Welcome to This Week in Equity Engagement on Twitter (TWEET) for the week of September 21, 2015. This week was highlighted by National Voter Registration Day and some resources for Child Obesity Awareness Month. Let’s get to it: The Afterschool…
This originally appeared in an email from Prevention Institute. This webinar highlights some new approaches that can help improve health across the country and here in California. The event will also discuss ways to promote health equity and improve the…
I’d like to take a minute to highlight the great work of the California Homeless Youth Project. For the last several years, they have worked on assessing the needs of California’s homeless population, a notoriously difficult task to accomplish. Their…
This post originally appeared on the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education’s blog, Raising the Bar. According to newly released data from the Census, the first year of the Affordable Care Act succeeded in reducing the ranks of the…
Welcome to This Week in Equity Engagement on Twitter (TWEET) for the week of September 14, 2015. This week was highlighted by the U.S. Census Bureau’s release of national and state-level poverty and insurance coverage data. As such, this edition…
This is an excerpt from the new publication, Advancing Health Equity: Case Studies of Health Equity Practice in Four Award-Winning California Health Departments, that originally appeared on the Berkeley Media Studies Group’s website. Call any local health department in the United States…
This month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a comprehensive report to promote equity in the Medicare program, which is relied upon by millions of older adults across the country. The report, The CMS Equity Plan for…
Many American cities are experiencing an economic revival, but this rising economic tide is not translating into good jobs, living wages, and ownership opportunities for their low-income communities and communities of color. City leaders face an urgent need to put…
Welcome to This Week in Equity Engagement on Twitter (TWEET) for the week of September 7, 2015. Our weekly hodgepodge of equity-related conversations covers a number of great topics this week, so let’s get to it: The legislature passed a…
We are very close to enacting some important changes to our health care system and your support can make a difference! All three of our sponsored bills are on their way to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk and your letters of…