Webinars

Our KP in the Community Grantee Communications series offers expert advice and practical tips on a range of topics. Watch the recordings, see the slide decks, or refer to the resource lists to learn more about subjects of interest to you.

Communications Planning

 

Defining Your Brand and Making It Matter

 

Messaging: Making Meaning for What Matters

 

Storytelling for Success

 

Social Media for Social Good

 

Communications Resources for Nonprofits



The Southern California Virtual Brown Bag (VBB) is a web convening aimed at generating discussion and peer learning by Southern California HEAL Zone grantees and their partners.

HEAL Youth Coordinator Advisory Call
January 26, 2017

This web-based discussion will provide a short overview of the HEAL initiative. We will facilitate peer-learning among youth coordinators to reflect on successful youth-adult partnerships from 2016, and plan for the upcoming year.

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HEAL 101: Welcome and Orientation
July 2016

In this webinar, we will clarify the roles of Kaiser Permanente, Center for Community Health and Evaluation, and Community Partners and discuss HEAL initiative experiences with veteran coordinators.


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Faith Communities in HEAL: Empowered to Change

January 2015

Several Southern California HEAL Zone communities have partnered with local faith based organizations to implement healthy eating and active living strategies in their sites. Our discussion in January will focus on how different churches are incorporating HEAL programs and policies in their ministries. Tim Alderson from the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, Angie Camacho from Riverside Spanish SDA Church, and special guests from the American Heart Association EmPowered to Serve Initiative will join us to reflect on their work.


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Fire Up Your Feet Rewards Active Families and Schools:
Winning is as Easy as 1-2-3!
September 2014

Fire Up Your Feet provides tools and resources you can use to encourage your kids and students to be healthy and physically active before, during, and after school. As you gear up for another action-packed school year, we can help you get ready for success during the Fall Activity Challenge that takes place October 1-31, 2014. With participation your school becomes eligible to win one of many awards totaling close to $100,000 in cash and prizes.

Sophia Mellow, Southern California Fire Up Your Feet Regional Coordinator will present on the initiative, how to join, and stories from past winners. We invite teachers, parents, principals, school liaisons, and administrators to participate in this call and get ready for the challenge!


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HEAL in Healthcare: Good for the Patient, Good for the Provider
June 2014

Green prescriptions, mobile clinics, vouchers, resources, and protocols for BMI and EMR!  The HEAL communities are combining diverse approaches to incorporate healthy eating and active living strategies in the healthcare setting. Cecilia Arias, Community Benefit Health Manager from Riverside Kaiser Permanent and Beverly Speak, Director at Kids Come First Community Health Center in Ontario will launch our discussion with examples of how they are operationalizing and evaluating these strategies in their communities. Lily Martinez, Director of Health Education and Outreach at The Children's Clinic in Long Beach will also join the call to share how the clinic is benefiting from implementing HEAL in healthcare. Join with your fellow health care providers, bike and ped advocates, farmers market managers, and park staff to discuss how to make your clinic strategies work for both patients and practitioners!


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Fire Up Your Feet Rewards Active Families and Schools:
Winning is as Easy as 1-2-3!
March 2014
The Fire Up Your Feet Spring Activity Challenge gives students, families, and school staff at K-8 schools the chance to help their PTA or school group earn a portion of more than $5,000 in awards. Awards for schools can be used to purchase PE equipment, bicycle racks, school gardening materials, incentives for walking to school, safety and traffic-calming equipment in and around school zones, and much more.

Sophia Mellow, Southern California Fire Up Your Feet Regional Coordinator and Rosie Mesterhazy, School and Family Engagement Manager for Safe Routes to School National Partnership presented on the initiative, how to join, and stories from past winners.


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SOPARC & SOPLAY: Observing Play and Recreation in Communities and Youth
February 2014
Do your partners or resident leaders have questions about how to observe and evaluate physical activity in the park and school settings? Center for Community Health and Evaluation will provide an overview of two observation tools you can use to monitor park, school, and after-school physical activity strategies. Discussion instigators from the HEAL communities will also share their experience in using these tools to inform community and school based physical activity programs. We invite school, parks and recreation staff, and resident leaders to participate.


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Evaluation as a Tool for Engagement
November 2013
Do your partners or resident leaders have questions about how to tell the story of the impact of your HEAL efforts? This session is designed to give a simple, high level overview of the HEAL evaluation efforts, and engage participants in a discussion on how they can be involved in collecting and using data to support their efforts. Practical tools for engaging partners and residents in the data collection will also be shared for parks and open space improvement, corner store conversions, active recess, and physical education strategies.

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Keeping Kids Moving: Physical Activity Opportunities During and After School
September 2013
Physical activity during and after-school can help kids stay healthy, learn better, behave better, and miss fewer days of school. Kaiser HEAL communities are implementing active recess, inclassroom physical activity videos, and revamping after-school physical activity policies and curriculum. We want to know what worked, what changed, and how effective and sustainability are these strategies. We invite partners leading physical activity strategies, school administrators, teachers, after-school staff, parents and students to join this discussion on keeping kids moving.


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Parks Make Life Better: Perceptions of Safety and Use for Physical Activity
August 2013
Parks and open space make life better by providing a place for community members to play and exercise. Challenges such as lack of access, attractiveness, and perceptions of safety can lead to the underutilization of these valuable resources. The discussion in August will focus on creative strategies for addressing these challenges to get both adults and youth outside, moving, and enjoying the outdoors. We invite city parks and recreation staff, youth, residents, police and safety officers, planners, and safe routes to school leads to join this discussion and share challenges and solutions for making life better with parks.


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Re-Inventing Neighborhood Food Retailers
July 2013
July's Virtual Brown Bag will focus on best practices for re-inventing and sustaining neighborhood corner stores. While we understand that "makeovers" to feature healthy foods and produce are a first step, Kaiser HEAL communities also need to support store owners in transforming their businesses into healthy and profitable food retailers! Our discussion will be instigated by Rosalia Calam, a Whittier resident working to build relationships with store owners to make and sustain healthy changes in her neighborhood stores and Chelsea Fiss, Retail Program Manager from the San Diego Network for a Healthy California. We invite food retail strategy partners, corner store and restaurant owners, and residents to join this discussion on creating and sustaining healthy food retailers.


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Healthy Food, Healthy Revenue in Schools
May 2013
Traditionally, schools may use revenue from the student store, vending machines, and fundraisers to support staff, clubs, sports programs, and even graduation ceremonies. A major challenge to implementing stronger nutrition standards is the concern over lost revenue. The discussion in May will focus on strategies for successful healthy fundraising and vending. Participants include Jacqueline Domac, champion healthy fundraiser and former LAUSD teacher, and Nancy Maxson, Health & Prevention Programs Coordinator at Ventura Unified School District. We invite school administrators, PTA members, food service staff, teachers, and students to join this discussion and share their successes, concerns, and challenges in generating a healthy revenue with healthier foods.


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Safety Net Clinics 101: Opportunities for HEAL Strategies
April 2013
The engagement of clinic partners has represented a special challenge for the Southern California HEAL Zone sites. With this challenge in mind, we'd like to invite HEAL Zone project directors and coordinators, Kaiser Permanente Community Benefits staff and safety net clinic stakeholders to join us for an important discussion about safety net clinics. Bridget Cole, an experienced organizational development consultant with safety net clinics, will walk us through "clinic operations 101." This presentation will provide the context for our subsequent discussion around creative ideas for advancing HEAL strategies for the clinic setting.


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Youth Leadership and Advocacy: Linking Youth Action to HEAL CAP Strategies
February 2013
Several Southern California HEAL Zone communities have partnered with local faith based organizations to implement healthy eating and active living strategies in their ministries. Our discussion this month will focus on how to recruit faith leaders and congregants to HEAL work and discuss the ways different churches are incorporating HEAL work in their ministries. Pastor Mark Stapleton of Cornerstone Community Church and Pastor Jeff Lettow of First Baptist Church will get us started by reflecting on their work with the Lemon Grove HEAL community.


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Faith Communities in HEAL: Internal Change and Community Contributions
January 2013
Several Southern California HEAL Zone communities have partnered with local faith based organizations to implement healthy eating and active living strategies in their ministries. Our discussion this month will focus on how to recruit faith leaders and congregants to HEAL work and discuss the ways different churches are incorporating HEAL work in their ministries. Pastor Mark Stapleton of Cornerstone Community Church and Pastor Jeff Lettow of First Baptist Church will get us started by reflecting on their work with the Lemon Grove HEAL community.


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Strategies for Meaningful Community Engagement
November 2012
Several Southern California HEAL Zone communities have partnered with local organizations to engage residents and youth in their HEAL work. Our discussion this month will focus on how to identify trusted partners with proven "convening capacity" and how to effectively work with these partners to develop meaningful resident engagement in HEAL work. Sandra Viera from Prevention Institute and Melissa Guajardo from California Center for Civic Participation will get us started by reflecting on their work with the HEAL sites.


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Physical Activity During and After School
September 2012
Several school districts in the Southern California HEAL Zones are working with school staff, administrators and nonprofit groups to design physical activity programs in the schools. Our discussion this month will focus on what more needs to happen to ensure physical activity programs are implemented during these challenging times when test scores and budgets are at the forefront of concern for teachers and administrators. Two active members of our Southern California HEAL Zone initiative, Vice Principal Marco Tolj from Hollywood High School and partners from Anaheim will get us started by reflecting on their experiences. Be sure to invite your school and district staff partners, community-based organizations and parent advocates to participate in this one!


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School District Policies for Meaningful Change
July 2012
Several school districts in the Southern California HEAL Zones have adopted model policies designed to transform school food environments. District approval of policy, however, is often only the first step in changing how and what our kids eat at school! Our discussion this month will focus on what more needs to happen to ensure that district policies translate into meaningful school change. Two active members of our Southern California HEAL Zone initiative, elected school board Blanca Brown and Healthy School Food Coalition organizer Elizabeth Medrano, will get us started by reflecting on their experiences. Be sure to invite your school and district staff partners, community-based organizations and parent advocates to participate in this one!


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Kaiser HEAL Zone Evaluation Framework
June 2012
Alan Cheadle and Ama Atiedu from the Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE) will facilitate the discussion on the evaluation framework.


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Effective Assessment Tools for Great CAPs
May 2012
Ama Atiedu from the Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE) will facilitate the discussion on effective assessment tools that will strengthen the CAP during the planning phase.


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Resident Engagement and Coalition Building
April 2012
Many of you have created successful City or County-wide coalitions for healthy eating and active living, but are grappling with how to develop a successful coalition for the Zone. How should it differ from our larger coalitions? How can we identify and engage new partners in the Zone? How do we engage residents in a meaningful way? Are there lessons from other initiatives about balancing resident and agency involvement? How might our community assessments inform this process? This session will highlight early lessons from East Riverside and Lemon Grove, but we invite all sites to share their insights, experiences and questions!