Date & Room Location:
Friday, September 10th, 2010, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Room assignment TBA
For decades, redlining and other discriminatory practices have resulted in low-income communities of color facing a lack of high quality, affordable, healthy foods in local communities, too many vacant and abandoned properties, and limited local job opportunities. Over the years, residents have made progress in addressing this issue and new strategies are emerging. Right now, there is lots of public attention on food issues – from the First Lady’s Let’s Move campaign, to discussions about local food, to interest in urban agriculture. The challenge is how to take advantage of this window of opportunity to advance long-term, sustainable, equitable policy changes that can support the growing movement for food justice. This training will highlight the steps, tools, and techniques you can use to advocate for change, and will address ways that advocates focused on agriculture can join forces with advocates focused on improving access to healthy food through retail outlets, to maximize our impact. Strategies for engaging youth as well as seniors in advocacy on this issue will also be suggested. The session will be very interactive – after a presentation highlighting the advocacy process using real world examples, participants will work in small groups to “dig in” and engage in a hands-on exercise, such as brainstorming together to develop an advocacy plan, role-playing a meeting with a policymaker or retailer, or developing a power map. Fact sheets and exercises will be shared with participants for their future reference.
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