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Join Build Healthy Places Network and Shift Health Accelerator for the upcoming Healthy Neighborhood Investments: Policy Convening for Advancing Health and Racial Equity on May 19 and 20 at 9:00-11:00 am PT/ 12:00 – 2:00 pm ET.
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A growing epidemic in the United States, social isolation and loneliness is a health risk that has only intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Can cross-sector partnerships tackle the growing epidemic?
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Dignity Health St. Joseph's Medical Center recently announced a $130,000 investment to transform health outcomes and advance equity in South Stockton.
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Learn about the opportunities the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) provides for banks, hospitals, and community development practitioners to work in tandem.
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With the ushering in of a new administration, it's a good time to reflect on key 2020 ballot measures and their impact on race and health equity.
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Like most of the United States, the city teams participating in the Invest Health initiative found their priorities upended by the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The national Invest Health initiative, a project of Reinvestment Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has brought together cross-sector collaboratives in 50 small and mid-size cities since 2016 to develop health and equity-focused strategies for community investment; its second phase, Field Building, provided ten of those cities with ongoing targeted support for their work. The pandemic’s disproportionate impacts on the health of Black, brown, and low-income communities brought into stark focus the inequities the city teams were already fighting. However, despite the challenges of COVID-19, leaders in Akron, OH, Missoula, MT, and Greensboro, NC also found opportunities to leverage the cross-sector relationships and community engagement practices they had fostered since 2016 through Invest Health.
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The current COVID-19 pandemic, like many crises before it, has disproportionally affected communities of color, hitting Black and Latinx communities the hardest. COVID-19 has re-exposed the ingrained racism restricting access to quality healthcare, education, secure employment, and stable housing.
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