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Policy Analysis and Advocacy Training for Community-based Participatory Research Practitioners
June 23 (Salem) and June 24 (Bend)
Public policies have an enormous impact on our personal health and well-being, and that of our communities.Community-based research partnerships are uniquely qualified to devise and propose healthy public policies. In this half-day training CBPR practitioners will learn how to design a policy change project from the ground up, as well as, how to use completed research to impact policy. Cassandra Ritas, MPP will present an overview of policy analysis and advocacy techniques, and discuss their application in the partnership context. Ms. Ritas is a Kennedy School graduate, who has worked extensively in partnership and in government, as an advocate and policymaker.
Participants will discover how to view health problems with a policy lens, how to identify policy barriers to health, how to design original research to fill gaps in knowledge, how to identify policy alternatives, how to choose among policy alternatives, and how to advocate for change. Through case examples, we will explorethe strengths that CBPR partnerships bring to this work. Participants will be introduced to tools that will facilitate the planning and discussion of policy change initiatives. We will discuss the particular challenges faced by partnerships engaging in the very public work of policy change, and some strategies for meeting these challenges.
This training is designed for current CBPR practitioners.
There is no cost to attend, but space is limited and registration is required.
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Who should attend
Individuals who have some previous experience with CBPR: community activists, representatives of community-based organizations, academic research and teaching faculty, policymakers, and public health officials in community and environmental health, social justice, and health equity.
Location, date, times
June 23 , 2009 (Salem): 10:30 am - 4:30 pm at the YWCA, 1255 Broadway
Registration for the Salem event is limited to 60 participants. In order to ensure broad participation, please call us first if you are interested in registering 3 or more representatives of your organization/research partnership.
June 24 , 2009 (Bend): 10:30 am - 4:30 pm at Cascades East AHEC at St. Charles Medical Center, 2500 NE Neff Road (1st Floor, Conference Room B and C)
Register
Please fill out and submit this form to register for one of the workshops.
Please contact David Rebanal at rebanal@nwhf.org or Leigh Ann Oatney leighann@nwhf.org at 503-220-1955 should you have any further questions or requests.