Christine Johnson presents on advancing nutrition security with the NYC Health Department

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JOIN TOMORROW'S UNBOX TEAM CALL! and explore our BI-WEEKLY NEWSLETTER We hope you are having a fun summer and Happy Pride Month! Planning a cross-county summer road trip? Add these LGBTQ+ farms to the itinerary and support queer food justice leaders. Or want to support Pride from home? Learn about Black & Pink National - a prison abolitionist and LGBTQ+ liberation organization - and join a local chapter like SF's Flying Over Walls! Tomorrow, we'll meet for our bi-weekly unBox Team Call at 9 am PST/12 pm EST. Click this link to add the bi-weekly invitation to your calendar or join directly using this Zoom link (PW: 278840). Tomorrow's Call Agenda:  FEATURED PRESENTATION: unBox advisor Christine Johnson will share out on her career-long work to improve nutrition and health equity on both US coasts, and internationally! Christine was previously Assistant Commissioner at the NYC Health Department, where she oversaw the agency's work related to food policy, active design, and tobacco control. Prior to that role, she led the nutrition work at the Department, including working on the restriction of trans fat in NYC restaurants and creating nutrition standards for all NYC agencies. For the past five years, Christine has been working with Vital Strategies, consulting on food policy projects for cities around the world and advising on global nutrition projects for the World Health Organization. Christine is also co-leading a project to increase the impact of food and nutrition policy graduates at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has a MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Policy Spotlight on CA AB 368 + actions State and federal policy updates + actions Advisor updates Policy Spotlight - CA AB 368: The bill: AB 368 could help transform medical treatment and prevention. It would establish three pilot programs in Fresno, Alameda, and San Bernardino. In each county 250 Medi-Cal beneficiaries with chronic health conditions would be accepted to participate and receive a “food prescription” benefit. The benefit would facilitate patients’ access to nutritious food through a healthcare provider’s prescription. This program would be implemented in January 2022 and involve an evaluation. The California Association of Food Banks, SPUR, and ALL IN Alameda County support AB 368.   Photo courtesy of Feeding America Why care? Food can be preventive medicine for diabetes, hypertension, and depression. AB 368's pilots would not only empower food security, but help tackle historic and unjust health disparities amongst Hispanics, African Americans, and disabled Americans. Actions: CA residents can find your reps with unBox's Linktree! Email them about AB 368 by copying our Policy Spotlight! Like us on Twitter + IG! Actions: CA State Bills: 2 weeks ago YOU spoke up about AB 543 - which would make sharing CalFresh info a part of CA community college, state university, and (voluntarily) UC campus orientations. This week, it was re-read, amended, and referred back to Appropriations! Continue to call, email, and Tweet CA representatives! Raise your voice on AB 368! Read on for actions! AB 221 - Emergency Food4All, which would establish a one-time fund to provide emergency food assistance for those impacted by COVID-19, regardless of legal status - didn't make it into the Budget. Sign on to this letter from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights LA to add your organization in support, and receive action items for supporting before and during its hearing June 22. CA Budget Asks: (The CA state budget is taking longer than usual (here's why). A new draft, AB 128, was completed on June 14, but Governor Newsom hasn't finalized it, it differs from the legislature's May Revise, and negotiations continue. Keep advocating that key provisions stay!) Food4All would give every CA immigrant access to essential food assistance by expanding eligibility of the California Food Assistance Program. And it is in the recent budget draft! Call, email, and tweet Newson to ensure it stays! School Meals for All is also in the new draft! Read about the power of universal school meals and its CA advocacy efforts. Speak up to ensure it stays, with this social media toolkit and post a Tweet like ours, but from you! Federal Bills: Use FRAC's Toolkit to urge Congress to support the Summer Meals Act of 2021 and Access to Healthy Food for Young Children Act end child hunger. Stay plugged in: Good News + Great Reads: P-EBT for school age kids was finally approved in California! On June 22, this link http://ca.p-ebt.org/ will feature materials from CDSS's P-EBT 2.0 education campaign. Yesterday Joel Berg celebrated his 20th Anniversary at HFA! On-brand as ever, Joel continues his nationwide anti-hunger trip meeting food justice leaders, policymakers, and grassroots advocates. Follow the journey! CNN: Biden nixes Trump proposal that would have kicked 3 million off food stamps Civil Eats: Op-ed: Transforming School Food Requires More than Universal Access and Op-ed: Our Shot at Creating Hunger Free Schools  The Counter: New research highlights a shifting priority at food banks: tackling the root causes of food insecurity USDA: USDA Publishes Federal Register Notice for Public Input on Racial Justice and Equity New Research: Public Health Nutrition (with senior author and unBox advisor Dr. Eric Rimm!): Comparing shopper characteristics by online grocery ordering use among households in low-income communities in Maine Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (more from Dr. Rimm!): Comparing Online and In-Store Grocery Purchases National Bureau of Economic Research: Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply Johns Hopkins and the Miami-Dade WIC program: Using Google to Understand the WIC Customer Journey and Increase Online Engagement Duke World Food Policy Center: Identifying and Countering White Supremacy Culture in Food Systems Events: Recording: Public Policy Institute of CA: California’s Safety Net in Recession and Recovery June 22 10:00 am PST - Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition: Public Charge State of Play June 23 2 - 3 pm EST - The Hamilton Project: Policies to Protect Workers and Families: Rethinking Social Insurance June 25 3 pm PST - Share our Strength and the Aspen Institute: Conversations on Food Justice: Food Insecurity and Mental Health: The Silent and Devastating Impacts on Children and Families   As always, we invite you to join tomorrow's Bi-weekly Friday Team Call, from 9 - 10 AM PT/ 12 - 1 PM ET. 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