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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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The city of Richmond, Virginia has some of the most concentrated poverty in the country. Richmond has high unemployment and poverty rates of 40 percent or above in its East End neighborhoods, which includes Church Hill North and has a majority African American racial makeup (92 percent). In the East End, life expectancy rates are lower than in the City as a whole, and in fact in some of these neighborhoods, residents can expect to live 10 to 15 years less than people in other areas of Richmond. Additionally, the East End is said to have the largest concentration of public housing between Washington DC and Atlanta, and only a small percent of residents are homeowners.
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We’re excited to launch our Fast Facts series with Capital Impact Partners and West Health that will highlight how coordinated services – from healthcare to housing – can create livable, age-friendly communities that support the economic, health, and social needs of older adults.
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Ashland, CA, is a community in unincorporated Alameda County struggling from decades of disinvestment, high unemployment, and amongst the worst health indicators in the county. The numbers of reentry residents is amongst the highest in the county, further impacting the area’s stability and needs. Despite all this, the community has strong bones to build on.
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It’s clear why collaborating with other sectors can be beneficial: Collaboration can help expand available resources, strategies, and capabilities to achieve outcomes that would be difficult to accomplish alone. With that in mind, Prevention Institute (PI) and the Center for the Study of Social Policy brought together violence prevention and early childhood partners from across the country for the Cradle to Community project. Through this Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project, partners explored intersections between the two fields. After collaborative place-based work arose as an area of interest, Build Healthy Places Network joined a conversation on how the community development sector could be part of the mix. Using the Collaboration Multiplier tool and framework for fostering impactful partnerships, a new PI report, summarized below, explores what multisector collaboration could look like between those in violence prevention, early childhood systems, and
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston serves the first district of New England, encompassing most of the six New England states from Maine to Connecticut. The Regional & Community Outreach Department of the Bank promotes the economic strength of lower-income individuals and communities in New England. Our focal areas are threefold: Strengthen the prospects of smaller industrial cities in New England; Increase employment opportunities for lower-income residents; and advance household economic security and equity.
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In Detroit, most of the investments in multi-family rental housing and small business development have been confined to the downtown area. However, in a Northwest Detroit neighborhood, the Winship Community, one catalytic project is proving to be transformational.
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The Mariposa project is on the front lines of a rapidly growing movement seeking to reconnect low-income residents to the critical networks — transit, affordable housing, jobs — that are the cornerstones of opportunity. By centering development efforts around a transit stop, planners are hoping to reinvigorate a neighborhood by connecting its residents to integral supports and services, from hospitals to schools to grocery stores , all while paying heed to the risks of gentrification and displacement.
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In late February 2017, RWJF (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) and AcademyHealth convened their second annual Sharing Knowledge conference. This invitation-only event gathered a cross-sectoral community to help build a transdisciplinary evidence base to build a Culture of Health. Experts across sectors discussed innovative research design, new methodological approaches, and how to translate evidence into action.
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All too often, cross-sector collaborations fail to include residents of the communities they purport to serve. Inclusion is usually advocated for on the basis that those experiencing difficult social circumstances have important contributions to make, both in terms of understanding the challenges being experienced and suggesting culturally-appropriate solutions. What’s less appreciated, however, is that inclusion per se is an important part of people’s health.
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