Changes in the WIC Food Packages
- Getting to Grocery: Tools for Attracting Healthy Food Retail to Underserved Neighborhoods
- Fact Sheet: Getting Involved in Redevelopment
- Toolkit: Economic Development and Redevelopment
- Fact Sheet: How to Use Economic Development Resources to Improve Access to Healthy Food
- Understanding Healthy Procurement
- Involving Public Health in Climate Change Policy
- Local Food for Local Government
In the last few years, a new understanding of the built environment’s impact on health has brought the public health community and planners together to develop a variety of innovative land use policies that promote health.