[Oregon_EPHT_News] FW: Rebuilding Place of the Heart: Film Screening April 4th at Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus

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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:31 PM
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Subject: [Health_Education_Promotion] Rebuilding Place of the Heart: Film Screening April 4th at Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus


“Human beings need places of the heart. We need places that we can be with people we care about- our family, our friends, our community. Because community doesn’t happen by accident, there has to be a place for it to happen”

-       Richard Jackson, Designing Healthy Communities, Rebuilding Place of the Heart


To celebrate Public Health Week, the PCC Health and Wellness Department at the Rock Creek campus and the Oregon Public Health Association (OPHA) Present: Designing Healthy Communities

Date:
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

Time:
12:00pm – 1:00pm

Location:
Portland Community College
Rock Creek Campus
Building 9, Event Center, 122A
17705 NW Springville Rd.
Portland, OR 97229

Description:
The PCC Health and Wellness Department will be screening a clip of the Designing Health Communities episode, Rebuilding Places of the Heart.

Designing Healthy Communities looks at the impact our built environment has on key public health indices – obesity, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancer and depression. It is hosted and narrated by Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, of UCLA, formerly of the CDC. Dr. Jackson connects bad community design with burgeoning health costs, then analyzes and illustrates what citizens are doing about this urgent crisis by looking upstream for innovative solutions.

In the episode, Rebuilding Places of the Heart viewers will learn about how cities like Elgin, IL, Riverside, CA and Syracuse, NY are redefining themselves for a new paradigm. Leading the way to a greener, more sustainable Elgin is a group of high school students.  Despite many innovative programs to get Syracuse back on its feet, the city struggles with the larger problem of Lake Onondaga, the most polluted lake in our nation. Local Native American Onondaga tribal leader, Oren Lyons, serves as conscience in the movement to restore Lake Onondaga for “Seven Generations to come.”  And in Riverside, CA, 16-year old science prodigy, Otana Jakpor, has a personal reason for her war against air pollution. She takes her battle all the way to the White House.


This event is free and open to everyone.


Alissa Leavitt, MPH, CHES
Health Faculty
Portland Community College
Rock Creek Campus
alissa.leavitt at pcc.edu<mailto:alissa.leavitt at pcc.edu>
971-722-7767<tel:971-722-7767>



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Alissa Gabrielle Leavitt, MPH, CHES
green.alissa at gmail.com<mailto:green.alissa at gmail.com>
503-358-2331
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