Grassroots Efforts for Policy Exchange
Forming a Policy Framework for 2011
October 8, 2010
We are pleased to invite you to the 2010 Oklahoma Turning Point Policy Day! The theme for this year is "Grassroots Efforts for Policy Change,” and by the end of the day, we will have a policy framework for 2011.
We are very fortunate to have as a keynote speaker, Jessica Donze Black, MPH, RD, LD. Jessica is the National Director of the Healthy Schools Program for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation -- a joint initiative of the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation. As such, Jessica leads a team of over sixty people in thirty-seven states that are helping schools make healthy and sustainable changes in their environments, curriculums, and programs. Prior to coming to the Alliance, Jessica served as the first Executive Director for the Campaign to End Obesity - a non profit organization focused on bringing together key stakeholders in order to drive national policy toward reversing the obesity epidemic.
The 2010 Oklahoma Turning Point Council Policy Day will be outstanding, and will provide you the tools to help move Oklahoma's health status indicators in the right direction through policy initiatives.
Register today! Registrations must be received no later than September 24.
The Oklahoma Academy for State Goals, the Oklahoma Turning Point Council, the State Chamber of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma State Department of Health are pleased to sponsor a health initiative for Oklahoma businesses. Called the Oklahoma Certified Healthy Business Program, this initiative seeks to recognize those businesses (both profit and non-profit) that are working to improve Oklahoma’s health status by providing health and wellness opportunities for their employees.
What is in it for you? You will be recognized as a business that is doing positive health and wellness activities for its employees, and contributing to the improving the health of all Oklahomans. Eventually, we hope the Oklahoma Certified Healthy Business Program will serve as a model to encourage health insurers to consider rate changes for those businesses that become certified.