If ZIP code is more important than genetic code in determining one’s health and opportunities, how can pediatricians enable healthy…
Read More During this survey process, we heard from 119 CDCs across 30 states, spanning geography and urban and rural communities. We learned that while many CDCs who answered the survey are already engaging with healthcare, many need additional capacity (knowledge, staff, and resources) to sustain healthcare engagement efforts. We also found that many are still at the beginning of their journey toward healthcare engagement.
Read More Build Healthy Places Network’s Executive Director, Dr. Douglas Jutte, was interviewed by Julia Resnick, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the American Hospital…
Read More Build Healthy Places Network’s Executive Director, Dr. Douglas Jutte, was interviewed by Dr. Gabriel Kaplan, Board President of NACDD (National Association of Chronic Disease Directors). The two discussed the fundamentals of the community development field, the intersection of community development and health, and how the sectors can forge partnerships to increase investment in low-income neighborhoods to tackle health disparities. Tune in to learn more about how the community development, finance, and health sectors can collectively contribute to innovative cross-sector partnerships that address social determinants of health leading to better health outcomes in neighborhoods across the country (20-minute listen).
Read More Build Healthy Places Network, Prosperity Now, and Financial Health Network partnered to explore how to foster alignment across the community development, public health, healthcare, and financial well-being sectors. Fostering Healthy Neighborhoods: Alignment across the Community Development, Financial Well-Being and Health sectors presents examples of existing alignment across sectors, opportunities and challenges for increased collaboration including place-based initiatives, and recommendations to foster cross-sector alignment. We conducted focus groups, interviews, and an exhaustive scan of the published and online resources and materials at the intersection of this work.
Read More Interested in developing a health strategy with partnerships outside of your own sector? On August 8, 2019, speakers from Build Healthy Places Network, The CaseMade, and NeighborWorks America drew on their varied experience bridging the health and community development sectors. We discussed entry points, the motivations and perspectives that community development and health sectors each bring to their work, shared goals across sectors, and successful strategies to make your case for partnership. Hear from:
Read More Measurement is essential for demonstrating shared impact and the value of collaboration, informing resource allocation, and developing effective policies to achieve healthy communities. But when you’re working across silos, what is measured and how it is measured can become a major roadblock.
Read More More jumbles of letters: LIHTC, NMTC, CRA, AMI, TOD, HFFI, HFAs, CDFIs, CDCs (no, not that CDC). What do any of them have to do with health?
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