CORE Coffee Chat: Community Meeting on Tobacco Product Waste
In 2019, the Santa Cruz City Council joined jurisdictions across the country by adopting a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to support community health and well-being across different departments and systems. In our next CORE Coffee Chat, we’ll explore the pros and cons of policies addressing an issue that affects public health, equity, and sustainability: the waste created by tobacco products.
This particular issue, like many policies under the umbrella of HiAP approaches, highlights many conditions at once, using the lens of systems and policies. In particular, it combines a focus on a public health issue (the adverse effects of tobacco use) as well as an environmental one, with many tobacco products such as vape cartridges, cigarette butts, and packaging showing up in parks and beaches as hazardous litter. Like other problems targeted by HiAP approaches, this particular topic raises equity questions as well, including who is most impacted by the adverse health effects of tobacco and which neighborhoods are most affected by tobacco waste.
Join your hosts, Nicole Young and Nicole Lezin, on Tuesday, March 7 from 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. for a CORE Coffee Chat jointly sponsored with the City of Santa Cruz HiAP team, to learn more about policy options for addressing tobacco product waste and to share your questions and opinions about their pros and cons. We’ll hear from Tara Leonard, MPH, a health educator leading the Health Services Agency’s Tobacco Education and Prevention program; Em Nguyen, Principal Management Analyst with the City of Santa Cruz; and Tiffany Wise-West, PhD, the City’s Sustainability and Climate Action Manager and lead for the HiAP initiative. Then we’ll have a chance to break into small groups for a deeper dive into the policies being considered.
Register to get the Zoom link for the March 7 CORE Coffee Chat: https://bit.ly/CoffeeChat-03-07-23
This virtual Coffee Chat is one of three community meetings the City of Santa Cruz is hosting to gather input about tobacco waste policies and initiatives that are being explored. The City will host the other two community meetings in person at the London Nelson Center on March 18, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. and on March 20, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. For questions about these community meetings, contact Emeline Nguyen at enguyen@santacruzca.gov or 831-420-5017.
The CORE Coffee Chat will be conducted in English with simultaneous Spanish interpretation. Please note: the interpretation feature is only available if you have downloaded the Zoom app to your computer or mobile device. The option to select a language channel is not available if you are joining the meeting from the Zoom web site or calling on a phone (without the Zoom app), and the feature may not be available if you are using Zoom on a Chromebook, unless you install the Zoom Android app from the Google Play store.
Can’t participate during the live Coffee Chat? Register anyway and we’ll share a link to the recording of the Coffee Chat so you can watch and learn at your own pace.
Register now for upcoming CORE Institute Events:
Tuesday, April 18, 10:00 – 11:15
Harnessing Local Data to Create the CORE Conditions for: A Safe, Just Community
Co-hosted by: CORE Investments and DataShare Santa Cruz County
Register: https://bit.ly/DataShare-CORE-04-18-23
Tuesday, June 20, 10:00 – 11:15
Harnessing Local Data to Create the CORE Conditions for: Stable, Affordable Housing & Shelter
Co-hosted by: CORE Investments and DataShare Santa Cruz County
Register: https://bit.ly/DataShare-CORE-06-20-23
Stay tuned for more CORE Institute events coming in 2023!
- Nicole Young (Optimal Solutions Consulting) and Nicole Lezin (Cole Communications) – CORE consultants
The CORE Coffee Chats, Conversations, and Office Hours are virtual learning sessions offered through the CORE Institute for Innovation and Impact, as part of the countywide Collective of Results and Evidence-based (CORE) Investments initiative. The CORE Institute serves as:
- a learning hub for building shared knowledge, skills, and capacity across public, private, non-profit, and community-based groups and organizations in Santa Cruz County.
- a learning lab for testing, evaluating, and spreading innovative, results-based approaches to achieving equitable health and well-being in Santa Cruz County.
- Nicole Young (Optimal Solutions Consulting) y Nicole Lezin (Cole Communications) – consultoras de CORE
Las Pláticas con un Café, Conversaciones, y Horas de Oficina son sesiones de aprendizaje virtual que se ofrecen por el Instituto de CORE para la Innovación y el Impacto, como parte de la iniciativa de Inversiones del Colectivo de Resultados Basados en la Evidencia (CORE) en todo el Condado. El Instituto de CORE funciona como:
- un centro de aprendizaje para desarrollar conocimientos, habilidades y capacidades en grupos y organizaciones públicos, privados, sin fines de lucro y comunitarios en el Condado de Santa Cruz.
- un laboratorio de aprendizaje para probar, evaluar y difundir enfoques innovadores basados en resultados para lograr la salud y el bienestar equitativos en el Condado de Santa Cruz.
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