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From Health Affairs, Photo: Unsplash, HealthAffairs, February 2022 Take a look at the February 2022 issue of HealthAffairs HERE .

By Annie Gowen, Photo: Maddie McGarvey/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 9, 2022 Dozens of suburban moms from around the country dialed into an Ohio-based Zoom training session last month with the same goal — to learn how to combat the increasingly vitriolic rhetoric from parents whose protests over mask mandates and diversity education have turned school board meeting rooms into battlegrounds. The lessons: Show up at meetings with fact-based speeches ready and create text...

Posted on behalf of authors Rev. Dr. William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis On Monday, February 14th at 7pm CT/8pm ET , join poor and low-income, directly impacted people, faith leaders, and moral advocates from Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee for the launch of The Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls Mobilization Tour * with a regional Moral Monday. Speakers who are directly impacted by the policy violence...

Parents often enter treatment with a “just fix my kid” mindset and refuse to engage or change themselves. To address this problem, this free webinar will show an innovative FST (Family Systems Trauma) Motivational Technique based on a 5-question script that uses strength-based questions to quickly build rapport with your parents using a simple 15-minute phone call before your first session.

By Robert Maunder and Jon Hunter, Image: iStock, The Conversation, February 10, 2022 Every day we are exposed to things like pollution and ultraviolet light which increase our risk of illness. Many people take on additional risks — due to tobacco smoke, fast food or alcohol, for example. But there is a less-recogized exposure that is even more common than smoking and increases the risk of heart disease , diabetes , cancer , chronic lung diseases , sexually transmitted infections , chronic...

By Angela Roberts, Photo: Heather Mongilio, The Frederick News-Post, February 9, 2022 In partnership with the Frederick County Health Department and Frederick Health, the county’s Health Care Coalition on Wednesday shared the finalized list of public health issues that will guide local health improvement efforts over the next three years. Of the five health concerns discussed during last month’s public input session, the coalition’s board of directors selected three for the final priority...

By Sana Chehimi, Photo: Unsplash, Prevention Institute, February 8, 2022 As we begin 2022, it’s clear that the inequitable impacts of climate change, the pandemic, and racial injustice share common roots: existing systems that accept as a cost of doing business the oppression, exploitation, and degradation of BIPOC communities to enrich the few. They also share a structural solution: adopting a community health-based economy. Our vision is that we can replace a carbon-based economy with an...

By Marisa Iati, Steven Rich, and Jennifer Jenkins, Photo: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 9, 2022 Police shot and killed at least 1,055 people nationwide last year, the highest total since The Washington Post began tracking fatal shootings by officers in 2015 — underscoring the difficulty of reducing such incidents despite sustained public attention to the issue. The new count is up from 1,021 shootings the previous year and 999 in 2019. The total comes amid...

By Dan Parks, Photo: 510 Media, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 10, 2022 The Hidden Genius Project, which trains and mentors Black boys and teenagers about technology careers, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills, was at a crucial point in 2015. The small Oakland, Calif., charity was seeing rapid growth in the number of volunteers who wanted to participate, and it was ready to hire paid staff so it could expand its operations. It needed money. Its timing was fortuitous. It was...

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Hello! Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI) just wrapped up our first cohort of the Resilient Leaders Initiative , a 9-month program that supported 5 local organizations to pilot trauma-informed practices. This was the first social accelerator program model to that is: -focused on public agencies (not startups) -rooted in a rural community -supporting orgs on piloting trauma-informed practices Click here for the in-depth press release. Click here for a 2-page summary of outcomes. Thank you to...

By Jesse C. Baumgartner and Laurie Zephyrin, Photo: John Moore/Getty Images, The Commonwealth Fund, February 2, 2022 The Affordable Care Act (ACA) led to historic insurance coverage gains and reduced racial and ethnic disparities, but our recent scorecard report on racial health equity shows that large gaps remain in nearly every state. Black and Latino/Hispanic people, along with American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) people, are much less likely than white people to have health insurance.