August 25 Webinar Will Feature a RWJF Culture of Health Prize-winning Community's Green Initiatives A green vision for economic growth can have a positive effect on health outcomes in a community, something 2019 RWJF Culture of Health Prize-winner Gonzales, California has experienced firsthand. Join us for a webinar on August 25 to learn from the City of Gonzales about the Gozales Grows Green (G3) initiative, and how a collaborative, multi-sector enterprise like G3 can foster environmental...

This is the virtual forum video of Fighting For Our Lives: Public Health Historical Context for COVID-19 (Part 1) There is much overlap between ACEs and public health. Many contacts already exist and many more are possible. https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/2315422363437095436

Join Health & Medicine for the second forum in a two-part series. This forum will focus on developing an agenda for a strong public health system. We will discuss ideas for rebuilding public health investment, workforce, training and education, and infrastructure. In 2019, the U.S. was ranked #1 for being the most prepared for a pandemic, but major failures have hurt the COVID-19 response. One critical part of the story is the history of disinvestment in public health, leaving our...

The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) and the Labor Market Information Institute (LMI), welcomes Cameron Macht as he presents, “Providing Perspective During COVID-19 Using Census Data.” The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented changes across all industries, but has also hit some sectors harder than others. In addition to new data coming out, data can provide useful...

the statistical study of suicides goes back to the very beginnings of sociology. Specifically Emile Durkheim’s book Suicide: A Study in Sociology 1897 one of the foundational uses of statistics in studying societies. Here is the link. Teen Suicide Rate in Wyoming Up 40% in Last Three Years [jhnewsandguide.com] https://www.acesconnection.com/blog/483487471819962443

The attached PowerPoint presentation refers to how ACEs interact with previous community development practices. It should be noted that the community action and community activism of Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay, and Saul Alinsky had their roots in the Chicago School of Sociology particularly the work of professors Park and Burgess (all three where graduate students there). Community Development was taught as a Sociology specialty at the department that Richard Poston created at Southern...

By Ryan White, Center for Health Journalism, July 23, 2020 Harvard’s Jack Shonkoff, a luminary in the field of early childhood, has spent years showing that events in the earliest years of life have profound implications for how budding brains develop, and in turn, shape a child’s later potential at school and work. Now, Shonkoff says it’s time to connect the brain to the rest of the body. “The message now is to say that there is a revolution going on in molecular biology and genomics and in...

Developed by the National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home, in partnership with the National Academy for State Health Policy, this fact sheet series discusses social determinants of health (SDoH) screening and referrals for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and their families. Opportunities for collaboration and partnership between Medicaid, Title V Maternal and Child Health / CYSHCN programs, and pediatricians are discussed. State-level case...

Click HERE to access neighborhood census data! Accessing data for your neighborhood or service area can be challenging. But did you know that data.census.gov has a mapping feature that you can use to select your areas? By using census tracts you can select the boundaries of your area and access demographic, socioeconomic, and housing statistics about your community. Watch this Data Gems to learn this trick. A series of "how-to" videos available for data users who are looking for an easy and...

HERE is something you can use census data for: A critical aspect of a Culture of Health is health equity, which in essence means we all have the basics to be as healthy as possible. Yet at present, for too many, prospects for good health are limited by where we live, how much money we make, or discrimination we face. To achieve health equity, we need to address these barriers and shift values so seeking to be healthy is a part of everything we do. Click here to read more about Funding ...

Telling the story of America’s babies is more important than ever. Last year, the inaugural State of Babies Yearbook: 2019 revealed that the state where a baby is born makes a big difference in their chance for a strong start in life. New data this year shows that even among states with high averages, significant disparities exist in the opportunities available to babies of color to thrive, as well as those in families with low-income, and in urban or rural areas. Now as our country faces an...

By Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, PhD, First Published April 26, 2020, Journal of Health Education and Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1090198120922942 Abstract Racial capitalism is a fundamental cause of the racial and socioeconomic inequities within the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in the United States. The overrepresentation of Black death reported in Detroit, Michigan is a case study for this argument. Racism and capitalism mutually construct harmful social conditions that...