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What We Offer

Planning for Healthy Places at Public Health Law & Policy works to engage public health advocates in the planning decision-making process throughout California. We develop tools for training advocates in the relationship between the built environment and public health, and provide technical assistance for creating and implementing land use policies that support healthier communities.

Technical Assistance

Our staff is able to provide a deep understanding of land use, economic development, and redevelopment processes, policies, and strategies. We are available for one-on-one consultations to help you find people, information, and other resources to create healthier environments. Please submit a request for technical assistance through our Ask a Question form.

Training

Planning for Healthy Places trains advocates and practitioners on a wide variety of topics related to public health and the built environment. Our hands-on workshops and presentations allow planners, public health advocates, elected officials, local government staff, business owners, and citizen activists to learn how the tools of land use and economic development can reduce health disparities and create more livable communities. 

Training topics

  • Elements of land use: 101, 201, and beyond
  • Introduction to economic development tools
  • Developing grocery stores and other healthy food retail in underserved areas
  • Land use and public health for planners
  • Using land use strategies to create healthy communities
  • Navigating the politics of land use and economic development planning
  • Participatory data collection: tools for creating healthy places 

For organizations funded through the California Nutrition Network (including Communtiies of Excellence in Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Prevention, CX3), The California Endowment's Healthy Eating Active Communities Initiative, and Kaiser Permanente's Healthy Eating Active Living initiative, trainings and technical assistance may be available free of charge. Other organizations may also be eligible for free or reduced-fee trainings. Please contact us for more information.