Leadership for Healthy Communities Webinar: Financing HEAL Initiatives

On Monday, December 17, Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, hosted a webinar on Financing Healthy Eating and Active Living (HEAL) Initiatives.

This webinar provided an overview of using public and private funding streams, establishing partnerships and using cost-saving strategies to finance and implement healthy eating and active living initiatives. The webinar focused on building political will and ensuring sustainability for HEAL projects through unique or innovative approaches to advancing healthy eating and active living projects given competing policy priorities and budgetary concerns. Presenters shared examples of projects that address the built environment, physical activity and food access through the described methods.

Webinar Presenters Include:

• Terrence Roche, Senior Director, Organizational and Community Change, Health Innovation, YMCA OF THE USA
• Paul Zykofsky, Associate Director, Local Government Commission
• Patricia Smith, Senior Policy Advisor, The Reinvestment Fund

A recording of the webinar is available here.