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CHN Community Meeting
Please join to hear updates from our team leaders and state-wide leadership team about our campaigns and teams, discuss strategy and next steps together, and more!
New Member Welcome Meeting
Please join us for our next New Member Welcome Meeting! Anyone who considers themselves new to CHN is welcome to join (even if you've attended other CHN events or have been around a while!). We'll start to build community together and end the call with collective action.
General Education: Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Fossil Fuels
Join us for a 1 hour webinar focused on climate change, air pollution, and fossil fuels - and how we can use our health voices to create change
CHN Community Meeting
Please join to hear updates from our team leaders and state-wide leadership team about our campaigns and teams, discuss strategy and next steps together, and more!
CHN Hikes!
Please join Climate Health Now members, their family and friends for a fun hike in Alamo at China Wall!
Focus on Healthcare Sustainability: How to Make Your Healthcare Workplace Sustainable
Please join us for an interactive and educational webinar highlighting the work of several CHN members who have made real change in their health workplaces to decrease waste and increase sustainability.
CHN Discussion Club
We'll be discussing the film "Merchants of Doubt" (2014), "a documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change."
You can find more information about "Merchants of Doubt" here, and also find links to how to view it. The movie is about 1.5 hours in length. We hope everyone will have watched it prior to the discussion, but of course you are welcome to join even if you haven't watched it. And please spread the word!
General Education: Climate Change and Child Mental Health
Please join us for an educational webinar on mental health impacts of climate change on kids and adolescents and tips and discussion about how to talk about climate change, facilitated by Dr. Chelsea Young, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Northern California and Reverend Talitha Aho, hospital chaplain at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland and author of “In Deep Waters: Spiritual Care for Young People in a Climate Crisis.”
New Member Welcome Meeting
Please join us for our next New Member Welcome Meeting! Anyone who considers themselves new to CHN is welcome to join (even if you've attended other CHN events or have been around a while!). We'll start to build community together and end the call with collective action.
It’s ‘Go’ Time! Get Out the Vote for Climate and Health - Why Our Voices and Votes Matter More Than You Think
Join us for. a 1 hour webinar with the following learning objectives:
Recognize the role of civic engagement, advocacy and voting to shape the policies that determine the social and environmental determinants of health.
Understand the unique role of healthcare providers and settings to foster civic engagement.
Activate the untapped power of the health community to create a healthy, clean energy future through advocacy, civic engagement and voting.
Fossil Fuel Disinformation and Health: A Conversation with Amy Westervelt
Please join us with Amy Westervelt -- a 20-year veteran investigative journalist, Westervelt's earlier work for NPR, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Inside Climate News, and various other outlets earned her Edward R. Murrow, ONA, and Folio awards as well, and is often cited as amongst the earliest examples of accountability reporting on climate.
CHN Community Meeting
We are launching a new format for our Community Meetings. Please join to hear updates from our team leaders and state-wide leadership team about our campaigns and teams, discuss strategy and next steps, and more!
General Education: Heat and Health
Join us for a 1-hour virtual webinar on the impacts of heat on health, with a specific focus on environmental justice and heat islands — as well ways we can use our health voices to protect our patients and communities in the face of intensifying heat waves.
Focus on Healthcare Sustainability: Better Care for Our Patients is Also Better for the Environment
Please join us for an educational event related to healthcare sustainability in California — and how we can collectively make change to improve our health now an in the future.
New Member Welcome Meeting
Please join us for our next New Member Welcome Meeting! Anyone who considers themselves new to CHN is welcome to join (even if you've attended other CHN events or have been around a while!). We'll start to build community together and end the call with collective action.
Become a Climate & Health Equity Advocate: Action Skills Training - offered through the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and Burness
Are you interested in expanding your skills in communicating about the intersections of climate change and health most effectively to catalyze action? This 6-part training series - offered by the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and Burness - will help you do so! Trainings are held virtually on Tuesdays between June 18 and August 20th, 2024, from 12-1p PT.
CHN Discussion Club
This month we’ll be focusing on the theme of plastics and health with a focus on policy solutions. Please listen to this podcast episode (focused on plastics, health, and policy) and this podcast episode (focused on healthcare sustainability) and come ready to discuss, learn, and share!
New Member Welcome Meeting
Please join us for our next New Member Welcome Meeting! Anyone who considers themselves new to CHN is welcome to join (even if you've attended other CHN events or have been around a while!). We'll start to build community together and end the call with collective action.
The Health Community Votes: Unleashing the Power of Civic Engagement for Climate, Health and Equity
Join us for. a 1 hour webinar with the following learning objectives:
Recognize the role of civic engagement, advocacy and voting to shape the policies that determine the social and environmental determinants of health.
Understand the unique role of healthcare providers and settings to foster civic engagement.
Activate the untapped power of the health community to create a healthy, clean energy future through advocacy, civic engagement and voting.
Climate Health Now: Focus on Healthcare Sustainability in California - The Polyethylene Polycrisis- Treating Healthcare’s Plastic Addiction
Please join us for an educational event related to healthcare sustainability in California — and how we can collectively make change to improve our health now an in the future.
CHN's April Community Meeting
Please join us for our April Monthly Community Meeting! We’ll be discussing our 2024 advocacy campaigns, our healthcare sustainability work, and more!
Introduction to Campaigns: Anatomy of a Campaign and Campaign Tactics
Campaigns as a way to create shared strategy based on our shared values In this session we’ll focus on the following:
What makes a campaign effective
Visualizing a campaign
Tactics: Actions to support our campaigns
CHN’s current campaigns and opportunities to get involved
CHN Discussion Club
We'll be discussing the documentary "River Blue," which "spans the globe to infiltrate one of the world’s most pollutive industries, fashion. Narrated by clean water supporter Jason Priestley, this groundbreaking documentary examines the destruction of our rivers, its effect on humanity, and the solutions that inspire hope for a sustainable future." You can find more information about "River Blue" here, and also find links to how to view it.
New Member Welcome Meeting
Please join us for our inaugural New Member Welcome Meeting! Anyone who considers themselves new to CHN is welcome to join (even if you've attended other CHN events or have been around a while!). We'll start to build community together and end the call with collective action.
Community Meeting - Focus on Public Narrative
What does storytelling for change mean? What is it about the way certain people tell stories that can mean the difference between winning or losing elections? Join us as we discuss–and practice!-- the art of Public Narrative as a powerful tool everyone can learn to help inspire others to join us in taking action and bringing our health voices to the climate movement in order to protect everyone and everything we all love.
Introduction to Campaigns - What California Climate Health Advocates Need to Know about the California Legislative Process
All members of the California health community are welcome to join us for an introductory overview of the California legislative process. We’ll be joined by Dr. Lisa Chang with 350 Bay Area Action for this foundational session.