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Dear San Joaquin Valley SB 375 Allies:
Thank you for participating in our intra-regional brainstorming session in Fresno on September 4th. This was a great opportunity to share and identify the regional challenges of SB 375 implementation, and to identify opportunities for state legislative and administrative advocacy. We will be in contact with you soon to share the notes from that discussion and get additional feedback.
As you may recall, we and our partners (Physicians for Social Responsibility-LA, PolicyLink and Urban Habitat) have facilitated similar conversations with SB 375 equity advocates in the other major regions of the state (SCAG region, San Diego, Bay Area and Sacramento) and now is the time to bring us all together from across California for an initial discussion of common themes for this exciting effort to build on the initial regional discussions and create an equity-first vision for state policy change on SB 375
That first inter-regional convening of SB 375 leaders will be via a Webinar discussion on Wednesday, December 10th from 3-5PM. We will share our findings from the regional meetings, and begin to identify policy responses to priority issues and ideas. Your participation in this Webinar is critical to developing a state policy platform that will ensure more equitable outcomes for all of our communities.
Please confirm your participation by Monday, November 10th by replying to this email.
Thank you,
Veronica Garibay and Phoebe Seaton, Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Jonathan Malagon and Chione Flegal, PolicyLink
Dear BHC-SK partners and friends,
We still need your help!
We are currently in the process of revising the Action Plan that guides the work of BHC-SK and our partners. We want to ensure that this updated plan is reflective of the current needs and issues in our South Kern communities. In order to do this we need your input.
If you live, work, or play in South Kern please take a few minutes to complete the Action Plan Review survey. You can access the survey by clicking on the links below, or by copying and pasting the address into your browser’s address bar. The survey will be available through Friday, October 24th.
To thank you for taking the time to help us revise the BHC Action Plan, those who enter their name at the end of the survey will be entered into a raffle for a number of healthy prizes.
Please forward this email to others you know who also live, work, and play in South Kern so that we get as much input as possible.Thank you for your help, and continued support of BHC-SK and of healthy South Kern communities.
We also need BHC-SK partners to help with this by holding focus groups with residents, youth, partners, or others who live/work/play in South Kern. This could be groups of clients, residents, neighbors, or special populations/subgroups you are able to access. If you can help by conducting a focus group we will make the supplies available for you to conduct the group yourself. Or if you are able to arrange a group but would like assistance facilitating it we will try to support you in that as well. If you are able to conduct or host a focus group, please e-mail me at amunoz@lesd.us and we can work with you to set that up.
These focus groups will be very important since the data collected will help decide what issues get included in our Action Plan to be worked on over the next three to five years.
Below are some sample Tweets and a link to our report and press release, which has a link to the report as well as Global Community Monitor’s final report on the Bucket Brigade results.
Full report: http://www.crpe-ej.org/crpe/images/stories/pdf/Rotten_Neighbor_Report.pdf
Press release: http://www.crpe-ej.org/crpe/index.php/component/content/article/334
Gustavo Aguirre-CRPE
Center on Arts & Transcripts: Arvin Pipeline Leak
Watch the video here http://vimeo.com/107859287
