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...
Featured Resources
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...
MV Mariachi
This program celebrates the cultural heritage and musical traditions of Mariachi, offering education and performance opportunities.
Living Voices | The Right to Dream
This website provides guided learning resources about the Civil Rights Movement.
NPR | ‘Artivist’ Nikkolas Smith Combines Art And Activism Into A Singular Superpower
This profile features Nikkolas Smith, an artist who uses his work to advocate for social justice and inspire activism.
Artnet | Museum Staffs Are Starting to Diversify, Particularly Among Leadership Roles, According to a New Survey
This survey report examines the current state of diversity among museum staff, highlighting areas of progress and ongoing challenges.
Library of Congress | Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya’s Anti Asian Hate Posters from the Covid-19 Pandemic
This gallery showcases the art of Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, focusing on her work addressing anti Asian hate during the Covid-19 2020 pandemic.
MPR News | Painter’s exhibit pays tribute to Standing Rock protests
This exhibit highlights paintings inspired by the Standing Rock protest, emphasizing the artistic response to the movement.
Say This, Not That!
In this resource you will find 30 popular phrases and their shockingly racist historical meanings.
May Network Learning Session (Recording): Health & The Outdoors
This is a recording of the May 2024 network learning session, Health & The Outdoors. During our time together wee deepened our understanding of how our well...
Beyond Integration: Recovery Coaching & Lived Experience | Recording | January 2024 Partner Convening: The HeART of Transformation
In this session, we have a conversation about why this work is important, how each one of us has innate skills and access to resources that can impact this wor...
Day 1 | Slides | January 2024 Partner Convening: The HeART of Transformation
This is the slide deck from the first day of the January 2024 Partner Convening: The HeART of Transformation.
Partner Highlight: The Omni Center – NWYS | Recording | January 2024 Partner Convening: The HeART of Transformation
This is a recording of the Northwest Youth Services’s partner highlight, featuring the Omni Center presented by Remy Styrk which occurred during our Jan...
Juneteenth | A Remy Styrk Film | January 2024 Partner Convening: The HeART of Transformation
This was a presentation of the film Juneteenth, a Remy Styrk film which was presented during our January 2024 Partner Convening: The HeART of Transformation. &n...
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...
Public Workshops | DIANE GOODMAN CONSULTING
“Educator, consultant, facilitator, speaker, author, and activist, Diane Goodman (she/her) has been addressing issues of diversity and social justice for ...
The Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA)
“The Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) is a Black women-led cross-sectoral alliance that centers Black mamas and birthing people to advocate, drive resea...
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...
Matika Wilbur | Website
“Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) is one of the nation’s leading photographers, based in the Pacific Northwest. She earned her BFA from Brooks Inst...
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: Turning Adversity into Action | January 2024 Partner Convening
Slides from the session Turning Adversity into Action | January 2024 Partner Convening
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 ...
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.”
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Before Maslow’s Hierarchy: The Whitewashing of Indigenous Knowledge
Maslow’s renowned model—a story of systemic racism, Western epistemology (or ways of knowing), and the forced invisibility of Indigenous knowledge.
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.
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....
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...
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...
Racial Equity Map Glossary
Glossary by the Racial Equity Learning & Action Community.
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...
Relevant Engagement
Relevant Engagement, LLC is a consulting firm based in the state of Washington. The mission is to engage youth, adults, institutions, and community organization...
Center for Guided Pathways
The Center for Guided Pathways works with student leaders & student affairs professionals at all levels. The Center believes that closing demographic dispar...
Anti-racist Resources: Google Doc
This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices ...
A Community Builder’s Toolkit
Tools for creating healthy, productive interracial/multicultural communities.
Racial Justice: Acts of Resistance webinar
Recorded webinar of North Sound ACH learning session for our monthly series, Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture, June 15, 2022. With Ramona Beltran (Univers...
Remaking the Economy: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
A webinar hosted by Nonprofit Quarterly and Shelterforce, with four field leaders discussing central questions regarding economic justice, racial justice, and s...
Prosperity Now 2022 Federal Policy Priorities Brief
Report from Prosperity Now on the federal policies they will focus on in 2022 to create systemic change that allows for everyone, especially low-income, BIPOC c...
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 ...
Nonprofit Impact Measurement
This article explores how nonprofits can better measure impact, not just with spreadsheets but with more powerful analytic and story-telling tools. It provides ...
Racial Equity and Belonging
This publication shares information on the #BelongingPledge and encourages readers to commit to the discussion about racial equity no matter how uncomfortable i...
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...
‘It’s been a long journey’: Google CEO Sundar Pinchar on new, widespread commitments to racial equity
This article features Google CEO Sundar Pichai on new, widespread commitments to racial equity including increasing black employees at senior levels and a new g...
Demand for Chief Diversity Officers is High. So is Turnover
This publication discusses how many diversity executives find themselves rotating through C-suites due to frustration over lack of real action and resources. Th...
Race-Equity Consultants in Demand in Hollywood: “Never Once Have We Been So Busy”
This article discusses the rise in demand for diversity and inclusion experts in the entertainment industry in the wake of the killings of George Floyd and Breo...
LADWP Hires First-ever Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
This publication discusses how as part of the ongoing initiatives to advance diversity and equity, Monique Earl was named to lead the newly-created Office of Di...
LADWP Hires First-ever Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
This publication discusses how as part of the ongoing initiatives to advance diversity and equity, Monique Earl was named to lead the newly-created Office of Di...
Why are Law Schools Afraid to Discuss Breonna Taylor?
This piece discusses the question of why law schools who claimed #BlackLivesMatter when their students were off-campus during the summer were afraid to discuss ...
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...
House Hearing on Proposed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion-related Legislation
This article discusses the lack of diversity among boards in U.S. companies, especially with regards to representation of women or racially diverse members. It ...
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...
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...
The Answer to Police Violence is not “Reform.” It’s Defunding. Here’s Why
This piece explores how bias training, body cameras, and community dialogue in Minneapolis have not been sufficient in ending police violence. The author makes ...
How Social Platforms are Responding to #BlackLivesMatter Protests Across the US
This article explores how social media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok responded to the death of George Floyd and ensuing #BlackLivesMatte...
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...
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...
New Hub Launches for Women of Color in Giving
This piece highlights the launch of Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy, a program for women of color in the fundraising and philanthropic communitie...
Health Equity: Governor’s Interagency Council of Health Disparities
This webpage introduces the Governor’s Interagency Council of Health Disparities, which was created in 2006 in Washington state. The council is responsibl...
HB 1783: Creating the Washington State Office of Equity
Washington State House Bill 1783 creates a Washington state office of equity. This resource offers a history of and the details about the bill as well as analys...
State House Passes Formation of Nation’s First Statewide “Office of Equity”
This news article covers the passing of legislation in Washington state, House Bill 1783. The bill would set up an Office of Equity within the Governor’s Offi...
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, ...
11 Free Online Courses on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to Sign Up for Right Now that Will Make You a Better Leader
As the world contends with social justice and equity issues, this article describes how to navigate a diverse workforce and be an inclusive person. It summarize...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
This feature by Barack Obama shares lessons learned from history about the struggle for racial justice. Obama advocates for insitiutional and policy changes, es...
How to Make Sure City Budgets Can Prioritize Racial Equity
This article explores what government agencies can do to make meaningful steps toward racial equity by making sure city budgets reflect their values. Recommenda...
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...
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...
Businesses and Philanthropy Unite to Fight Racial Wealth Gap
This article describes NinetyToZero, a new initiative by the CEOs of Starbucks and Goldman Sachs along with leaders from philanthropy and academia. The initiati...
3 Ways Companies Can Help Advance Racial Equity
Exposing the slow pace of investment in racial equity by corporations, this article provides three tangible approaches to promoting racial justice. The authors ...
Corporate America’s $50 Billion Promise
This article explores the committments and investments of corporations and companies following the murder of George Floyd and demands from the Black Lives Matte...
LA Council Orders “Racial Equity Audit” of City Programs, Policies, and Practices
This news article describes The Los Angeles City Council’s move to have staff members draft a “Racial Equity Audit” of the city’s programs, or polic...
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...
Land Back: A Necessary Act of Reparations
This article explores the land back movement, the basis for stealing Indigenous lands, demands of the Indigenous land back movement, reparations in the context ...
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...
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.
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