September 20, 2023
9:30am PT/ 10:30am MT/ 11:30am CT/ 12:30pm ET
1 Hour Presentation
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About
Please join Voices for Healthy Kids for our Innovation, Equity and Exploration (IEEs) webinar! The IEEs mobilize broad expertise, external perspectives and advocacy capacity in a workgroup engagement model to develop best practices and opportunities to advance policies. The recommendations developed from these workgroups are inclusive of health equity, root causes of social determinants of health and advancing the Voices for Healthy Kids policy agenda at the tribal, state or local level. This webinar will showcase results from collaborations supported through our work groups focused on diving deep into issues to create healthier lives for all children.
Presentations include:
Healthy Hydration Opportunities for Early Care and Education Settings by Kelcie Silvio, Voices for Georgia’s Children
The presentation will discuss policy opportunities and the facilitators and barriers to implementing healthy hydration practices within Georgia early care and education settings.Healthy Hydration Landscape and Policy Recommendations for the State of Georgia by Robyn N. Bussey, Just Health Partnership for Southern Equity
The presentation will summarize barriers to implementing policies to support healthy hydration for Georgia’s marginalized communities.Advancing Racial Equity Through Policy Change – Exploring Strategies by Parisa Norouzi, Empower DC
The webinar features a facilitated discussion that will share the results of yearlong work on each topic and time for Q & A.
Presenters
Kelcie Silvio, Senior Policy Analyst, Voices for Georgia’s Children
Kelcie is passionate about making generational impact, not only improving a child’s current circumstances, but also the trajectory of their entire lives. She leads Georgia Voice’s nutrition and early care and education initiatives, where she leverages her background in early childhood development, social work, and public health to inform policy.
Robyn N. Bussey, Director, Just Health Partnership for Southern Equity
Robyn N. Bussey provides leadership and day-to-day management of the Partnership for Southern Equity’s (PSE) health equity portfolio. As the Just Health Director she leads the design, development, and implementation of health equity training, technical assistance, and other communication and education resources for communities, organizations, and other stakeholders seeking to understand and operationalize health equity.
Parisa Norouzi, Executive Director, Empower DC
Parisa Norouzi is the cofounder and Executive Director of Empower DC where she has led grassroots organizing efforts on a range of issues including childcare, housing, land use, environmental justice and racial equity since 2003. Her work centers on building community power to advance equitable development by ensuring impacted community members are the visionaries, drivers and beneficiaries of land use decisions, disrupting current patterns of harm and displacement. At Empower DC, Parisa has incorporated arts, science, legal, historic preservation and other strategies to bolster organizing efforts. She is particularly proud of her 20+ years of work with Ivy City residents to win public use of the historic Alexander Crummell School as a community center and park, long desired by residents. Parisa’s Iranian-American heritage, her daughter Aziza, and her love for nature are inspirations for her work.