CA4Health, in collaboration with San Diego County’s Childhood Obesity Initiative, conducted a series of virtual capacity building sessions engaging nearly 50 residents around local sugary drink taxes. Virtual sessions covered information on health impacts of sugary beverage consumption, examples of current local soda tax initiatives, preemption, and advocacy to influence change. Resident advocates met with City Council and Board of Supervisors in search of a local champion to consider ways community may benefit from a local measure. Throughout the community engagements we focused on uplifting lived experiences to center community voices on current efforts to repeal statewide bans on local sugary drink taxes in California.

California Sugary Drink Tax Preemption Lawsuit rules in favor of Charter Cities removing the penalty provision.

Share your voice—how could your community benefit from a local measure?

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American Public Health Association (APHA) Analysis: Declarations of Racism as a Public Health Crisis shows how localities have taken actionable steps to address racism. 

Since the Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture publication was released in 2018, Equity in the Center stakeholders have asked for a tool to assess where organizations are on the Race Equity Cycle. The Race Equity Cycle Pulse Check is designed to do so and provide recommendations on next steps and tools to move work toward the next phase. Learn more here.