[CHI Meeting Announcement] 2/24/22: Community Health Policies in the Legislature

Policy advocacy is a key community health strategy, it can have broad impact and bring essential funds and public resources to our community. As many of you know, Washington State is in the final month of its legislative session and many new community health policies have been introduced this year. At this month's CHI meeting, we'll be lifting up some of the active policy proposals that could influence our CHI members’ work and the health of our Okanogan community. We'll cover legislation that directly relates to topics of our 2021 CHI meetings, including....

• Long-term solutions to address capacity in the healthcare and child care workforce

• Funding reimbursement rate increases for childcare provider (promised in the Fair Start for Kids Act)

• Expanded approach to substance abuse response and prevention

This is a great opportunity to learn how policy advocacy works from our CHI partners and hear about bills that may affect our collective work this year.