Basic Needs: Food

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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...

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...

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...

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...

Tribal & Equity Learning Sessions | Honoring the Treaty Day 1.21.22 (Webinar)

Tribal & Equity Learning Sessions | Improving Community Health & Well-Being (Event Recording)

Tribal & Equity Learning Sessions | Food Sovereignty and the 13 Moons Curriculum: Tribal Learning Series (Webinar)

Tribal & Equity Learning Sessions | Equity and Tribal Sovereignty Training – Webinar

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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�...

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...

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...

Basic Needs: Food

Physical and mental well-being starts with access to fresh air, clean water, and nutritious food.

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

#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 “...

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...

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...

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