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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Do you know someone who has a personal story about how place affects health?
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Coates Kokes is working on behalf of
<b>the Oregon Health Authority</b> (OHA) to <b>collect stories from people around Oregon about how the places where we live, work, play and learn affect our health</b>.
<i>Place Matters Oregon</i>, an initiative of the Oregon Health Authority, starts conversations about place and health.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">In Oregon, our communities don’t share the same access to physical health.
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The ingrained systems that surround us are creating barriers to good health for too many people.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
The result is an Oregon where someone’s address, income or skin color can unlock – or block – their access to good health and a good life<span style="background:white">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This short video explains a little bit more about Place Matters Oregon:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpk7dqVxU2Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpk7dqVxU2Q</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The initiative is creating a new video series
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">to provide fresh insights through personal stories of people from across Oregon.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<i>Place Matters Oregon</i> hopes these videos will stimulate dialogue on how the systems we have built, and the structural issues of place, affect our health.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This video captures the essence of the type of video OHA is looking to create:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlX6lQaLdKA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlX6lQaLdKA</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you know someone who might have a story that would shed some light on one of these issues,</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<b>would you share this email and encourage them to contact us about sharing their story?
<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Example stories could include someone’s experience with gentrification/displacement, aging challenges, the school environment, the built environment, industry marketing practices,
neighborhood initiatives, racism, homophobia, or a number of other topics. <o:p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Each video we produce will capture a different topic that demonstrates the place-health connection. And,
<b>each story will <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">capture the passion of the person’s first-hand experience.</span></strong></b><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you for your consideration.
</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We hope this would be an opportunity for you, your organization, and any willing storytellers, to increase awareness of a topic about which you care deeply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please feel free to share this email with your network; we hope to collect a variety of stories.
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">In the event that you know someone, have an idea, or simply have questions about this project, please contact Anri Sugitani. She is happy to help.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span></b><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Anri Sugitani</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span></b><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Senior Account Manager</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span></b><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Coates Kokes</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:Anri@CoatesKokes.com">Anri@CoatesKokes.com</a></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
</span></b><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">503-241-1124</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:113%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Megan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Megan E. Gerdes, MPH</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
Health Promotion Strategist <br>
OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY<br>
Public Health Division<br>
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention<br>
</span><a href="mailto:megan.e.gerdes@dhsoha.state.or.us"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">megan.e.gerdes@dhsoha.state.or.us</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
Desk: 971-673-1039<br>
Cell: 503-752-6354<br>
</span><a href="http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTYxMjIwLjY3OTEyMDUxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE2MTIyMC42NzkxMjA1MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2ODYxMTMwJmVtYWlsaWQ9bWlrYXlsYS5tYXJjb3R0QGRoc29oYS5zdGF0ZS5vci51cyZ1c2VyaWQ9bWlrYXlsYS5tYXJjb3R0QGRoc29oYS5zdGF0ZS5vci51cyZ0YXJnZXRpZD0mZmw9Jm12aWQ9JmV4dHJhPSYmJg==&&&110&&&http://www.oregon.gov/OHA"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">http://www.oregon.gov/OHA</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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