Building a Culture of Health: A Policy Roadmap to Help All New Jerseyans Live Their Healthiest Lives

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Center for State Health Policy

Building New Jersey’s Culture of Health requires equity-promoting policies focused on children and families, healthy communities, and high-quality health and social service systems. This report identifies 13 policy priorities for improving health and well-being in the state and recommends a series of specific evidence-based policy options to address these priorities.

Building Blocks for Success

National League of Cities

The paper starts by describing the core results that early learning communities strive to achieve. It then talks about four essential “building blocks,” or community conditions that promote healthy child development and family well-being. Finally, this paper describes how leaders in an early learning community “put the pieces together.”

Building Capacity to End Criminalization, Policing, and Punishment

Interrupting Criminalization (IC)

“Interrupting Criminalization (IC) offers political education materials, organizing tools, support skill-building and practice spaces for organizers and movements challenging criminalization and the violence of policing and punishment to build safer communities.”

Building Community Resilience Policy and Advocacy Guide

Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice, Milken Institute School of Public Health George Washington University, Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness

Intended to assist organizations in "becoming effective policy advocates and educators by helping identify and act on policy opportunities that will ultimately prevent and mitigate adverse childhood and community experiences and build community resilience to help children, families, and communities thrive."

Building Diverse Community Based Coalitions

The Praxis Project

This brief tool provides an overview of how to build diverse community based coalitions, including mapping potential allies, strategies for making a plan, and implementation.

Building Public Health Capacity to Advance Equity: A National Environmental Scan of Tribal, State, and Local Governmental Public Health

National Collaborative for Health Equity

An environmental scan exploring governmental public health’s role in advancing health equity with racial equity as a major priority and community engagement as a central strategy. The project team consisted of ten partner organizations collaborating to examine the federal landscape and the capacity of local, state, and Tribal health agencies to play a lead role in promoting equity. Through literature reviews, key informant interviews and focus groups with health officials, public health experts and community leaders across the country, a variety of opportunities for governmental public health to advance equity were identified.

Building Strong Foundations: Racial Inequity in Policies that Impact Infants, Toddlers, and Families

Zero to Three

This brief by ZERO TO THREE and the Center for Law and Social Policy explores racial disparities, and the policies that drive them, among infants, toddlers, and their families.

Building Systems of Care: Investment in Native Maternal Health Infrastructure

Sheena Talis-Tallman, Nicolle L. Arthun, Olivia Roanhorse, Subroto Banerji, Mary Nell Wegner, Aika Aluc, Divya Sooryakumar, and Andrea Botero Tompkins

This policy brief outlines the funding challenges and opportunities in improving maternal health infrastructure for Native communities. The brief also provides actionable steps for policymakers, advocates, and other birth workers to support and advance maternal health in Native communities.

Building Up People Not Prisons Coalition

Families for Justice as Healing

Led by Families for Justice as Healing, the Building Up People Not Prisons Coalition is leading the way in transforming what Massachusetts looks like for those who are incarcerated and working to create a just future for all. Learn more by exploring their site.

Building Up People Not Prisons: Week of Action

People Not Prisons

Weekly action items and calls to action that you can sign up for to participate in reimagining communities.

Cafe Gozhoo

Cafe Gozhoo

Café Gozhóó is an Apache response to the community need for quality food options, a fueling station on the north end of Whiteriver and to promote/reinforce social recovery in a community space. Café Gozhóó provids accessible and affordable quality food, coffee-based products, arts/crafts and wellness related literature.. Café Gozhóó is a pioneering innovative model for recovery and healing from historical trauma among Indigenous communities.

Camden ARISE

Camden Coalition

Combines information from public data systems to create a multi-dimensional picture of citywide challenges. Links information from multiple data systems, including criminal justice, healthcare, and housing,

CAP Tulsa

CAP Tulsa

CAP Tulsa, a community action agency, is focused on interrupting the cycle of poverty. We provide high-quality early education services for young children, as well as a range of supportive services designed to improve the economic status of their parents.

Care not Cops campaign

Lavender Phoenix

An advocacy campaign based in San Francisco that "demand[s] that the San Francisco City government redirect funds from San Francisco policing to protect $160 million in key services." Discover ways to support and learn more through the provided online tools and resources.

Catalyst Project

Catalyst Project believes that everyone in the world has the right to live with dignity, safety, and access to resources that are in balance with the earth. We believe that racism is one of the fundamental forces keeping systemic injustice in place, and as white people we believe we have a strategic role to play in ending it.

Caucus “Ask” toolkit: Asking Your Congressperson to Join the Bipartisan House Trauma-Informed Care Caucus

Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice

This toolkit provides guidance on engaging in a call to action with congress around the National Trauma Campaign. It can serve as an example for engaging with congress for policy.

Center for Hunger-Free Communities

Drexel University

A compilation of tools and resources for those who have experienced hunger or poverty. This includes data and advocacy guidelines and PDFs on diapers, childcare, domestic violence, and housing.

Center For Native American Youth

Center For Native American Youth

The Center for Native American Youth is a national advocacy organization working to improve the health, safety, and overall well-being of Native American youth ages 24 and under

Center for Study of Social Policy

CSSP

CSSP helps communities make decisions needed to improve the conditions for childrens and families in some of the country's toughest neighborhoods. CSSP'S technical assistance strategy builds community capacity and instrastructure.

Center for the Developing Child

Harvard

This resource library from Harvard's Center for the Developing Child presents information on development in a way that is accessible to all.

Centering Equity: Authentic Family Engagement is Bi-Directional: Engaging in Meaningful Family Partnerships

Jennifer Caldwell, New America

Centering equity in early childhood education is an important step for successful early education, read more about it on this series of blog posts.

Center to Support Immigrant Organizing

CISO helps support and develop the work of those working dedicated to organizing immigrants around the issues that affect their lives.

Changing Our Narrative About Narrative

Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley

Part of the Blueprint for Belonging Papers series, this paper continues the conversation around the concept of "narrative" and role of a narrative change strategy by focusing on the infrastructure required for building narrative power.

Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work

Fay Hanleybrown, John Kania, & Mark Kramer

This follow-up on the popular "Collective Impact" article provides updated, in-depth guidance.

Chapter 40. Maintaining Quality Performance

Community tool Box

This resource from the Community tool Box focuses on how to assure quality performance and oversight for your effort or initiative.

Chapter 46. Planning for Sustainability

Community tool Box

This chapter of the Community tool Box covers a wide range of topics, steps, and strategies to ensure sustainability of your organization or initiative.

Chapter 9. Developing an Organizational Structure for the Initiative

Community tool Box

This resource from the Community tool Box focuses on how to develop an organization structure for your effort or initiative.

Child Care and Development and Block Grant Implementation Station

Child Care Aware of America

Find everything you need to understand and implement the Child Care and Development and Block Grant (CCDBG) laws in your state, with tools including one-pagers, webinars, and other resources.

Child Care Aware of America Advocacy toolkit

Child Care Aware of America

This advocacy toolkit is a "one stop shop" for taking action to strengthen childcare policies. The toolkits contains resources to assist with activities such as writing to news outlets and congress, social networking, participating in a town hall meeting, and more.

Child Care Deserts

Child Care Aware of America

Childcare Aware America explores childcare supply and demand on a state by state basis. The organization partners with state childcare leaders to use GIS technology to create customized state story maps.

Child Care Deserts Social Share Kit

Child Care Aware of America

This web-based tool offers mapping data for statewide child care resources for the zero-five age range. The website also has additional resources related to childcare mapping, on a state specific level.

Child Care is Key to our Economic Recovery

National Women's Law Center & CLASP

This brief centers child care providers and families during the COVID-19 crisis to provide key information for policy makers.

Childcare Map

This city-by-city map shows the supply and demand for childcare along with other demographic information such as income, race/ethnicity, and transportation availability.

Child Opportunity Index (COI): Why Neighborhoods Matter for Equity

Diversitydatakids.org

Created by Diversitydatakids.org, this is report highlights the first findings of examining neighborhoods and equity for child wellbeing. This resource was a spotlight at our April 2020 data webinar.

Child Welfare Data Dashboard

Minnesota

Provides information to the public as well as county and tribal decision-makers on nine state measures and seven federal measures used to monitor the status of children served by Minnesota’s child welfare system.The measures are separated into two distinct dashboards: One for state measures and another for federal measures.

Child Welfare Indicators Project

This project provides policy makers, child welfare workers, researchers, and the public with direct access to customizable information on California's child welfare system.

Child Welfare Information Gateway

USDHHS

This website offers resources on child abuse and neglect, including definitions, identification of signs and symptoms, statistics and data, risk and protective factors, perpetrators, the impact on individuals and society, and fatalities.

Child Well-being Data Portal

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The OECD Child Well-Being Data Portal (CWBDP) gathers data on child well-being and the settings in which children grow up. It provides information on children’s home and family environment, their health and safety, their education and school life, their activities and their life satisfaction, and also links to information on public policies for children.

Child Well-Being Index

Child Trends

This brief presents research-based indices of child-wellbeing that are useful to those monitoring child well-being over time or across states.

Child Well-being Map

United Way of Greater Atlanta

Online mapping tool that provides measures on: community, child, and familial health for communities surrounds Atlanta, GA

ChopChop Magazine

Chop Chop Kids is a non-profit committed to inspiring and teaching families and children to cook real food together. They believe that cooking and eating as a family is a vital step in resolving the obesity and hunger epidemics.

Cities 101

National League of Cities

Cities 101 is a public resource to introduce and explain municipal government in the US. There are many ways cities are created and there are many variations in their power and authority structures.

Cities Alive Designing Urban Childhoods

ARUP

Through global case studies, recommended interventions and actions for city leaders, developers and investors and built environment professionals, this report shows how we can create healthier and more inclusive, resilient and competitive cities for us to live, work and grow up in.

City Health Dashboard

NYU

CityHealth Dashboard provides 36 health measures for the 500 largest cities, including social and economic factors; physical environment; health behavior; health outcomes; and clinical care. Equipped with these data, local leaders have a clearer picture of the challenges facing their communities and how to address them.

CityHealth Initiative

de Beaumont Foundation and Kaiser Permanente

The CityHealth Initiative provides an evidence-based analysis of how major cities are implementing policies helping communities thrive and residents lead healthier lives. CityHealth offers the 2018 updated assessment of how our nation’s 40 largest cities fare when it comes to policies that can make real, lasting impacts in people’s everyday quality of life.

Coalition Building 2: Maintaining a Coalition

Community tool Box

Published by the Community tool Box, this resource has strategies for maintaining and sustaining a coalition and its mission over time.

Coalition Guide Resource

The Society for Public Health Education

The Society for Public Health Education supplies a guide to assist communities and leaders through the process of building a coalition. They break the process into five distinct stage with an outline of the tasks and outcomes you can expect in each.

Coalition Membership Gap Analysis

The Society for Public Health Education

The Society for Public Health Education offers a group activity for determining the organizations and individuals who are missing from the table that could better represent your vital community sectors and diversify your coalition.

Coalitions Work tools

CoalitionsWork

Coalitions Work tools are adaptable resources that can be utilized to help plan, build, assess, evaluate and sustain your coalition.

Co-Design: A Necessary Skill Set for Community-Led Development

Lisa Attygalle, The Tamarack Institute

Co-Design is a methodology for bringing diverse members of your community together to develop creative new ideas, design innovative approaches to persistent problems, and build alignment and momentum for action.

Collaborating to Support the Early Childhood Workforce

NASBE

This policy update explains how NASBE, along with other collaborators, built up the nation's early childhood education workforce through an effective collaboration.

Collaboration and Collaborative Leadership

Ohio Community Collaboration Model for School Improvement

This implementation guide is designed to help you create, organize and manage your school improvement efforts via collaborative leadership. It includes discussion of important concepts that help you structure relationships with individuals and groups, internal and external, and over time. This guide also includes strategies for building community partnerships.

Collaboration Factors Inventory

Wilder

This is a free tool for you to test how your collaboration is doing. The tool is research-tested and utilizes multiple factors to ensure the most accurate results for you.

Collaborative Leadership

Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute

This tool provides an overview of the concept of collaborative leadership, including key definitions, factors that characterize this leaderships, and ways collaborative leadership can make a difference in your coalition.

Collective Action toolkit (CAT)

Frog Design

With simple vocabulary and concrete insights into how to build a team, carry out research, and develop solutions, the CAT distills design-thinking down to essential building blocks. The result is a stand-alone resource designed to lead anyone, anywhere through the problem-solving process, to any problem, any time.

Collective Impact

John Kania & Mark Kramer

This article discusses collective impact in the context of public education, and the importance of cross-sector coordination. This piece also highlights a successful collective impact initiative in Cincinnati, KY that resulted in positive outcomes for students, and discusses the factors contributing to that success.

Collective Impact Forum

FSG

This is the place for those practicing collective impact to find the tools, resources, and advice they need. It’s a network of individuals coming together to share experience and knowledge to accelerate the effectiveness and adoption of collective impact.

Color of Change

A national online force driven by more than 1.4 million members to move decision makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America. Color of Change leads strategic campaigns that build power for Black communities to challenge and change injustices in industries that affect Black people’s lives, and advance solutions for racial justice that can transform our world.

Communication for Social Change: An Integrated Model for Measuring the Process and Its Outcomes

By Gray-Felder and Deane, Rockefeller Foundation

Part of the Communication for Social Change Working Paper Series, this working paper was developed by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Communication Programs for the Rockefeller Foundation as part of their Communication for Social Change Grantmaking Strategy. This working paper aims to refine the practice of communication for social change, as part of a larger strategy to spread communication for social-change thinking and ways of working broadly.

Communities Building Power for Health

The Praxis Project

This mini series is part of The Praxis Project's case-study collection, Communities Building Power for Health, capturing community leaders across the country leading the organic mvmt for health & justice in our communities.

Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local Nonprofits on Violent Crime

Patrick Sharkey, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, and Delaram Takyara

In this article, the authors incorporate the “systemic” model of community life into debates on the U.S. crime drop, and focus on the role that local nonprofit organizations played in the national decline of violence from the 1990s to the 2010s. Using longitudinal data and a strategy to account for the endogeneity of nonprofit formation, they estimate the causal effect on violent crime of nonprofits focused on reducing violence and building stronger communities.

Community Approaches to Systems Change: A Compendium of Practices, Reflections, and Findings

The BUILD Health Challenge

This resource offers a collection of practices, reflections, and findings based on the experiences of BUILD Health Challenge work with 19 communities across the country. Their efforts have led to 60 new systems level changes, including policy shifts, stronger community leadership, and new funding streams, which contributed to their intended impact of improving health outcomes.

Community Care Coordination Systems: Technology Supports

Nemours Children’s Health System, Center for Health Care Strategies

Brief explores technology emerging to “close the loop” between clinical & community services.

Community Change Process

Racial Equity tools

This section provides selected examples of racial equity work aimed at community change. Several describe current racial equity initiatives in the United States. Other resources offer frameworks and ideas in addition to examples of work.

Community Commons

Community Commons allows users to make maps and build reports so they can enrich their community work.

Community Engagement: Is it Just Lip Service?

Glenda Cooper, The Tamarack Institute

There is widespread recognition that high-quality early learning experiences depend on effective early childhood educators. As the population of young children continues to become more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, it is important to understand how to maintain a diverse workforce that is well prepared to meet the needs of all young children. This research paper series addresses the following question: How can policy support preparation of the early care and education workforce to meet the diverse needs of young children? The following titles are available to read online or download:Associations Between Early Care and Education Teacher Characteristics and Observed Classroom Processes, Professional Development Supports and Teacher Practice in Low-Income Pre-K Programs Dos Métodos: Two Classroom Language Models in Head Start

Community Engagement & Participation Checklist: Addressing Disparities for Healthier Places

PolicyLink

This outline is designed to offer an opportunity for reflection on a common process for achieving authentic community engagement and participation. The foundations of participatory community change, which are represented below, are trusting relationships, shared vision, partnerships with public agencies, capacity, and policy action.

Community Engagement Resource Guide

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

This resource guide provides information on engaging local residents and other constituents to play meaningful roles in efforts to build healthy, opportunity-rich communities where children and families thrive. The information includes tools and resources to facilitate community engagement, particularly in underserved urban, rural, and suburban areas, in creating and implementing policies and environmental changes to foster physical activity and healthy eating.

Community Health Needs Assessment report

Cook Children’s Health Care System

Cook Children’s Health Care System is the country’s leading vertically integrated pediatric healthcare organization. This resource provides a thorough community health needs assessment for a Texas community.

Community Indicators Consortium

The CIC supports communities’ efforts to improve quality of life by providing resources and tools to help communities and practitioners advance the practice and effective use of community indicators.

Community Investment Explorer

Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis

The Community Investment Explorer (CIE) was built to show geographic comparisons across the U.S., and trends over time in a way that is easily customizable.

Community Language Cooperative

Community Language Cooperative

The Community Language Cooperative (CLC) provides interpretation services, focus groups, and inclusivity/diversity training to make community, academic, and governmental events more accessible for all.

Community Organizing and Family Issues

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Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI) aims to strengthen the power and voice of low-income and working families at all levels of civic life — from local institutions and communities to local, state, and federal policy arenas. It is a center and a resource for family-focused organizing, leadership development, and community building focused on the wellbeing of children, youth, and families.

Community Progress Dashboard

Community Solutions

These dashboards display various communities' progress towards ending homelessness. This allows communities to monitor trends and progress. Dashboard also display a projected timeline to zero homelessness.

Community Resilience Cookbook

the Health Federation of Philadelphia

Building on the growing body of research and evidence on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), this resource focuses on protective factors that can foster resilience -- the capacity to thrive in both good times and difficult ones. This cookbook aims offers context, definitions and questions to help you think about building resilience where you live, including examples of how communities in the United States and Canada are putting the theories of ACEs and resilience into practice.

Community Rhythms: Five Stages of Community Life

The Harwood Group

This resource describes stages of community development.

Community Roadmap for Action

National Collaborative for Infants & Toddlers

Before you develop and execute a plan for action, take time to lay the groundwork for success. Build a leadership team, collect and analyze community data, and map community assets.

Community Schools Scaling Up Guide

Institute for Educational Leadership

This strategy builds on both practice and research to describe the what, why, and how of system-wide expansion of community schools. The guide is written for a wide audience and for communities at different points in planning for, implementing, and sustaining a community schools strategy.

Community tool Box

Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas

The Community tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change. It offers thousands of pages of tips and tools for taking action in communities.

Community tool Box: Section 5. Developing an Action Plan

Community tool Box

A tool for developing an action plan that allows for you and your organization to turn your dreams for your community or initiative into a reality.

Community Transformers

Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere

The ROSE Community Transformer Training is a two-day workshop utilizing evidence based curriculum on providing peer breastfeeding support. During the training, individuals learn the essential skills for providing peer counseling in the area of lactation management and methods for making referrals to resources for interventions outside of their scope of practice.

Community violence as a population health issue

NAM

This article the reviews of impact of racism and violence on communities, local strategies to build resilience and safety and evaluates community and hospital based initiatives.

Community-wide Children’s Health Assessment & Planning Survey (CCHAPS) Results

Cook Children's Health Care System

This resource contains the results of a survey study conducted by Cook Children's Health Care System. This website contains the survey used for data collection and an overview of the data topics examined.

Compact Study website

COMPACT is a groundbreaking five-year international collaboration to apply the principles of systems science to community-based childhood obesity interventions. This website offers publications and additional resources related to childhood obesity.

Compass Point

A 43-year-old national nonprofit leadership practice based in Oakland, CA. They believe that nonprofits are powerful vehicles for positive social change and that creating a world free of oppression means practicing liberation inside and out.

Components of an Effective Coalition

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

This website highlights key components of an effective coalition, including clear organizational structure, membership capacity, and sustainability.

Connecting Children and Families to Nature During the Pandemic

Veera Feeny & Andrew Moore, National League of Cities

Developed by National League of Cities, this article contains high level recommendations and action steps for municipal leaders working on promoting wellbeing in their communities during the COVID19 pandemic.

Connecting Community

Monica Koller

Created by a member of the original NOW Learning Community, Monica Koller, Connecting Community aims to evoke a sense of connection and belonging through community storytelling.

Connecting the Dots: Strategic Storytelling for Policy Change

Allison Bovell-Ammon, Children's HealthWatch

Presentation by Children’s HealthWatch at Urban College class on advocacy. The presentation focuses on ways to engage different levels of storytelling in policy contexts.

Contribution of Early Weight Gain to Childhood Overweight and Metabolic Health: A Longitudinal Study

Gardner et al

This longitudinal study examined the effect of early childhood weight gain on metabolic health at 9 years of age.

Conversations That Matter: Talking with Children About Big World Issues

National Association for the Education of Young Children

The National Association for the Education of Young Children provides critical strategies for engaging young children in conversations regarding anti-racism movements and COVID-19.

Cooperative Identity, Values & Principles

International Cooperative Alliance

The International Cooperative Alliance supplies detailed guidance on the practical application of the principles to cooperatives in hopes of providing a foundation to contemporary definitions and practices.

Core Concepts

Racial Equity tools

One way to jumpstart racial equity work is by reviewing its core concepts. These include: race, ethnicity, racism, white privilege and internalized racism. To create effective strategies that contribute to progress on addressing racial inequities or improving race relations, it helps to know how race is constructed, and to understand how racism works, how privilege is embedded in our systems, and how internalized racism and superiority are created and maintained

County Health Rankings

RWJF

This program aims to build awareness of the multiple factors that influence health, provide a reliable source of local data, engage and activate local leaders, and connect and empower community leaders.

COVID19 Fact Sheets - 30 languages

COVID19 Health Literacy Project

Fact sheets pertaining to COVID19 made available in 30 languages. #languagejustice

Cracking the Codes

Shakti Butler

From Shakti Butler comes a new film that asks America to talk about the causes and consequences of systemic inequity. Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity features moving stories from racial justice leaders. Also includes resources that can be intregrated into the film screening,

Cradle to Community

Prevention Institute

This project identified strategie policies, practices, systens, and norms change lever to make communities safer so that all children can develop optimally.

Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Process for Planning and Implementation

Racial Equity tools

The following tip sheet focuses on four of these issues: decision making, process issues, practices and accountability. These tips apply to a wide variety of group processes, including coalitions, collaborations, system interaction, dialogue processes, etc.

Cultivating Healthy Communities: Children's HealthWatch Lessons from the Field on Addressing Food Insecurity in Health Care Settings

Children's HealthWatch

While this policy brief specifically focuses on addressing food insecurity in pediatric populations, screening for food insecurity and connecting patients with resources may be implemented across diverse patient populations. A variety of health care-based approaches to addressing food insecurity – from easy entry to more complex, resource-intensive – can be tailored for the needs of individual health care settings.

Cultural Safety Practices for Working with Indigenous Birth Givers in Montana

Amy Stiffarm

This cultural safety and sensitivity toolkit provides resources on how to cultivate safe and healthy experiences for Indigenous birth givers. While Montana-based, this toolkit provides information and practices that benefit those working with Indigenous birth givers around the nation.