North Sound Oral Health LIN General Meeting – November 2024
This video introduces the Community of Practice model to promote shared learning, professional development, and strategic planning.
Featured Resources
San Juan County Mobile Dental Project
Partner presentation by San Juan County Health & Community Services and Orcas Island Health Care District on their shared project: San Juan County Mobile De...
North Sound Oral Health LIN Annual Meeting – September 2023
This resource is about the North Sound Oral Health LIN’s September 2023 annual meeting, which included project presentations on a mobile dental feasibility re...
North Sound Oral Health LIN Annual Meeting – May 2023
This resource details the North Sound Oral Health Local Impact Network’s Annual Meeting held in May 2023, focusing on the theme of dental integration.
North Sound Oral Health LIN General Meeting – Februrary 2024
This resource reviews the accomplishments and outcomes of the North Sound Oral Health Local Impact Network (LIN) in 2023, discusses legislative updates and nati...
North Sound Oral Health LIN General Meeting – September 2024
This resource is a webinar from the North Sound Oral Health Local Impact Network’s September 2024 general meeting, featuring a keynote on the connections betw...
Cities With Fluoridated Drinking Water Supply
This resource provides an overview of cities that add fluoride to their drinking water supplies as a public health measure, including population data for these ...
North Sound Oral Health Maps and Tables
This resource includes various data sets related to oral health, focusing on dental utilization rates for Medicaid recipients, the enrollment of low-income stud...
Dental Professionals by County (2023) and Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs)
This resource provides data on the number of dental professionals—including dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants—by county for 2023, along wit...
Dental Utilization Rate For Adults With Medicaid, by Zip Code
This resource provides data on the dental utilization rate for adults enrolled in Medicaid in Washington State for the fiscal year 2022.
Dental Utilization Rate For Children With Medicaid, by Zip Code
This resource provides data on the dental utilization rates for children enrolled in Medicaid (Apple Health) in Washington State during fiscal year 2022, indica...
Low-Income Students by School District
This resource provides data on the percentage of low-income students enrolled in public K-12 schools across various school districts in Washington State for the...
Dental Providers That Billed Medicaid, by Zip Code
This resource provides data on dental providers that billed Medicaid for dental services in Fiscal Year 2022, broken down by zip code in the North Sound region.
Locations of Dental Clinics: (“Safety Net” Clinics: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Tribal Clinics & Free Clinics)
This resource provides a comprehensive list of “safety net” dental clinics, including Federally Qualified Health Centers, Tribal Clinics, and Free Clinics, ...
Elementary Schools With School-Based Sealant Provider
This resource provides data on the percentage of elementary schools within various school districts in the North Sound region that have established school-based...
North Sound Oral Health Local Impact Network (LIN) Data Walk
This resource provides socioeconomic data for the North Sound region, highlighting the number and percentage of households in poverty and classified as ALICE (A...
North Sound Oral Health: Local Impact Newsletter February 2023 – Issue 1
This resource highlights funding for various dental projects, educational opportunities, legislative updates, and initiatives aimed at improving oral health acc...
North Sound Oral Health: Local Impact Newsletter April 2023 – Issue 2
This resource promotes oral health equity in the North Sound region through partnerships and sustainable strategies, highlighting the establishment of dental th...
North Sound Oral Health: Local Impact Newsletter June 2023 – Issue 3
This resource focuses on promoting oral health equity and improving access to dental care in the North Sound region through innovative partnerships and sustaina...
North Sound Oral Health: Local Impact Newsletter August 2023 – Issue 4
This resource emphasizes initiatives to enhance oral health equity and access in the region, featuring self-paced courses for dental providers, updates on incre...
North Sound Oral Health: Local Impact Newsletter October 2023 – Issue 5
This resource highlights ongoing efforts to improve oral health equity in the North Sound region, focusing on community water fluoridation in Lynden and its pot...
North Sound Oral Health: Local Impact Newsletter January 2024 – Issue 6
This resource focuses on improving oral health equity in the North Sound region, with updates on new initiatives such as a mobile dental clinic in Whatcom Count...
North Sound Oral Health: Local Impact Newsletter April 2024 – Issue 7
This resource highlights upcoming events, learning opportunities, and legislative updates to improve oral health equity in the North Sound region. It also intro...
Leveraging Medicaid to Support Community Health Workers
This brief, developed in partnership by the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, explores Med...
Opportunities for Public Health Agencies to Advance Sustainable Financing of Community Health Worker Programs
This brief by the Center for Health Care Strategies provides action steps for public health agencies to help guide sustainable CHW program financing.
Distressed Communities Index
The Distressed Communities Index (DCI) brings attention to the deep disparities in economic well-being that separate U.S. communities. Using the latest Census d...
Messaging for Trust in Health Communication
This brief, from the Council for Quality Health Communication, is meant for community health workers (umbrella term) to communicate about evidence-based, person...
Wallet Card: Trusted Messaging
This is a printable wallet card for community health workers, from the Council for Quality Health Communication, for quick tips on messaging for trust in health...
Art Land Magazine | Coronavirus Street Art: How The Pandemic Is Changing Our Cities
This article explores how street art around the world has evolved in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting societal changes and challenges.
SLATE | Emma Sulkowicz Inspired Students Across the Country to Carry Their Mattresses. Now What?
This article traces how Emma Sulkowicz’s mattress-carrying performance art evolved into a nationwide movement against sexual assault.
Say This, Not That!
In this resource you will find 30 popular phrases and their shockingly racist historical meanings.
Partner Highlight: School Sealants Project | Recording | January 2024 Partner Convening: The HeART of Transformation
This is a recording of the School Sealants Project, featuring the Community Health Center of Snohomish County and San Juan County Health & Community Service...
Partner Highlight: Cultural Alimentos Project | Recording | January 2024 Partner Convening: The HeART of Transformation
This is a recording of B’ham Food Bank’s Cultural Alimentos Program, presented by Stephanie Session, Steve Bader and Alex Perez which occurred during ou...
March Network Learning Session (Slides): Birth Equity – Beyond The Doctor’s Office
These are the slides for our March Network Learning Session. We learned about Birth Equity and what we can do beyond beyond the doctor’s office as communi...
March Network Learning Session (Recording): Birth Equity – Beyond the Doctor’s Office
This is a recording of the March network learning session. This March, we learned about birth equity. We learned about our current state of in the North Sound r...
Open Arms Perinatal Services
Open Arms Perinatal Services is an organization that provides community-based support during pregnancy, birth, and early parenting, including doula care, childb...
Project Girl Mentoring Program
“Project Girl Mentoring Program is a non profit organization providing mentoring, educational and social activities to young women throughout Snohomish Co...
Shades of Divinity
Shades of Divinity, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to “promote reproductive justice and equity in Washington state by uplifting BIPOC families. ...
Black Coalition For Safe Motherhood
The Black Coalition for Safe Motherhood (BCFSM™) is an organization focused on healthcare advocacy education in the Black community. BCFSM™ empowers Black b...
Global Perinatal Services
Global Perinatal is a an organization working to provide support for perinatal and postpartum birthers, their partners. They provide education and connect famil...
Birth Doulas FAQ – Washington State Department of Health
In this resource, you will find frequently asked question about birth doula work, certification and education requirements and how to get started on that vocati...
Article: Everything You Need to Know About Vaginal Steaming
This resource delves into the practice of vaginal steaming, exploring its origins, purported benefits, and potential risks.
Report: 2021 March of Dimes Report Card
This resource discusses the March of Dimes Report Card, providing insights into the current state of maternal and infant health across the U.S., including state...
Article: Black, Native infants in King County die at higher rate than white babies – Seattle Times
This resource delves into the challenges surrounding infant mortality in King County, highlighting significant disparities and the urgent need for comprehensive...
Report: Washington State Maternal Mortality Review Panel: Maternal Deaths 2017–2020
In this resource, you will find policy and funding recommendations from the Maternal Mortality Review Panel (MMRP) established by the Washington State Legislatu...
Webinar: State Medicaid Opportunities to Support Mental Health of Mothers and Babies During the 12-Month Postpartum Period
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...
Podcast | Shelterforce: Essential Reporting on Affordable Housing
“For effective and inclusive community planning, it’s important that community development groups and local governments work closely with residents who ...
Voter Participation Is a Path to Health Equity: How Health Departments Can Promote a Healthy, Inclusive Democracy
This journal article discusses how public health agencies can use their resources and relationships to foster communities in which voting is accessible, easily ...
Why and How Should Public Health Promote Voting?
This article discusses why public health has a responsibility to promote civic and voter participation in order to advance health equity.
Course: Fundamentals of Medical Interpreting online course at Skagit Valley College
“In an effort to bridge the gap in healthcare communication and ensure quality care for diverse patient populations, Skagit Valley College (SVC) proud to ...
Article: Treat me like a person—not an anomaly
“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 ...
Website: Roots of Empathy
An inclusive community building that supports children’s well being and breaks intergenerational cycles of violence and neglect. Roots of Empathy can be b...
ReThink Health Toolbox Webinar: Multisolving
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...
O.U.R Journey | Embracing The Heart and Soul of Our Youth
“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...
Jason LaClair Storypole | Children Of The Setting Sun
“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...
Partner Highlight | San Juan School Based Sealant Program | January 2024 Partner Convening: the HeART of Transformation
Slides from CHC Snohomishs’ partner highlight about their San Juan School Based Sealant Program
Partner Highlight | Language Access Workforce Initiative| January 2024 Partner Convening: the HeART of Transformation
Slides from Skagit Valley College’s Partner highlight: Language Access Workforce Initiative during our January 2024 Partner Convening
Chelan County Jail & Reentry Program
“The Chelan County Jail and Reentry Program is a holistic approach to reintegration of incarcerated adults into society. Designed to address the complex n...
Slide Deck | Beyond Integration: Recovery Coaching & Lived Experience | January 2024 Partner Convening
Slides from the session Beyond Integration: Recovery Coaching & Lived Experience during our January 2024 Partner Convening
Slide Deck | Catalyzing Change: Well-Being Measurement and Indigenous Indicators | January 2024 Partner Convening
Slides from the session, Catalyzing Change: Well-Being Measurement and Indigenous Indicators at our January 2024 Partner Convening
Taanvi Arekapudi
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...
Swinomish Tribe Builds U.S.’s First Modern ‘Clam Garden,’ Reviving Ancient Practice
This article discusses what is believed to be the first clam garden, a traditional, Indigenous way of boosting shellfish production, built in the United States ...
Nourishing Culture: A Peek Inside Tulalip’s Food Sovereignty Kitchen
This resource is about unveiling the Tulalip Food Sovereignty Presentation Kitchen at Tulalip Northwest Indian College. This innovative kitchen space promotes f...
Health Care Options for Immigrants in Washington State
This presentation provide healthcare options clarity for immigrants in WA state.
Practicas de Autocuidado
Prácticas de autocuidado que se presentaron en la Reunión de Promotoras de Salud 2023
Self-Care Practices
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 Washington State & New Options in 2024
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...
Reunión de Promotoras de Salud 2023 | CHW Convening 2023 – Presentación | Slide Deck
Aquí está la presentación que compartimos durante la Reunión de Promotoras de Salud (CHW), otoño 2023. Here is the slide deck that was shared during the CH...
PROJECT LETS | Resource
“Project LETS is a national grassroots organization and movement led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, Disability, trauma,...
Anti-racism: Support Resources for People of Color
“The mental, physical, and emotional tolls of living in a world that does not embrace your identity as a person of color are exhausting. There is no singl...
Find Me A Therapist | Therapist program connects people to Black therapists
“The Find Me A Therapist program connects people to Black therapists by searching for Black mental health professionals.”
Whatcom County | Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force
“The purpose of the Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force is to continually review Whatcom County’s criminal justice and behavioral health p...
September Network Learning Session (Slides): Incarcerated and Justice Involved Equitable Solutions
Slides – Network Learning Session – Incarcerated and Justice Involved Equitable Solutions
First Step Act Annual Report
“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...
Frequent Users Services Enhancement ‘FUSE’ Initiative New York City FUSE II Evaluation Report
“Housing instability/homelessness increases risk for incarceration and, conversely, incarceration increases the risk for homelessness. To address these ri...
Housing First, consumer choice, and harm reduction for homeless individuals with a dual diagnosis
“Current rates of homelessness in New York City are the highest ever documented.1 A small percentage of this population remains chronically homeless, eit...
Best Practices for Engaging the Reentry Population in Health Care | Transition Clinic
“The Transitions Clinic Network (TCN) is a national organization committed to reversing the harms of mass incarceration by eliminating racial health and e...
CHART Showing Success in Everett
“CHART (CHronic-Utilizer Alternative Response Team) is a program where people who have been identified as chronic users of emergency services get intensiv...
Diversion & Treatment | Everett Community, Planning & Economic Development
“Everett alternative response programs offer policing and prosecution models proven to reduce recidivism for low-level offenders, as well as offer support...
Grace Program – Whatcom County
“The Whatcom Ground-Level Response and Coordinated Engagement (GRACE) program is a community-based effort to find solutions for individuals who are high u...
LEAD Program Evaluation: Recidivism Report
“This report describes findings from a quantitative analysis comparing outcomes for LEAD participants versus “system-as-usual” control participants on...
Program Profile: Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program (Seattle, Washington)
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...
Evaluation of the Allegheny County Jail Collaborative Reentry Programs
In 2010 and 2011, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, launched local reentry programs under the auspices of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Second Chance Act Adult...
Guidelines for Successful Transition of People with Mental or Substance Use Disorders from Jail and Prison: Implementation Guide
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...
Short-term Strategies to Improve Reentry of Jail Populations: Expanding and Implementing the APIC Model
“Almost all jail inmates will leave correctional settings and return to the community. Inadequate transition planning puts jail inmates, who entered the j...
Cass County/Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Wellness Court Walker, MN | Process, Outcome, and Cost Evaluation Report
This is a report from the Cass County/Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Wellness Court in Walker, MN about their program, CCDWI – Wellness Court.
Tulalip Tribal Court | Wellness Court
“Tulalip’s Healing to Wellness Court provides the support and resources necessary for our clients to begin living sober lives and reconnecting with thei...
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community didgʷálič Wellness Center
“The didgʷáličWellness Center, which is owned and operated by the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, provides out-patient treatment services for trib...
Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts: The Key Components
“In 1996,a committee of practitioners and others involved with drug court program operations was established under the leadership of the National Associat...
Designing for Social Systems | Lummi Tribal Health Center
“On Washington State’s northernmost coast resides the Lummi People, a sovereign indigenous nation of approximately 6,600 people. For the past several ye...
Minnesota: Carceral Colonialism: Imprisonment in Indian Country | States of Incarceration.
“Settler colonialism has involved denying Native people sovereignty and access to land and resources. It has also produced high rates of incarceration of ...
Whatcom County Justice Project Needs Assessment
“For decades, Whatcom County has struggled to strike a balance between prevention and incarceration in its approach to public safety. From the early days ...
The Bellingham Herald | 10 inmates at Whatcom County Jail’s Work Center test positive for COVID-19
This article talks about the impact of Covid-19 in Whatcom County Jail.
NWRC | Jail Health Program – 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...
Suicide in Local Jails and State and Federal Prisons, 2000–2019 – Statistical Tables
These statistical tables present data from the Mortality in Correctional Institutions collection, through which the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) obtained ...
Kiro 7: First-ever body cavity search of Snohomish County inmate finds bag of fentanyl
This article talks about body cavity searches and Fentanyl issue in Snohomish county jail.
Incarceration Trends in Washington Fact Sheet
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...
Washington State Juvenile Detention 2020 Annual Report
“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...
Behavioral Health Needs of Jail Inmates in Washington State
This report describes the characteristics of 123,240 individuals booked into jail in 2013 who were recent or former clients of the Washington State Department ...
Protecting Immigrant Rights: Is Washington’s Law Working? | University of Washington Center for Human Rights
“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...
Report to Whatcom County Stakeholders on Jail Reduction Strategies
“With the county’s jail population surging, local government leaders, justice system practitioners, and community members have become increasingly conce...
Judge holds Washington state in contempt for not providing services to mentally ill people in jails (Article)
“A federal judge has found Washington state in contempt and ordered it to pay more than $100 million in fines for failing to provide timely psychiatric se...
County evaluates jail medical care (Article)
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...
Washington State Medicaid Transformation Project 2.0 Approval Letter
Washington State Medicaid Transformation Project 2.0 Approval Letter – “Overall, the goal of the demonstration is to provide medical assistance and ...
Ear Hustle (Podcast)
“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...
Website – Whatcom Perinatal Mental Health Task Force
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
Underground Ministries’ partner presentation slides. For more information or to connect with Underground Ministries, reach out to Alex Sanchez, Director o...
Mobile Mama – Partner Presentation Slides
Whatcom County Health & Community Services Department’s Mobile Mama, partner project presentation. for people are interested in learning more they can...
Web Page: North Sound Race and Health Equity Alliance
During our open space, the North Sound Race and Health Equity Alliance facilitated a table where attendees could learn more about the current initiative of the ...
WIN (Well-Being in the Nation Measures) Network Website
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...
The Dose Podcast: How Community Health Workers Put Patients in Charge of Their Health
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...
CDC: Promotores de Salud/Community Health Workers
The CDC’s resources for and about Promotores de Salud/Community Health Workers. Included are definitions, initiatives and available trainings.
Slide Deck: Community Health Workers – Promoting Health and Strengthening Communities
Here is the slide deck that was shared during the Community Health Workers – Promoting Health and Strengthening Communities learning session.
Siren: Community Health Workers and Social Care Integration
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...
MDPI: Promotoras de Salud in a Father-Focused Nutrition and Physical Activity Program for Border Communities: Approaches and Lessons Learned from Collaboration
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: Roles and Impacts of Promotoras(es) de Salud
MHP Salud explains the role of a Promotores or Promotoras de Salud. Their impacts in communities and resources.
Promotora de Salud/Lay Health Worker Model
This article talks about the Promotora de Salud/Lay Health Worker Model with examples of Rural Promotora/Lay Health Worker Models.
CDC: Course – Promoting Policy and Systems Change to Expand Employment of Community Health Workers (CHWs)
This course is designed to provide state programs and other stakeholders with basic knowledge about Community Health Workers (CHWs), such as official definition...
CDC: Addressing Chronic Disease through Community Health Workers
This document provides guidance and resources for implementing recommendations to integrate community health workers (CHWs) into community-based efforts to prev...
Envision Equity: Resource Page
Envision Equity’s resource page is continually updated with CHW-curated content to support CCR-2109 programs, including CHWs, allies, and partners. With m...
American Public Health | CHW Page
The APHA Community Health Workers Section actively promotes the voice of community health workers within health care and public health systems and in communitie...
CHW Networks in the North Sound Region
Whatcom Community Health Worker’s Network page, with resources on meetings and opportunities to connect with fellow CHWs.
Community Health Workers: Evidence of Their Effectiveness
Existing studies on CHWs focus on assessing their effectiveness in improving health outcomes, reducing healthcare costs, and bridging the gap in health disparit...
Recording: Community Health Workers – Promoting Health and Strengthening Communities
This is a recording of the July 2023 Network Learning Session entitled “Community Health Workers – Promoting Health and Strengthening Communities”
Skagit County: North Star Project
This resource outlines the North Star Project which aims to better align resources and services to address the complex behavioral health and homelessness challe...
See Her Bloom — Understanding Black Girls’ Experiences with Drug Use
In 2022, PHI’s Center for Collaborative Planning commissioned the National Black Women’s Justice Institute to host conversations with Black girls throughout...
Effective Approaches to Addressing Substance Use Among Youth
PHI’s CA Bridge Youth Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) pilot project found how hospital emergency departments can help to reverse these trends.
‘Faces for the Future’ Students Learn How to Reduce Drug Overdoses
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...
Case Studies & Best Practices: Strategies to Reduce Youth Overdoses
These case studies from PHI’s California Overdose Prevention Network contain concrete examples of data-driven strategies that address rising rates of overdose...
One WA School District Helped Homeless Students Graduate. Can Others?
This story on the Auburn School District in Washington State is about helping homeless students graduate by providing resources such as transportation, foo...
Black History Month Public Health Reading List
Explore books, articles, and videos recommended by Yale School of Public Health faculty, staff, and students.
Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda
More than 30 Black women’s organizations and advocates present proactive Reproductive Justice policy solutions.
Pathways to Population Health Equity
Pathways to Population Health Equity offers a framework, roadmaps, compass, and associated tools for public health practitioners to build a more prepared, resil...
Multilingual Resources on COVID-19
This blog post contains fact sheets, posters, multimedia resources, and links to live updates in multiple languages about COVID-19, its symptoms, and how to pre...
Greater than COVID Digital Toolkit
Doctors, nurses, researchers and community healthcare workers provide facts and dispel misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines in this FAQ video series.
BIPOC Patient Perspectives
This video collection of stories shares Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOD) patient perspectives. This collection was created by Mónica Koller, MS O...
Rural Transportation Toolkit
This toolkit compiles promising models, resources, and tools to support organizations implementing transportation programs in rural communities across the Unite...
‘Listens’ team helps community 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...
Emergency Preparedness – learning session slide deck
PDF of the slides from the November learning session, Emergency Preparedness. This session was part of the Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture series.
Emergency Preparedness – learning session recording
Recording of the November learning session, Emergency Preparedness, supported by the Emerging Focus Areas Cohort. Part of the Advancing a Just and Inclusive Cul...
Gender-Affirming Pediatric Care Toolkit
Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children, adolescents, and their families are increasingly seeking out pediatricians and mental health providers for educat...
Race, Ethnicity, Language, and Disability (REALD) Implementation
REALD is a type of demographic information, like age, marital status, employment and more. REALD stands for race, ethnicity, and language, disability. In 2020, ...
Washington Environmental Health Disparities Map
The Washington Environmental Health Disparities Map is an interactive mapping tool that compares communities across our state for environmental health dispariti...
National Diabetes Prevention Program
This website is part of the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP), which aims to lower the risk of type 2 diabetes through evidence-based lif...
Six Building Blocks – A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid Management in Primary Care
This website provides an evidence-based quality improvement roadmap to help primary care teams implement effective, guideline-driven care for their chronic pain...
Guide to Equitable, Community-Driven Climate Preparedness Planning
This guide aims to assist local governments in designing and implementing a community-driven, equitable climate preparedness planning process. The guide takes a...
Mobile Integrated Health – learning session recording
Recording of the September learning session, Mobile Integrated Health, supported by the Care Coordination Cohort. Part of the Advancing a Just and Inclusive Cul...
Mobile Integrated Health – learning session slide deck
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.
Mobile Integrated Healthcare Intervention and Impact Analysis with a Medicare Advantage Population
This study analyzed a Mobile Integrated Healthcare care coordination intervention program at scale with a Medicare Advantage Preferred Provider Organization (MA...
Understanding Encampments of People Experiencing Homelessness and Community Responses: Emerging Evidence as of Late 2018
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...
Street Medicine Institute
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...
PACT (Program of Assertive Treatment)
This website describes PACT (Program of Assertive Treatment), located in Bellingham. PACT is a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals including ARNPs, ...
GRACE and LEAD Programs
Ground-Level Response and Coordinated Engagement (GRACE) program provides intensive support to people who are frequent users of emergency medical services (EM...
The Power of Partnerships: Solving a Challenge for Healthcare
This blog discusses how healthcare systems are turning to multi-sector partnerships to build affordable workforce housing to sustain recruitment as the affordab...
Behavioral Health Discharge Planner’s Toolkit
Washington State Health Care Authority resource. Housing specialists, community health workers, social workers, and behavioral health providers can benefit from...
Oral Health, Mental Health, and Substance Use Treatment
Report by National Council for Mental Wellbeing, Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions – a framework for increased coordination and integra...
A Community-Centered Approach to Data Sharing and Policy Change: Lessons for Advancing Health Equity
Report produced by Center for Health Care Strategies, highlighting key lessons to inform data-sharing partnerships between community-based organizations, state ...
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
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...
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Maternal Health Care
This free, 2-hour e-learning program is designed for providers and students seeking knowledge and skills related to cultural competency, cultural humility, pers...
Improving the Well-Being of Native Older Adults and Their Caregivers
This story discusses how the challenges faced by older adults and caregivers in tribal communities were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant pro...
Holistic Health & Recovery – Tulalip Tribes
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...
Transport for the People – Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
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...
The Big Walk – Sauk-Suiattle Indian Nation
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...
Waking the Canoes – Samish Indian Nation
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...
North Sound Monkeypox virus resources
Compiled by North Sound ACH staff, a collection of Tribal, state, county, and other public health resources and anti-stigma literature. Updated weekly.
Mount Baker Presbyterian Ministry Update
Kevin Riley of Mount Baker Presbyterian Church describes community outreach efforts including addressing homelessness with a cold weather shelter, COVID vaccina...
Reducing Stigma: learning session recording
Recording of July learning session, Reducing Stigma: How can we work together to mitigate and eliminate stigma. With Robin Henderson, Providence Oregon; Kevin R...
#I Can Help
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
Shout Your Abortion is normalizing abortion and elevating safe paths to access, regardless of legality. SYA makes resources, campaigns, and media intended to ar...
Sex, Race, and Politics in the U.S.
This publication was conceptualized and written in collaboration between the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WoCSHN) – an online-based, collective organ...
Centering Racial Justice in Sex Education
A resource from the Sex Education Collaborative. This practice paper – Centering Racial Justice in Sex Education: Strategies for Engaging Professionals and Yo...
Clergy couple share lived experience
This article describes the experience of a Sedro Wooley, Washington clergy couple overcoming addiction to help the local community. Featuring Kevin and Danielle...
Hiding in Plain Sight documentary
From Ken Burns, a documentary about the mental health crisis among youth in America. Watch on PBS.
Exploring Practice Transformation: Reducing Stigma
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
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...
Indigenous Knowledge Library
Indigenous knowledge—also known as traditional knowledge—refers to information, meanings, purposes, and values that Indigenous peoples have gathered, concep...
Basic Needs: Food
North Sound ACH webinar on Basic Needs: Food, October 21, 2020
Mental Health & Well-Being (part 2)
North Sound ACH webinar on mental health and wellbeing, December 9, 2020. Part one here.
Mental Health & Well-Being (part 1)
North Sound ACH webinar on mental health and well-being, November 18, 2020. Part two here.
Creating Safe & Welcoming Spaces for LGBTQ+ Clients
North Sound ACH webinar with Genya Shimkin, founder and CEO of the Q Card Project, July 31, 2019.
Elevate Health podcast
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...
National Research Center
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 ...
Community Coalition Instagram
This post shares information about a COVID-19 and Public Health Discussion through the organization Community Coalition.
COVID-19 Response
This website provides event information, resources, response funds, and public policies related to pandemic response in California.
This is The Wake-Up Call for Nonprofits and Foundations To Get Political
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...
States Are in a Quandary as Taxes Evaporate and Virus Spending Soars
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...
Coronavirus is not the “great equalizer” many say it is
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...
9 Ways Schools Will Look Different When (And If) They Reopen
This publication outlines nine ideas from interviews with public health experts, education officials and educators around the country for what school reopening ...
These 4 Black-Led Orgs are Hiring a Shared Chief Development Officer to Sustain and Grow Their Work
This article explores how four black-led organizations are hiring a shared chief development officer to sustain and grow their fundraising work.
George Gascon Sworn in as DA, Lays Out Extensive, Ambitious Series of Reforms
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...
Young L.A. “Vaccine Chasers” Crowd Unofficial Standby Lines in Hopes of a Shot
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...
L.A. City Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto to Reimagine $88 Million in Funding to Communities of Color
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...
Vaccine Hesitancy May Not Be Why People of Color Are Getting COVID Shots at a Lower Rate
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 ...
Editorial: Food and Grocery Workers are Essential. They Should Have “Essential” Pay and Protections Too
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...
COVID-19 Crisis or Not, Racist Policies Have No Place in California
This articles advocates for policy reform, including how extending tax credits to immigrant workers and their families can end an exclusionary policy that exace...
Enjoying Nature During the Shutdown is Easy – But Only if You’re Rich
This article explores how accessing green space and nature is a privilege reserved largely for the rich and White, focusing specifically on Los Angeles.
5 Ways to Be an Ally During COVID-19
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...
As Universities Tighten Budget During the Coronavirus, What Will Happen to Diversity Initiatives?
Amidst COVID-19 budget cuts, many universities pulled back diversity and inclusion efforts. This article explores how DEI work suffers when institutions cut spe...
We Don’t Need to Return to Normal––We Need a New Normal
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...
What Experts Say About Narrowing COVID-19 Racial Disparities
This discussion addresses why the coronavirus has disproportionately struck communities of color and potential pathways to change.
What Experts Say About Narrowing COVID-19 Racial Disparities
This discussion addresses why the coronavirus has disproportionately struck communities of color and potential pathways to change.
Black Americans 2.6 Times More Likely to Die From COVID-19
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...
Millions of Essential Workers Are Being Left Out of COVID-19 Safety Protections
This story exemplifies how essential workers are affected by the pandemic with the story of meat packers in North Carolina, who were not able to social distance...
IE Black Equity Fund Launches Black Friday Giving Campaign
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...
Who Can and Can’t Get Vaccinated Right Now
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.
We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholder’s Republic
From the author of “How to Be an Antiracist”, this article explores American narcissim, concepts of freedom and community, and how the pandemic has ...
Watch Doctors Explain Why COVID-19 May Be More Dangerous for African Americans
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...
Los Angeles as We Knew It Is History, But Its Future Begins Today
In this piece, Los Angeles’ most thoughtful academics, politicians, business leaders, artists, and chefs answer the question ’What’s next?’ amidst C...
A Letter to My White Male Friends of a Certain Age
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...
A Letter to White Male Friends of a Certain Age
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...
Statements About George Floyd Are a Start, but How Will Organizations Live Their Values?
In this interview, Kerrien Suarez discusses how philanthropy approached racial diversity, equity, and inclusion at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic and ho...
Vaccine Access Codes for Hard-Hit Black, Latino Communities Improperly Used in Other L.A. Areas
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...
As Farm Work Carries On, Some Worry About Becoming Washington State’s New Coronavirus Epicenter
This article highlights the essential work done and risks faced by farrmworkers in fields, orchards and packing houses essential to keeping grocery stores stock...
As Coronavirus Freezes the Economy, Gov. Inslee Slashes Hundreds of Millions of Dollars from Washington State Budget
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...
Farmworkers Sue Washington State Seeking Coronavirus Protections
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...
Washington State Issues Emergency Rule to Protect Farm Workers from COVID-19. But Worker Advocate Fear It Won’t Save Many Lives
This article describes an emergency rule that the state of Washington ordered following a lawsuit from labor unions for inadequate protection of essential worke...
Inslee Expected to Issue New Guidance on Phase 2; Snohomish County Plans to Apply for Reopening Amid Coronavirus Crisis
This news article discusses when and how Washington’s largest counties may be able to begin lifting the economic and social restrictions that have been in pla...
Washington Fund Aims to Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Equity In BIPOC, Rural Communities
This article describes how Washington’s new Vaccine Equity Fund partners with community-based organizations to vaccinate communities hit hardest by COVID-19. ...
What Local Firms Are Doing to Promote Diversity and Equity
This article explores how businesses are revising their company policies to address racial equity concerns and increase diversity. It uses Boeing, Everett Schoo...
A Great Divide: LA Equity Index
This resource highlights equity (or the lack thereof) in Los Angeles and maps out important factors that contribute to this challenge, including socioeconomic, ...
COVID-Nomics Mapping
This interactive tool maps coronavirus socioeconomic disparities in LA. It offers exploration by COVID-19 cases, vulnerable renters, proportion of people uninsu...
The Four Parts of Accountability and How To Give A Genuine Apology
This write-up explores four parts of true accountability: self-reflection; apology; repair; and changed behavior. It focuses on addressing conflict, hurt, misun...
COVID-19: Investing in Black Lives and Livelihoods
This article explores how Black Americans will experience a disproportionate share of the disruption from COVID-19—from morbidity and mortality to unemploymen...
Resource Directory for Nonprofit Capacity Building in Los Angeles County
This directory provides capacity buildings and resources to nonprofits in Los Angeles. It lists consultants and foundations, human resources provider organizati...
Best Practices for Visually Engaging Virtual Presentations
This blog advises on how to make virtual presentations more visually engaging for audience members. It provides tip for effective visuals like “glance and...
How to Help Your Team Refocus on Growth After the Hassles of Covid
This blog offers a multi-step process for companies seeking to refocus efforts toward growth after COVID-19. It recommends generating ideas, sharing and groupin...
Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation
This website provides resources for small businesses, micro-enterprise, and non-profit organizations during COVID-19 in both English and Spanish. It allows for ...
COVID-19: Using a Racial Justice Lens Now to Transform Our Future
This piece explores how applying a racial justice lens requires confronting power, shifting resource distribution, and moving towards system-wide transformation...
You Don’t Need Invasive Tech for Successful Contact Tracing. Here’s How it Works.
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 ...
Pushing Back Against Habits of White Supremacy During A Crisis
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...
How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism
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...
COVID-19 — Mapping the Stages of Development in Contagion Response
This article explores the social patterns, informed by the fields of psychology, group dynamics, and leadership studies, of coronavirus. It outline the course o...
How 2 Very Different Los Angeles Hospitals Are Facing Coronavirus
This article compares two Los Angeles hopsitals which serve vastly different communities, but which have both been crippled by equipment and personnel shortages...
Companies: Now Is Not The Time To Put Diversity And Inclusion On The Back Burner
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...
New Research Links Air Pollution to Higher Coronavirus Death Rates
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...
Black Americans Face Alarming Rate of Coronavirus Infection in Some States
This article examines the relationship between race and the coronavirus, highlighting how Black Americans face alarming rates of infection in some states.
Coronavirus Has Shown That It Is Possible to Change the US Criminal Justice System
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...
Checkpoints, Curfews, Airlifts: Virus Rips Through Navajo Nation
This article explores how the pandemic ripped through Navajo nation and how officials responded by putting up checkpoints, assembling field hospitals and threat...
3 Black Female ER Doctors Launch Free Telehealth Service For Marginalized Communities To Deal With COVID-19
This story explores how three Los Angeles-based women doctors launched a free telehealth app and online portal called myCOVIDMD that safely connects individuals...
Make Racial Equity Central to California’s Public Health Response to COVID-19
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 ...
UC Berkeley Group Builds Interactive COVID-19 Mapping Tool For Vulnerable Populations
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...
Virtual Medical Visits Are The New Normal During the Coronavirus Pandemic
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...
Police Violence Makes COVID-19 Worse for Black Americans
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...
Why is COVID-19 Hitting Black Communities Harder? Residential Segregation is a Key Factor
This article explores the history of tuberculosis and provides residential COVID data, demonstrating how Black and Latinx communities are being hit the hardest....
Fostering Inclusive Workplaces During Isolation
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...
What Prior Disasters Have Taught Housing Advocates About How to Respond to COVID-19
Whether through hurricanes, wildfires, or earthquakes, disaster relief nonprofits have laid the groundwork for emergency preparedness. This article explores how...
The Pandemic May Leave Communities of Color Undercounted in the Census — And Cost Them Billions
This article explores how the pandemic may leave communities of color vastly undercounted in the census, costing them billions in public funds.
The Coronavirus is Devastating Already Devastated Communities
This article contextualizes the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice’s roadmap, which outlines an equitable COVID-19 response and recovery effort. It pr...
Systemic Racism Can Leave Black People Suffering From Symptoms Similar to PTSD
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...
GirlTrek Uses Black Women’s History to Encourage Walking as a Healing tradition
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...
Racial Inquiry – A Question of Common Humanity and Unique Individuality
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...
L.A. Latino, Black Students Suffered Deep Disparities in Online Learning, Records Show
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...
The Most Segregated (And Integrated) Cities in the SF Bay Area
This publication by the Othering and Belonging Institute describes findings from their project investigating the extent, harm and solutions to racial residentia...
Families Sue California Over Inequalities in Online Education for Low-Income Black and Latino Students, Suit is First of its Kind
This article examines a lawsuit in which several California families allege the state isn’t providing adequate support and equipment necessary for children of...
Tribal Elders Are Dying From the Pandemic, Causing a Cultural Crisis for American Indians
This article explores how coronavirus has killed American Indians at especially high rates, robbing tribes of precious bonds and repositories of language and tr...
LAUSD Board Votes to Cut School Police Force, Divert Funds to Black Student Achievement Plan
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...
How Inequity Gets Built Into America’s Vaccination System
This article examines the inequity of COVID-19 vaccination systems in the U.S., highlighting barriers like transportation, language, disability, internet access...
Unarmed Civilians, Not Cops, to Respond to Mental Health Crises Calls in Oakland
This article highlights how unarmed civilians and outreach workers from the Oakland Fire Department are responding to mental health crises calls in Oakland, rat...
How Mental Health First Responders in an Oregon City “De-escalate” Conflict and Save Lives
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...
Chickahominy Tribe reacquires ancestral lands
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...
Do salmon have rights?
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...
Snoqualmie Tribe Acquires 12,000 Acres of Ancestral Forestland in King County
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...
Basic Needs: Public Health
Public health protects and promotes good health, with special attention to those at elevated risk of poor health.
Basic Needs: Food
Physical and mental well-being starts with access to fresh air, clean water, and nutritious food.
Virtual Community Engagement Guide: A Toolkit for Hosting Online Community Engagement and Meetings in Rural, Remote, and Indigenous Communities
This toolkit was created to help address common barriers and opportunities of virtual meetings. It is intended to facilitate effective online community events a...
Rural Transportation Toolkit
This toolkit compiles promising models and resources to support organizations implementing transportation programs in rural communities across the United States...
Crossing Great Divides: A Guide to Elder Mobility Resources and Solutions in Indian Country
This document highlights the importance of transportation for American Indian elders and identify innovative approaches and resources for improving transportati...
How to Engage Low-Literacy and Limited-English-Proficiency Populations in Transportation Decisionmaking
This report documents best practices in identifying and engaging low-literacy and limited English-proficiency populations in transportation decision making. It ...
Active Transportation Policy Hub
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s Active Transportation Policy Hub is a search tool to empower transportation advocates, legislators, government officials and the...
Tribal Public Health and the Law: Selected Resources
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...
Priorities in Tribal Public Health
This report outlines a series of urgent priorities for strengthening tribal public health, including building community capacity, strengthening local economies,...
LGBTQ+ Health Equity Library
LGBTQ+ people belong everywhere. They deserve to live open, authentic lives without fear of discrimination, harassment, judgement, or violence. Despite decades ...
Multisolving 101: Co-Creating Vital Conditions for Thriving Together
As our society grapples with multiple systemic crises, including COVID-19, climate change, and racial injustice, an opportunity for multi-solving emerges. Multi...
Unleashing the Power of the People: Lessons on Public Engagement for Environmental and Climate Justice
This report is a collection of case briefs which profiles five NAACP units with significant achievements in environmental and climate justice advocacy.
What is the Relationship Between Pronouns and Health Equity?
This article explains that mental health disorders and self-destructive behaviors are not caused by being transgender, but by daily interactions trans people ha...
Humane Housing as a Vital Condition
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...
Community Health Workers Toolkit
This topic guide provides resources that identify different CHW models, demonstrate effective CHW programs, and outline the issues and challenges to the develop...
Challenges and Opportunities for Strengthening the US Public Health Infrastructure
This report was completed to better understand current weaknesses and challenges that are impacting the US public health system’s infrastructure and to id...
Adapting and Aligning Public Health Strategic Skills
This report provides an analysis of ways in which public health skills can be used to increase its effectiveness. This serves as a sector analysis with the goal...
Virtual Resource Center For Public Health Emergency Preparedness
This virtual resource center serves as a repository for state-focused resources pertaining to public health emergency preparedness policy.
COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage by Race and Ethnicity and Age in Washington
A report by the Washington State Department of Health from February 2021 that analyzed vaccination rates by race, ethnicity, and age as captured by provider rep...
AAMC Guide to COVID-19 Tests and Testing
This guide focuses on the role of COVID-19 tests in surveilling and controlling the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides answers to commonly asked quest...
Beyond Inclusion: Pronoun Use for Health and Well-Being
This piece from Community Commons highlights the importance of pronoun use for well-being. The piece describes how the use of pronouns can improve both physical...
Pronouns Usage Among LGBTQ Youth
This brief uses data from the Trevor Project’s 2020 National Survey on LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health to further explore pronoun usage among LGBTQ youth. The brie...
Using Chosen Names Reduces Odds of Depression and Suicide in Transgender Youths
This research brief summarizes a study by the Journal of Adolescent Health. The study compares mental health outcomes for transgender youth ages 15 to 21, based...
COVID-19 Vaccination: An Equitable Response
This document provides guidance on how to develop and implement an equitable vaccine response. It contains information on how to most equitably prioritize vacci...
COVID-19 Testing Communications Toolkit
This website is intended to help people communicate the importance of COVID-19 testing. It provides various tutorials and materials to help clearly educate indi...
Coronavirus and Latino Health Equity
This website contains a curated collection by Salud America! of culturally relevant stories, infographics, webinars, and other resources on the COVID-19 pandemi...
Environmental Health and COVID-19 Resource Library
This resource library contains curated resources on how to address the needs of environmental public health staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes info...
CLOUD Opioid Library
This webpage features a searchable library of curated, evidence-based resources on opioids and the opioid crisis.
Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Status, Intent, and Perceived Access for Noninstitutionalized Adults, by Disability status — National Immunization Survey Adult COVID Module, United States, May 30-June 26, 2021
This Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report focuses on disparities in COVID-19 vaccine access for persons with disabilities; despite being less likely to report ...
The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on America’s Public Health System: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations, 2021
This annual report examines public health funding trends and recommends investments and policy actions to build a stronger public health system, prioritize prev...
State and Local Testing Strategies for Responding to COVID-19 Outbreaks in Communities: Considerations for Equitable Distribution
This report provides considerations for equitably prioritizing testing resources to communities at greatest risk as states and local governments face shortages ...
COVID-19 Employer Policies: A Decision Tool for Business Leaders
This tool is intended to help users through the process of creating the safest possible workplace environment for employees and customers. It guides users throu...
Race to End Covid: Partner Playbook for Testing and Vaccination Events
This playbook offers a framework for planning and conducting community-based COVID-19 testing and vaccination events at car racetracks. These events encourage p...
Three Steps to Smart COVID-19 Testing: A Guide for Employers
This guide is designed to help businesses and other organizations develop appropriate COVID-19 testing plans to enable safe operations during the pandemic. It w...
Beyond Inclusion: Pronoun Use for Health and Well-Being
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 ...
Trends and Geographical Variation in Population Thriving, Struggling and Suffering Across the USA, 2008–2017: a Retrospective Repeated Cross-Sectional Study
The percentage of the US population thriving increased from 2008 to 2017 while the percentage suffering remained unchanged. Marked geographical variation exists...
Belonging and Civic Muscle During COVID-19
Efforts to strengthen belonging and civic muscle in an era that demands periods of isolation and distance can feel daunting–however, creating a sense of b...
Belonging & Civic Muscle as a Vital Condition
Belonging and Civic Muscle is about having fulfilling relationships and social support that people need to thrive. It’s about being part of a community and co...
Seven Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being
This Community Commons collection introduces the Seven Vital Conditions for Well-Being.
Tribal & Equity Learning Sessions | Healing Dialogue for Kamloops (Webinar)
This June 2021 webinar features Solana Booth, who shared a story and led a healing dialogue to recognize the unmarked graves at Indian Boarding Schools.
As They Take On Food Insecurity, Community-Based Health Care Organizations Have Found Four Strategies That Work
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 ...
Safety Net Dental Clinic Manual
This manual is designed to help safety net dental clinic staff with all aspects of clinic development and ongoing operations, including facilities and staffing,...
National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center
This webpage contains a collection of selected resources on mobile maternal and child oral health services.
Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions (AIMS) Resource Library
This searchable library contains various tools and materials on how to effectively implement collaborative care and other behavioral health integration models.
Depression During and After Pregnancy: A Resource for Women, Their Families, and Friends
This booklet is intended to help support people during and after their pregnancies with identifying and addressing mental health needs. It explains possible cau...
Opioid Prescriptions Dashboards – ACH
These dashboards contain overdose and prescription data for the state of Washington. They track indicators on opioid prescriptions, overdose deaths, and overdos...
Community and Environment: Opioids
This webpage provides opioid overdose prevention information, materials, and resources from Washington State Department of Health.
Substance Abuse Prevention and Mental Health Promotion
This document presents Washington’s five-year strategic plan for substance abuse prevention and mental health promotion. It includes a brief overview of t...
Opioid Safety – Veteran/Patient Education
This webpage provides resources and materials on opioid safety for veteran patients and their families. It includes overviews of chronic pain, how to safely and...
Take Back Your Meds
This website is dedicated to helping people dispose of their unwanted medications with the goal to decrease the number of accidental poisonings occurring in the...
WA Tribal Opioid Solutions
This campaign funded by the Washington State Health Care Authority and was designed to inform and educate Tribal communities about the dangers of prescription d...
Heroin and Prescription Opiate Addiction Task Force Final Report and Recommendations
This report provides a summary of recommendations from King County’s Heroin and Prescription Opiate Addiction Task Force on how to both prevent opioid add...
Heroin and Prescription Opiate Addiction Task Force
This webpage provides information, materials, and resources from King County’s Heroin and Prescription Opiate Addiction Task Force to help prevent, reduce, an...
Provider Toolkit
This webpage is intended help educators, health providers, nonprofits, and other partners use the Starts with One campaign in their communities. It contains a t...
StopOverdose.org
This website is a project of the Center for Drug Safety and Services Education (CDSSE) at the University of Washington Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute ...
DentistLink North Sounds ACH Webinar Slides PDF
This slide deck provides an overview of DentistLink, a tool that connects people across the State of Washington to dental care.
Weekly Webinar Series: DentistLink: Connecting to Oral Health Care
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...
Weekly Webinar Series: Six Building Blocks
This webinar focuses on the Six Building Blocks program, which works with clinics and healthcare organizations to improve care for patients who use long-term op...
Weekly Webinar Series: Value-Based Payments
This two-part webinar focuses on value-based payments and how paying for healthier people and outcomes instead of services is helping transform community health...
Weekly Webinar Series: Trauma Informed Care
This webinar focuses on the topic of trauma-informed care and provides information and resources on implementing transformation strategies.
June 5 Webinar: Trauma Informed Care FAQ
This document provides answers to frequently asked questions about trauma-informed care, including how providers can cope with burnout, how to make the case for...
Medicaid Data Update, September 2020
This document highlights important findings across Medicaid project areas, including emergency department utilization, care coordination and diversion intervent...
Six Building Blocks Model (Opioids)
This brief introduces the Six Building Blocks, a team-based intervention for improving opioid prescribing and management. It includes six key work areas that cl...
Mobile-Portable Dental Care
This document provides an overview of mobile dental clinics and their role in helping address dental care needs for populations with limited access.
Evidence-Based Practices to Improve Adolescent Well-Child Visits
This document is adapted from “Paving the Road to Good Health Strategies for Increasing Medicaid Adolescent Well-Care Visits” and provides strategie...
Dental Health Aid Therapists (DHATs)
This document provides an overview of the Dental Health Aide Therapists model and how it can address barriers in dental care in American Indian and Alaska Nativ...
Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs Brief
This brief introduces Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs, which are small group workshops for people with chronic disease and their caregivers that focus ...
CDC’s Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health Care
This brief provides ten recommendations from the CDC on how to improve preconception health through clinical care, individual behavior change, community-based p...
Oral Health in Primary Care Integration
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...
Collaborative Care Model Brief
This brief focuses on collaborative care, a patient-centered approach that builds on the existing relationship between healthcare providers and patients with me...
Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers (INTERACT)
This document introduces INTERACT (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers), a quality improvement program that focuses on the management of acute change i...
Care Transitions Interventions in Mental Health
This review focuses on transitions from inpatient to outpatient care, provides an overview of current care transition intervention frameworks and models, and id...
Guidelines for the Successful Transition of People with Behavioral Health Disorders from Jail and Prison
This set of guidelines are intended to assist behavioral health and corrections, and community corrections administrators in their ability to develop effective ...
Tribal Sovereignty Contextualization
This brief is to serve as an opportunity to continue the necessary contextual tribal learning focused on understanding tribal sovereignty, and to identify next ...
LGBTQ Youth Health Equity Data Brief
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...
2018 WA State Interagency Opioid Working Plan
This paper outlines the goals, strategies, and actions that state agencies are implementing or planning to implement to address the rise in opioid misuse and op...
The High Achieving Governmental Health Department in 2020 as the Community Chief Health Strategist
This paper is intended to help local and state health departments adapt to emerging health demands, minimize pitfalls, and take advantage of new opportunities. ...
Health Care Data 101
This informational guide introduces non-health sector professionals to health care data. This guide answers questions on topics such as health care data collect...
Tribal Learning Series: Exploring Two-Spirit
This webinar features two guest speakers, Itai Jeffries and Morgan Thomas, who explore the concept of two-spirit, gender norms, and the barriers that exist in m...
Tribal Webinar: An Introduction to What Non-Tribal Providers Need to Know, 9/30/20
This webinar provides an introduction to what non-tribal health care providers need to know in order to treat American Indian and Alaska Native patients effecti...
Amplifying Stewardship: Characteristics and Trends Stewards Consider When Expanding Equitable Well-Being
This report profiles characteristics of accomplished stewards who are helping develop field of system stewardship for well-being. It describes what prompts them...
Civic Engagement and Inclusion Through Art
This article focuses on less traditional forms of civic engagement–arts and culture. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals are socially isolated,...
Financial and Health Impacts of COVID-19 Vary Widely by Race and Ethnicity
This article from the Pew Research Center summarizes survey results that indicate disparities in the economic and health impacts of COVID-19 by race and ethnici...
Racial Economic Inequality Amid the COVID-19 Crisis
This paper explores racial economic inequality facing Americans during COVID-19.
Achieving Equitable Outcomes for All
What is Targeted Universalism? Across people and places, vast disparities continue to exist in our nation—from health outcomes to education, to economic oppor...
didgwálič Wellness Center Treatment Model Fact Sheet
The didgwálič (deed-gwah-leech) Wellness Center – owned and operated by the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community – is a multi-specialty community health ...
didgʷálič Wellness Center
The didgʷálič Wellness Center is an organization that seeks to improve the health and wellness of all individuals suffering from substance use disorders and ...
Humane Housing and COVID-19
Safe, stable housing has long been a pressing concern among those who steward health and well-being. Humane housing is a central tenet of how much a family is a...
Basic Needs: Freedom from Trauma, Violence, and Addiction
This “deep dive” from the Thriving Together: Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America explores freedom from t...
The Urgent Call for a U.S. National Food Strategy
The coronavirus pandemic exposed major longstanding problems in the U.S. food system. The Urgent Call for a U.S. National Food Strategy identifies a framework t...
Blueprint for a National Food Strategy
The Blueprint for a National Food Strategy examines the need for a cohesive national approach to food system regulation through legal and scholarly research.
Gather: Screening Toolkit – A Guide to Help Plan Your Film Event in Your Community
The toolkit serves as a guide to hosting a screening of the film Gather. It includes marketing and promotional tips, as well as discussion guides to help spur o...
Gather
“Gather,” co-produced by Illumine Film and First Nations Development Institute, outlines the revitalization and re-creation of Indigenous food systems in No...
The Crisis and the Opportunity: Our Food System in 2020
This deep dive into the Food System by Paula Daniels is part of the Basic Needs for Health & Safety section of the Thriving Together: Springboard for Recove...
Deep Dive: Measurement, Learning & Evaluation
This chapter of the Springboard outlines the key criteria of what an equitable measurement system in the context of COVID-19 and the path forward could look lik...
Population Well-Being Measures Help Explain Geographic Disparities In Life Expectancy At The County Level
Although race and socioeconomic disparities contribute greatly to geographic disparities in life expectancy, they do not fully explain the differences in life e...
Trauma-Informed Approach and Trauma-Specific Interventions
This resource outlines the six key principles of a trauma-informed approach and trauma-specific interventions for addressing trauma’s consequences and facilit...
Where’s WALY? : A Proof of Concept Study of the ‘Wellbeing Adjusted Life Year’ Using Secondary Analysis of Cross-Sectional Survey Data
This journal article explore the need for a Wellbeing-Adjusted Life Year (WALY) measure, an alternative to the Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY) which...
#19: Ensuring a Food Secure Future with Paula Daniels
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 “...
COVID-19 Racial Health Disparities Highlight Why We Need to Address Structural Racism
This blog post highlights the importance of addressing the root causes of racial disparities in health outcomes and suggests changes that can be made in employm...
Addressing Patients’ Social Needs: An Emerging Business Case for Provider Investment
This report focuses on new models of health care, where public and private payers hold providers accountable for patients’ health and health care costs. P...
Hospital Community Benefit Programs Increasing Benefits to Communities
This article suggests modest reorientations of hospital community benefit programs that could help accelerate the development of successful regional health impr...
Opioid Use Disorder & Opioid Misuse in Snohomish County: Using Capture-Recapture to Estimate the Burden of Disease
This report presents the findings of the Snohomish Health District’s project to better understand, evaluate, and address opioid use and misuse in Snohomis...
CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain – United States, 2016
This report provides recommendations for primary care clinicians who are prescribing opioids for chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative car...
Opioid Medication & Pain: What You Need to Know
This fact sheet presents key information about the risks, role, and use of opioid prescription medications.
Native Transformations in the Pacific Northwest: Exploring Coast Salish Strengths & Resilience Against Substance Abuse
This report presents the findings of the Native Transformations Project, which explored protective factors against substance abuse in three Coast Salish communi...
Medicaid Coverage For Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Addressing The Institution For Mental Disease Exclusion Policy
This blog post focuses on how eliminating restrictions from the federal Institutions for Mental Diseases exclusion policy would affect Medicaid coverage for res...
Opioid Trends Across Washington State
This info brief provides insights into how and where changes in opioid use, morbidity, and mortality have occurred in Washington from 2002 to 2013.
Changing the Discourse About Community Violence: To Prevent It, We Have to Talk About It
This report presents findings of a systematic review conducted on media coverage of community violence and community safety in California. It also highlights ho...
Leading Through Health System Change: A Public Health Opportunity – Planning Tool
This tool has been designed for public health practitioners at all levels to practice using adaptive thinking as they grapple with the many questions presented ...
Care Coordination Toolkit
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...
Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America
Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America highlights scores of actions that communities, organiz...
Community Transformation: North Sound Accountable Community of Health’s Journey
“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...
COVID-19: Disproportionate Impact on Navajo Nation and Tribal Communities
This webinar is part of County Health Rankings & Roadmaps’ special topic series, Health Equity and Social Solidarity in the Time of Pandemic: Strategies f...
Commons Good Podcast: Liz Baxter
Health happens in communities, in the spaces where we congregate, live, and work; where children go to school and play; and where we seek care and services. Nor...
The America We Need
This interactive series of articles from the New York Times showcases the challenges COVID-19 has revealed and the opportunities for reimagining our future toge...
How COVID-19 Affects Farmers and the Food Supply Chain
This article discusses the weaknesses and inequities in America’s food supply system that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted, as well as how and why th...
Health Equity and COVID-19
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...
Commons Good Podcast: Parisa Parsa
The Local Voices Network (LVN) is fueled by ordinary people sharing their voices in small-group, in-person discussions led by experienced conversation hosts in ...
Healing the Nation: Advancing Mental Health and Addiction Policy
The Healing the Nation website provides policy briefs, fact sheets, and solutions for the various systems that are linked to mental health crisis in the United ...
How Does Our Sense of Belonging Shape our Mental Health?
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...
EJSCREEN: Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool
This environmental justice mapping and screening tool is based on nationally consistent data and an approach that combines environmental and demographic indicat...
EPA’s Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Model
This tool details an approach to address environmental and/or public health issues in local communities for environmental justice stakeholders, including commun...
Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development
This informational publication discusses land use and community design strategies that community-based organizations, local and regional decision-makers, develo...
Legal Issues Concerning Identifiable Health Data Sharing Between State/ Local Public Health Authorities And Tribal Epidemiology Centers In Selected U.S. Jurisdictions
This resource provides a general overview of the legal authority of state, local and tribal public health agencies to collect, use, and share data for public he...
Black Lives Matter: A Commentary on Racism and Public Health
The recent nonindictments of police officers who killed unarmed Black men have incited popular and scholarly discussions on racial injustices in our legal syste...
Transportation Health Impact Assessment
The Transportation HIA Toolkit provides a framework for public health departments, city planners, project managers, and other stakeholders to conduct ...
Community Health Assessment Toolkit
The Community Health Assessment Toolkit offers a nine-step pathway for conducting a community health assessment and developing implementation strategies.
Belonging and Civic Muscle
Belonging and Civic Muscle is an indispensable vital condition that we all depend on for our health and well-being. Social support through friends, family, and ...
Social Determinants of Health
The Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) is a framework that acknowledges that non-medical factors greatly affect health outcomes. While this concept originated...
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