Community Impacts

TypeToolkit

How to use the toolkit for PROMISE: This toolkit for PROMISE provides information and recommendations on establishing a community-wide trauma-informed/ trauma-responsive (T-I/T-R) system among key stakeholders for the promotion of resilient and thriving children from low-income urban communities. For more information, contact: Polly Gipson Allen Click the link below to view or download the toolkit:

Location Ypsilanti, Michigan

TypeToolkit

How to empower communities to advocate for mental health: This toolkit to empower communities to advocate can be used to develop a framework to equitably empower informal leaders and culture bearers to increase community capacity to connect to formalized mental health support structures.  For more information, visit: emPOWER NOLA Click the link below to view […]

Location New Orleans, Louisiana

TypeToolkit

How to provide integrated medical and social services through familiar faces: This toolkit is intended to help community stakeholders improve the health and well-being of its most vulnerable community members. It provides strategies to develop a shared understanding of the complex challenges faced by these individuals and a design framework to better understand and address […]

Location Raleigh, North Carolina

TypeToolkit

How to partner with community based doulas: This toolkit can be used to partner with community based doulas on implementing their programming into clinical settings specifically to prevent maternal and infant mortality inequities in Black birthing families. For more information, contact: Amanda Murphy Click the link below to view or download the toolkit:

Location Asheville, North Carolina

TypeToolkit

How to reduce kidney disease burden among Latinos with Diabetes by partnering with community: This toolkit provides tools and resources to be utilized by other healthcare teams to partner with community-based organizations to advance health equity. Our team’s focus was to reduce kidney disease burden among Latinos with Diabetes. The lessons can be applied to […]

Location Denver, Colorado

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit to break silences about mental health: This toolkit was created for breaking silences and provide guidance to other community activists, public health professionals, academics, and researchers seeking to build a culture of health among Chinese American families.  For more information, contact: WAVES or The MGH Center Click the link below […]

Location Washington, DC

TypeBig Idea Talk

Birth outcomes improve when clinicians and doulas partner. Why do we need clinicians and doulas to partner? In the US, Black babies die at three to four times the rate of White babies and Black mamas die at two to three times the rate of White moms. Elizabeth Buys in an OB/GYN who shares an […]

Location Asheville, North Carolina

TypeBig Idea Talk

How can the human-animal bond serve as a doorway to health equity? The human-animal bond is powerful, people love their pets. Veterinarian Hanna Ekstrom shares the story of the cold night she met Maria, Miguel, and their pet dog Luna. Their love for their pet brought them to the Seattle Veterinary Outreach mobile clinic. Hanna […]

Location Seattle, Washington

TypeBig Idea Talk

How many healthcare providers face moral distress because policies in your clinic or at the state and federal level push you to do harm? Do no harm. Physician Lilia Cervantes shares how her patient turned friend Hilda repeatedly endured emergency dialysis and was forced to make a choice no one should have to make. Lilia […]

Location Denver, Colorado

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit for wellbeing in veterinary medicine: This toolkit serves as a guide to creating and disseminating an effective intervention to enhance mental health and wellbeing in veterinary medicine workers. For more information, contact: Unburdened  Click the link below to view or download the toolkit:

Location Kent, Ohio

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit to use the human-animal bond to improve health equity: The Toolkit for Improving Health Equity through the Human-Animal Bond can be used to develop a mobile veterinary and street medicine program to meet the needs of individuals living unhoused in the community to build trust as they seek care for […]

Location Seattle, Washington

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit for implementing medical respite care delivery: This toolkit guides you through the journey our team and our partners at Buffalo City Mission (BCM), Erie County Medical Center, Jericho Road Community Health Center, and Spectrum Health and Human Services took in opening the first medical respite unit in the city of […]

Location Buffalo, New York

TypeBig Idea Talk

What difference does a familiar face make for people who interact with crisis systems frequently? How does it feel to see a familiar face, especially when you are in a vulnerable situation or sick? Family physician Derrick Hoover shares his story as a traveler in challenging situations to help illustrate how difficult daily life is […]

Location Raleigh, North Carolina

TypeBig Idea Talk

How can we ensure medical respite for all our neighbors? Medical respite provides a safe place to heal. Think of a time when you were a patient in the hospital. What if you were discharged with a new diagnosis of homelessness? Nurse Amanda Anderson shares Jesse’s story to show how the City of Good Neighbors […]

Location Buffalo, New York

TypeBig Idea Talk

How do we start breaking silences around mental illness and suicide among Asian Americans? Breaking silences means acting on the fact that Asian American college students are 40% more likely to have attempted suicide compared to White students. Nurse and community organizer Jian (Lily) Chen shares her story including her own daughter’s mental health crisis […]

Location Washington, DC

TypeBig Idea Talk

How can we address the veterinarian mental health crisis? The veterinarian mental health crisis affects people who help pets including other veterinary workers. 7 out of 10 veterinarians have a friend or colleague who has died by suicide. Clinical Psychologist Mary Beth Spitznagel shares the story of exhausted Erica, a veterinarian experiencing something called “burden […]

Location Kent, Ohio

TypeBig Idea Talk

How do we help the helpers that help people in need? In New Orleans, 1 in 5 children have witnessed a murder and over half of them have had someone close to them die by murder. Psychologist Arnold James shares the story of helping 16 year-old Josh through dark times. The emPOWER NOLA team developed […]

Location New Orleans, Louisiana

TypePresentation

7 Years of Clinical Scholars Impact for Health Equity The Clinical Scholars Impact Report details the unique impact of the 162 Fellows hailing from 26 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C. These healthcare providers pooled their complementary experience and insights to form 44 teams. These partnerships yielded innovative solutions to complex issues: solutions that could […]

Location ,

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit for training to improve geriatric care: The Toolkit for Interdisciplinary Training to Improve Geriatric Care in Rural Areas provides insights to develop interprofessional training modules to teach primary care providers in rural areas how to safely and effectively care for the elderly.  For more information, contact: Pia Lorenzo Click the […]

Location Honolulu, Hawaii

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit for reframing legal involvement as a SDoH: The Toolkit for Reframing Legal Involvement as a Social Determinant of Health (SDoH) is intended to help communities wishing to integrate health and legal services to better understand these systems, develop strategic partnerships, and design implementation projects to advance access to justice and […]

Location Newark, New Jersey

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit for teaching health in schools: The Toolkit for Teaching Health in Schools is designed to help initiate a program of health education in an elementary school. The enclosed information provides an opportunity for young children to thrive by learning life-long healthy behaviors and leveraging empowerment. Audiences for this toolkit might […]

Location Lexington, Kentucky

TypeBig Idea Talk

How can teaching resilience in healthcare students ready and steady our future workforce? Psychologist Aukahi Austin Seabury shares her team’s story of building resilience in healthcare students and in turn, the people they will serve. Imagine being a healthcare student and looking out at your career. It looks very different than what was promised before […]

Location Honolulu, Hawaii

TypeBig Idea Talk

How can people over programs fix broken systems? Trauma surgeon Stephanie Bonne and social worker Colleen Smith share how people over programs, relationships not interventions, have improved both the healthcare and criminal legal systems in Newark. Each of them share stories of people they’ve met navigating both broken systems at the same time. See how […]

Location Newark, New Jersey

TypeBig Idea Talk

What would it look like if our healthcare system ran on the revenue of wellbeing instead of suffering? Nurse and paramedic Justin Porter shares his healthcare journey into palliative care, and 3 shifts we can make to improve quality of life and reduce suffering. His experience working on a flight team showed that our healthcare […]

Location Okanogan, Washington

TypeBig Idea Talk

What happens when adults in Appalachia engage children with BRIEF health lessons? Dietitian Julie Plasencia and Nurse Practitioner Angela Grubbs’ work shows that health education can start early, be fun, fast, and involve the community with BRIEF health lessons. Poor health is costly to families and communities. Casey County, Kentucky is a region of high […]

Location Lexington, Kentucky

TypeBig Idea Talk

What’s possible when communities help fill healthcare cracks and gaps? Community nurse Kathey Avery shares the story of a father and son who were falling through healthcare cracks. For them and others, health issues in subsidized and public housing can lead to eviction and unstable physical and mental health. Residents are on limited budgets, have […]

Location Asheville, North Carolina

TypeBig Idea Talk

How did 7 year old Manuel and his Chicago school’s community health workers save the day? Pediatrician Kenneth Fox shares how his team is reimagining schools as a place for improving health by integrating community health workers (CHWs). Healthy students are better learners and students learn better in healthy schools. Yet, Manuel like nearly 1 […]

Location Chicago, Illinois

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit for rural palliative care: This toolkit can be used as a resource for individuals and organizations interested in the development of palliative care services in rural areas.  For more information, contact: Sheila Brandenburg Click the link below to view or download the toolkit:

Location Okanogan, Washington

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit to support maternal mental health: This toolkit can be used to guide the development and implementation of interventions to promote mental health in community settings and specifically to prevent maternal depression in preschools. For more information, contact: Sarah Polk Click the link below to view or download the toolkit:

Location Baltimore, Maryland

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit for building resilience: This toolkit can provide guidance toward an interdisciplinary resilience curriculum for students in the healthcare field or Emerging Health Professionals (EHPs), who will be working in homeless communities with diabetes/pre-diabetes. For more information, contact: Resilience Hawai’i Click the link below to view or download the building resilience […]

Location Honolulu, Hawaii

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit for the trauma needs of schools: This toolkit provides insights into ways to facilitate the development of trauma-responsive programs and services in school settings by partnering with various stakeholder groups and responding to their prescient needs. For more information, contact: Barb Pierce Click the link below to view or download […]

Location Indianapolis, Indiana

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit: This Toolkit describes one model to address child health inequities and to promote a culture of health by integrating community health workers into schools – originally for asthma, but broadened in scope over time. It may be of interest to those who are interested in tackling the profound inequities in […]

Location Chicago, Illinois

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit: This toolkit provides insights to help address Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) challenges faced in Subsidized Housing through providing Community Health Worker training, resident education, and support. For more information, contact: Institute for Preventive Healthcare and Advocacy Click link below to view or download the toolkit:

Location Asheville, North Carolina

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit: This toolkit is designed to provide insight for medical teams and allied health providers who have an interest in creating a telemedicine network of providers who share the goal of serving unmet medical needs across broad geographic distances. For more information contact: Montana Pediatrics

Location Missoula, Montana

TypeToolkit

How to use this toolkit: The purpose of this toolkit to illustrate a community-based, trauma-informed approach to Veteran and First-Responder wellbeing using an integrated care model. For more information, visit: Veterans Recovery Resources

Location Mobile, Alabama

TypeToolkit

How this toolkit can be used: To serve as a road map to create a sustainable network of digital approaches to expand education, support and access to behavioral health services in rural communities. For more information, contact: UR Health Lab Click link below to view or download the Digital Web Toolkit:

Location Rochester, New York

TypeToolkit

How this toolkit can be used: By organizations to understand the impact of trauma and bias on patients and staff in an emergency department, and to plan interventions to develop a trauma-informed approach.

Location Boston, Massachusetts

TypeToolkit

This toolkit is designed to:  Raise awareness about Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors (UMs) among medical and mental healthcare providers  Help address needs of UMs and their families  Help provide adequate healthcare to UMs in the US  For more information visit: bbhouston.org

Location Houston, Texas

TypeToolkit

How this toolkit can be used: To guide needs assessments and maternal health program design by other communities with high maternal morbidity and mortality. 

Location New York, New York

TypeToolkit

How this toolkit can be used: To develop educational and practical projects, to recognize access to healthy food, as a fundamental aspect of physical and mental wellbeing, and more broadly as a human rights issue.  For more information, visit: UT Health Ambassadors Facebook

Location Gurabo, Puerto Rico

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location New York, New York

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Indianapolis, Indiana

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Houston, Texas

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Mobile, Alabama

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Missoula, Montana

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Rochester, New York

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Ypsilanti, Michigan

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Boston, Massachusetts

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Gurabo, Puerto Rico

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Gurabo, Puerto Rico

TypeE Book

Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US presents solutions to these vexing questions: Why does the US continue to lag far behind other peer nations despite its economic and political power? Why are whole segments of the US population consistently burdened by poor health? What can be done to ensure […]

TypeInfographic

Since early 2021, rapid response grants have helped 22 communities during COVID-19. The rapid response grants provide funding to address health equity challenges in the United States and territories that were worsened by the pandemic. So over 60 Clinical Scholars Fellows used the grants to provide direct services, collect information to improve future responses to […]

Location Raleigh, North Carolina

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used as a road map for a school-based asthma controller Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) program. For more information visit: ralescenter.hopkinschildrens.org

Location Baltimore, Maryland

TypeToolkit

This toolkit is a guide to develop a hospital-based youth violence prevention program. It is meant to provide information about youth violence, identify strategies for altering youth attitudes towards the use of violence, partnering with community-based organizations and overcoming barriers to launching a new violence prevention program. For more information, contact D2D@nebraskamed.com

Location Omaha, Nebraska

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used by providers and administrators who are developing mental health housing units in the corrections setting. For more information contact: kscanlon1@partners.org

Location Belmont, Massachusetts

TypeToolkit

This toolkit serves as a road map to identify how to approach a “wicked problem” utilizing an experienced and diverse team, while developing collaborative partnerships with community stakeholders to promote the the equitable sharing of information and resources.

Location Baltimore, Maryland

TypeToolkit

This document can be used to guide the development and planning of future efforts aimed at engaging the community and public officials in addressing pharmacy access barriers in Black and Hispanic/Latino neighborhoods. We also expect this tool to emphasize the importance of awareness and building the evidence base to promote equitable policies.  For more information, […]

Location Chicago, Illinois

TypeToolkit

This toolkit is designed for anyone who would like to adopt community engaged practices to the fields of substance abuse, addiction recovery, or trauma-informed care. This toolkit uses peer mentoring as a successful model for intervention and prevention.  For more information, contact the Office of Community Engagement at the Medical College of Wisconsin: communityengagement@mcw.edu 

Location Milwaukee, Wisconsin

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used as a guide for those who wish to transform their Emergency Department (ED) into a Center of Excellence for uninsured patients. The objective for such transformation is to optimize a patient’s ability to obtain insurance and resultant health services, thus recontextualizing an undocumented status as a modifiable social health determinant. […]

Location Los Angeles, California

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used as a roadmap for healthcare institutions that are seeking guidance on how to integrate addressing housing insecurity and related unmet social needs for the patient populations they serve. We use a multi-level approach, which includes clinical, educational and community-based activities. For more information, contact: hello@omolaramd.com

Location New York, New York

TypeToolkit

 This toolkit is intended as a guide for integrating diverse disciplines to address holistic wellness along a range of indicators and with multiple levels of intensity in the preschool setting, resulting in a more equitable distribution of health and wellness services to young children. Additionally, we hope this guide will inspire cross-agency and cross-discipline collaboration […]

Location Santa Monica, California

TypeToolkit

This toolkit provides information and recommendations on creating a suicide prevention campaign in tribal communities. This toolkit includes ideas for events, suicide prevention interventions and development of community support. For more information, contact: taylor-desir.monica@mayo.edu

Location New Town, North Dakota

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Santa Monica, California

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Milwaukee, Wisconsin

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Baltimore, Maryland

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Omaha, Nebraska

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location Belmont, Massachusetts

TypeBig Idea Talk

Location New Town, North Dakota

TypeInfographic

We recognize the need for a diverse mix of health care providers working together in new ways. For example, we know that pharmacists and others who may work outside a traditional clinical setting have a tremendous role in building a Culture of Health. Highlighted below are two real-world examples of how interdisciplinary teams are collaborating […]

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used by providers and administrators who are working with youth and families engaged with the foster care system. It may also provide helpful information for anyone working with children with adverse childhood experiences. For more information, contact: dstephens@underdogdreams.com

Location Orlando, Florida

TypeBig Idea Talk

Would our life outcomes, especially foster care youth, be better if instead of only second chances we were given as many as it takes? “Yes!” explains Social Worker Derrick Stephens and ER Physician Annette Bell while they share what is known about brain science, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and chronic stress. Knowing that approximately 90% […]

Location Orlando, Florida

TypeToolkit

This toolkit should serve as a general guide on methods to increase access to oral healthcare for vulnerable populations. For more information, contact: cemoore@emory.edu

Location Atlanta, Georgia

TypeBig Idea Talk

In the U.S. there are far too many children and adults without affordable access to even basic oral health care. Head and Neck Surgeon Charles Moore, Dentist David Reznik, and Nurse Practitioner Hope Bussenius describe why oral health is an important part of our overall health. They urge health care providers to work together with […]

Location Atlanta, Georgia

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used by providers and administrators who are developing medical and mental health practices and centers which provide care to transgender and gender non-conforming individuals. For more information, contact: (607) 431-5757

Location Oneonta, New York

TypeBig Idea Talk

When caring for transgender and gender non-conforming patients: The phrase “let me listen to your heart” takes on a new meaning for health care providers. Family Physician Carolyn Wolf-Gould shares her “accidental” professional and personal journey of becoming a gender-affirming clinician in rural New York, including lessons learned that can help anyone become an ally.

Location Oneonta, New York

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used to develop and implement an anti-violence awareness initiative in any community where there are high risks youth and a high incidence of violent crimes. For more information, contact: stlprayerproject@gmail.com

Location Ferguson, Missouri

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used to address violent behaviors of at-risk youth through a trauma-informed care model used in after-school programs. For more information, contact: emmanuelhealthandsocial @gmail.com

Location Ferguson, Missouri

TypeBig Idea Talk

On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by police in the city of Ferguson outside of St. Louis. Public Health Nurse Tonita Smith’s youngest son was the same age and she couldn’t believe what she was seeing live on social media but knew she must do something to help with the health-related […]

Location Ferguson, Missouri

TypeBig Idea Talk

Exposure to violence can disrupt a child’s development and functioning if left untreated, but there is hope for this vulnerable population with healing-centered engagement. Pharmacist and Public Health Practitioner Lachell Wardell shares how children exposed to trauma are often misdiagnosed and prescribed medications but how this framework is a more holistic and humanistic way to […]

Location Ferguson, Missouri

TypeToolkit

This toolkit is designed to provide insights for dental, medical, and allied health providers who have an interest in developing dental homes or creating a network of providers focused on creating dental homes for children with special health care needs. For more information, contact: jmkarp@umn.edu

Location Minneapolis, Minnesota

TypeBig Idea Talk

Every child with special health care needs (SHCNs) deserves a healthy smile, but dental care is the second most common unmet health need for them. Pediatric Dentist Jeff Karp urges families to share their experiences with health care providers. The power of these experiences can be leveraged through professional telementoring networks (Project ECHO) to transform […]

Location Minneapolis, Minnesota

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used as a guide for practitioners interested in positively influencing mental health outcomes, increasing mental health literacy, and an example of embedded education in action. For more information, contact: healthymind@mhistreet.com

Location Washington, DC

TypeBig Idea Talk

A barbershop is a third space (neither work nor home) that has long served an important social and cultural purpose in black communities, but how can it also be a safe space for conversations about mental health? Internist Nnemdi Kamanu Elias and Nurse Practitioner Erin Athey describe why and how they are partnering with barbers […]

Location Washington, DC

TypeToolkit

This toolkit is designed to provide insights to healthcare practitioners and community members who have interest in addressing childhood mental health and suicide prevention in minority groups. For more information, contact: incredible. filipino.families@gmail.com

Location Los Angeles, California

TypeBig Idea Talk

Filipinos are an immigrant community affected by alarming mental health disparities including high suicide rates, but the time and conversations families have together can help. Pediatrician Joyce Javier shares her research and personal experiences alongside her team including Pediatrician Horacio Lopez, Psychologist Dean Coffey, and Occupational Therapists Jed David and Aviril Sepulveda. Their work involves […]

Location Los Angeles, California

TypeToolkit

This toolkit is designed to provide lessons and insights on how to build a responsive treatment program for opioid addictions and recovery. The hope is it is helpful to others in building their own local, creative, integrative and caring approach to opioid treatment and healing. For more information, contact: info@casadesaludnm.org

Location Albuquerque, New Mexico

TypeBig Idea Talk

When we ask “Why the pain?” rather than “Why the addiction?” we learn so much more. Family Physician Anjali Taneja describes how we must do this cultural work together by using stigma reducing language, meeting people where they are (harm reduction), and reimagining healing with responsive treatment and recovery options.

Location Albuquerque, New Mexico

TypeInfographic

Research has shown the interconnectedness of oral and overall health and how it impacts individuals’ physical, social, emotional, and economic well-being. Highlighted below are two real-world examples of how interdisciplinary teams are collaborating to address health disparities and improve access to oral health care in their communities. View their toolkits below! Low Resource Communities Charles […]