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Training
HIA Training for
Community Advocates
 Human Impact Partners and our community partners invite you to participate in a training on Health Impact Assessment (HIA) for community advocates on September 15 & 16 in Oakland, California.  Come learn how to use HIA to increase the power of your advocacy.

Who should attend?
This training will be for community organizers, representatives of neighborhood organizations, community leaders, and worker advocates who are interested in using HIA in their advocacy, but who do not have much experience with it.

Curriculum
This two day training will cover Health Impact Assessment in general, but will use Land Use examples and exercises specifically.  We will cover the following topics:
  • Connections between land use policies, plans or development projects and health
  • Issues that can be addressed by the HIA approach and health-related questions that activists could be asking
  • Intervention points in the land use planning process where HIA and/or other health-based tools can be inserted (e.g., within the General Plan, Specific Plan, or EIR processes).
  • Advocacy strategies using HIA
  •  “Doing HIA” -- processes, methods, data, resources, and results
  • Working with additional stakeholders including public health agencies, planners, developers, and elected officials
We will be doing extensive hands-on exercises to get people familiar with how to be part of conducting HIAs and how to use HIAs as an advocacy tool.

Space is limited, so please RSVP to Jennifer Lucky jlucky{AT}humanimpact.org as soon as possible and before August 25, 2008.  Please include your name, affiliation, contact information and a few sentences about what you do and why you are interested in Health Impact Assessment.

Cost
Participants are being asked to contribute $85 to cover the costs of food (lunch and snacks) and the facility. 

Additional details regarding the exact location and times will follow.  The training will take place at Preseveration Park in Oakland and will run from approximately 10am to 5pm on Monday September 15 and 9am to 4pm on Tuesday September 16.

Please contact us for more information.
HIA Training for
Practitioners
In the future we will be holding trainings for public health professionals interested in learning how to carry out HIA.  Please check back for more information.