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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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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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We are now witnessing not just a health crisis but a community crisis. What is the role for community development investment and cross-sector partnership with healthcare in strengthening resilience and increasing equity in our post-pandemic world? How are these sectors working together to drive meaningful investments toward our hardest hit communities?
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The Build Healthy Places Network, in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, hosted a live discussion, on February 19, 2020, regarding the proposed changes to the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule. These changes ultimately weaken the oversight and accountability for agencies receiving federal housing dollars allowing them to implement policies or programs without consideration for the impact on groups that have been historically discriminated against in the past.
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In 2003 in Coal Run, a small hollow in southeastern Ohio, 89-year-old Helen McCuen still paid a ”water man” to fill a cistern buried in her front yard twice a month. Turning on a tap and getting fresh water wasn’t an option. McCuen lived in a largely African American part of town that lacked running water. The nearby city told residents it was too expensive to extend water lines to them. Meanwhile, a few miles away in a white neighborhood, water flowed freely. “The water stopped where the black folks started,” one local resident told the New York Times. It turned out that federal funds were used to extend water lines up to Coal Run but not to the African American community. A lawsuit would eventually force the city to lay water lines to the black residents.
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently released their updated Culture of Health measures, to track movement toward a nation where everyone, regardless of background or zip code, has a fair and just opportunity for health and well-being. Last year, we wrote about the measures on this blog, demonstrating alignment with Build Healthy Places Principles for Building Healthy and Prosperous Communities.
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Studies that connect green space to mental health and wellbeing abound. And this connection is intuitive—people have long retreated to parks and natural places to recharge from the pressures of daily life. Less known is the fact that greening is gaining recognition as an effective violence prevention strategy.
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The solutions to improve the health of communities often transcend the borders of cities or towns. What do successful cross-sector approaches to health and equity improvement look like when they span different geographical regions?
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Download the playbook, Partnerships for Health Equity and Opportunity: A Healthcare Playbook for Community Developers.
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Research is documenting the harmful effects on children when families must keep moving to find a safe, affordable home.
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At a recent community event, someone made a reflection that stuck with me. “The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety,” said Jonathan Goyer, an expert advisor to Governor Gina Raimondo’s Overdose Prevention and Intervention Task Force and a person in long-time recovery. “It’s connectedness.”
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How do you know if you are building a healthier place?
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This report is cross-posted from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Looking at a map of the places they call home, most people can easily point to notably affluent areas versus the ones that have dilapidated homes, under-resourced schools and unsafe sidewalks—places more likely to be cut through by a six-lane highway, or to host a polluting factory rather than a supermarket stacked with fresh food or a tree-shaded playground.
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Read the full Dispatches series!
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