Healthy Mobile Food Vending Legislation

FEC successfully researched, helped draft, and advocated for healthy food truck legislation

Amendments to the bills: Eased burdensome regs on

mobile farmers Created provisions to develop

guidelines for healthy prepared foods

Keys to success included close relationships with County Council Members and local food truck association and extensive research

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Community Eligibility Provision

FEC advocated for the state-level Hunger Free Schools Act of 2015 under a member organization's leadership

FEC continued advocacy locally

which resulted in 9 District schools electing the Community Eligibility Provisions

Success hinged on leveraging

existing relationships to appeal to key, high level, decision makers

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Actionable Strategies

• Cultivate strategic internal and external champions

• Build credibility early and maintain it through “easy wins”

• Develop buy-in and strong partnerships

through mutually beneficial goals

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Making Organizational or Structure Changes

Effective program implementation and management Sufficient staff knowledge, skills, and capacity

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Richmond, VA Health in All Policies

Framework that incorporates health and social equity considerations into policy, programmatic, and service delivery decisions across all departments, offices, and agencies within Richmond City’s government.

Health is not just the responsibility of the Health Department. All departments have roles to play

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Richmond HiAP Team Formation of

Richmond HiAP Team as part of National Leadership Academy for Public Health

Engaged champions and built support among city leadership

Outreach to other community partners to keep them informed

Richmond City Health District

(RCHD)

Richmond City School Board

City Office of Health & Human

Services

City Office of Community

Wealth Building (OCWB)

Institute for Public Health

Innovation (IPHI)

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Intentional focus on linking HiAP with existing priorities, favored terminology, and demonstrated

values of Richmond City Government

City priorities •Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Health Policy Commission

•Mayor’s Healthy Richmond Campaign

•Mayor’s Anti- Poverty Campaign/ Office of Community Wealth Building

•Richmond City Strategic Plan

Terminology • Tier I City

• Quality of Life

City values • Equity

• Efficiency

• Collaboration

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Two-day HiAP Workshop for City Executive Leadership developed in conjunction with NACCHO

Gained the city Chief Administrative Officer’s support and promotion of the event

Participants to work in cross-sector groups to dicuss relevant community issues-transportation, revitalization, and crime/public safety

Health Equity Impact tool and scenarios for analysis at the workshop

Web-based toolkit

HiAP Training Workshop for Executive City Leadership

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Actionable Strategies Identify champions

Align strategies/goals with existing initiatives and priorities and values

Be intentional with language choice and framing

Assure sufficient training to implement

Full-time staff devoted to coordination (i.e. backbone) can help assure comprehensive implementation

Engage grassroots and community partners as advocates throughout the process

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Engaging in Communication Efforts

Stories can be used to promote your work, published in newsletters, shared with other organizations and partners, highlighted in funding applications, etc.

Communications efforts can be useful to diversify funding, attract new partners, prevent from cuts or cancellation

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Annapolis, MD Healthy Vending

In 2012, began changing procurement standards for vending machines on city-owned/operated property

Switched to 100% “healthy” options

Met with some backlash by staff of these buildings

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Use Data to Sustain Your Efforts

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Connect to Larger Efforts and Tell the Story

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Branding

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Actionable Strategies

Collect data along the way and share successes as you go Use your data for more than just reporting Present data in a way that people understand Connect to larger efforts Tell the story and show the impact Use pictures, videos, and multi-media presentations Diversify media choices to reach a broader audience

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Comments & Questions

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Please feel free to ask questions and share comments concerning any components of the

sustainability process

Contact Information

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Please Contact: Institute for Public Health Innovation Evelyn Kelly ekelly@institutephi.org Twitter: @InstitutePHI http://www.institutephi.org/ Prince George’s County Food Equity Council Email: info@pgcfec.org Twitter: @pgcfec Facebook: www.facebook.com/pgcfec Website: www.pgcfec.org

References

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Georgia Health Policy Center. (2011). Bringing the Future into Focus: A Step-by-Step Sustainability Planning Workbook. http://www.raconline.org/sustainability/pdf/bringing-the-future-into-focus-sustainability-planning-workbook.pdf Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). A Sustainability Planning Guide for Health Communities. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dch/programs/healthycommunitiesprogram/pdf/sustainability_guide.pdf Bringing the Future into Focus: A Step-by-Step Sustainability Planning Workbook (2011) http://www.raconline.org/sustainability/pdf/bringing-the-future-into-focus-sustainability-planning-workbook.pdf