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Toolkit for Teaching Health in Schools

Toolkit for Teaching Health in Schools

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Education
  • Food Systems & Nutrition
  • Rural Health

Location Lexington, Kentucky

Resilience Hawaii teaching healthcare students resilience so they can heal themselves and others

Resilience in Healthcare Students

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Built Environment/Housing/Planning
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion

Location Honolulu, Hawaii

People Over Programs, a Big Idea Talk by Stephanie Bonne and Colleen Smith

People Over Programs Fix Broken Systems

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Criminal Justice
  • Health Care Access
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Newark, New Jersey

Justin Porter giving talk on From Suffering to Wellbeing

From Suffering to Wellbeing: 3 Healthcare Shifts

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • End of Life/Late Stage Care
  • Health Care Access
  • Rural Health

Location Okanogan, Washington

Black father helping his child put on backpack

BRIEF Health Lessons

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Education
  • Food Systems & Nutrition
  • Rural Health

Location Lexington, Kentucky

Team Asheville HELP

Real Help in Real Time Grows Flowers in Healthcare Cracks

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Built Environment/Housing/Planning
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion

Location Asheville, North Carolina

7 year old Manuel flexing in his mask as El Médico Volador

Manuel and Community Health Workers Save the Day

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Early Childhood
  • School-based Health Care

Location Chicago, Illinois

Toolkit for the Creation of a Rural Palliative Care Network

Toolkit for the Creation of a Rural Palliative Care Network

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:

Focus Areas
  • End of Life/Late Stage Care
  • Health Care Access
  • Rural Health

Location Okanogan, Washington

Toolkit for Supporting Maternal Mental Health in Public Preschools

Toolkit for Supporting Maternal Mental Health in Public Preschools

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:

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Immigrants & Refugees
  • Maternal & Infant Health

Location Baltimore, Maryland

Toolkit for Building Resilience in Emerging Health Professionals and Homeless Communities Facing Diabetes

Toolkit for Building Resilience in Emerging Health Professionals and Homeless Communities Facing Diabetes

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Built Environment/Housing/Planning
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion

Location Honolulu, Hawaii

Toolkit for Responding to the Trauma Needs of Schools

Toolkit for Responding to the Trauma Needs of Schools

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • School-based Health Care
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Indianapolis, Indiana

Toolkit for Integrating Community Health Workers in Schools

Toolkit for Integrating Community Health Workers in Schools

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Early Childhood
  • School-based Health Care

Location Chicago, Illinois

Toolkit for Training and Utilization of Community Health Workers in Subsidized Housing by Clinical Scholars, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) program

Toolkit for Training and Utilization of Community Health Workers in Subsidized Housing

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:

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Built Environment/Housing/Planning
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion

Location Asheville, North Carolina

Toolkit for Improving Access to Pediatric Care A State-Wide Telemedicine Collaborative

Toolkit for Improving Access to Pediatric Care: A State-Wide Telemedicine Collaborative

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

Focus Areas
  • Early Childhood
  • Health Care Access
  • IT/Technology
  • Rural Health

Location Missoula, Montana

Toolkit for Addressing Barriers to Veteran Well-Being Using An Integrated Care Approach

Toolkit for Addressing Barriers to Veteran Well-Being Using An Integrated Care Approach

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

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Behavioral and Mental Health

Location Mobile, Alabama

Toolkit for Developing a Digital Web to Address Behavioral Disparities in Rural Communities

Toolkit for Developing a Digital Web to Address Behavioral Disparities in Rural Communities

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:

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Health Care Access
  • IT/Technology
  • Rural Health

Location Rochester, New York

Toolkit for Health Equity Using a Trauma-Informed Lens in the ED

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.

Focus Areas
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Health Care Access
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Boston, Massachusetts

Toolkit to Support Providers Caring for Former Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors

Toolkit to Support Providers Caring for Former Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors

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

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Early Childhood
  • Immigrants & Refugees

Location Houston, Texas

Toolkit for Maternal Health in Communities and Health Systems

Toolkit for Maternal Health in Communities and Health Systems

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. 

Focus Areas
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Maternal & Infant Health

Location New York, New York

Toolkit for Creating Cultures of Health through Healthy and Sustainable Eating

Toolkit for Creating Cultures of Health through Healthy and Sustainable Eating

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

Focus Areas
  • Food Systems & Nutrition
  • Rural Health

Location Gurabo, Puerto Rico

Mothers’ Voices and a Call to Action

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Maternal & Infant Health

Location New York, New York

Secondary Trauma Doesn’t Have to Weigh You Down

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • School-based Health Care
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Indianapolis, Indiana

What Happened to You? Bridging Borders for Our Children

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Early Childhood
  • Immigrants & Refugees

Location Houston, Texas

Loving My Addict: A Journey to Self-Discovery

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Behavioral and Mental Health

Location Mobile, Alabama

Trust is Earned: Redefining Access to Pediatric Care

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Early Childhood
  • Health Care Access
  • IT/Technology
  • Rural Health

Location Missoula, Montana

Embrace Technology and Each Other

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Health Care Access
  • IT/Technology
  • Rural Health

Location Rochester, New York

Collective Compassionate Actions: A Response to the Child Traumas of COVID-19

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Early Childhood
  • School-based Health Care
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Ypsilanti, Michigan

Surviving and Thriving in the Emergency Department

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Health Care Access
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Boston, Massachusetts

Saborear la libertad: promoviendo nutrición, jardinería y autocuidado

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Food Systems & Nutrition
  • Rural Health

Location Gurabo, Puerto Rico

A Taste of Freedom: Promoting Nutrition, Gardening, and Self-Care

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Food Systems & Nutrition
  • Rural Health

Location Gurabo, Puerto Rico

Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US book cover

Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Health Care Access
  • Oral Health
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Immigrants & Refugees
  • IT/Technology
  • School-based Health Care
  • Faith/Religion
  • Violence & Trauma
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Rural Health
Locations
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Los Angeles, California
  • Washington, DC
  • Atlanta, Georgia
  • Ferguson, Missouri
  • Baltimore, Maryland
  • Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Orlando, Florida
COVID Rapid Response Grants Help 10000

Rapid Response Grants Lead to Big Impacts

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Health Care Access
  • Public, Population, & Community Health
  • Social Determinants of Health

Location Raleigh, North Carolina

Toolkit for BREATHE: Equity in Asthma Treatment in Healthcare and Education

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

Focus Areas
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Early Childhood
  • School-based Health Care

Location Baltimore, Maryland

Toolkit for Dusk to Dawn Hospital-Based Youth Violence Prevention Program

Toolkit for Dusk to Dawn: Hospital-Based Youth Violence Prevention Program

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

Focus Areas
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Public, Population, & Community Health
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Omaha, Nebraska

Toolkit for Decreasing Psychosis-Associated Recidivism with Treatment in Jail

Toolkit for Decreasing Psychosis-Associated Recidivism with Treatment in Jail

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

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Criminal Justice

Location Belmont, Massachusetts

Toolkit for Ensuring Access to Medication Assisted Treatment in Rural Maryland

Toolkit for Ensuring Access to Medication Assisted Treatment in Rural Maryland

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.

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Health Care Access
  • Rural Health

Location Baltimore, Maryland

Toolkit for a Community-Led Response to Pharmacy Closures in Chicago

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, […]

Focus Areas
  • Business/Private Sector
  • Medication Access
  • Public, Population, & Community Health

Location Chicago, Illinois

Toolkit for the Prevention of Opioid Misuse Through Peer Training

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 

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Public, Population, & Community Health

Location Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Toolkit for Accompanying Uninsured Community from ER to Medical Home

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. […]

Focus Areas
  • Health Care Access
  • Immigrants & Refugees

Location Los Angeles, California

Toolkit for Multi-Level Approach to Addressing Housing Insecurity and Related Unmet Social Needs

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

Focus Areas
  • Built Environment/Housing/Planning

Location New York, New York

Toolkit for Whole Child Health in Preschool

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Early Childhood
  • School-based Health Care

Location Santa Monica, California

Toolkit for Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion in Tribal Communities

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

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • School-based Health Care
  • Violence & Trauma

Location New Town, North Dakota

A Whole Child Approach to a Better Future

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Early Childhood
  • School-based Health Care

Location Santa Monica, California

Help Veterans Who Survived The War Survive the Peace

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Public, Population, & Community Health

Location Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Breathing Easy in Schools

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Early Childhood
  • School-based Health Care

Location Baltimore, Maryland

Providing Youth an Opportunity to Believe in Themselves

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Public, Population, & Community Health
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Omaha, Nebraska

Treating Psychosis in Jails

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Criminal Justice

Location Belmont, Massachusetts

Calling Back the Spirit

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • School-based Health Care
  • Violence & Trauma

Location New Town, North Dakota

A Tale of Two States: Pharmacists as Leaders

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Business/Private Sector
  • Medication Access
  • Public, Population, & Community Health
  • Addiction & Substance Use
Locations
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Toolkit for Improving Quality of Life Outcomes for Foster Youth and Families

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

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Orlando, Florida

Redefining second chances in foster care

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% […]

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Orlando, Florida

Toolkit for Oral Health in Communities and Neighborhoods

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

Focus Areas
  • IT/Technology
  • Oral Health
  • School-based Health Care

Location Atlanta, Georgia

There is no health without oral health

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • IT/Technology
  • Oral Health
  • School-based Health Care

Location Atlanta, Georgia

Toolkit for Creation of a Center of Excellence in Transgender Healthcare

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

Focus Areas
  • LGBTQ+ Health
  • Rural Health

Location Oneonta, New York

Black child holding confetti in hands and blowing out

Let me listen to your heart

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.

Focus Areas
  • LGBTQ+ Health
  • Rural Health

Location Oneonta, New York

Toolkit for Anti-Violence Awareness

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

Focus Areas
  • Faith/Religion
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Ferguson, Missouri

Toolkit for a Prescription of Hope for a Vulnerable Population

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

Focus Areas
  • Faith/Religion
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Ferguson, Missouri

Make my city safe again

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Faith/Religion
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Ferguson, Missouri

Healing centered engagement

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Faith/Religion
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Ferguson, Missouri

Toolkit for Dental Home for Children with Special Health Care Needs

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

Focus Areas
  • Health Care Access
  • Oral Health

Location Minneapolis, Minnesota

Power of experiences

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Health Care Access
  • Oral Health

Location Minneapolis, Minnesota

Toolkit for Mental Health Improvement

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

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion

Location Washington, DC

Power of third space in barbershops

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion

Location Washington, DC

Toolkit for Prevention of Behavioral Health Disparities in an Immigrant Community

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

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Immigrants & Refugees

Location Los Angeles, California

Gift of time and language

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Immigrants & Refugees

Location Los Angeles, California

Toolkit for Community-Based Approach to Addressing Opioid Addictions in New Mexico

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

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Behavioral and Mental Health

Location Albuquerque, New Mexico

Reimagining health, transforming shame

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.

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Behavioral and Mental Health

Location Albuquerque, New Mexico

A Tale of Two States: Access to Oral Health Care

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 […]

Focus Areas
  • IT/Technology
  • Oral Health
  • School-based Health Care
  • Health Care Access
Locations
  • Atlanta, Georgia
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota

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