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BaFa’ BaFa’ In Person Cultural Simulation – Taylor University

Taylor University 236 W Reade Ave, Upland, IN, United States

Hoosier Health and Wellness Alliance members are invited to participate and invite a friend. This will be an in person only event, held at Taylor University. In BaFa’ BaFa’ participants come to understand the powerful effects that culture plays in every person’s life by experiencing it themselves. It may be used to help participants prepare […]

August SNAC Dialogue Session: Connecting Academics and Community Leaders

Online Event

Join partners and community members in learning about how academics and community leaders collaborate to implement programs. In this session there will be a short, grounding presentation from Dr. James Barbre, Associate Professor of Education at IU East. Dr. Barbre will be sharing about past and future efforts to install, document, and collect information from […]

Food Justice: Building and Sustaining an Equitable Food System

ONLINE

Join Hoosier Health and Wellness Alliance in a discussion on the challenges and successes communities across Indiana have faced when addressing food access. Explore how nutrition is impacted by health inequities and structural racism, while learning the intricacies of food systems and how you can take next steps toward food resilience in your own community. Register For Event >

2022 Hoosier Health and Wellness Alliance Summit: Building and Sustaining an Equitable Food System

Online Event

Join Hoosier Health and Wellness Alliance in a discussion on the challenges and successes communities across Indiana have faced when addressing food access. Explore how nutrition is impacted by health inequities and structural racism, while learning the intricacies of food systems and how you can take next steps toward food resilience in your own community. […]

SNAC Dialogue Session: Structural Racism and the Built Environment

Online Event

In this session there will be a grounding presentation from Taylor Firestine (Health By Design), Armica Bash Gaspar (Health by Design), and David Wright (Gary Public Transportation Corporation). The presentation will include definitions of terms related to structural racism in the built environment, a brief history of how cities have been built and developed overtime, […]

October SNAC Dialogue Session: Building Cross-Sectoral Partnerships

Online Event

Join partners and community members in learning about how to build and foster cross-sectoral partnerships. In this session there will be a short, grounding presentation about the development and maintenance of cross-sectoral partnerships. Dr. Erik Hayes, Professor of Kinesiology at Taylor University, will be presenting on his experience forming a partnership with Marion General Hospital […]

November SNAC Dialogue Session: Engaging with Elected Officials and Local Leaders

Online Event

In this session there will be a short, grounding presentation about how elected government officials and community leaders can be engaged to address community change around barriers that impact health. This short presentation will be followed by breakout sessions where participants will discuss successes, challenges, resources, and next steps related to local leadership engagement in […]

2022 Labor of Love Summit

Marriott Indianapolis Downtown 350 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis, IN, United States

Labor of Love is a joint Indiana Department of Health and community organization and leader-led project focused on reducing infant mortality. On its tenth anniversary, the summit will embark on The Year of the Mom - A Maternal Health Focus. You can register for the event here!

December SNAC Dialogue Session: Nutrition Incentive Programming

Online Event

In this session there will be a short, grounding presentation about current nutrition incentive programs in Indiana and the related Indiana Nutrition Incentive Network (ININ). This short presentation will be followed by breakout sessions where participants will discuss successes, challenges, resources, and next steps related building and sustaining community-level nutrition incentive programs. We will then […]