HEAL Annual Conference 2010: Forging Powerful Partnerships for Healthy Communities
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 from 8:30 AM to 3:45 PM (ET)
Concord, NH
Event Details
Forging Powerful Partnerships for Healthy Communities
A conference for all sectors of the community to learn powerful strategies for advancing healthy eating and active living environments in New Hampshire.
Conference Objectives:
- Learn new policy and environmental change strategies for advancing healthy eating and active living at national, state and local levels.
- Learn approaches to increase and strengthen healthy eating and active living efforts through state and local partnerships.
- Engage in networking and discussion on how you can build a healthy eating and active living movement in your community.
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7:30 - 8:30 Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 Opening Remarks
8:45 - 10:00 Keynote Presentation - Tyler Norris
Collaboration to Create Places That Support Healthy Eating and Active Living. Perspectives on a National Level.
10:00 - 10:15 Energy Break
10:15 - 11:45 Perspectives from Partners at State and Local Levels
Experts from around the state provide insight on advancing a healthy eating and active living policy change agenda.
Health: Madeline Dalton, Ph.D., Director, Hood Center for Families and Children, Dartmouth Medical Center
Food Systems: Lorraine Merrill, Commissioner, NH Department of Agriculture, Markets and Food
Sustainable Communities: Kerrie Diers, Executive Director, Nashua Regional Planning Commission
Economic: Ross Gittell, Ph.D., Professor, UNH Whittemore School of Business & Management
Local Government: William Jackson, Retired Gorham Town Manager
11:45 - 12:30 Case Study: Manchester HEAL Innovation Fund Project
Building a healthier community in center city neighborhoods through policy and environmental change.
Panelists: Jaime Hoebeke, Senior Public Health Specialist, Manchester Health Department, and partners of the Manchester HEAL Project. Facilitated by Tyler Norris.
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch Catered by The Concord Co-op, Celery Stick Cafe
1:15 - 1:30 Guided Outdoor Walk, Weather Permitting
1:30 - 2:30 Experiences from Community Coalitions in the Field
Representatives from HEAL coalitions share their experiences with collaboration to advance policy and environmental change strategies.
2:30 - 2:40 Tyler Norris, Comments
2:40 - 3:30 Small Group Exchange
Next steps to effecting change in your community: An interactive session.
3:30 - 3:45 Closing Remarks
3:45 Exhibits, Q & A
4:00 Bonus Downtown Concord Walking Audit
With Jessica Eshleman, Main Street Concord
A walking tour to view emerging changes in historic downtown Concord focused on improving commercial, employment, housing, cultural and recreational opportunities. Additional registration required, space limited.
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HEAL NH
About HEAL
HEAL envisions a New Hampshire where all residents enjoy health and quality of life through healthy eating and active living.
Our core mission is to work in collaboration with our partners to inspire, advance and support policies, systems and environmental changes to promote healthy people in healthy places throughout New Hampshire.
HEAL started in 2008 and is led by the Foundation for Healthy Communities, a non-profit New Hampshire organization focused on improving health and health care through innovative partnerships.
HEAL Funding is generously provided by:
HNHfoundation
Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield
Endowment for Health
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation
NH Charitable Foundation
NH Department of Health and Human Services
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Capital Center for the Arts directions and parking
Free on-street parking is available in the evenings on Main Street. Free parking is also available on Concord Street and Storrs Street. From the CCA, take Theatre Street (directly across from the CCA) down the hill to Storrs Street. The city's newest public parking garage, at Capital Commons, is on Storrs Street, two blocks north of the Capitol Center. A second public parking garage is located several blocks away - between North State and Warren Streets. Another is located on North State Street, next to the YMCA.
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