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 Irons in the Fire
 Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drugs
    Interactive Tobacco and Alcohol Marketing
    Buck Tobacco Sponsorship
 Food and Activity
    Food Marketing in the News and on the Web
    Communities Creating Healthy Environments (C-CHE)
    Digital Food and Beverage Marketing
    National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO)
    Healthy Eating Active Communities
    Rapid Response Media Network
    The Advertising Story
    Mapping the Debate on Food
    Accelerating Progress on Obesity
 Children's Issues
    Family Assets Initiative
    Paid Family Leave
    Raising Voices for Children's Health
    Talking About Child Care
 Other Public Health Issues
    Working Upstream
    Communicating for Change
    Partnership for the Public's Health
    Plan for Controlling Tuberculosis
 Violence Prevention & Injury Control
    Framing Violence Among Youth (UNITY)
    Strengthening the Debate
    Reporting on Violence
    Violence Prevention Initiative
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About BMSG
Tools For Advocates
Raising Voices for Children’s Health
Funder: The California Endowment

In 1997, as part of a major initiative on children's health, the California Endowment contracted with BMSG to compile a series of framing memos on how various children's health issues are covered in the news media, and to use the findings in media advocacy training for children's health advocates in California.

Framing memos
We wrote framing memos on children's health, childhood nutrition, child care, and how American values are used to support children's health issues in the news.

Case study
We wrote a case study on how the Regional Asthma Management Program successfully organized county public health departments, health maintenance organizations, and children's health advocates to address the problems of asthma across the San Francisco Bay Area.

Training
We trained children's health advocates throughout California so they could be confident, skilled spokespeople when talking with reporters or policy makers as they advocated for local policies to benefit children's health.

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