The document provides guidance on advocating for healthy eating policies within local governments. It discusses determining why the community would benefit from a policy change, identifying strategies to influence the change, and necessary interim steps before the desired change can be achieved. Specific policies mentioned include healthy food retail, urban agriculture zoning, and including health objectives in comprehensive planning documents. Meeting with relevant agencies, building partnerships, and providing expertise are recommended advocacy approaches.

1. How to Advocate for Healthy Eating Within City Government Noelle Dobson Amy Gilroy [email_address] [email_address] May 20, 2011 Community Food Security Coalition Conference

2. Health Happens in Places Where Oregonians Live, Work, Learn and Play We see tomorrow's health, and we’re here to make it happen today.

3. Transportation Land Use Housing Health Impact Assessments Equity Toolkits

4. Social and Environmental Determinants of Health

5. Healthy Food Retail Urban Agriculture Zoning Code Comprehensive Plan Farmers Markets SNAP and Health Nutrition Standards Menu Labeling Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax Multi-family Gardening Worksite Breastfeeding Accommodation Hospital Breastfeeding Practices

8. Desired Policy Change WHY will our community be better off AFTER the policy or environmental change has been achieved? HOW: What strategies will our coalition implement to influence the desired change? WHAT interim steps of change need to be reached BEFORE the desired policy or environmental change can be achieved? Strategy Map

9. What does it mean to create policy and environmental change?

10. Putting the health in local food policy

11. • Develop a good strategy • Identify, measure and celebrate milestones along the way • Access what is in your control • Distinguish between Big Advocacy and little advocacy

12. • Become indispensible experts • Use maps to highlight environmental context • Consider trade offs and competing factors • Reframe the issue

13. • Build knowledge, trust and partnership • Connect public process to community needs and actions • Share resources with partners • Look for opportunities to create short-term change in communities on the ground

18. Tips: Build knowledge, trust, and partnership Share resources with partners

19. Health in the Urban Food Code

20. Urban Food Code Matrix

21. Strategies/actions to influence desired changes WHAT needs to happen or WHO needs to change BEFORE the desired P/E change can be achieved? WHAT is the P/E change our coalition seeks to achieve? Meet with Bureau of Development Services and code writers from Bureau of Planning Convene meetings with health and equity stakeholders Develop health and planning communication materials that reflect City’s Public Involvement Principles Organize public workshops and events with organizations who have been historically excluded from public decision making process Planning and Sustainability Commission supports health and equity implications of code changes Bureau of Planning and Sustainability utilizes the Public Involvement Advisory Council and Public Involvement Principles to conduct meaningful outreach Organizations who have not been involved in the Project Advisory Group attend meetings and have meaningful engagement opportunities Bureau of Planning and Sustainability staff incorporate health and equity language into public documents Urban food codes maximize health and equity benefits and minimize burdens. Increase in accessible culturally relevant food Increase in access Increase in consumption Increase in C02 capture/decrease in CO2 emissions Improved air quality Improved soil quality Decrease in chronic disease rates Why will our community be better off AFTER the P/E change has been achieved?

22. Tips: Distinguish between Big Advocacy and little advocacy Connect the public process to community needs and actions

24. Desired Policy Change WHY will Portlanders be better off with a Portland Plan that includes healthy food objectives, activities and measures? HOW will OPHI advocate for a Portland Plan that includes health objectives, activities & measures? WHAT interim steps of change need to be reached for the Portland Plan to include healthy food objectives, activities, and measures? Residents will have more equitable and greater access to healthier foods, Public resources for healthy food infrastructure will be distributed to communities that are currently most underserved Health disparities will be reduced over-time Portland Plan includes goals, objectives, and measures that address healthy food access for communities throughout the city. OPHI - Healthy Portland Plan Strategy Map

25. Portland Plan

26. • Identify, measure and celebrate milestones along the way • Access what is in your control • Reframe the issue • Become indispensible experts • Build knowledge, trust and working partnership

27. Desired Policy Change WHY will Portlanders be better off with a Portland Plan that includes healthy food objectives, activities and measures? HOW will OPHI advocate for a Portland Plan that includes health objectives, activities & measures? Convene Healthy Portland Plan Workgroup and support member advocacy efforts Advocate to city officials and BPS-project leads to include health concepts in Portland Plan Proactively provide health-related information & expertise to BPS Build advocacy capacity of community organizations to engage in on-going Portland Plan activities Provide technical input into BPS planning documents WHAT interim steps of change need to be reached for the Portland Plan to include healthy food objectives, activities, and measures? Residents will have more equitable and greater access to healthier foods, Public resources for healthy food infrastructure will be distributed to communities that are currently most underserved Health disparities will be reduced over-time Portland Plan includes goals, objectives, and measures that address healthy food access for communities throughout the city. OPHI - Healthy Portland Plan Strategy Map

28. Why use a strategy map?

29. Desired Policy Change WHY will Portlanders be better off with a Portland Plan that includes healthy food objectives, activities and measures? HOW will OPHI advocate for a Portland Plan that includes health objectives, activities & measures? Convene Healthy Portland Plan Workgroup and support member advocacy efforts Advocate to city officials and BPS-project leads to include health concepts in Portland Plan Proactively provide health-related information & expertise to BPS Build advocacy capacity of community organizations to engage in on-going Portland Plan activities Provide technical input into BPS planning documents WHAT interim steps of change need to be reached for the Portland Plan to include healthy food objectives, activities, and measures? BPS has institutional knowledge of connection between health and planning BPS-produced health-related documents & outreach events include input from OPHI City officials and BPS-project leads support health concepts included in Portland Plan Community organizations work with BPS/city officials to communicate neighborhood’s visions for “their” healthy communities Residents will have more equitable and greater access to healthier foods, Public resources for healthy food infrastructure will be distributed to communities that are currently most underserved Health disparities will be reduced over-time Portland Plan includes goals, objectives, and measures that address healthy food access for communities throughout the city. OPHI & HPPW members utilized as expert resources by Bureau of Planning & Sustainability (BPS) on advisory groups OPHI - Healthy Portland Plan Strategy Map

31. Impact on Portland Comprehensive Plan

33. HEALTHY & AFFORDABLE FOOD IN THE PORTLAND PLAN • Expand access to healthy, affordable food; • Prioritize grocery stores as essential components of neighborhood hubs; • Make it possible for all Portlanders, including those without yards, to grow their own food. 1. Identify and better understand neighborhood food access issues by conducting local food assessments and market basket surveys. 2. Retain and recruit grocery stores as key components of neighborhood hubs. 3. Create 1,000 community garden plots, focusing in areas accessible to higher- density housing, by pursuing opportunities to repurpose publically- owned land and through public-private partnerships. 4. Amend the zoning code to support urban food production and distribution.

34. Desired Policy Change WHY will Portlanders be better off with a Portland Plan that includes healthy food objectives, activities and measures? HOW will OPHI advocate for a Portland Plan that includes health objectives, activities & measures? Convene Healthy Portland Plan Workgroup and support member advocacy efforts Advocate to city officials and BPS-project leads to include health concepts in Portland Plan Proactively provide health-related information & expertise to BPS Build advocacy capacity of community organizations to engage in on-going Portland Plan activities Provide technical input into BPS planning documents WHAT interim steps of change need to be reached for the Portland Plan to include healthy food objectives, activities, and measures? BPS has institutional knowledge of connection between health and planning BPS-produced health-related documents & outreach events include input from OPHI City officials and BPS-project leads support health concepts included in Portland Plan Community organizations work with BPS/city officials to communicate neighborhood’s visions for “their” healthy communities Residents will have more equitable and greater access to healthier foods, Public resources for healthy food infrastructure will be distributed to communities that are currently most underserved Health disparities will be reduced over-time Portland Plan includes goals, objectives, and measures that address healthy food access for communities throughout the city. OPHI & HPPW members utilized as expert resources by Bureau of Planning & Sustainability (BPS) on advisory groups OPHI - Healthy Portland Plan Strategy Map