Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture: learning and advocacy series
The North Sound Collaborative Action Network presents a learning and advocacy interactive webinar series for 2022, Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture. Each ...
Belonging and Civic Muscle
Belonging & Civic Muscle
An introduction to Belonging and Civic Muscle as a Vital Condition for Well-Being
Featured Collections
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?
Introduction to Belonging & Civic Muscle
What is belonging & civic muscle and why is it the central vital condition for well-being?
Featured Resources
How do we live together when we profoundly disagree? A conversation with john powell
For john, the most important of those things is bridging, connecting with other people in a way that helps them feel like they belong and helps you feel like yo...
Organizing Around Vital Conditions Moves The Social Determinants Agenda Into Wider Action
Dozens of federal departments, agencies, and institutes published a whole-of-government plan to enhance well-being and justice across the United States – The ...
Inclusive Language Guide
Our language must continually evolve with our understanding and acceptance of diverse groups of people. This booklet aims to guide us… in the quest to com...
The Science of Silence: Intentional Silence as a Moderation Technique
Keeping quiet is a powerful moderation technique for user interviews, usability testing, and workshop facilitation. Well-timed, deliberate periods of silence el...
Cancel Culture Is Real, But adrienne maree brown Says We Should Be Careful About Throwing People Away
adrienne maree brown talks to Shondaland about her book, “We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice.”
Advancing Holistic Well-Being Measures
NLC and Oxford embarked on a dual effort aimed at a pilot in metropolitan Atlanta, while also considering a broader set of emerging models spurred by cities and...
BIPOC Provider Perspectives
This video collection of stories shares Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) health practitioner perspectives. This collection was created by Mónica ...
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...
The Purple Stethoscope
The Purple Stethoscope podcast is hosted by Devyn Nixon, ARNP. The purpose of the podcast is to promote health literacy and healthcare for the culture.
What’s Different When the Community Collects the Data?
This story discusses nine Massachusetts communities where residents were recruited to conduct an annual study that examines community change and health and how ...
The Endangered Languages Project
Humanity today is facing a massive extinction: languages are disappearing at an unprecedented pace. And when that happens, a unique vision of the world is lost....
Who Belongs? EP 36 – Developing a Shared Vocabulary: Introduction to Othering, Bridging, and Belonging
This episode of the Who Belongs? podcast series contains an interview of UC Berkeley Professor and OBI Director john a. powell. In this interview, Professor pow...
Northwest tribes’ legacy, and power, of telling a good story
News article by KUOW in Seattle about Lummi Nation and Children of the Setting Sun Productions.
Bolder Advocacy
Resources and expertise to help nonprofits engage in advocacy work. Bolder Advocacy promotes active engagement in democratic processes and institutions by givin...
Tribal Approaches to Wellness film series
Watch the full livestream of the premiere of Children of the Setting Sun Productions’ documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness, featuring th...
Marilyn Scott: Portrait of Leadership – Upper Skagit Indian Tribe
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...
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...
Salmon and Our Health – Stillaguamish Tribe
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...
Rikkole Cree Canoe Club – Nooksack Tribe
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 Cohort Glossary
Glossary of terms helpful for the Collaborative Action Network learning journey, by North Sound ACH.
What is Health Equity
While the term health equity is used widely, a common understanding of what it means is lacking. What is health equity? By the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Equity Manifesto
The Equity Manifesto by Policy Link. Includes definition and explanation of equity as seen by Policy Link and partners.
Racial Equity Map Glossary
Glossary by the Racial Equity Learning & Action Community.
Creating the Future
Creating the Future is a collection of people around the world, supporting each other in a 10 year experiment in systems change, to determine how much more huma...
Land Back: April session – Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture series
Recording of the Land Back learning session on April 20, 2022 hosted by North Sound ACH. This sessions is the first in the 2022 Advancing a Just and Inclusive C...
Land Back: Beyond Land Acknowledgment to Stewardship, Decolonization, and Reconciliation
Slide deck for April learning session, Land Back: Beyond Land Acknowledgment to Stewardship, Decolonization, and Reconciliation
In Conversation with Communities of Color Coalition (C3)
A conversation with the Communities of Color Coalition (C3). In this partner learning session, the proposed regional compact as a new agreement between partners...
Beyond the Land Acknowledgement: College “Land Back” or Free Tuition for Native Students
This policy and practice brief explores the concept of “land back” in higher education. The author both problematizes ladn acknowledgements without land bas...
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
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 ...
GLSEN Pronoun Guide
This guide was created to help people in school communities, like students and teachers, learn how to use people’s correct pronouns. The goal of this guide is...
Creating More Accessible, Inclusive Buildings
This article discusses the concept of universal design and how it can be used in the U.S. As investment opportunities become available for building and improvin...
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 ...
Partner Learning Session: Healing Dialogue for Kamloops
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.
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
This video follows three indigenous members of the Two Spirit and LGBTQ community as they journey toward self-acceptance, supportive healthcare, and communities...
Democracy in Action: Election 2020
This webpage provides a compilation of resources on registering to vote, interacting with and assessing candidates, understanding ballots, and ensuring that the...
Community Paramedicine: A New Approach to Serving Complex Populations
This webinar highlights two community paramedicine programs: ThedaCare and Commonwealth Care Alliance. These programs effectively engage and serve individuals w...
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
In this keynote address, john a. powell, Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute and UC Berkeley Professor of Law, African American & Ethnic Stud...
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
This 60-minute “training for trainers” supports organizers and advocates in understanding and adapting core concepts of targeted universalism into their own...
Targeted Universalism: Dialogues of Belonging
This discussion/workshop tool to be used along with the Targeted Universalism video explains core concepts of targeted universalism in order to strengthen ...
Podcast: Targeted Universalism, with john a. powell
This episode of the Who Belongs? podcast features john a. powell discussing Targeted Universalism.
Who Belongs? A Podcast on Othering and Belonging
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 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.
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
The didgʷálič Wellness Center is an organization that seeks to improve the health and wellness of all individuals suffering from substance use disorders and ...
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 in these homicides, and racial/ethnic differences in rate of female homic...
Resource Guide — Advancing Health Equity through Gender Affirming Health Systems
This guide details a health center’s journey through an organizational assessment process in order to advance gender affirming care. It includes templates and...
Putting Equity At The Center
This paper makes the case for why collective impact initiatives must address inequity to be successful. It highlights a range of Opportunity Youth Forum (OYF) e...
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 language guide is intended to assist state agencies with talking about issues related to equity and racial equity. It provides standard definitions, terms ...
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 provide an overview of land acknowledgement, why it is important, examples of land acknowledgements, and resources for drafting and impl...
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 ...
The Storytelling Project Curriculum: Learning About Race and Racism through Storytelling and the Arts
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 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...
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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