The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Leadership for Healthy Communities are partnering with the the National Policy and Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity to host a webinar on Monday, June 29, 2009 12:00 - 1:00pm (EST).

This webinar will provide an opportunity for state and local policy-makers to learn about how funds from the economic stimulus can be used to increase access to healthy foods and healthy eating opportunities for children and families.  Other policy options that can help to leverage these funds in creating healthier communities will also be discussed.  The event will feature staff from Leadership for Healthy Communities, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity and the National Policy and Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity, as well as two Vermont legislators who will discuss a recent law that they championed appropriating economic stimulus funds for a new farm-to-plate program.

Moderator:
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Ph.D., Director, Leadership for Healthy Communities
Speakers will include:
Melissa Maitin-Shepard, Policy and Program Associate, Leadership for Healthy Communities
Joe Thompson, M.D., M.P.H., Director, RWJF Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Christine Fry, M.P.P., Program Coordinator, National Policy and Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN)
Representatives Jason Lorber and Christopher Bray, Vermont State Legislature

To register for this webinar, please click here.
 

http://www.isbnpa2009.fmh.utl.pt/

http://www.CancerProject.org

http://www.cce.csus.edu/conferences/childobesity/09/