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- In November 2018, Health-Tech Consultants Inc. issued a report outlining the findings of a statewide pilot initiated by Florida Housing Finance Corporation. The study assessed the efficacy of providing Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) – affordable housing linked with individualized support services – to “high utilizers” of crisis services. Following is a summary and the key findings of the…November 2018Housing Discrimination, Healthy Housing
- Founded in 1989 as one of the pioneer clinics at the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), the Health & Welfare Practice provides holistic legal services through a medical-legal partnership model to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable individuals. Our experience over the last three decades has taught us that when we partner with medical providers, we are better able to address…November 2018Services & Programs
- Funders are increasingly looking to engage the communities they serve in the grantmaking process, but there are few resources about how to do so. In this guide, we explore how funders can engage in participatory grantmaking and cede decision-making power about funding decisions to the very communities they aim to serve. Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory…October 2018Policy and Practice
- As the result of a three-year multi-faceted Maryland state planning effort to address health-related challenges, the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission and Department of Health & Mental Hygiene has funded a four-year, $5 million Health Enterprise Zone initiative, the West Baltimore Primary Care Access Collaborative (WBPCAC).Under BSBHS’ leadership, WBPCAC is a partnership of more…October 2018Services & Programs
- In 2005, PASOs, a community-reaching organization created in response to research showing that Latino families in South Carolina value health and wellness, began addressing the need for trusted sources of information and support to address challenges and fill in gaps. PASOs, which means steps in Spanish, works with the rapidly growing Latino population of South Carolina to promote health,…October 2018Services & Programs
- Many people with mental health and substance use conditions lose access to housing because of poverty and disruption of personal relationships related to their disability, and between 20 and 33% of homeless people have serious mental illnesses.[i] In addition, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, approximately 67% of people experiencing chronic homelessness have a primary…September 2018Substance Use and Misuse, Housing Discrimination
- Health conditions and risk factors often overlap and co-occur, and are intimately tied to social and structural determinants of health. As a result, it is essential that health improvement efforts center on prevention and policy, systems and environmental changes that cut across sectors. There is widespread recognition that such multi-sector/collective impact work is necessary to improve…September 2018Policy and Practice, Services & Programs
- With the recognition that social factors contribute significantly to poor health outcomes and unnecessary spending, particularly among low-income individuals, health care (HC) and community-based organizations (CBOs) across the country are entering into partnerships that aim to address the social determinants of health (SDOH). These partnerships are bringing together health systems and CBOs in…August 2018Interventions, Social/Structural Determinants
- With support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Prevention Institute initiated Partnering for Health Equity: Grassroots Organizations on Collaborating with Public Health Agencies to better understand community perspectives on the challenges, opportunities, facilitators, and barriers to working with public health agencies to advance health equity. Prevention Institute spoke to organizational…August 2018Policy and Practice
- California is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse states in the United States. In fact, racial and ethnic minorities are now the majority in California, with the proportion of Latinos now surpassing Whites. However, non-White groups – namely, Latinos, African-Americans, and American Indians – are underrepresented in health professions that require an undergraduate or graduate degree.…July 2018Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- Health equity is the attainment of the highest level of health and well-being for all people. It requires efforts to ensure all people have full and equal access to opportunities that enable them to lead healthy lives. Conversely, health disparities are avoidable differences in health that are the result of unequal distributions of social, economic, and environmental factors. Examples include…May 2018Social/Structural Determinants
- Efforts to improve health in the U.S. have traditionally looked to the health care system as the key driver of health and health outcomes. However, there has been increased recognition that improving health and achieving health equity will require broader approaches that address social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health. This brief provides an overview of these social…May 2018Social/Structural Determinants
- This article arises out of our work over several decades in the evaluation field and in philanthropy with a focus on designing and facilitating the implementation of systems-change strategies and evaluation. It addresses our current thinking about how foundations and communities can work within complex systems to identify key levers for change and use evaluation to track progress and assess…March 2018Systemic Determinants
- Over 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons every year. They reenter their communities with a set of complex needs and challenging vulnerabilities, including chronic physical and behavioral health conditions, unstable housing, and impediments to finding and retaining quality jobs. Many struggle to reintegrate and a large share are rearrested or reincarcerated within a…March 2018Criminal History, Services & Programs
- The project team is developing plausible estimates of the causal effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on infant and child outcomes. The investigators focus on the effects of WIC on children after they are born; spillover effects from targeted children to other family members who are not directly eligible for the programs; and on the effects…January 2018Early Adulthood, Services & Programs
- Since Andrew Carnegie established the first US charitable foundation in 1911, grantmakers have fought hard to address entrenched social problems. Billions of charitable gifts have gone to feed the hungry, house the homeless, heal the sick, and educate the underserved. For the better part of a century, responsive giving to address existing needs was the preferred approach for philanthropy. …January 2018Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- The United States spends nearly $3.5 trillion on medical care each year, with more than 80 percent spent on treating chronic disease — most of which is avoidable and concentrated among those living in low-income communities. Thus, over $1 trillion is spent every year on treating avoidable disease created by conditions of poverty, which can negatively affect the health of future generations. …January 2018Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Services & Programs
- Most racial/ethnic minority groups overall have similar — or in some cases, fewer — mental disorders than whites. However, the consequences of mental illness in minorities may be long lasting. (author description)December 2017Mental/Behavioral Health
- This report analyzes data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), focusing on self-reported health outcomes among older adults who participated in arts activities in 2014. The findings reveal a positive association between arts attendance and health outcomes, particularly when combined with personal art-making. Additionally, the authors pave the way for future research on the interplay…September 2017Advocacy
- By providing data on union coverage, activities, and impacts, this report helps explain how unions fit into the economy today; how they affect workers, communities, occupations and industries, and the country at large; and why collective bargaining is essential for a fair and prosperous economy and a vibrant democracy. It also describes how decades of anti-union campaigns and policies have made…August 2017Services & Programs
- Introduction The United States continues to become more racially and ethnically diverse, and racial/ethnic minority communities encounter sociocultural barriers to quality health care, including implicit racial/ethnic bias among health care providers. In response, health care organizations are developing and implementing cultural competency curricula. Using a community-based participatory…August 2017Services & Programs, Racism
- Massachusetts state law includes a tremendous opportunity for city and town disability commissions to make their communities more accessible and more inclusive of people with disabilities. By persuading local government to adopt section 22G, commissions get access to the money collected from fines when individuals park illegally in accessible parking spaces (previously known as Handicapped…June 2017Advocacy
- We used the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Across the US (REACH US) Risk Factor Survey from 2009 through 2012 to examine the association between body mass index (BMI, calculated as kg/m2) and 3 cardiovascular disease risk factors among Chinese Americans in New York City. We used traditional BMI cut points and cut points modified for the Asian population. Compared with normal/…May 2017Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- In 2014, under the leadership of Commissioner of Health Dr. Mary T. Bassett, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene made advancing health equity a clearly articulated agency goal. Since then, the Health Department has launched a multi-faceted internal reform effort called Race to Justice, which aims to build our organizational capacity to advance health equity. Racial equity…May 2017Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- In a report designed to increase consensus around meaning of health equity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) provides the following definition: “Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to…May 2017Policy and Practice, Social Environment
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