In this session, the Planning Healthy Communities Initiative (PHCI) will lead an introductory training on Health in All Policies, focusing on how to bring community health and equity into planning processes and decision-making, emerging tools to build capacity for health advancement in planning, and how to support health in all policies. In addition to presentations, participants will engage in group exercises, discuss opportunities and challenges to integrating health into planning and policy processes, and learn about new statewide collaborative initiatives.

This session will summarize the state of affordable housing, explain opportunities within the IRA to preserve and improve affordable housing, describe how to achieve climate resilience for an aging population, and provide tips to foster and strengthen collaboration that can advance more climate-resilient communities.