Hi from the Arizona Partnership for Healthy Communities! We wanted to take a moment to reconnect. 

LISC Phoenix took over as managing partner of the APHC in January. We've been working together behind the scenes to transition communications, standing projects and upcoming plans into new hands. 

This e-blast is the first you're receiving from the LISC's e-blast system. If it turned up in your spam folder, be sure to add us to your contacts and mark the message as "not spam" so you get all of our future announcements. You won't be added to any other LISC email lists, but you're welcome to subscribe to them here. 

Quick Hits from the Partnership: 

1. It was time for a website tune-up. Check out the new Partnership website at https://arizonahealthycommunities.org. The new backend will make it easier for us to share resources and upcoming events with all of you. 
2. Something worth reading.  Build Healthy Places Network is out with their new crosswalk essay Finding Health: How the Infrastructure Law Creates New Opportunities for Community Investments that Address the Social Determinants of Health. Click here to read. 
3. Calling all urbanists! The one and only Jeff Speck will be doing a book signing at Culdesac on Thursday February 16th! His best selling book, “Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time” has been updated for its 10th anniversary with a section on Culdesac Tempe.  Where: Little Cholla at 2025 E Apache Blvd, Tempe, AZ, When: Thursday, February 16th from 6pm onwards. 
4. Building codes for a changing climate. Arizona communities and technical assistance partners are proposing a plan to advance energy and water efficiency, climate resilience, and affordability through revisions of some cities' building codes. LISC wants to ensure an equitable outcome of this project. Come hear what is being proposed and begin to provide input! March 2, 2023, from 10 a.m. to noon. Contact Leslie Ethen at Leslie.Ethen@tucsonaz.gov to register.  
5. More webinars on the way. The Partnership is working on a line up of webinars for the new year hosted by a familiar face. Look for announcements in future emails. Contact us if you have an event or webinar you'd like to open up to our members.