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Aging Artfully: Learning From Women Over 85
September 11th, 2009 | From CHP
* Meet Award-Winning Author Amy Gorman
* Join In her first public appearance in Portland, featuring presentation & conversation on Aging and Creativity
* Enjoy a screening of the short film Still Kicking, featuring profiles of visual & performing women artists aged 85–105
WHEN: Friday, September 11th, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
WHERE: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
White Stag Block
70 NW Couch Street
Portland, OR 97209-4038
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Suggested Donation: $5.00: Your generous donation makes it possible to bring special programs like this to Portland!
Pre-Registration Required here.
For More Information call (503) 731-6650 or visit www.lifebydesignnw.org
Amy Gorman, the founder of Project Arts and Longevity in the SF area, has thoughtfully been exploring the creative lives of women over the age
of 85. She has captured their lives both in music and through narrative history.
Her book “Aging Artfully: 12 Profiles of Visual and Performing Women Artists 85-105” won a Bronze Medal from the 2007 Independent Publishing Book Awards (IPPYS).
Her work has also resulted in a film, Still Kicking, which profiles the stories of some of the several women she interviewed.
Oregon Healthy Corner Stores Discussion
September 02nd, 2009 | From CHP
In response to recent informal conversations about Healthy Corner Stores, the Oregon Nutrition Policy Alliance (ONPA) and Community Health Partnership will convene a two-hour discussion, “Oregon Healthy Corner Stores: Exploring Possibilities,” on September 2nd 2:00-4:00pm. The goal of this discussion will be to provide a basic overview of Healthy Corner Store initiatives, learn about any efforts already underway in Oregon , and brainstorm how partners in the room may contribute to or benefit from local initiatives.
WHEN: September 2, 2009, 2:00-4:00
WHERE: Northwest Health Foundation
221 SW 2nd Ave, Suite 300
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Please RSVP if you plan to attend:
Noelle Dobson
503-227-5502, x224
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The discussion will address a diversity of questions:
• How can the new WIC packages being implemented this fall open opportunities to increase fruit and vegetable sales at corner stores?
• What lessons can we learn from the farm to school initiatives that would translate to corner stores?
• How can local urban planning and food system policy promote healthy corner stores in all neighborhoods?
• What data do we need in our region to move forward with a corner store initiative?
Sunday Parkways - SE Portland
August 16th, 2009 | From CHP
Opening streets to walking, bicycling, rolling, and roller blading - without having to watch out for cars!
Sunday Parkways are 7-8 mile “temporary parks” along city streets connecting neighborhoods and residents in North, Northeast and Southeast Portland.
A relaxed, non-competitive, FREE event featuring a variety of activities in several parks and along the routes.
Intersections are staffed by volunteers allowing residents to get to and from their driveways, with larger streets supervised by Portland Police Bureau staff and certified flaggers.
Sunday Parkways gives Portlanders a chance to get out and be active right in their own neighborhood. Participants walked, biked, rolled, ran, strolled, and roller bladed along the route to activities in the parks as well as to nearby shops and businesses in the vicinity.
Sunday Parkways highlights Portland as a walkable and bikeable city. Sunday Parkways is ideal for connecting neighborhoods by bringing people together with healthy activities. Health, transportation, recreation, community, environmental, and safety interests all benefit by partnering to implement Sunday Parkways.
Visit the City of Portland Sunday Parkways Website for more information
Native American Youth and Family Center Housing to Homeowner’s Fair
July 25th, 2009 | From CHP
4th Annual Housing to Homeowner’s Fair at the Native American Youth and Family Center
For Metro area American Indian/Alaska Native community members (individuals and families) interested in housing stability and homeownership information and resources.
Free
Come for info, food, and entertainment
Open to the public
July 25, 2009 at 10:00AM - 3:00PM
Location: NAYA Gymnasium, 5135 NE Columbia Blvd, Portland, OR 97218 map
Contact Sara Libby for more information 503-288-8177 ext. 232.
Sunday Parkways NE Portland
July 19th, 2009 | From CHP
Opening streets to walking, bicycling, rolling, and roller blading - without having to watch out for cars!
Sunday Parkways are 7-8 mile “temporary parks” along city streets connecting neighborhoods and residents in North, Northeast and Southeast Portland.
A relaxed, non-competitive, FREE event featuring a variety of activities in several parks and along the routes.
Intersections are staffed by volunteers allowing residents to get to and from their driveways, with larger streets supervised by Portland Police Bureau staff and certified flaggers.
Sunday Parkways gives Portlanders a chance to get out and be active right in their own neighborhood. Participants walked, biked, rolled, ran, strolled, and roller bladed along the route to activities in the parks as well as to nearby shops and businesses in the vicinity.
Sunday Parkways highlights Portland as a walkable and bikeable city. Sunday Parkways is ideal for connecting neighborhoods by bringing people together with healthy activities. Health, transportation, recreation, community, environmental, and safety interests all benefit by partnering to implement Sunday Parkways.
Visit the City of Portland Sunday Parkways Website for more information
Unnatural Causes: Is inequality making us sick? Episodes: Not Just a Paycheck & Collateral Damage
June 29th, 2009 | From CHP
Unnatural Causes is a documentary series that shows how work, wealth, neighborhood conditions, and lack of access to resources and power can make people just as sick as germs and viruses. Learn how effective social policies and local action can create healthy communities.
Unnatural Causes documentary screening Monday, June 29th = 1:00 – 4:00 PM: Not Just a Paycheck & Collateral Damage
Presented by the Multnomah County Health Equity Initiative
Where: Midland Branch Library Conference Room, 805 SE 122nd, Portland; map
This valuable documentary series explores the causes of and solutions to racial and socioeconomic inequities. There’s much more to our well-being than genes, behaviors and medical care. The social, economic, and physical environments in which we are born, live, and work profoundly affect our longevity and health – as much as smoking, diet and exercise.
Not Just a Paycheck
In many towns, layoffs and unemployment can be devastating to the economy. It can also impact health, increasing the town’s blood pressure and violence. Did you know your job or lack of a job can impact your health? Did you know it doesn’t have to?
Collateral Damage
Economics and military operations have an international impact; in some cases this means displacing populations from their traditional way of life. How do our interactions around the globe affect the health of people now living in the United States? How does a legacy of poverty and powerlessness take a toll on our bodies?
This documentary series can serve as a bridge in articulating how, where, and why we can consciously collaborate to mitigate adverse health impacts and create equity in our city.
To find out more about the series, and schedule further screenings, visit the Multnomah County Health Equity Initiative website
Forum on the Community Health Impacts of the Economic Crisis in SW Washington
June 27th, 2009 | From CHP
The forum will focus on the impacts of the economic crisis on low income people and people of color. Open mike time will be provided to enable individuals who are most directly affected by the crisis to speak about its impact.
Saturday, June 27 from 1 to 5 p.m.
FREE
Refreshments will be provided.
Speakers will include (among others):
* Earl W. Ford, Immediate Past President, NAACP Vancouver
* Vanessa R. Gaston, Director, Clark County Community Services
* Kathy Kniep, Executive Director, YWCA Clark County
* Steve Kutz, R.N., MPH, Manager, Cowlitz Indian Tribal Health Clinic
* Craig Lyons, Executive Director, Council for the Homeless
* Alan Melnick, M.D., MHP, Clark County Public Health
* Prof. Clay Mosher, Dept. of Sociology, WSU Vancouver
* Maria D.Rodriguez-Salazar, President, Clark County LULAC
* Paul Hochfeld, M.D., Physicians for National Health Program
* Alex Perez, Chief of Police, City of Longview
* George Raiter, Charman, Cowlitz County Commissioner
Vancouver Community Library
1007 E Mill Plain Blvd
Vancouver, WA
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The event is free and open to the public and will be taped for broadcast on CVTV.
Sponsored by the Center for Social and Environmental Justice at Washington State University, Vancouver
For more information, e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 360-546-9643
Family-friendly 5k “School’s Out Walk/Run”
June 27th, 2009 | From CHP
Step It Up, Inc. a nonprofit in the field of youth workforce development, connects aspiring high school students with summer internships at local businesses in their field of interest. Step It Up believes that all young people deserve a chance to prove their abilities and achieve their career goals.
Support this program by joining in the “School’s Out Walk/Run:”
* Irving Park, corner NE 7th avenue and NE Fremont
* Saturday, June 27, 2009
* Registration begins at 8:00 AM
* Family friendly 5K walk/run begins at 9
* $10 registration fee includes breakfast
* 
Website
Email Kaitlin at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 503-284-1640 for more information.
Proceeds from the entries go to the 2009 Summer Internship Program.
Policy Analysis and Advocacy Training for Community-based Participatory Research Practitioners
June 23rd, 2009 | From CHP
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.
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
* how to advocate for change.
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.
There is no cost to attend, but space is limited and registration is required.
Who should attend:
This training is designed for 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
June 24 , 2009 (Bend): 10:30 am - 4:30 pm at Cascades East AHEC
To register or see detailed information, visit the Northwest Health Foundation’s website.
North Portland Sunday Parkways
June 21st, 2009 | From CHP
Connect with your community and enjoy local streets filled with performers, safe kids’ games, food booths, physical activites, and more—all with no cars! Sunday Parkways events present a wonderful opportunity for you and your family to get out and be active right in your own neighborhood. You will be able to walk, bike, run, roll, meet your neighbors, and enjoy free entertainment in the parks and along the routes.
Join the celebration:
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sunday, June 21
The 7.5-mile North Sunday Parkways two-way route will have two loops. A 3.2-mile loop through Kenton and Arbor Lodge neighborhoods; and a 4.5-mile loop connecting Arbor Lodge and Piedmont neighborhoods via the Bryant Pedestrian Bridge and North Ainsworth. The scenic Willamette Bluff will once again be enjoyed. There is no start or finish line - join the fun wherever you want!
For more information, including a map and list of entertainers, food, and activities, visit the website.
Phone: 503-823-5358