Putting Belonging and Civic Muscle Into Practice
How is our region fostering belonging and civic muscle? What contributes to Belonging & Civic Muscle? What stands in the way?
Belonging and Civic Muscle
Belonging & Civic Muscle
An introduction to Belonging and Civic Muscle as a Vital Condition for Well-Being
Featured Collections
Introduction to Belonging & Civic Muscle
What is belonging & civic muscle and why is it the central vital condition for well-being?
Featured Resources
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...
Beyond Inclusion: Pronoun Use for Health and Well-Being
From email signatures and social media profiles to health forms, Zoom displays and resumes, pronouns and preferred name fields are now popping up everywhere. Of...
GLSEN Pronoun Guide
This guide is created to help anyone learn how to use people’s correct pronouns so that people can engage in learning, educating, and advocating for the inclu...
Creating More Accessible, Inclusive Buildings
As the U.S. debates where to invest in infrastructure, architects and disability advocates say the principles of universal design will benefit everyone.
What’s Different When the Community Collects the Data?
When residents were recruited to conduct an annual study that examines community change and health in nine Massachusetts communities, they didn’t just col...
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
Exploratory Measures for Belonging and Civic Muscle
This Community Commons collection describes ways to measure Belonging & Civic Muslce.
POC Gatherings
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...
Keeping it Cool Through Change, Challenge, and Conflict Utilizing Art-Making and Creativity
An 8 session workshop series brought to you by Communities of Color Coalition (C3) and facilitated by Art Therapist Dalisha Phillips. Participants will engage i...
North Sound Indigenous Futurity Alliance
The North Sound Indigenous Futurity Alliance is dedicated to supporting young leaders in the North Sound region while specifically holding space for the voices ...
June Partner Learning Session: Healing Dialogue for Kamloops
This webinar features Solana Booth, who shared a story and led a healing dialogue to recognize the unmarked graves at Indian Boarding Schools, 6/16/2021
Commitment to Advancing Anti-Racism at North Sound ACH
The North Sound ACH has created and posted this commitment to advancing anti-racism.
There’s Heart Here
Roller derby champion. Activist. Cyclist. Follow three indigenous members of the Two Spirit and LGBTQ community as they journey toward self-acceptance, supporti...
Democracy in Action: Election 2020
This webpage provides a compilation of resources on how to register to vote, interact and assess candidates, understanding ballots, and ensure that there are fr...
Community Paramedicine: A New Approach to Serving Complex Populations
This webinar highlights two community paramedicine programs, ThedaCare and Commonwealth Care Alliance, which serve high-need patient populations in Wisconsin an...
Community Paramedicine Business Case Assessment Tool
This tool was developed to help assess the “business case” for expanding the Commonwealth Care Alliance’s Acute Community Care paramedicine program. I...
Community Paramedicine
This webpage provides background information, resources, links to organizations and upcoming events, and information about community paramedicine models and inn...
Conversation Starters: One Honest Conversation
This webpage provides tips and guidance on how to start a conversation with a loved one about the risks and dangers associated with substance abuse and misuse.
Conversation Starters: One Honest Conversation
This webpage provides tips and guidance on how to start a conversation with a friend about the risks and dangers associated with opioids.
Roots of Health Inequity Learning Collaborative
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...
Racial Equity Core Teams: The Engines of Institutional Change
This guide provides jurisdictions and organizations with the tools and strategies to establish and scale a cross-departmental Core Team for designing, coordinat...
Women of Color Need Courageous Allies in the Academy: Part Two
This webinar is the second in INSIGHT into Diversity’s series, “Women of Color Need Courageous Allies in the Academy,” and dives deeper into how White...
INSIGHT Hosts ‘Women of Color Need Courageous Allies in the Academy’ Webinar
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...
Creating Safe and Welcoming Spaces for LGBTQ+ Clients: 7/31/19 Webinar
This webinar looks at why and how organizations can create a safe and welcoming environment for LGBTQ+ clients and colleagues. It discusses how to act as advoca...
Community Paramedicine Brief
This document is adapted from the Rural Health Information Hub’s topic guide on community paramedicine. It provides an overview of community paramedicine ...
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...
Our Progression to a Future of Belonging: Identity, Targeted Universalism, and Building the Bridges to Tomorrow
Keynote by john a. powell, Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley
Bringing Our Stories Together to Change the System
This article focuses the importance of intentionally integrating lived experiences into community and civic change processes in order to create equitable, inclu...
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,...
Paths to Renewal: How Can We Heal Through Adversity & Secure Legacies of Well-Being & Justice for Generations to Come?
This issue of the National Civic Review focuses on how to restore and foster trust, connections, inclusion, engagement, and opportunities in order to secure wel...
Targeted Universalism: Belonging in Praxis
A 60-minute “training for trainers” tool that supports organizers and advocates in understanding and adapting core concepts of Targeted Universalism into th...
Targeted Universalism: Dialogues of Belonging
A guide to a 30-minute entry-level discussion/workshop tool about the Targeted Universalism video explains the core concepts that strengthen understan...
Podcast: Targeted Universalism, with john a. powell
This episode of the Who Belongs? podcast features john a. powell discussing Targeted Universalism.
Who Belongs?
The Who Belongs? podcast is Othering and Belonging Institute’s official podcast.
Financial and health impacts of COVID-19 vary widely by race and ethnicity
This article from the Pew Research Center summaries survey results indicating disparities in economic and health impacts of COVID-19 among race and ethnicity.
Racial Economic Inequality Amid the COVID-19 Crisis
This paper explores racial economic inequality facing Americans during COVID-19.
Targeted Universalism: Equity 2.0
This presentation from john a. powell from 2016 outlines the concept of Targeted Universalism through a series of graphics and examples.
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
Learn about the didgʷálič Wellness Center’s holistic approach to substance abuse treatment in the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community.
Translating Research Evidence Into Practice to Reduce Health Disparities: A Social Determinants Approach
This article reviews the scope, definitions, and framing of health disparities and explores local, national, and global programs that address specific health di...
Health Impact Assessments – A Pathway to Health Equity
This newsletter explores how Health Impact Assessments (HIA) can offer a pathway to health equity by identifying potential health effects of proposed laws, regu...
Racial Equity Impact Assessment
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...
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Homicides of Adult Women and the Role of Intimate Partner Violence
This report focuses on homicides of adult women, the role of intimate partner violence, and looks at racial/ethnic differences in female homicide.
Resource Guide — Advancing Health Equity through Gender Affirming Health Systems
This guide details a health center’s journey through an organizational assessment process and supports implementation of similar approaches in other health ce...
Putting Equity At The Center
This paper makes the case for why collective impact initiatives must address inequity to be successful, highlights a range of OYF efforts to place equity at the...
Powering Health Equity Action with Online Data Tools
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...
What Is Health Equity? And What Difference Does a Definition Make?
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...
Counting a Diverse Nation: Disaggregating Data on Race and Ethnicity to Advance a Culture of Health
This report analyzes the key focus areas in data disaggregation to advance a culture of health and recommends changes and improvements to the conduct of researc...
Equity Language Guide: Governor’s Interagency Council on Health Disparities
This Equity Language Guide provides guidance, standard definitions, and terms to avoid that agencies can use in the creation of reports, forms, and other writte...
Community Health Workers: A Review of Program Evolution, Evidence on Effectiveness and Value, and Status of Workforce Development in New England
This report documents the evolution of community health worker (CHW) programs, summarizes the evidence on CHW program impact on health outcomes and costs, ident...
Land Acknowledgement Brief
This brief explains the importance of land acknowledgements in building relationships with tribes, upholding tribal sovereignty, and recognizing the history of ...
The Importance of Land Acknowledgement: Brief, Example, and Resources
This handout and insert provides an overview of land acknowledgement, why it is important, examples and resources for drafting and implementing a land acknowled...
Why Race Matters in Planning Public Parks
A major overhaul of a huge Houston park reveals disparities in what white, black, and Latino residents want—and need. This article discusses the implications ...
SEED Collaborative Report
This document presents health equity findings and analysis to support short- and long-term recommendations structuring a health equity initiative.
Health Equity Findings, Analysis & Recommendations
This document provides findings and analysis to support short and long-term recommendations for structuring a health equity initiative.
The Storytelling Project Curriculum
This free model and curriculum prompts students to consider how racism conceals or extinguish stories of diverse groups, how society can benefit from listening ...
Changing Our Narrative about Narrative: The Infrastructure Required for Building Narrative Power
This article is part of the Blueprint for Belonging project and looks at how change society for the better by building a new narrative infrastructure to ge...
Commons Good 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...
Systemic Racism Starts and Ends with Housing
Along with standing up against police violence and systemic racism, we must also fight to end housing systems that devalue Black people.
In Seattle, Protests Over Racial Equity Turn to Land Ownership
This article describes how activists in Seattle are responding to gentrification by advancing racial equity through the King County Equity Now campaign.&nb...
Targeted Universalism
This short animated video explains the concept of targeted universalism and explains the difference between targeted universalism and more traditional policy ap...
For Healthy Communities, Look Beyond Diet and Exercise
This article introduces Well Being Trust and how they are promoting community health through addressing seven vital conditions for wellbeing, including basic ne...
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...
Dialogue as a Process for Community Change
In spite of all the hard work and valiant effort, there has never really been a blueprint to addressing and overturning the hard issues that affect our society....
Communities WIN
Communities WIN is a community guide for dialogue and action. It is designed to help local leaders, as stewards, work together with others to transform their co...
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...
In the Zone: State Strategies to Advance Health Equity by Investing in Community Health
This chart compares goals, methods, funding sources, and governing structures of initiatives in four states that were developed to address health equity and pop...
Social Cohesion and Belonging Predict the Well-Being of Community-Dwelling Older People
This research article discusses the potential impacts of social cohesion, belonging, and instrumental goals on the well-being of older individuals (i.e., the de...
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