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At the heart of Community Health & Well-Being is you and your community! Dive into our Impact Report for fiscal year 2023. Working together, we’re making our communities shine brighter than ever. https://lnkd.in/eTsXyAvA

Maryland Residents and Community Leaders: The Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives (GOCI) invites you to participate in an important research study called "Empowering Voices: Assessing Community Needs and Engagement Across Maryland's Diverse Communities." Maryland is home to vibrant and diverse communities and this study aims to comprehensively assess the needs, priorities, and engagement preferences of each community. Take the survey https://ow.ly/bnFl50SIrCK by 12/31

In 2021, after the sudden closure of the SEPTA Somerset El station, residents, community groups, SEPTA employees, elected officials, and neighborhood nonprofits came together to march for Safety and Solutions. This moment for collective action and resistance is an anchor event that has led to our current moment. Historically, outside stakeholders have designed and implemented plans for Kensington and have left residents out of the planning, implementation, and evaluation process. Reversing decades of isolation and disinvestment requires coordination and mobilization of significant resources that are invested to improve the lives of current residents. Co-Creating Kensington, a community-driven planning and implementation process, advocates for just that. Over 650 residents have been coming together to create a shared vision for Kensington so that we can begin to address the historical inequities and intersecting crises together. For the first time, we have an opportunity for community-driven change if everyone can commit to and continue adopting actionable steps to connect a theory of change that centers trauma-informed, participatory, and comprehensive strategies with proposed or implemented intervention strategies for Kensington from government and private sector stakeholders. Learn more about this process at the report Co-Creating Kensington: Alignment, linked in our bio or at https://lnkd.in/eyura-J6.

In another round of our Angelenos For Change series, we're spotlighting LaDawn Best, the Chief of Community Partnerships at Peer Health Exchange! In regards to how one can initiate change, LaDawn shares, "identify what in your community you'd like to organize around and get started." Check out what else LaDawn has to say in the following video! https://lnkd.in/gGf9V4cN

The Ad Council’s unique ability to bring together marketers, media companies, nonprofits, and government agencies is what sets the organization apart.  By collaborating, the Ad Council amplifies its impact and ability to address pressing public health issues more effectively.  Head over to YT for our conversation with Anthony Signorelli to learn more about the Ad Council’s recent mental health campaigns and how they are making a real difference. https://bit.ly/4cjBPWt

Did you know that NLC launched the Municipalities Reimagining Community Safety (MRCS) initiative in 2022? With reducing crime being a political priority for many Americans, the MRCS initiative was created to invest in local action to reduce and prevent violence while advancing new visions for safety in communities. One of these visions includes Group Violence Intervention (GVI), an impactful strategy to reimagine public safety. So what does GVI look like? Read our new post — and attend our open meeting on Aug. 22 — to learn more. https://bit.ly/3Aq3I0I

We are committed to improving the health and well-being of our members and communities throughout Montana. Our 2023 #SocialResponsibility Report shows how we are expanding access to care, operating responsibly, and making an impact: http://spr.ly/6042V6UT2

At the Coalition our vision is quality care for all, including those who provide it. But how do we get there? By making professional community health workers (proCHWs) the norm worldwide. We do this with three interconnected tactics to drive systems change. We research to equip international norm setters with evidence to create proCHW guidelines. We advocate to influence global financing institutions to increase proCHW funding. And we activate in-country CHW networks to win national proCHW policy. In our latest blog, and ahead of our upcoming Annual Report, we explore where we won in 2023 and what we hope to achieve together in the new year. What would you add to the list? We would love to hear in the comments! https://lnkd.in/eJMn_iWJ

#WhatWeAreReading 🌉 Community health workers (CHW) are a critical bridge to health access for all. Community Health Impact Coalition's latest annual report outlines how they envision a world where CHWs (70% of which are women) are salaried, skilled, supervised, and supplied. At EYElliance we support this movement, integrating basic eye health and delivery of reading glasses into public community health systems in low- and middle-income countries. Together with a coalition of partners, EYElliance complements and extends government capabilities by providing targeted technical assistance on program design, facilitating training for CHWs, and fully institutionalizing programs within existing government systems. We also support governments’ ability to access large-scale donations and source affordable, quality eyeglasses to support community health worker systems to scale eye health services effectively. #communityhealthworkers #eyehealth #globaldevelopment

Discover how our Human Development programs prepare graduates to make a positive impact on their communities by equipping them with the skills to work in social services, nonprofits, health care, and education. https://ow.ly/LPYv50TM0n8