Join the California Department of Public Health Nutrition and Physical Activity Branch, ChangeLab Solutions, Mathematica, University of California, Berkeley’s Health Research for Action, and UC Los Angeles on Sep. 17, 2026, 1:00 pm PT for a webinar to introduce a new suite of resources developed to advance healthy eating and active living through policy, systems, and environmental—or PSE—change.
Developed for state and local health departments and community partners, these resources are designed to support PSE intervention development and implementation. Although these resources were designed with healthy eating and active living interventions in mind, many have applicability across multiple chronic disease prevention topic areas. This launch webinar will introduce these new resources with presentations from each organization followed by an opportunity to engage with the presenters in breakout rooms. The resources include:
- 4 Programmatic Priority Toolkits with step-by-step guidance and practical tools in the areas of:
- PSE change in priority settings and at multiple levels
- Healthy beverage interventions
- Putting health equity into practice by engaging communities, building partnerships, gathering data, and organizational practices
- Reaching and impacting youth, especially in education settings
- Nutrition and Physical Activity Policy Resources that include:
- Policy agenda and model local sugar-sweetened beverage distribution tax ordinance
- Case studies of local and state policies
- Resource guides covering topics such as school gardens, active transportation, and healthy procurement
- Written resources, self-paced training modules, and short videos designed to support local health departments and key partners as they work to form, maintain and institutionalize coalitions for healthy community change.
The webinar is free and open to the public; please register online. Nutrition Policy Institute’s Hannah Thompson supported the project, along with Janice Kao and Miranda Westfall Brown, who served on the project advisory committee, and Christina Hecht and Ken Hecht, who served as subject matter experts.