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Overview

The Local Solutions Support Center offers monthly virtual trainings. Through this program, we will provide a deeper dive on specific skills and best practices, the latest preemption-related research and messaging, and opportunities to explore and learn together about how to best counter the misuse of state preemption and strengthen local democracy.

If you'd like to be on the distribution list about LSSC Virtual Trainings, please email Fran Weaks at fran[at]supportdemocracy.org. 

 

Summer 2021 Virtual Training Series

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In one-hour sessions offered each month this summer, you will be able to have an interactive discussion and learn about how the Local Solutions Support Center can help to advance your work and build capacity.

The purpose of this summer series will be to provide insight on how the LSSC team works together to provide resources to the field to address preemption and upholding local democracy. During this series you will learn how each team provides resources that build the campaigns and support those who are leading these efforts. Case study  examples such as police reform,  public health, and paid sick leave will be used to illustrate how LSSC can be of assistance to the field to fight preemption and uplift local democracy. 

 

Archive of Virtual Trainings

Featured
New Preemption Public Education Tools for 2021 Session

Panelists included Joe Fuld at the Campaign Workshop, Feroza Freeland of A Better Balance, Hannah Kuhn of Stand Up Nashville’s We Decide Tennessee, and Judith Clerjeune of the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalitions.

Tennessee Campaign to Suspend State Preemption During COVID-19 Public Health Crisis

In this webinar Odessa Kelly and Whitney Washington at Stand Up Nashville; Kelly Sue Waller at Bedford County Listening Project; and Bennett Foster at Memphis for All discuss the Tennessee Campaign to Suspend State Preemption During COVID-19 Public Health Crisis.

What Local Governments Can and Should Do to Respond to the Public Health Crisis

On March 24, 2020, Francesca Menes of Local Progress; LiJia Gong of the Public Rights Project; and Laura Huizar of Local Solution Support Center and the National Employment Law Project hosted a webinar focused on what local governments can and should do to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Home Rule: Principles to Action

On February 27, 2020, staff from the Local Solution Support Center and Fordham Law hosted a webinar focused on home rule and discussed findings from the new report, Principles of Home Rule for the 21st Century.

2020 Legislative Session Preemption Trends (So Far...)

On January 30, 2020 Ida Eskamani of Organize Florida; Kim Haddow of the Local Solution Support Center; Chris Sanders of the Tennessee Equality Project; and the team at The Campaign Workshop hosted a webinar focused on trends related to preemption in the early days of the 2020 legislative session.

Preemption Impact Research

On December 4, 2019, Jennifer Karas Montes, Professor of Sociology and Gerald B. Kramer Faculty Scholar in Aging Studies at Syracuse University; Mark Treskon of the Urban Institute; and Jennifer L. Pomeranz, Assistant Professor at the College of Global Public Health hosted a webinar focused on research about preemption and its broad-ranging impact.

Repealing Preemption: Lessons Learned
Case Study on Florida's Legislative Session and Preemption

In this webinar from September 25, 2019, Ida Eskamani of Organize Florida presents on preemption work during Florida’s 2019 legislative session.

Preemption Research and Messaging Training

This webinar, presented August 12, 2019, focuses on messaging research about preemption.