"The political mechanism is there to cancel city water debt—its the political will that's missing. That's why we organize."
-Cathy Garcia @ChainbreakerSF #APHA2021

"There are many reasons to help keep people in their homes. Eviction moratoriums were needed before COVID and will continue to be needed." - Cathy Garcia, @ChainbreakerSF #APHA2021

Our path to an equitable transformative housing justice system needs to include:
✅Decommodification of Land & Housing
✅Decolonization of Wealth & Investment in Collective Liberation
✅Acknowledgement & Healing of Past & Current Trauma
@ChiribogaFlor @cohomesforall #APHA2021

"If we are trying to build healthy, affordable and sustainable communities, we need to de-comodify land and housing." - Dre Chiriboga Flor, @ChiribogaFlor @9to5Colorado @cohomesforall #APHA2021

😍Our cups are feeling full after getting to connect with you, and hearing about the incredible work so many of you are doing at #APHA2021!

Here are a few highlights from this session yesterday, on power‐building partnerships with organizers as a key public health practice ⬇️

The #socialistcaucus is just so thoughtful @PublicHealth #APHA2021

(2/2) "But we need to step into the fray, step into more indigenous and African cosmology that says all of it is valid...The trauma, the pain, the distance and the proximity are all important. What does it mean to step into the center and be present?”– @Makani_Themba #APHA2021

(1/2) “Western knowledge teaches us that distance is somehow better. That not having a relationship with the people we are working with us gives us some sort of advantage. This is a narrative that’s born in White supremacy and White advantage…" –@Makani_Themba #APHA2021

“We need to remember the different movements of the past – disability, civil rights, LGBTQ, Black Panthers, & others. We’ve professionalized equity to the point that it's become about tools without the stories of communities.” – @purapecha #APHA2021

“Justice is about how do you change the system so it's equitable for generations going forward.” – @DrDMGriffith #APHA2021

So much brilliance on this panel today, thanks all who joined! A few highlights from the session ⬇️ #APHA2021

#endpoliceviolence This version of the statement was formally adopted by the American Public Health Association (APHA) at their annual conference in Denver, CO on October 26, 2021 with majority support from Governing Council members (86% to 14%).

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I AM BOPPING AROUND HAVING FEELINGS about @PublicHealth's passage of @endpolviolence's policy statement on carceral systems and abolition as a public health strategy!!! #APHA2021 #HealthNotPunishment 🎉🥂✊🏾

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COVID-19 Highlights Mass Incarceration As a Public Health Crisis

The presentation starts at 2pm MT in person at #APHA2021. Show up to support #HealthNotPunishment.

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Power‐Building Partnerships with Organizers – a Key Public Health Practice

Today, come learn about how health departments and community organizers can collaborate to build community power and advance housing and immigrant justice at a session led by @ChainbreakerSF @9to5Colorado + others @ 2pm MT, in person at #APHA2021.

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Community-Driven Organizing and Partnerships to Grow Social Connectedness and Transform Policy Although community organizing often is a key component of Community-based Participatory Research and other partnership approaches to neighborhood and policy change, community-driven organizing is less frequently a major focus of discussion and scholarship in CBPR. This session focuses on the importance of such organizing for transformative change on the neighborhood, municipal, state and policy levels. Each presentation will address APHA’s meeting theme of building social connectedness, as well as two or more key areas of concern to the CBPH Caucus. These are: CBPR and place-based community transformation; community-driven work to transform policy, lessons learned from community organizing and CBPR projects, participatory approaches to addressing the Social and Structural Determinants of Health, and organizing and partnership in the time of pandemics. A diverse range of partners share their experiences as organizers and public health partners, and the contributions of their CBPR and other collaborative work to building social connectedness in and beyond their partnerships, while also helping to promote transformative, equity-focused policy change. In addition to a presentation sharing and applying a new conceptual model of community engaged evidence translation to policy making, three case studies are presented.

Join @Christine_ScD @AsianPrisonerSC @aaaj_alc + more TODAY at 10:30am MT in person at #APHA2021 to explore how community-driven organizing and partnerships can transform immigration policy and #StopICEtransfers in CA. #HealthNotPunishment

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Highlights from the #APHA2021 panel with @endpolviolence on Advancing Public Health Interventions to Address the Harms of the Carceral System. Featuring our #HealthNotPunishment program director @amberakemipiatt

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Stop ICE Transfers: Promoting Health, Unifying Families, Healing Communities ICE detentions and deportations--Vulnerabilities of Immigrants and Refugees' negative impact on health and violations of human rights.

TODAY, @Christine_ScD @AsianPrisonerSC @aaaj_alc + more are leading a session on the harmful health impacts of #ICE transfers from prisons and jails. Show up to support #HealthNotPunishment at 4pm MT in-person at #APHA2021

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Advancing Public Health Interventions to Address the Harms of the Carceral System Recent abolitionist movements have brought renewed attention to the harms, including health harms, of the carceral state. In the past year, decarceration efforts accelerated to meet the urgent demands of the COVID-19 pandemic and movements to defund police departments and invest in community-based public health solutions have risen to the top of many local policy agendas in the U.S. The goals of this session are to discuss how public health practitioners, researchers, and frameworks can align their work with, and advance, abolitionist efforts. The session will feature a framing introduction to abolitionist public health and to the panelists, followed by three panelists presentations. We will conclude with a moderated discussion with the audience.

Interested in learning how #publichealth can support anti-carceral #abolitionist efforts? Join @amberakemipiatt @endpolviolence and others for an #APHA2021 session TODAY at 3pm MT on advancing #HealthNotPunishment.

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<i>Lessons from the apha policy statement on incarceration and public health: Building sustained partnerships for systemic change</I> The End Police Violence Collective - researchers and organizers both inside and...

📌Tuesday, 10/26 @ 2-3:30pm MT

Hear from HIP's #HealthNotPunishment Sr Researcher @Christine_ScD on building sustained partnerships for systemic change, and @endpolviolence's continued work to address incarceration as a public health crisis #APHA2021

apha.confex.com/apha/2021/meet…

Power‐Building Partnerships with Organizers – a Key Public Health Practice

📌Tuesday, 10/26 @ 2-3:30pm MT

Hear from HIP Project Director Megan Gaydos, partners at @ChainbreakerSF, @9to5Colorado, & @bouldercohealth on how community organizers and health depts are partnering to build power for equity and justice #APHA2021

apha.confex.com/apha/2021/meet…

Community-Driven Organizing and Partnerships to Grow Social Connectedness and Transform Policy Although community organizing often is a key component of Community-based Participatory Research and other partnership approaches to neighborhood and policy change, community-driven organizing is less frequently a major focus of discussion and scholarship in CBPR. This session focuses on the importance of such organizing for transformative change on the neighborhood, municipal, state and policy levels. Each presentation will address APHA’s meeting theme of building social connectedness, as well as two or more key areas of concern to the CBPH Caucus. These are: CBPR and place-based community transformation; community-driven work to transform policy, lessons learned from community organizing and CBPR projects, participatory approaches to addressing the Social and Structural Determinants of Health, and organizing and partnership in the time of pandemics. A diverse range of partners share their experiences as organizers and public health partners, and the contributions of their CBPR and other collaborative work to building social connectedness in and beyond their partnerships, while also helping to promote transformative, equity-focused policy change. In addition to a presentation sharing and applying a new conceptual model of community engaged evidence translation to policy making, three case studies are presented.

📌Tuesday, 10/26 @ 10:30-12pm MT

Join @Christine_ScD, @AsianPrisonerSC, @aaaj_alc, and others for an in-person session to learn about community-driven public health partnerships to transform policy & #StopICEtransfers #HealthNotPunishment #APHA2021

apha.confex.com/apha/2021/meet…

Stop ICE Transfers: Promoting Health, Unifying Families, Healing Communities ICE detentions and deportations--Vulnerabilities of Immigrants and Refugees' negative impact on health and violations of human rights.

📌Sunday 10/24 @ 4-5:30pm MT

Hear from HIP's #HealthNotPunishment Sr. Researcher @Christine_ScD and our partners at @AsianPrisonerSC & @aaaj_alc for an in-person session on the urgent need to #StopICEtransfers for public health #APHA2021

apha.confex.com/apha/2021/meet…

Advancing Public Health Interventions to Address the Harms of the Carceral System Recent abolitionist movements have brought renewed attention to the harms, including health harms, of the carceral state. In the past year, decarceration efforts accelerated to meet the urgent demands of the COVID-19 pandemic and movements to defund police departments and invest in community-based public health solutions have risen to the top of many local policy agendas in the U.S. The goals of this session are to discuss how public health practitioners, researchers, and frameworks can align their work with, and advance, abolitionist efforts. The session will feature a framing introduction to abolitionist public health and to the panelists, followed by three panelists presentations. We will conclude with a moderated discussion with the audience.

📌Sunday 10/24 @ 3-4:30pm MT

Join HIP's #HealthNotPunishment Director @amberakemipiatt, @endpolviolence, @PrEP4AllNow, and @TrueColorsUnite for a virtual session on public health interventions to advance abolition #APHA2021

apha.confex.com/apha/2021/meet…

📌TOMORROW 10/23 @ 6-8pm MT

Join @PHAwakened & Spirit of 1848 for a #APHA2021 Virtual Social Hour 🥂

Connect with other public health folks in the movement for health equity & racial justice. You don't have to be registered for APHA to join!

Register:

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Join HIP at #APHA2021 - starting this weekend! The Human Impact Partners team headed to #APHA2021 this weekend, and we can't wait to connect with you there! Here are all things HIP to put on your #APHA2021 schedules

🤓🔗Connect and build with the HIP team at #APHA2021!

✅ Check the full line-up of events, panels, and sessions we're hosting and presenting on, kicking off tomorrow⬇️

(+ view an overview of all things HIP at APHA:

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⭐Join HIP at #APHA2021 - starting this weekend!

Wether you're tuning in virtually 💻 or attending in Denver 🏔️we're excited to connect with you there.

🗓️Here are all things HIP to add to your APHA 2021 schedules:

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Hanging out at the virtual #APHA2021 and learning the @Herbalife is a sponsor. I still stand by this tweet.

We're gearing up for #APHA2021 next month, and we’re excited to share a range of opportunities to connect with us virtually, and in Denver! We look forward to centering health equity and justice together with you soon! -

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