Event Flyer: Available here
Event Title: 2024 Public Health Advocacy Day
Event Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Event Time: 2-5pm, exhibitor set up 1:00-1:45pm
Location: Capitol Rotunda, 2300 N Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Description: OPHA's third annual advocacy day at the Oklahoma state Capitol, co-hosted with our wonderful friends at the Oklahoma Turning Point Council is Tuesday, March 26! This year's advocacy day will be an afternoon of learning, advocating, and community-building with your fellow public health practitioners, students, and partners in health. You'll enjoy tasty Catalyst Cookies from ReMerge while mingling and learning from hosted public health-aligned orgs in attendance, hear from legislators and advocates on public health bills this session, and find your legislators' offices to become more comfortable as a public health educator or advocate! OPHA and OTPC are proudly hosting more than a dozen organizations in Oklahoma who work to advance public health in Oklahoma. Please register to receive email updates on this event.
Tabling Organizations:
Speakers:
- Senator George Young, District 48
- Representative Ellyn Hefner, District 87
- Matt Glanville, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Government Relations Director - Oklahoma & Arkansas
- Alisa Northcutt, American Heart Association Government Relations Director - Oklahoma
- Stephanie Henson, League of Women Voters
- Cindy Nguyen, ACLU of OK
- Nicole McAfee, Freedom Oklahoma
- Tommy Yap, Metriarch
Learning Areas: Advocacy and policy
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how to find and contact legislators in-person, over the phone, via email, or through social media
- Identify public health individuals and organizations engaged in public health education, advocacy, or lobbying
- Describe the role policy and advocacy have in advancing public health in Oklahoma.
Accommodations? Email mckenziecowlbeck@gmail.com
Offered Continuing Education: up to 3 hours of CPH, CHES/MCHES, LSW
CE Evaluation Survey: https://forms.gle/PjXFU7pYfNMFEmzr5
Cost of Continuing Education from OPHA
OPHA members pay no cost to attend and receive CE credits provided by OPHA. OPHA provides continuing education to Oklahoma CHWs at no cost - thank you for your work improving Oklahoma's communities!
CE Attendance & Evaluation Policy
OPHA offers professional development opportunities and pursues approvals from credentialing bodies to offer continuing education. OPHA strives to meet the standards and competencies of credentialing agencies, and therefore attendance at an OPHA CE event does not guarantee credit. CE-seeking attendees must complete OPHA's Attendance & Evaluation Survey, provided at the conclusion of the event, so that OPHA's Continuing Education Committee can ensure attendance, demonstrated learning, and provide requested CE event certificates to attendees on a quarterly basis. CE credits are ultimately awarded to participant by credentialing agency/body upon event and survey completion and the attendee reporting our provided activities.
OPHA Provider Information
NCHEC (CHES/MCHES) Provider #101897
Oklahoma Licensed Social Worker Provider #20230163
Hosted by the OPHA Policy Committee
Policy Committee meetings are held the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 3-4pm. Please contact Co-Chairs McKenzie Cowlbeck and Stephanie Mansour for information.
