Legal Technical Assistance

 

The HEAL Cities Campaign announces the availability of legal technical assistance from the National Policy and Legal Assistance Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN) on the following HEAL Cities Campaign policies:

 

• Complete Streets
• Safe Routes to School
• Community Gardens
• Farmers Markets
• Limits on Fast Food
• Joint Use
• Healthy Vending

 

Products include model policy language, legal memos and fact sheets.

 

Contact Quang Dang, J.D.
Legal Technical Assistance Director
510-302-3383
qdang@phlpnet.org

 

OR

 

Manel Kappagoda, J.D., M.P.H.
Deputy Director
510-302-3343
mkappagoda@phlpnet.org

 

NPLAN is a project of Public Health Law and Policy and is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The HEAL Cities Campaign is funded by Kaiser Permanente and the Vitamin Cases Consumer Settlement Fund. The Vitamin Cases Consumer Settlement Fund was created as a result of an antitrust class action. One of the purposes of the Fund is to improve the health and nutrition of California consumers.