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This toolkit by the Rural Health Information Hub organizes evidence-based models and resources to support the implementation of programs that address the social determinants of health (SDOH) in rural communities across the United States.
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These toolkits were developed by Nemours Children’s Health as part of its Exploring the Roles & Functions of Health Systems within Population Health Integrator Networks Initiative, with support from The Kresge Foundation. The initiative focused on understanding how health care institutions and their partners share responsibility for integrative activities, which are the governance, oversight, and administrative functions that enable population health networks to carry out tasks and strategies related to the network’s shared population health goals.
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The 10 Principles of Trustworthiness, created by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), integrates local perspectives with established precepts of community engagement to guide health care, public health, and other sectors such as community development as they work to demonstrate they are worthy of trust.
Read MoreThe Healthy and Equitable Community Investment report, authored by the Healthy and Equitable Community Investment work group, led by the Conservation Law Foundation, includes recommendations for how the growing ecosystem of tools, approaches, and data sources should support community investment’s impact on health and equity in communities. Through the work group’s collaboration and convening of leaders in the field of measuring community investment, the working group found:
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This report by Enterprise Community Partners, Building to Heal: A Framework for Holistic Community Development, guides practitioners through principles, strategies, and tools for achieving a healing-centered approach to community development.
Read MoreThe Center for Community Investment, in collaboration with the Catholic Health Association, has published Investing in Community Health: A Toolkit for Hospitals.
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Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery & Resilience in Communities Across America (the Springboard) is a joint project of the CDC Foundation and Well Being Trust, coordinated with Community Initiatives and ReThink Health. A guide developed by more than 100 people, organizations, and communities, the Springboard is a practical resource to help communities secure the vital conditions that all people and places need to thrive: a thriving natural world, basic needs for health and safety, humane housing, meaningful work and wealth, lifelong learning, reliable transportation, and belonging and civic muscle.
Read MoreThe potential health returns from community development investments are vast. This research estimates a nearly 300% rate of return from one such comprehensive development project in Washington D.C. and provides an ROI calculator to estimate health returns for other community development investments.
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This report shares lessons learned from the 2013-2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize winning communities.
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This new report by Enterprise Community Partners and NeighborWorks America shows how an innovative pilot program – the Health Outcomes Demonstration Project – equipped 20 affordable housing and community development organizations to evaluate health outcomes across a range of programs.
Read MoreThe Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations featured the Network’s Partnerships for Health Equity and Opportunity: A Healthcare Playbook for Community Developers in the 2019 Vital Signals issues. Read the issue here.
Read MoreIn this academic article published in Social Science and Medicine – Population Health, the Build Healthy Places Network explores what common metrics and indicators are used across sectors to measure health.
Read MoreOpportunity Zones have the potential to improve conditions that influence social determinants of health in high need neighborhoods.
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This resource from the Build Healthy Places Network guides community developers toward partnerships with hospitals and healthcare systems.
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Produced by National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB) this guide helps community members and community-based organizations anticipate changes in their neighborhoods.
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