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The California Endowment Videos |
For decades, Pete Earley, veteran reporter and author of several nonfiction books, told other people's true stories. The tables were turned when his son was diagnosed with a mental illness. He wrote Crazy: A Father's Search through America's Mental Health Madness, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist, to detail his family's struggle with the system and to expose the criminalization of mental illness in a Florida jail.
In this Center Scene vidcast, watch Earley tell his story and be interviewed by KPCC radio host and Los Angeles Times columnist Patt Morrison.
The next president will attempt to expand health coverage -- but will any of the candidates' solutions actually fix our system? This was the central question of a special issue of The American Prospect and was at the heart of a panel discussion at the June 19 Center Scene Event, The American Prospect: The Path to Universal Health Care held at the Center for Healthy Communities in Los Angeles.
Panelists Fabian Núñez, member and speaker emeritus, California State Assembly; Neal Halfon, M.D., director, UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities; Ezra Klein, associate editor, The American Prospect and moderator Matt Miller, senior fellow, Center for American Progress and host, Left, Right & Center on 89.9 KCRW discuss what it will take to achieve a system that is truly universal, efficient, affordable and has prevention at its core.
This is the Q&A session from the June 2008 "The American Prospect: The Path to Universal Health Care" panel discussion.
In 2005, California had more than four times as many fast-food restaurants and conveniences stores as it did produce vendors and grocery stores. Such a dearth of eating options has turned many places in California -- especially low-income communities and communities of color -- into healthy food deserts.
Join us for this public program, which explores the problems surrounding healthy food access, how they affect the obesity epidemic and what we can do to ensure that all California communities have fresh and healthy food available. Panelists include Duane Perry, founder of Philadelphia-based The Food Trust; Theresa Hastert, senior research associate for the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research; and Amanda Shaffer, director of communications for the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College.
This is the Q&A session for the May 2008 "Deserted: How to Solve the Crisis of Poor Access to Healthy Food" panel discussion.
About 29 million children eat school lunches every day. The five foods those kids are most likely to see on their plates are pizza, chocolate chip cookies, corn, French fries or chicken nuggets, according to the American School Food Service Association. School food is a major part of many children's diets, and right now it's not doing their health many favors. A panel discussion (with Rodney Taylor, director of nutrition services at the Riverside Unified School District; Matt Sharp, director of the Los Angeles office of California Food Policy Advocates; Elizabeth Medrano, parent and community organizer for the Healthy School Food Coalition; and moderator Moira Berry, program manager of the Farm to Institution project at the Center for Food and Justice) examined innovative ways to transform the school food system.
This is the Q&A session for the April 2008 "Thinking Outside the Lunchbox for Healthy School Food" panel discussion.
Health care was at the forefront of voters' minds as they headed to the polls for the Feb. 5 primary, but a 60-second answer in a debate can't give us all we need to know about the presidential candidates' positions on the issue.
Watch a videocast of Susan Dentzer, health correspondent from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Chip Kahn, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, and Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA discuss the presidential candidates' health reform platforms.
Health care was at the forefront of voters' minds as they headed to the polls for the Feb. 5 primary, but a 60-second answer in a debate can't give us all we need to know about the presidential candidates' positions on the issue.
Watch the Q&A session from the Will February 5 be a Super Tuesday for Health Care panel?
In health politics, it matters not only what you say, but also how you say it. On Jan. 10, former Gov. Michael Dukakis and University of California, Berkeley professor George Lakoff visited The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities to discuss the role of health reform in the 2008 election and dissect the way candidates talk about the issue.
The question-and-answer session between Gov. Michael Dukakis, Dr. George Lakoff and the audience on Jan. 10.
Many political analysts said that health care reform would influence presidential politics in 2008, but few predicted it to be the top domestic issue of this campaign cycle. Front-runners in both parties have proposed reform packages, and their political prescriptions have often grabbed front page headlines and prime-time placements.
But do these splashy proposals represent exciting new policy priorities or politics as usual? On Dec. 11, 2007, four of the top campaign strategists visited The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities to discuss the role of health reform in the 2008 election. Moderator Mark Halperin led an engaging discussion among Bill Carrick, Chris Lehane, Mike Murphy and Dan Schnur.
This event was the continuation of Health Politics '08, a series of Center Scene Public Programs that will be held through the election year.
Part 2 of "Putting Health Reform through the Spin Cycle."
On Dec. 6, 2007, The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities welcomed Dr. Frank Luntz for a provocative public program exploring the language of health reform. Dr. Luntz, author of the best-selling Words that Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear, led an interactive discussion with the audience about what advocates for health reform should be saying about the issue. He has written, supervised and conducted mor ethan 1,500 surveys, focus groups and dial sessions. He was an architect and principal author of the Contract with America, which contributed to the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress.
Dr. Luntz's visit was the first installment of Health Politics '08, a series of Center Scene Public Programs that will continue through the election year.
Part 2 of "The Language of Health Reform: An Evening with Frank Luntz."
On Oct. 4, The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities opened the exhibition From the Abundant Pharmacy: Traditional Chinese Medicine in Los Angeles' Chinatown. This video is part of the exhibit and filmmakers visited shops around Los Angeles' Chinatown to speak with their owners and customers about the practice and philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine.
Gang violence is one of Los Angeles' most urgent community health issues. For five straight years, crime rates have fallen in Los Angeles, with one notable exception: youth gang violence. With an estimated 700 gangs and 40,000 gang members, Los Angeles is often labeled the gang capital of the world.
Watch a Nov. 15 panel discussion moderated by Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick and with featured participants Connie Rice, civil rights attorney and co-director of The Advancement Project Los Angeles; Rev. Jeff Carr, Los Angeles's director of Gang Reduction and Youth Development; and Diego Vigil, professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine. The panelists candidly addressed the impact of persistent gang violence on the health and well-being of our communities as well as possible solutions for safer and healthier neighborhoods.
In this lively session, watch audience members ask the tough questions and the gang violence panelists' answers to mitigate the problem of gang violence in Los Angeles.
California's health care system is in "critical condition" and The California Endowment declared a "code blue" as it unveiled a hard-hitting new TV ad on Aug. 28, part of its $6 million paid advertising effort to urge the state's leaders to enact health care reform this year. While a recent field poll shows 69 percent of Californians wanting reform, just 6 percent said it's "very likely" that Sacramento would act before the legislative session ends September 14.
There is a limited window of opportunity for state policymakers to take action this year to fix California's broken health care system, and in recent polling, 9 of 10 Californians have demanded reform. The California Endowment recently launched a comprehensive, statewide health reform advertising campaign calling for meaningful action on health care reform this year.
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