 One of the Partnership’s central strategies is to engage foundations, advocacy organizations, practitioners, and community and thought leaders to advance equity-focused, multi-field efforts for policy change that creates healthy people and healthy places.
Recently, the Partnership has played a more direct role in advocating for federal policy change. The Partnership has used a variety of approaches to influence federal policy efforts, including outreach to the field, government officials, and members of the Administration in different agencies. The Partnership’s support of policy advocacy have advanced the organization’s principles and priorities and contributed to federal administrative and/or legislative policy change.
Policy Advocacy Activities
The Partnership’s activities to date have been in the following areas:
Transportation Reauthorization
Increase Access to Healthy Food in Underserved Areas
- Funded advocacy for the federal Fresh Food Financing Initiative
- Funded the Community Food Security Coalition and National Farmers Market collaborative to leverage funding in the Farm Bill to support Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Access at farmers markets
Policy Support for Community Prevention & Health Disparities
- Wrote and disseminated CEO Letter, “Leading National Foundations and Health Care Organizations Make Unprecedented Call for Investment in Prevention” (written by the CP partners)
- Wrote and disseminated a Partnership Letter in support of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
- Wrote and disseminated Strengthening What Works: Critical Provisions for Prevention and Public Health in Health Reform Legislation (prepared by Prevention Institute and PolicyLink with independent resources)
- Wrote and disseminated “Prevention & Wellness Memo: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” (Prepared by PolicyLink and Prevention Institute, with reference to the Convergence Partnership, April 2009)
- Wrote and disseminated “Healthy People, Healthy Places: Directions for Improving Community, Individual, and Economic Health,” a memo to the Obama transition team (Prepared by Prevention Institute and PolicyLink, with reference to the Convergence Partnership, December 2008)
- Submitted comments in support of objectives being included in Healthy People 2020 that focus on social determinants of health
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