Titles and descriptions of the Breakout Sessions:
* Housing as a Vaccine and Best Practices for Achieving Healthier Homes *
Lead and Healthy Homes experts and thought leaders will discuss best practices and engage your feedback and participation.
* Accessing Healthy Activities *
Find out where and what activities exist in the Newark area for you and your family.
* Childhood Asthma, Putting the Pieces Together: Where we live, How we eat, and What we experience *
Explore how your environment, nutrition and trauma can serve as asthma triggers for children and discuss what we can do about it.
* Adverse Childhood Experiences & Resiliency: Mobilizing to Create a Safe and Supportive Newark *
Please join us for a guided discussion that considers what we know about the impact of chronic toxic stress on the developing child and his/her caregiver and their community, the importance of preventing, screening for and treating ACEs, and the roles our respective fields are playing in this movement.
* Using Data to Drive Policy and Media Coverage *
The breakout session will focus on the use -- and limits -- of data in policymaking, and how to take advantage of it in working with media and other outside organizations.
* Food for Thought *
Join us for a panel discussion with state and local experts on the role of food policy in promoting healthy nutrition.
* How to Collectively Make an Impact! *
Collective impact is a powerful approach to cross-sector collaboration to address specific social and complex problems in a community. This session will highlight local collective impacts and their leadership and how to navigate the challenges of partnership, alignment, funding and data.
* Fairmount Promise Neighborhood Association *
Support for this program was provided in part by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's New Jersey Health Initiatives program. |