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SUSTAINING PREVENTION THROUGH
POLICY & ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICE CHANGE
WHAT IS POLICY AND ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICE
CHANGE?
Policy and organizational practice change is what we do to change
our social environments – the places where we live and work. We do
this by working with multiple sectors to educate them on the
importance of having policies to guide decisions and actions and how
to establish and implement new practices that support public health
goals. Policy change is offering healthy food choices in vending
machines; policy change is also about businesses supporting tobacco
cessation programs for employees; and policy change also looks to
change zoning rules to promote recreational sites. Small steps, big
steps, its all about making lasting change.
WHY THIS WORK IS IMPORTANT?
Policy change is not only about changing laws. It is about decisions
made by people, families, schools, local businesses, government and
other organizations. In order for public health to succeed, shaping
the broader environment around us helps to make the healthy choice
the easy choice. The structures that shape, guide, and govern our
communities - organizations where we receive healthcare, work, play,
and worship; schools where we educate our children; media from which
we constantly receive messages; - all need to reflect the values
that hold protection of public health as valuable. For that to
happen be sustained, policies need modification and development.
RECENT PROJECTS
Sustaining Prevention through Local Policy and Organizational
Practice Change Training
This training was held in April 2005 as a result of an initial
effort of several public health programs working to address their
goals through policy change. The idea of developing a comprehensive
policy training was quickly recognized as a need to bring public
health partners together to deliver clear, unified, organized
education to stake-holders and decision-makers. Planning for the
training quickly blossomed into a broader collaborative effort
between ten state Department of Health programs and Steps to Health
King County. The result of this collaboration was a training that
was the first of its kind in bringing together so many different
public health partners.
Policy Training Tools
The Nutrition & Physical Activity Policy Leadership Group
The Nutrition & Physical Activity Policy Leadership Group
(NPA-PLG) is a broad
Washington State collaborative partnership formed to help
facilitate, coordinate, and support the development, adoption, and
implementation of a comprehensive, integrated and aligned set of
state, regional, local, and private-sector policies that make it
easier for people to choose to be physically active and to eat
healthy foods.
NPA Policy Leadership Group
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Nutrition and Physical Activity Policy
Leadership Group
Tools
from the Policy Training
Policy Resources:
•Washington
State Nutrition and Physical Activity State Plan--Executive Summary
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Nutrition
and Physical Activity Policy Resource Guide
•Washington
State Nutrition and Physical Activity State Plan--Executive Summary
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