This resource recommends concrete steps state Medicaid agencies can take to address mental health among mothers and infants in the postpartum year to advance he...
“Educator, consultant, facilitator, speaker, author, and activist, Diane Goodman (she/her) has been addressing issues of diversity and social justice for ...
“The Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) is a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance that centers Black mamas and birthing people to advocate, drive resea...
“Belonging is a fundamental human need, and one that is linked to many of the most complex challenges of our time. The Center for Inclusion and Belonging ...
“For effective and inclusive community planning, it’s important that community development groups and local governments work closely with residents who ...
“In an effort to bridge the gap in healthcare communication and ensure quality care for diverse patient populations, Skagit Valley College (SVC) proud to ...
“Intersex people are often left out of the equation in talking about making health care available and competent for all. This story is a great example of ...
For more information or to sign up to participate, please contact Sara Airoldi, Whatcom Roots of Empathy Program Manager at sairoldi@rootsofempathy.org“
For more information or to sign up to participate, please contact Sara Airoldi, Whatcom Roots of Empathy Program Manager at sairoldi@rootsofempathy.org“
An inclusive community building that supports children’s well being and breaks intergenerational cycles of violence and neglect. Roots of Empathy can be b...
In this webinar, presenters covered an overview of multisolving, discussed what multisolving looks like in practice, and explored how it can be applied to creat...
“Helping gang affected youth open their heart, mind and soul through self empowerment and healing to thrive with self respect and confidence back to lovin...
“Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) is one of the nation’s leading photographers, based in the Pacific Northwest. She earned her BFA from Brooks Inst...
Before I , a film by Remy Styrk, screened during our January 2024 Partner Convening. “These are the stories of what it means to be the hope and the dream ...
I Am The Hope And The Dream – a film by Remy Styrk, screened during our January 2024 Partner Convening. “On Monday, June 13th Ferndale Connect, a pr...
“Have you heard about the story pole that Lummi artist Jason LaClair has been working on downtown? He recently finished working on completing the story po...
Slides from Project 15-50-5’s partner highlight during our January 2024 Partner Convening: the HeART of Transformation
Slides from CHC Snohomishs’ partner highlight about their San Juan School Based Sealant Program
Slides from Skagit Valley College’s Partner highlight: Language Access Workforce Initiative during our January 2024 Partner Convening
“The Chelan County Jail and Reentry Program is a holistic approach to reintegration of incarcerated adults into society. Designed to address the complex n...
Slides from the session Beyond Integration: Recovery Coaching & Lived Experience during our January 2024 Partner Convening
Slides from the session, Catalyzing Change: Well-Being Measurement and Indigenous Indicators at our January 2024 Partner Convening
Slides from the session Turning Adversity into Action | January 2024 Partner Convening
Taanvi Arekapudi, a 14-year-old living in the North Sound, is the author of the international Best-Seller, “Uplift Teens Today: Coping Strategies for Ment...
This multimedia essay shares the stories and insights of community stewards in Fox Cities, Wisconsin, that are working across differences to create an inclusive...
This resource provides ADM Rachel L. Levine’s keynote address at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo. In her remarks, ADM ...
This article discusses the movement to achieve equitable health and well-being through the use of the Vital Conditions Framework and shared stewardship. Example...
These are Milenko Matanovič’s slides for his presentation at the November 2023 Network Learning Session.
Here you will find principles developed by Milenko Matanovič for any community to utilize to promote “Everyday Democracy”.
This is the playlist of recordings from January 2023’s Partner Convening: Building Bridges for Collective Action.
This presentation provide healthcare options clarity for immigrants in WA state.
Prácticas de autocuidado que se presentaron en la Reunión de Promotoras de Salud 2023
Self-Care Practices which were presented at the CHW Convening fall 2023
Opciones de Atención Médica para inmigrantes en el estado de Washington y las nuevas opciones disponibles en 2024 | Health Care Options for Immigrants in Wash...
Agenda for the September 30th North Sound Community Health Worker/Promotora Gathering Agenda
“The Find Me A Therapist program connects people to Black therapists by searching for Black mental health professionals.”
“The purpose of the Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force is to continually review Whatcom County’s criminal justice and behavioral health p...
Slides – Network Learning Session – Incarcerated and Justice Involved Equitable Solutions
“The First Step Act (FSA or the Act), passed into law in December 2018, was heralded as the culmination of a bipartisan effort to improve criminal justice...
“Housing instability/homelessness increases risk for incarceration and, conversely, incarceration increases the risk for homelessness. To address these ri...
“Current rates of homelessness in New York City are the highest ever documented.1 A small percentage of this population remains chronically homeless, eit...
“The Transitions Clinic Network (TCN) is a national organization committed to reversing the harms of mass incarceration by eliminating racial health and e...
“Everett alternative response programs offer policing and prosecution models proven to reduce recidivism for low-level offenders, as well as offer support...
“The Whatcom Ground-Level Response and Coordinated Engagement (GRACE) program is a community-based effort to find solutions for individuals who are high u...
“This report describes findings from a quantitative analysis comparing outcomes for LEAD participants versus “system-as-usual” control participants on...
This is a pre-booking, community-based diversion program designed to divert those suspected of low-level drug and prostitution offenses away from jail and prose...
In 2010 and 2011, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, launched local reentry programs under the auspices of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Second Chance Act Adult...
The purpose of Guidelines for Successful Transition of People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders from Jail and Prison: Implementation Guide is to provide b...
“Almost all jail inmates will leave correctional settings and return to the community. Inadequate transition planning puts jail inmates, who entered the j...
This is a report from the Cass County/Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Wellness Court in Walker, MN about their program, CCDWI – Wellness Court.
“The Tulalip Tribes, Elders Panel is a diversion program for defendants in the Tulalip Tribal Court. The Elders Panel draws on the wisdom and experience ...
“Tulalip’s Healing to Wellness Court provides the support and resources necessary for our clients to begin living sober lives and reconnecting with thei...
“The didgʷáličWellness Center, which is owned and operated by the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, provides out-patient treatment services for trib...
“In 1996,a committee of practitioners and others involved with drug court program operations was established under the leadership of the National Associat...
“On Washington State’s northernmost coast resides the Lummi People, a sovereign indigenous nation of approximately 6,600 people. For the past several ye...
“Settler colonialism has involved denying Native people sovereignty and access to land and resources. It has also produced high rates of incarceration of ...
“For decades, Whatcom County has struggled to strike a balance between prevention and incarceration in its approach to public safety. From the early days ...
This article talks about the impact of Covid-19 in Whatcom County Jail.
The Northwest Regional Council (NWRC) was created as a “grassroots” organization. Our roots go deep into our local region, building on the ideas, values, an...
These statistical tables present data from the Mortality in Correctional Institutions collection, through which the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) obtained ...
This article talks about body cavity searches and Fentanyl issue in Snohomish county jail.
Since 1970, the rate of incarceration in America has expanded more than fourfold, and the United States leads the world in locking people up. Many places in Ame...
“This report was written in response to House Bill (HB) 2449, which was passed in 2016 and, among other things, requires an annual statewide juvenile dete...
“2019’s Keep Washington Working (KWW) Act and 2020’s Courts Open to All Act (COTA) place Washington state at the forefront of national efforts to prot...
“With the county’s jail population surging, local government leaders, justice system practitioners, and community members have become increasingly conce...
This article from GoSkagit, talks about how providing adequate medical care in a jail has proven to be a challenge for counties throughout the country. Two year...
“Ear Hustle launched in 2017 as the first podcast created and produced in prison, featuring stories of the daily realities of life inside California’s S...
Connecting with parents, caregivers, and professionals to raise community awareness about the tender time of becoming a new parent, what perinatal mood and anxi...
Underground Ministries’ partner presentation slides. For more information or to connect with Underground Ministries, reach out to Alex Sanchez, Director o...
Whatcom County Health & Community Services Department’s Mobile Mama, partner project presentation. for people are interested in learning more they can...
In response to inequities in behavioral health access and disparities in behavioral health outcomes, the Washington State Legislature funded the Health Care Aut...
WIN (Well-Being in the Nation Measures) Network on website. This website was mentioned during the presentation of Somava Saha, MD, MS. during our August 2023 Pa...
A free e-book by Clear Impact. This guide, the first of many (and a work in progress), proposes internal measures of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as tools f...
On this episode of The Dose, we talk about one community health worker program, IMPaCT, that is helping some of the poorest and sickest Americans meet their hea...
The CDC’s resources for and about Promotores de Salud/Community Health Workers. Included are definitions, initiatives and available trainings.
Here is the slide deck that was shared during the Community Health Workers – Promoting Health and Strengthening Communities learning session.
This episode is the first in a set of six Coffee and Science conversations on Assistance—health care sector activities that aim to reduce social risk by prov...
This manuscript’s purpose is to describe how to engage and collaborate with promotoras in a father-focused, family-centered program for Latino families living...
MHP Salud explains the role of a Promotores or Promotoras de Salud. Their impacts in communities and resources.
This article talks about the Promotora de Salud/Lay Health Worker Model with examples of Rural Promotora/Lay Health Worker Models.
A Summary of State Community Health Worker Laws
This course is designed to provide state programs and other stakeholders with basic knowledge about Community Health Workers (CHWs), such as official definition...
This document provides guidance and resources for implementing recommendations to integrate community health workers (CHWs) into community-based efforts to prev...
C3 Project’s definitions for CHW’s roles, skills, and qualities.This document shares results of an assessment of Community Health Worker (CHW) stand...
NACHW’s definition of what a CHW is and their role in the community.
The Policy Evidence Assessment Reports summarize the evidence bases for components of chronic disease policy. In these reports 14 CHW policy components to ass...
Envision Equity’s resource page is continually updated with CHW-curated content to support CCR-2109 programs, including CHWs, allies, and partners. With m...
MHP Salud identifies appropriate materials and resources from other organizations and maintains a list of these resources and contact information. MHP Salud pro...
The resources on this page are collected from programs across CDC that host materials pertinent to CHWs. These resources should be helpful not only to CHWs but ...
DOH Definition of CHW and a no-cost 10-week core competency training program designed to strengthen the skills, knowledge, and abilities of community health wor...
Community Health Workers united nationally to support communities in achieving health, equity and social justice. Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW...
Resources & Findings from the C3 Project.The C3 Project’s primary aims are to expand cohesion in the field and to contribute to the visibility and gre...
The APHA Community Health Workers Section actively promotes the voice of community health workers within health care and public health systems and in communitie...
The Community Health Worker (CHW) Leadership Committee will be an ongoing, statewide, multi-stakeholder group representative of Washington state and our diverse...
Community Health Worker training registration. The Community Health Worker Core Competency Training is offered quarterly on a regional basis.
Whatcom Community Health Worker’s Network page, with resources on meetings and opportunities to connect with fellow CHWs.
Existing studies on CHWs focus on assessing their effectiveness in improving health outcomes, reducing healthcare costs, and bridging the gap in health disparit...
Maslow’s renowned model—a story of systemic racism, Western epistemology (or ways of knowing), and the forced invisibility of Indigenous knowledge.
This is a recording of the July 2023 Network Learning Session entitled “Community Health Workers – Promoting Health and Strengthening Communities”
Join in on a compelling conversation with Liz Baxter, the CEO of North Sound ACH, and Becky Payne, the President of the Rippel Foundation, as they explore the i...
This presentation discusses the topics of well-being and the Social Determinants of Health, The Vital Conditions, thriving, struggling, and suffering, and balan...
This resource outlines the North Star Project which aims to better align resources and services to address the complex behavioral health and homelessness challe...
In 2022, PHI’s Center for Collaborative Planning commissioned the National Black Women’s Justice Institute to host conversations with Black girls throughout...
PHI’s CA Bridge Youth Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) pilot project found how hospital emergency departments can help to reverse these trends.
Youth with PHI’s Faces for the Future Public Health Youth Corps participated in a workshop at their local high school in Sacramento to learn about the detrime...
These case studies from PHI’s California Overdose Prevention Network contain concrete examples of data-driven strategies that address rising rates of overdose...
Adultism refers to the systematic discrimination and prejudice faced by young people solely based on their age, where adults hold power and authority over them....
The Children of the Setting Sun Productions (CSSP) organization is always looking for ways to engage younger generations in their work. They began with a youth ...
This is a recording of the May 2023 Network Learning Session entitled “Elevating community voices in Advocacy – Lessons from youth leaders”
This page provides links to success stories of nonprofits engaging in everyday advocacy across the country.
This webpage describes the benefits of nonprofits engaging in advocacy. It also provides examples of everyday advocacy and how nonprofits can help give citizens...
This guide is designed to help advocates understand the “why” and the “how” of advancing public policies at all levels of government that put financial ...
This resource defines advocacy and how it can be utilized by nonprofit organizations. Specific examples of advocacy work and ways to get more involved in advoca...
This is a recording of the March 2023 Network Learning Session entitled “Getting Started with Legislative Advocacy”
This story on the Auburn School District in Washington State is about helping homeless students graduate by providing resources such as transportation, foo...
This resource explains the different types of tax-exempt organizations recognized by the IRS and the activities they are permitted to engage in. It covers tax r...
The article provides a sample policy for 501(c)(3) organizations to comply with IRS rules on political campaign intervention. It covers prohibited activities an...
This resource provides guidance on the importance of record-keeping for advocacy charities and outlines key practices to ensure compliance with legal requi...
This is a self-assessment tool for nonprofit organizations, coalitions, and groups to evaluate their readiness for advocacy efforts. It assesses skills, resourc...
This resource guides advocates and funders facing external threats. It emphasizes proactively identifying threats, assessing vulnerabilities, developing respons...
This resource provides a step-by-step approach to developing effective advocacy strategies. It emphasizes understanding the problem and target audience, develop...
This resource covers key concepts related to advocacy, such as logic models and theories of change, and offers practical advice on how to design and implement e...
As a statewide champion for housing, the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance is a coalition of diverse organizations and individuals working together to buil...
This webpage from the Nonprofit Association of Washington lists advocacy and lobbying resources for nonprofits.
This video reviews the basics of the legislative process in Washington State.
This report discusses the importance of advocacy in promoting health and racial equity. The report highlights the need for advocates to understand the root caus...
This resource from the Lopez Island Family Resource Center offers practical guidance for legislative advocacy.
Use this tool to enter your street address and find your legislative or congressional district.
This is a slide deck from the March 29th Network Learning Session: Getting Started with Legislative Advocacy
Federal tax law controls how much lobbying 501(c)(3) organizations can engage in. Public charities can choose to measure their lobbying under either the insubst...
This resource provides an overview of nonprofit lobbying definitions, describes types of lobbying and summarizes rules of 501(c)(3) nonprofit lobbying.
This webpage provides resources intended to help nonprofit decision-makers understand the basic components of good governance and serve their organization and t...
This fact sheet describes the limits within which 501(c)(3) public charities— including houses of worship and public foundations—can lobby.
This resource promotes racial equity in policy creation. It centers five principles to help promote racial equity in policy, both as an outcome and as a process...
This resource advocates for racial equity across political policy platforms. It centers five principles to help promote racial equity in policy: fixing systems ...
This webpage provides nonprofits with nonpartisan tools and resources to help the communities they serve participate in voting and democracy.
This report from Monterey County, California explores key questions that can be used to inform racial equity efforts in communities across the country. It offer...
This resource defines and describes the “insubstantial part test” which is the default test that applies if your organization does not make the 501(...
This graphic flowchart can help determine if your communication is considered lobbying under federal tax law rules for electing 501(c)(3) organizations.
This resource offers guidance on how 501(c)(3) organizations can legally use social media for advocacy and policy change.
This resource is designed to guide organizations through the process of forming and working in coalition. It includes information about common forms of coalitio...
This resource was created to support nonprofit organizations in building capacity for advocacy work. It includes four different sections that detail different t...
This guide offers information on how nonprofit organizations can advocate in policy settings. It identifies four foundational areas of focus needed to equip a n...
This guide provides an overview of the Build A Movement! framework, along with basic information on public policy, advocacy, and civics. It is intended for use ...
This resource provides templates and sample documents
This self assessment checklist is designed for public charities to examine organizational policies and procedures that support their ability to conduct policy a...
This downloadable Excel spreadsheet helps calculate the amount a 501(c)(3) organization can spend on lobbying per section 501(h). Users can enter an organizatio...
This guide offers practical advice for nonprofits navigating rules and regulations related to lobbying. The guide includes a list of lobbying activities that re...
This guide provides information for nonprofit organizations in Washington state that are seeking to engage in lobbying. It details the rules and requirements fo...
This webpage provides reports, fact sheets, action alerts, quarterly public policy calls, and other resources to help keep nonprofit organizations in Washington...
This webpage lists upcoming training sessions, webinars, and events intended to help nonprofits and foundations advance their missions and serve their communiti...
This fact sheet provides 501(c)(3)s with information in determining which ballot measure activities count towards an organization’s IRS lobbying limit, and wh...
This guide outlines Washington state voter registration law, including deadlines, photo ID requirements, and voter registration drives.
This guide outlines Washington state lobbying law, including registration and reporting requirements, and lobbying restrictions.
This guide describes campaign finance and ballot measure law in the state of Washington, including contributions, expenditures, and registering/reporting as a p...
Complete this form to request advocacy-related technical assistance from Boulder Advocacy.
Explore books, articles, and videos recommended by Yale School of Public Health faculty, staff, and students.
More than 30 Black women’s organizations and advocates present proactive Reproductive Justice policy solutions.
For john, the most important of those things is bridging, connecting with other people in a way that helps them feel like they belong and helps you feel like yo...
Dozens of federal departments, agencies, and institutes published a whole-of-government plan to enhance well-being and justice across the United States – The ...
Pathways to Population Health Equity offers a framework, roadmaps, compass, and associated tools for public health practitioners to build a more prepared, resil...
Our language must continually evolve with our understanding and acceptance of diverse groups of people. This booklet aims to guide us… in the quest to com...
NLC and Oxford embarked on a dual effort aimed at a pilot in metropolitan Atlanta, while also considering a broader set of emerging models spurred by cities and...
This article discusses the benefits of using the vital conditions framework to render essential social determinants of health (SDOH) concepts in a form that is ...
This video collection of stories shares Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) health practitioner perspectives. This collection was created by Mónica ...
This video collection of stories shares Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOD) patient perspectives. This collection was created by Mónica Koller, MS O...
The Purple Stethoscope podcast is hosted by Devyn Nixon, ARNP. The purpose of the podcast is to promote health literacy and healthcare for the culture.
This toolkit compiles promising models, resources, and tools to support organizations implementing transportation programs in rural communities across the Unite...
This story discusses nine Massachusetts communities where residents were recruited to conduct an annual study that examines community change and health and how ...
Humanity today is facing a massive extinction: languages are disappearing at an unprecedented pace. And when that happens, a unique vision of the world is lost....
Use FEMA programs, research, and guidance to improve your community’s ability to prepare and recover.
The North Sound Listens team, a partnership of North Sound ACH and the Health Care Authority, provides peer support and crisis counseling to our neighbors impac...
PDF of the slides from the November learning session, Emergency Preparedness. This session was part of the Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture series.
Recording of the November learning session, Emergency Preparedness, supported by the Emerging Focus Areas Cohort. Part of the Advancing a Just and Inclusive Cul...
Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children, adolescents, and their families are increasingly seeking out pediatricians and mental health providers for educat...
This episode of the podcast series, Who Belongs? interviews UC Berkeley Professor and OBI Director John A. Powell. In this interview, Professor Powell...
This story discusses a Cincinnati development agency that is helping tenants buy homes for themselves rather than letting large investors take affordable homes ...
REALD is a type of demographic information, like age, marital status, employment and more. REALD stands for race, ethnicity, and language, disability. In 2020, ...
The Washington Environmental Health Disparities Map is an interactive mapping tool that compares communities across our state for environmental health dispariti...
What would it take to dramatically increase mobility from poverty? To answer this question, the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty gathered a range of in...
Written by Eve Tuck, State University of New York, published in the Harvard Educational Review in 2009. In this open letter, Eve Tuck calls on communities, rese...
Recording of the October learning session, Reimagining Data, supported by the Equity Cohort. Part of the Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture series. With pan...
PDF of the slides from the October learning session, Reimagining Data. This session was part of the Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture series.
This video introduces the targeted universalism framework, a way to make transformational changes in society. It explains the difference between targeted univer...
This website provides an evidence-based quality improvement roadmap to help primary care teams implement effective, guideline-driven care for their chronic pain...
This guide aims to assist local governments in designing and implementing a community-driven, equitable climate preparedness planning process. The guide takes a...
This report explains how data practitioners have historically fallen short in data collection, application, and representation, leading to lasting harm and dist...
Recording of the September learning session, Mobile Integrated Health, supported by the Care Coordination Cohort. Part of the Advancing a Just and Inclusive Cul...
PDF of the slides from the September learning session, Mobile Integrated Health. This session was part of the Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture series.
This study analyzed a Mobile Integrated Healthcare care coordination intervention program at scale with a Medicare Advantage Preferred Provider Organization (MA...
This paper documents what is known about homeless encampments as of late 2018, based on a review of literature supplemented by interviews with key informants. T...
The Street Medicine Institute (SMI) facilitates and enhances the direct provision of health care to the unsheltered homeless where they live. SMI does this by p...
This website describes PACT (Program of Assertive Treatment), located in Bellingham. PACT is a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals including ARNPs, ...
Ground-Level Response and Coordinated Engagement (GRACE) program provides intensive support to people who are frequent users of emergency medical services (EM...
This blog discusses how healthcare systems are turning to multi-sector partnerships to build affordable workforce housing to sustain recruitment as the affordab...
News article by KUOW in Seattle about Lummi Nation and Children of the Setting Sun Productions.
Washington State Health Care Authority resource. Housing specialists, community health workers, social workers, and behavioral health providers can benefit from...
Resources and expertise to help nonprofits engage in advocacy work. Bolder Advocacy promotes active engagement in democratic processes and institutions by givin...
Report by National Council for Mental Wellbeing, Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions – a framework for increased coordination and integra...
Report produced by Center for Health Care Strategies, highlighting key lessons to inform data-sharing partnerships between community-based organizations, state ...
Frontline (PBS) documentary about the Camp Fire in California in November 2018, highlighting the complexity of preparing for unprecedented events that are now r...
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course...
This free, 2-hour e-learning program is designed for providers and students seeking knowledge and skills related to cultural competency, cultural humility, pers...
Watch the full livestream of the premiere of Children of the Setting Sun Productions’ documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness, featuring th...
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
Glossary of terms helpful for the Collaborative Action Network learning journey, by North Sound ACH.
While the term health equity is used widely, a common understanding of what it means is lacking. What is health equity? By the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The Equity Manifesto by Policy Link. Includes definition and explanation of equity as seen by Policy Link and partners.
Glossary by the Racial Equity Learning & Action Community.
Recording of July learning session, Reducing Stigma: How can we work together to mitigate and eliminate stigma. With Robin Henderson, Providence Oregon; Kevin R...
Creating the Future is a collection of people around the world, supporting each other in a 10 year experiment in systems change, to determine how much more huma...
A digital resource to transform how current and future generations of students use social media and digital technology in everyday life to make a positive impac...
Shout Your Abortion is normalizing abortion and elevating safe paths to access, regardless of legality. SYA makes resources, campaigns, and media intended to ar...
This publication was conceptualized and written in collaboration between the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WoCSHN) – an online-based, collective organ...
A resource from the Sex Education Collaborative. This practice paper – Centering Racial Justice in Sex Education: Strategies for Engaging Professionals and Yo...
This article describes the experience of a Sedro Wooley, Washington clergy couple overcoming addiction to help the local community. Featuring Kevin and Danielle...
From Ken Burns, a documentary about the mental health crisis among youth in America. Watch on PBS.
PDF of the slides from the July learning session, Exploring Practice Transformation: Reducing Stigma. This session was part of the Advancing a Just and Inclusiv...
Work2BeWell is a direct response to community requested resources after a rise in teen suicides in the Pacific Northwest. Answering the call, former Executive D...
Relevant Engagement, LLC is a consulting firm based in the state of Washington. The mission is to engage youth, adults, institutions, and community organization...
The Center for Guided Pathways works with student leaders & student affairs professionals at all levels. The Center believes that closing demographic dispar...
This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices ...
Tools for creating healthy, productive interracial/multicultural communities.
Recorded webinar of North Sound ACH learning session for our monthly series, Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture, June 15, 2022. With Ramona Beltran (Univers...
North Sound ACH webinar on meaningful work and wealth, July 21, 2021 Featuring the Center for Inclusive Entrepreneurship and the Tribal Community Health Provide...
North Sound ACH webinar on Humane Housing, March 31, 2021 In this session, we discussed the historical context behind our nation’s lack of stable housing,...
North Sound ACH webinar on Basic Needs: Food, October 21, 2020
Elevate Health, the accountable community of health (ACH) for Pierce County in Washington state, has a podcast with regional guests to provide listeners with ac...
Recording of May’s learning session for Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture, Meaningful Work & Wealth
Slide deck for the May learning session, Meaningful Work & Wealth.
A webinar hosted by Nonprofit Quarterly and Shelterforce, with four field leaders discussing central questions regarding economic justice, racial justice, and s...
An article in the National Civic Review, written by Bobby Milstein, about the positive forces that could be unleashed if our economic life were truly oriented a...
A visual toolkit from the Rippel Foundation for regional leaders to create a balanced and impactful set of policies, programs, and practices to transform well-b...
Report from Prosperity Now on the federal policies they will focus on in 2022 to create systemic change that allows for everyone, especially low-income, BIPOC c...
This website houses the National Research Center (NRC) at Polco, which gives local governments and other public sector organizations the data they need to make ...
This article explores how nonprofits can better measure impact, not just with spreadsheets but with more powerful analytic and story-telling tools. It provides ...
This publication shares information on the #BelongingPledge and encourages readers to commit to the discussion about racial equity no matter how uncomfortable i...
This gallery depicts the violence, rage, and protests of the Black Lives Matter movement across the country.
This publication argues that the only way make a dent in social justice is if progressive nonprofits and foundations overcome their disdain of politics and full...
This article explores how states are dealing with unexpected financial strains, as they hurriedly divert funds from elsewhere to fight the outbreak and the econ...
This article details vast inequities due to coronavirus, including who gets sick and has access to care. It argues that COVID-19 is not the great equalizer some...
This publication outlines nine ideas from interviews with public health experts, education officials and educators around the country for what school reopening ...
This article features Google CEO Sundar Pichai on new, widespread commitments to racial equity including increasing black employees at senior levels and a new g...
This publication explores how the National Book Critics Circle, an organization of some 800 critics that gives out a number of annual awards, fractured over dis...
This article explores how four black-led organizations are hiring a shared chief development officer to sustain and grow their fundraising work.
This publication discusses how many diversity executives find themselves rotating through C-suites due to frustration over lack of real action and resources. Th...
This article discusses the rise in demand for diversity and inclusion experts in the entertainment industry in the wake of the killings of George Floyd and Breo...
This article explores how cycling as a culture, sport, and industry has failed Black America, amidst a national reckoning with systemic racism. It outlines the ...
This blog cites business as the primary reason that most while male employees don’t engage with diversity and inclusion efforts. It shares research from a...
This news releases details how Governor Gavin Newsom submitted his $100 billion California Comeback Plan to the Legislature, a comprehensive recovery package ta...
This article introduces Enrich Chicago, a nonprofit formed to highlight the lack of leaders of color within the city’s arts and cultural systems. Enrich Chica...
This article explores how a Los Angeles Superior Court judge published a ruling that will stop the voter-approved Measure J from taking effect. Measure J was in...
This publication discusses how as part of the ongoing initiatives to advance diversity and equity, Monique Earl was named to lead the newly-created Office of Di...
This publication discusses how as part of the ongoing initiatives to advance diversity and equity, Monique Earl was named to lead the newly-created Office of Di...
This article discusses Trump’s decision to prohibit federal agencies from conducting cultural sensitivity trainings because they are “divisive, anti-Ame...
This piece discusses the question of why law schools who claimed #BlackLivesMatter when their students were off-campus during the summer were afraid to discuss ...
This news article describes the work of the new Los Angeles District Attorney, George Gascón. He plans to stop criminalizing public health problems and acts li...
This article explores vaccine inequity in L.A. where many seniors, despite being eligible to receive the shots, had failed to secure appointments. Many others c...
This news article discusses how the L.A. City Council voted to override the Mayor’s veto of a proposal they backed to reallocate $88 million from the Los Ange...
This article discusses the lack of diversity among boards in U.S. companies, especially with regards to representation of women or racially diverse members. It ...
As this article explores, there is widespread racial inequality in who is receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, possibly due to lack of access and lack of investment ...
This article highlights risks faced by food delivery and grocery store workers, who are among the lowest paid and least protected of those deemed “essential...
This articles advocates for policy reform, including how extending tax credits to immigrant workers and their families can end an exclusionary policy that exace...
This article explores how accessing green space and nature is a privilege reserved largely for the rich and White, focusing specifically on Los Angeles.
This article outlines 5 steps to being more of an ally to people and students during COVID-19 and beyond, from acknowledging privilege to sharing power and oppo...
Amidst COVID-19 budget cuts, many universities pulled back diversity and inclusion efforts. This article explores how DEI work suffers when institutions cut spe...
This op-ed argues against returning to normal life and the same oppressive systems in a post-pandemic world, offering inspiration for achieving equality and jus...
This discussion addresses why the coronavirus has disproportionately struck communities of color and potential pathways to change.
This discussion addresses why the coronavirus has disproportionately struck communities of color and potential pathways to change.
This article explores the concept and history of “backlash”, which the author argues is holding the United States back from making social progress a...
This blog by the Sierra Club explores how a public health disparity, the disproportionate mortality of Black Americans due to COVID-19, is rooted in systemic ra...
This article describes efforts to creating a “People’s Budget” in Los Angeles following the killing of George Floyd. It explores the effects o...
This piece describes former First Lady Michelle Obama’s reaction to the killing of George Floyd including advice to the public to self-examine and listen ...
This piece explores how bias training, body cameras, and community dialogue in Minneapolis have not been sufficient in ending police violence. The author makes ...
This article explores how social media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok responded to the death of George Floyd and ensuing #BlackLivesMatte...
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, this article examines the need for political will to reform policing in the U.S. and protect black and brown constit...
This piece published in the Sierra Club argues that the ideology of white supremacy leads the way toward disposable people and a disposable natural world. It ex...
This story covers how employees at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts voted overwhelmingly to unionize, opening a new era of collective bargaining at the city’s f...
This article explores how the Inland Empire Black Equity Fund launched an online giving campaign for 40 organizations that focus on issues including higher educ...
This story explores global barriers to getting the vaccine; it demonstrates that getting a vaccine means living in the right place or knowing the right people.
From the author of “How to Be an Antiracist”, this article explores American narcissim, concepts of freedom and community, and how the pandemic has ...
This video series by TIME features two doctors who explain how the African American community is facing systemic forces that make them particularly vulnerable t...
In this piece, Los Angeles’ most thoughtful academics, politicians, business leaders, artists, and chefs answer the question ’What’s next?’ amidst C...
This piece highlights the launch of Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy, a program for women of color in the fundraising and philanthropic communitie...
Written as a plea to the author’s white male friends, this letter explores the current political landscape and the price COVID-19 is exacting on Black liv...
Written as a plea to the author’s White male friends, this letter explores the current political landscape and the price COVID-19 is exacting on Black liv...
This video, posted on Instagram by Viola Davis, explains systemic racism and momentum for reparations through storytelling and animation.
In this interview, Kerrien Suarez discusses how philanthropy approached racial diversity, equity, and inclusion at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic and ho...
This article explores how a California program intended to improve COVID-19 vaccine availability to people in hard-hit communities of color was misused by outsi...
Recording of the Land Back learning session on April 20, 2022 hosted by North Sound ACH. This sessions is the first in the 2022 Advancing a Just and Inclusive C...
Slide deck for April learning session, Land Back: Beyond Land Acknowledgment to Stewardship, Decolonization, and Reconciliation
This webpage introduces the Governor’s Interagency Council of Health Disparities, which was created in 2006 in Washington state. The council is responsibl...
Washington State House Bill 1783 creates a Washington state office of equity. This resource offers a history of and the details about the bill as well as analys...
This news article covers the passing of legislation in Washington state, House Bill 1783. The bill would set up an Office of Equity within the Governor’s Offi...
This article highlights the essential work done and risks faced by farrmworkers in fields, orchards and packing houses essential to keeping grocery stores stock...
This news article describes how Washington Gov. Jay Inslee used his power to cut $445 million in spending from the state operating budget in response to the COV...
Featuring voices from labor organizers, this article covers how labor unions sued Washington state over lack of protections for farmworkers. It was one of the f...
This article describes an emergency rule that the state of Washington ordered following a lawsuit from labor unions for inadequate protection of essential worke...
This article describes a merger of two health care networks in Washington state, which represents the increasing monopolization of health care. The merger will ...
This article describes how Washington’s new Vaccine Equity Fund partners with community-based organizations to vaccinate communities hit hardest by COVID-19. ...
This article tells the story of the elderly and children who are among the thousands of agricultural workers who harvested blueberries and cherries throughout t...
This article explores how businesses are revising their company policies to address racial equity concerns and increase diversity. It uses Boeing, Everett Schoo...
This resource highlights equity (or the lack thereof) in Los Angeles and maps out important factors that contribute to this challenge, including socioeconomic, ...
This interactive tool maps coronavirus socioeconomic disparities in LA. It offers exploration by COVID-19 cases, vulnerable renters, proportion of people uninsu...
This article explores how Black Americans will experience a disproportionate share of the disruption from COVID-19—from morbidity and mortality to unemploymen...
As the world contends with social justice and equity issues, this article describes how to navigate a diverse workforce and be an inclusive person. It summarize...
This website provides resources for small businesses, micro-enterprise, and non-profit organizations during COVID-19 in both English and Spanish. It allows for ...
This piece explores how applying a racial justice lens requires confronting power, shifting resource distribution, and moving towards system-wide transformation...
As part of the Greater Good Science Center’s Bridging Differences initiative, this article explores the concept of bridging and provides eight key principles ...
This article by john a. powell implores readers to move past inclusion to belonging. This article also introduces two main types of stories—bridging stories, ...
This article by john a. powell and Stephen Menedian explores the concept of “othering”, which encompasses all prejudices on the basis of group ident...
This DEI plan from Michigan State is a framework of recommendations to guide institutional plans and decisions for increasing equity. It asks and answers a seri...
This article explores the work of BlackSpace, a collective of architects, designers, artists, and urban planners which is reimagining how cities get built. Urba...
After interviewing contact tracing experts and taking an online course in surveillance technology, the author of this piece argues that we do not need invasive ...
This blog is part of a series that examines the habits of white supremacy culture. It provides examples of how these habits show up in virtual spaces during rem...
Summarizing findings from White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege in a Racially Divided America, this article examines how white children learn about race. It als...
This paper examines the implementation and evolution of participatory budgeting in the City of Vallejo, California, following its 2008 bankruptcy. It also refle...
This article explores the social patterns, informed by the fields of psychology, group dynamics, and leadership studies, of coronavirus. It outline the course o...
This article compares two Los Angeles hopsitals which serve vastly different communities, but which have both been crippled by equipment and personnel shortages...
This piece makes the argument for why companies should prioritize diversity and equity efforts, even amidst COVID-19. Reasons include that people of color are d...
In a summary of a new nationwide study, this article examines how coronavirus patients in areas that had high levels of air pollution before the pandemic are mo...
This article examines the relationship between race and the coronavirus, highlighting how Black Americans face alarming rates of infection in some states.
This opinion piece argues that dismantling mass incarceration in the United States is not a question of possibility or costs, but a matter of imagination and wi...
This article explores how the pandemic ripped through Navajo nation and how officials responded by putting up checkpoints, assembling field hospitals and threat...
This story explores how three Los Angeles-based women doctors launched a free telehealth app and online portal called myCOVIDMD that safely connects individuals...
This brief explores how we can center racial equity in the distribution and implementation of emergency response funds. It calls for a number of key strategies ...
This news article explores how a new online mapping tool is helping researchers more accurately locate California communities most at risk from the novel corona...
This article discusses the impact that California’s stay-at-home order had on the use of telehealth visits. It explores how telehealth will continue to be fun...
This article discusses a study of the relationship between stress and disease. It was found that the trauma and stress that police violence causes for Black peo...
This article previews a report on inequity in philanthropy, which shows that nonprofit organizations led by black and Latino executive directors lag behind peer...
This feature by Barack Obama shares lessons learned from history about the struggle for racial justice. Obama advocates for insitiutional and policy changes, es...
This article explores the history of tuberculosis and provides residential COVID data, demonstrating how Black and Latinx communities are being hit the hardest....
This article explores how COVID risk and mortality are being exacerbated by the same issues that created and perpetuated inequity before the pandemic. It also p...
Whether through hurricanes, wildfires, or earthquakes, disaster relief nonprofits have laid the groundwork for emergency preparedness. This article explores how...
This article explores how the pandemic may leave communities of color vastly undercounted in the census, costing them billions in public funds.
This article contextualizes the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice’s roadmap, which outlines an equitable COVID-19 response and recovery effort. It pr...
This report from McKinsey is the third in a series investigating the business case for diversity. Using data from over 1,000 companies, the report demonstrates ...
This article summarizes a recent report from Mckinsey aimed at examining the business case for diversity in executive positions. It found that companies with gr...
This article examines whether unconscious bias training can eradicate prejudice and discrimination from the workplace. It provides evidence from academia and sc...
This article explores how systemic racism can leave black people suffering from symptoms similar to PTSD. It offers suggestions for dismantling racism in the pr...
This written and audio segment tells the story of GirlTrek, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the health and healing of Black women and girls. The organizat...
This article argues that companies need to revisit diversity and inclusion strategies, and hiring managers must develop a more focused inclusion agenda. It prov...
This piece examines how cities have long perpetuated anti-Black racism through policies and physical spaces that have institutionalized the economic inequality,...
This story explores how 12 formerly incarcerated individuals will learn how to produce videos, podcasts, and other digital media in a nonprofit, Second Chance S...
This publication tells the story of Jawanza Malone, executive director of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, and countless other Black-led nonprofits a...
This audio and written segment explores the concept of racial inquiry (RI), which can be an approach to personal and organizational leadership development as we...
Exposing the deep disparities faced by students of color amid the COVID-19 pandemic, this article shares findings from a report by the Los Angeles Unified Schoo...
This news article describes Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to sign into law a bill which mandates that students take ethnic studies as a graduation requ...
This article explores what government agencies can do to make meaningful steps toward racial equity by making sure city budgets reflect their values. Recommenda...
This article covers California Governor Newsom’s decision to sign into law a diversity mandate. Public companies headquartered in California will be legal...
This article shares findings from a report on California’s 2018 diversity mandate, which compelled public companies headquartered in the state to ensure g...
This publication by the Othering and Belonging Institute describes findings from their project investigating the extent, harm and solutions to racial residentia...
This article summarizes two recent studies which reveal the challenges faced by Black employees. It explores racial inequality in the workplace and advocates fo...
This article examines a lawsuit in which several California families allege the state isn’t providing adequate support and equipment necessary for children of...
An analysis of grant-funded organizations and unrestricted net assests of Black-led organizations, this article explores how foundations can advance racial equi...
This article explores how coronavirus has killed American Indians at especially high rates, robbing tribes of precious bonds and repositories of language and tr...
This analysis describes the previous work of Texas’ Office of Minority Health Statistics and Engagement, which tracked disparities in health and was accou...
This article and audio segment tells the story of Ronell Foster, Willie McCoy, and other unarmed Black men who have been fatally shot by police. Other findings ...
This article and video news segment tells the story of how the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to cut 133 positions from the L.A. School Police Depart...
This article examines the inequity of COVID-19 vaccination systems in the U.S., highlighting barriers like transportation, language, disability, internet access...
This article highlights how unarmed civilians and outreach workers from the Oakland Fire Department are responding to mental health crises calls in Oakland, rat...
Highlighting the importance of creating communities within a community, this article advocates for companies to create employee groups for women, veterans, the ...
This article describes NinetyToZero, a new initiative by the CEOs of Starbucks and Goldman Sachs along with leaders from philanthropy and academia. The initiati...
This podcast explores the debate underway about what to do with buildings, monuments and roads named after two Confederate generals in Virginia.
Through a case study of a Texas education bill, HB 3979, this article explores the political conflict over critical race theory. The bill, which has become a mo...
This article explores why the U.S. is become more, not less, segregated in recent years. It argues that residential housing segregation drives many, if not all,...
As part of the Roots of Structural Racism Project, this report contains startling findings about the intensification of racial residential segregation in recent...
This article highlights six key takeways from a literature review on diversity efforts in organizations, arguing that trainings alone will not address systemic ...
This interview with scholars Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo examines the vastly different experiences of Black and white women in corporate America. The profe...
This article describes how CIELO, a local Indigenous organization, partnered with UCLA to create a map of Latin American Indigenous languages in L.A. County. Th...
This article tells the story of CAHOOTS — Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets — a program run by a social services center in Eugene, Oregon...
Exposing the slow pace of investment in racial equity by corporations, this article provides three tangible approaches to promoting racial justice. The authors ...
This article explores the committments and investments of corporations and companies following the murder of George Floyd and demands from the Black Lives Matte...
This news article describes The Los Angeles City Council’s move to have staff members draft a “Racial Equity Audit” of the city’s programs, or polic...
This AP news article shares the Los Angeles County plan for returning a beachfront property to descendants of a Black couple who built a resort for African Amer...
This news article describes how four years after the Chickahominy Tribe in Virginia received federal recognition, some of its traditional lands will be given ba...
This article describes a legal battle between Seattle and the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe alleging that the city’s hydroelectric dams violate the native salmon...
This news release details how the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, a federally recognized Tribe headquartered in King County, has acquired roughly 12,000 acres of its a...
This website describes and explores the Swinomish Reservation, which is located on Fidalgo Island in Western Washington State. It also explores unlawful attempt...
This collection of resources will help advance your knowledge on the importance of building relationships with tribes of the North Sound Region, and committing ...
This toolkit was created to help address common barriers and opportunities of virtual meetings. It is intended to facilitate effective online community events a...
In this session, we discussed the historical context behind our nation’s lack of stable housing, strategies to meet housing needs now, and opportunities t...
Creating Safe & Welcoming Spaces for LGBTQ+ Clients webinar recorded on 7/31/19
This article outlines teaching and learning tactics grounded in decades of research on how children learn and helps build mastery of core academic content while...
This toolkit compiles promising models and resources to support organizations implementing transportation programs in rural communities across the United States...
This publication by the CDC provides resources related to Tribal Public Health. The resources include general ones related to Indian health policy and tribal pu...
This report outlines a series of urgent priorities for strengthening tribal public health, including building community capacity, strengthening local economies,...
The guide describes how all members of the health care workforce can act as leaders to ensure all people can reach their full potential. The guide introduces th...
LGBTQ+ people belong everywhere. They deserve to live open, authentic lives without fear of discrimination, harassment, judgement, or violence. Despite decades ...
As our society grapples with multiple systemic crises, including COVID-19, climate change, and racial injustice, an opportunity for multi-solving emerges. Multi...
This agreement by the Indigenous Environmental Network outlines a series of principles for a “just” transition to a green economy. It recognizes Ind...
This journal article explores how indigenous peoples have been agents of environmental conservation through activism and political engagement at local and natio...
This story discusses how environmental organizations and tribes have been coming together to protect the natural world. A key part of the teamwork has been land...
This article explores the land back movement, the basis for stealing Indigenous lands, demands of the Indigenous land back movement, reparations in the context ...
This policy and practice brief explores the concept of “land back” in higher education. The author both problematizes ladn acknowledgements without land bas...
This report is a collection of case briefs which profiles five NAACP units with significant achievements in environmental and climate justice advocacy.
Humane Housing is about stable, safe places to live, and living in diverse, vibrant communities that lead to full, productive lives. People are able to thrive w...
This topic guide provides resources that identify different CHW models, demonstrate effective CHW programs, and outline the issues and challenges to the develop...
This guide is designed to support efforts to work towards the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power. It contains educational articles on colonialism...
This document provides guidance on how to develop and implement an equitable vaccine response. It contains information on how to most equitably prioritize vacci...
This website contains a curated collection by Salud America! of culturally relevant stories, infographics, webinars, and other resources on the COVID-19 pandemi...
This guide suggests municipal strategies for deploying American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds equitably, efficiently, and strategically. It also lays out a framework ...
Everyone is assigned a gender at birth. A doctor checks each baby over, and, primarily based on external features, selects one of two gender options that seems ...
This Community Commons collection introduces the Seven Vital Conditions for Well-Being.
North Sound ACH supports a space for dialogue for people of color (POC) as they navigate their individual and collective wellbeing. This is a virtual meeting sp...
The North Sound Indigenous Futurity Alliance is dedicated to supporting young leaders in the North Sound region while specifically holding space for the voices ...
To break down silos and effectively address inequities, systems must work together with each other and with community members to collectively align their action...
The work of community-based health care organizations across the country has highlighted four strategies that have been central to success in programs aimed at ...
This webpage contains a collection of selected resources on mobile maternal and child oral health services.
This webinar highlights two community paramedicine programs: ThedaCare and Commonwealth Care Alliance. These programs effectively engage and serve individuals w...
This webpage provides background information, resources, links to organizations and upcoming events, and information about community paramedicine models and inn...
This free online course provides a learning environment from which to explore the root causes of inequity in the distribution of disease, illness, and death. Pa...
This guide provides jurisdictions and organizations with the tools and strategies to establish and scale a cross-departmental Core Team for designing, coordinat...
This webinar is the first in INSIGHT into Diversity’s series, “Women of Color Need Courageous Allies in the Academy,” and features six panelists who r...
This article focuses on the growing trend in higher education to remember, honor, and acknowledge the the tribes and people to whom this land originally belonge...
This webinar introduces DentistLink and how it can be used to connect patients and clients to oral healthcare in the North Sound region. DentistLink bridges gap...
This document provides an overview of mobile dental clinics and their role in helping address dental care needs for populations with limited access.
This brief introduces the Oral Health Delivery Framework, a conceptual framework for how to engage patients and families, and to make oral health preventive car...
This document introduces INTERACT (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers), a quality improvement program that focuses on the management of acute change i...
This document is adapted from the Rural Health Information Hub’s topic guide on community paramedicine. It provides an overview of community paramedicine ...
This document focuses on the Assess, Plan, Identify, and Coordinate (APIC) model and provides an overview of the key components at the individual and system lev...
This report reviews data from 2018 surveys of 10th grade students in Washington on mental health, substance use, abuse, harassment, and bullying. It provides in...
This webinar is the third of the Tribal Learning Series and focuses on indigenous health indicators and what being healthy means in context of tribal communitie...
This webinar explains the importance of Indigenous knowledge informed systems of care, components of traditional medicine, how Indigenous knowledge informed sys...
This presentation from john a. powell from 2016 outlines the concept of Targeted Universalism through a series of graphics and examples.
What is Targeted Universalism? Across people and places, vast disparities continue to exist in our nation—from health outcomes to education, to economic oppor...
The science of thriving has informed an easy-to-use, real-time survey that measures well-being and can both catalyze change and assess progress on what matters ...
This podcast focuses on the food system inequities and vulnerabilities that were exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It features Paula Daniels, co-founder and “...
This blog post focuses on the need for independent, nonpartisan public policy research centers. It features The Healing Trust’s journey to develop a polic...
This report examines how the role of Medicaid has changed over time in the 46 states with small-town and rural populations, and looks at the changing levels of ...
This conceptual model, also known as the Spider Conceptual Framework, was developed by Lori Lambert and provides a framework for how to approach, conduct, share...
This newsletter explores how health impact assessments (HIA) can offer a pathway to health equity by identifying potential health effects of proposed laws, regu...
This document provides an overview of Racial Equity Impact Assessments (REIA), how they are used, why they are needed, when they should be conducted, and what t...
This guide details a health center’s journey through an organizational assessment process in order to advance gender affirming care. It includes templates and...
This paper makes the case for why collective impact initiatives must address inequity to be successful. It highlights a range of Opportunity Youth Forum (OYF) e...
This report offers up a set of 10 design principles for online data tools intended to advance health equity. It was developed for researchers, advocates, commun...
This report is the first in a series examining important issues faced in advancing health equity. The purpose of this report is to stimulate discussion and prom...
This language guide is intended to assist state agencies with talking about issues related to equity and racial equity. It provides standard definitions, terms ...
This toolkit is a compendium of tools, guides, and resources that help users improve health care quality and equity in their communities. It offers a framework ...
This toolkit is part of a series of toolkits that is intended to educate the general public about accountable care organizations (ACOs) and to support current a...
This report summarizes the status of seven metrics on reproductive and child health data based on data from Quarter 4 2018 Health Washington Pay-for-Performance...
Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America highlights scores of actions that communities, organiz...
“I have an inherent belief that the more we take care of the people in our community, the better our economy and our society will be.” —Liz Baxter...
This webinar is part of County Health Rankings & Roadmaps’ special topic series, Health Equity and Social Solidarity in the Time of Pandemic: Strategies f...
Along with standing up against police violence and systemic racism, we must also fight to end housing systems that devalue Black people.
This article describes how activists in Seattle are responding to gentrification by advancing racial equity through the King County Equity Now campaign.&nb...
Targeted policies and universal policies have been used to develop responses to resolve problems in our society. However, both of these approaches have limitati...
This issue brief describes three keys to build consensus around Targeted Universalism. These insights were identified through work with a long-term community in...
This article introduces Well Being Trust and how they are promoting community health through addressing seven vital conditions for wellbeing, including basic ne...
How we will experience coronavirus was in large part shaped before the pandemic. The policies and systems we inherited have had significant influence on the env...
We believe in the power of storytelling and the importance of investing in the future by sharing those stories – whether they are stories of successful commun...
WIN pacesetters are communities leading the way when it comes to creating legacies of intergenerational well-being for all. Local changemakers, as stewards, wor...
Mental health is a multi-faceted component of well-being — and is part of all our lives. From the everyday joy of walking in nature to the grief of losing...
This chart compares goals, methods, funding sources, and governing structures of initiatives in four states that were developed to address health equity and pop...
Vital Conditions for Health & Well-Being: Properties of places and institutions that we all depend on to be healthy and well. Vital conditions persist over ...
The Racial Equity Toolkit lays out a process and a set of questions to guide the development, implementation and evaluation of policies, initiatives, programs, ...
Climate change and health inequities are some of the greatest global health threats of the 21st century. This report explores the ways that climate change, heal...
This tool provides data to track, measure, and make the case for racial equity and inclusive prosperity in America’s regions, and states, and nationwide. ...
The Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) is a framework that acknowledges that non-medical factors greatly affect health outcomes. While this concept originated...
