Racial Equity: Getting to Results

Government Alliance on Race and Equity

This resource was developed to assist jurisdictions use a racial equity lens to identify a set of metrics and implement a community process to have greater impact in their work, building on Results-Based Accountability (RBA) methodology. An anti-racist, racial equity-focused RBA starts with the desired end results and works backwards towards the “how” to ensure that Racial Equity Action Plans move toward community results with stakeholder-driven implementation.

Racial Equity Impact Assesment

The Center for Racial Justice Innovation

This assesment is a systematic examination of how different racial and ethnic groups will be affected by a proposed

Racial Equity in Co-ops: 6 Key Challenges and How to Meet Them

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Written by Jessica Gordon Nembhard, a mentor in the NOW Network Cooperative Design Project, this piece highlights the importance of racial equity in co-ops and how we can collectively work together to create a liberated environment.

Racial Equity Resource Guide

W.K Kellogg Foundation

These resources focused on racial equity include journal entries, books, magazines, videos and more.

Racial Equity toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity

Government Alliance on Race and Equity

This toolkit provides a structure for institutionalizing the consideration of racial equity. Racial equity tools are designed to integrate explicit consideration of racial equity in decisions, including policies, practices, programs, and budgets, that reduce racial inequities and improve success for all groups.

Racial Equity tools

Racial Equity tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.

Racism as a Public Health Issue

Wisconsin Healthiest State Summit

This informational webinar aims to a) present to the stakeholders racial equity as an actionable public health imperative through a research based and historicized context and b) promote the Action Space at the 2018 Healthiest State Summit . The webinar will define racism, connect health outcomes to roots of racism, and discuss institutional power and individual responsibility. Featured Speaker: Monique Liston, PhD, Ubuntu Research and Evaluation

Raising Places

Greater Good Studio

Raising Places engages diverse partners to catalyze local momentum in building healthier communities where all children and their families can thrive. Website offers reports on child-centered communities.

Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma

Barabara Sorrells

Early childhood professionals play a key role in the early identification of maltreatment and unhealthy patterns of development. They are also the gateway to healing. In Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma, teachers and caregivers will find the tools and strategies to connect with harmed children and start them on the path to healing. Practical strategies equip caregivers to help these littlest victims.

Reaching Our Brothers Everywhere

ROBE seeks to educate, equip, and empower men to decrease infant mortality rates and increase breastfeeding rates in African-American communities.

Real Cost of a Healthy Diet

Children's Health Watch, Drexel School of Public Health

This report from Children’s Health Watch and the Drexel University School of Public Health describes the project they undertook to determine cost/availability of the necessary foods for a healthy diet in Philadelphia using SNAP benefits. The report gives some background about SNAP benefits, as well as some statistics about SNAP participation during the economic recession. The piece ends with some policy suggestions that would strengthen SNAP benefits for low-income residents.

Real Food media

Real Food media is a women-led organization that uses a wide range of communications tools—including videos, radio, podcasts, social media, public speaking, and storytelling—for food system transformation. Based in Chicago, Minneapolis, and the San Francisco Bay Area, RFM focus son “de-virtualizing”: participating in events and movements in the communities where we live.

Recasting Families and Communities as Co-Designers of Education in Tumultuous Times

National Education Policy Center and Family Leadership Design Collaborative

This policy memo highlights learnings with public school leaders and others working to engage families and communities in education, lifting up justice-based approaches to family engagement that position parents and families, particularly from communities of color, as fellow leaders in transforming schools and educational systems to better serve all children, families, and communities. The memo conlude with policy recommendations to engage and sustain community co-design.

Reducing Racial Inequities in Health: Using What We Already Know to Take Action

David R. Williams & Lisa A. Cooper

This paper provides an overview of the scientific evidence pointing to critically needed steps to reduce racial inequities in health.

Re:Imagining Change

Center for Story Based Strategy

This tool focuses on how to use story-based strategy to win campaigns, build movements, and change the world.

report: The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health

American Academy of Pediatrics

This report is a call to action by the nations Pediatricians to reduce the impacts of racism and improve the health of all children.

Reproductive Larceny Timeline

RJ2

This interactive timeline details the fight for reproductive justice and crimes against reproductive autonomy in America from precolonial times to the modern era.

Research Action Design: Plan your transmedia strategy with a multitrack timeline!

Research Action Design

This webinar introduces organizations to transformative media organizing, "a liberatory approach to integrating media, communications, and cultural work into movement building" and also provides a multitrack timeline tool to aid in mapping out transformative media organizing strategies.

Resource Building

Racial Equity tools

This section includes content about work that various philanthropies and the organizations that work with them are doing to promote investment and build capacities around racial equity, social justice and inclusion. It also provides resources on ways to fund racial equity and social justice work.

Resource Guides for Children's Health and Learning

This website contains resources for organizations working to improve child development. Resources include a kit to identify and address important children's health issues and a guide to address to health determinants of early school success.

Resource Guide to Trauma-Informed Human Services

US Department of Health and Human Services

This guide, developed by the U.S Department of Health & Human Services, administration for Children and Families, provides human services leaders at the local, State, Tribal, and Territorial levels with information and resources on recent advances in our understanding of trauma, toxic stress, and executive functioning.

Resources for Supporting Children's Emotional Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jessica Dym Bartlett, Jessica Griffin, Dana Thomson, ChildTrends

Developed by ChildTrends, this article providers critical points for supporting children's emotional well-being during the COVID19 pandemic.

Resources for Talking About RACE, Racism, and Racialized Violence with Kids

Center for Racial Justice in Education

This document was created by the Center for Racial Justice in Education. It will be continuously updated with new and additional resources as the dialogue and actions continue to fight for racial justice.

RESPLANDOR ​Centro Educativo Cooperativo / Cooperative Education Center

Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity - East Boston

CCDS is an umbrella nonprofit promoting cooperativism and solidarity economies while supporting the development of worker-owned cooperatives mostly in East Boston’s immigrant community. Their RESPLANDOR ​Centro Educativo Cooperativo provides a quality bilingual cooperative education for children led by professional worker owners, instilling family values and providing a safe environment  based on cooperative culture, principles and values.

Responding to COVID-19: New York United

New York Immigration Coalition - NYIC

The New York Immigration Coalition created this list of policy recommendations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to assure that all New Yorkers, regardless of citizenship status, have access to essential services.

Responding to Educational Inequality

Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley

This policy brief reviews scholarship by members of the Race, Diversity, and Educational Policy Cluster of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley to advance a broader and more complex understanding of the persistent failure of U.S. schools for youth from non-dominant communities.

Rhythm & Rhyme: Activities for Early Childhood Mental Health

Vital Village Networks

Created by Vital Village Networks, this toolkit is intended to guide anyone committed to incorporating social and emotional education practices into their work with young children.

RISE: Lactation Training Model- Reclaiming, Improving, and Sustaining Equity

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

This project seeks to support the development of self-sustaining lactation consultant training programs at universities and colleges serving communities of color, and to improve the medical lactation workforce to reduce health disparities in these communities.

ROSE IBCLC Exam Preparation Course

Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere, Inc.

A member network that was founded to address breastfeeding disparities to improve health equity among people of color nationwide through culturally competent training, education, advocacy, and support. With a focus on increasing breastfeeding initiation and duration rates, ROSE seeks to normalize breastfeeding by providing resources and networking opportunities for individuals and communities.

Safeguarding Reproductive Health Privacy After the Elimination of Federal Protections: Considerations for States Enacting Shield Laws

Emma Kaeser

This issue brief reviews changes to reproductive health privacy across different states after the federal government eliminated previous privacy protections. In addition to reviewing changes, the brief outlines considerations for states as they plan for enacting counter legislation to protect privacy of reproductive health data.

Salud America!

Salud America! aims to inspire people to drive community change for the health of Latino and all kids. Salud America! creates culturally relevant and research-based stories, videos, and tools to inspire people to start and support community changes.

Saving Tomorrow Today: An African American Breastfeeding Blueprint

Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE)

Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere released “Saving Tomorrow Today: An African American Breastfeeding Blueprint,” with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The report explains the disparities in breastfeeding; while the percentage of black women breastfeeding has increased from 2009–2015, overall rates for African American women lag that of white, Asian, and Hispanic women. The report offers several recommendations to increase breastfeeding rates in this population.

Section 1: Developing a Plan for Financial Sustainability

Community tool Box

This tool offers an overview of financial sustainability, why, when, and how a financial sustainability plan can be developed for you organization, as well as tips from the field.

Section 2. Creating a Business Plan

Community tool Box

This tool offers an overview of developing a business plan, why, when, and how a business plan can increase your likelihood of success.

Section 3. Developing a Committee to Help with Financial Sustainability

Community tool Box

This tool providers an overview of the process of forming financial sustainability committee to support your long term goals.

Section 3. Developing Multisector Task Forces or Action Committees for the Initiative

Community tool Box

This resource from the Community tool Box focuses on how to develop multi sector task forces or action committees to focus on specific community issues and efficiently take action on that issue.

Section 4. Applying for a Grant: The General Approach

Community tool Box

This tool provides an overview of the grant writing process, activities involved, and strategies to increase the likelihood of success.

Section 5. Writing a Grant

Community tool Box

This tools provides an overview of grant proposals and how to use grants to accomplish your stated purposes, objectives, within your own policies and guidelines.

Seeding Liberation, Birth Justice Landscape Analysis

Elephant Circle

"Recognizing that each of us has chosen a different path for realizing birth justice, we embrace this cornucopia of strategies. We hope that this playbook allows each of us to better understand the strategies we’re already using; identify those we can adopt or support; and, most of all, see how our strategies fit together."

Segregated from the Start -- Comparing Segregation in Early Childhood and K-12 Education

Emily Peiffer, Urban Institute

In addition to experiences in the home and in the community, early childhood education is a key place for addressing—or exacerbating—issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Most research has focused on the benefits of integration in elementary and secondary schools, even though schools have become more segregated. But segregation in early childhood programs is even more pronounced than in K–12 classrooms, and that separation can lead to missed opportunities for contact and kinship during a critical point in child development. This report describes racial and ethnic segregation across early childhood education settings in the U.S. serving five or more children, including home-based and unregulated providers.

Sesame Street in Communities

Sesame Street

Resources for parents, caregivers, and providers that include webinars, educational games, activities, and professional development tools

Shape Up Somerville website

Shape Up Somerville

Shape Up Somerville is a successful collective impact approach to building a healthier, equitable community in Somerville, MA. The approach uses interdisciplinary partnerships and policies surrounding food systems and active living.

Shifting the Narrative

Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley

Part of the Blueprint for Belonging Papers series, this paper focuses on the concept of "narrative" and the critical role of a narrative change strategy in organizing, advocacy, and litigation in support of social justice.

Simple Interactions tool

Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning

Simple Interactions is a strengths-based, practice-based, and community-based approach to improve program quality with helpers who serve children, youth and families.

Six Principles of Communicating Data: A Checklist

Ben Jones

This tool lays out six principles of communicating data: 1) know your goal, 2) use the right data, 3) select suitable visualizations, 4) design for aesthetics, 5) choose an effective medium and channel, and 6) check the results.

Social and Ethical Issues

National Coordinating Center for Public Engagement

Developed by the National Co-coordinating Centre for Public engagement, this website explores social and ethical issues in public engagement.

Social Impact Calculator

LIFT

The Social Impact Calculator allows you to put a dollar value on the benefits of things like an affordable home and calculate the rate of social return.

Social Justice mediation Program

Vital Village Network

The Social Justice mediation Program (SJMP) aims to build the capacity of our Boston neighborhoods by training community members in conflict resolution skills that can be used at home, in the workplace, in schools, and beyond. We hope that reducing conflict and creating trauma-sensitive environments will ultimately help our children, families, and community thrive.

South Carolina Racial Equity Impact Assessment Guide

Children's Trust of South Carolina

The Race Equity Impact Assessment tool is intended for any decision maker, analyst, organization, or legislator who intends to ensure the equity of a proposed policy. The tool guides users through a systematic examination of how different racial and ethnic groups can potentially be affected by a proposed policy, action, or decision, and what can proactively be done to achieve equitable outcomes.

So What Exactly Is a “Coalition” Within an Organization? A Review and Organizing Framework

Murad A. Mithani, Jonathan P. O’Brien

This article is a systematic review of organizational coalitions, emphasizing actors, structures, and processes that influence these collaborations. It highlights commonalities in defining coalition actors and structural positions, yet highlights their differences in interactions and structures.

State Approaches to Supporting the Community-Based Doula Workforce

Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center

This article provides an overview of the policies and actions states have taken to support the doula workforce and their practice in the birthing process. The article includes skill-building initiatives, financial incentives, and hospital-based policy changes to accommodate doulas.

State 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. Define your vision, build a leadership team, collect and analyze data to understand the needs of infants, toddlers, and families across your state, and map state assets.

Stories of Black Motherhood

Fatima Dainkeh

Featured in an article by Boston University, Fatima's project lifts up the stories of black motherhood and the healthcare system by looking beyond inequality data and changing the narrative. Link to her video, Stories of Black Motherhood is found here.

Story-Based Strategy 101

Center for Story Based Strategy

This two-page document provides an overview of story-based strategy, walking you through the steps of analysis and strategic work that will sharpen the impact of your narrative interventions.

StoryCenter

StoryCenter

Formerly the Center for Digital Storytelling., StoryCenter supports individuals and organizations in using storytelling and participatory media for reflection, education, and social change. Our methods of group process and story creation serve as a reflective practice, a professional development tool, a pedagogical strategy, and as a vehicle for education, community mobilization, and advocacy. Our custom program collaborates with organizations around the world, on workshops in story facilitation, digital storytelling, and other forms of participatory media production.

StoryCenter -- Public Workshops

STORYCENTER

This organization is a fantastic resource for training and capacity building around digital and narrative storytelling, including participatory models for media/storytelling developing. They host both in-person workshops as well as virtual sessions.

Story Garden: Uplifting Individuals, Strengthening Families, Transforming Communities

ATD Fourth World

This is a comprehensive evaluation of ATD Fourth World's Story Garden program in Gallup, New Mexico. Story Garden is an inter-generational family literacy space that takes place weekly at the local flea market, reaching families who are typically not reached by other programs. This report presents the findings of a participatory evaluation of Story Garden that pinpointed positive changes at the individual, family and community levels.

Storytelling: A tool for Health Advocacy

Rebecca Kahn, BA, and Jewlya Lynn, PhD, Spark Policy Institute

This brief offers guidance on the internal elements of a story that move people to action by outlining how elements can increase or decrease the ability to persuade various audiences and how health advocates can choose a story that can potentially do the most to move a particular audience

Strategic Narrative 101 Curriculum

Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley

The Blueprint for Belonging network has published a curriculum on strategic narrative that will support the political development of staff and grassroots leaders. The curriculum is comprised of modules designed to build the capacity of people in the social justice movement field to analyze and strategize using the B4B framework for strategic narrative.

Strengthening ACEs, Trauma, and Resilience Networks

Mobilizing Action For Resilient Communities (MARC)

In this brief, MARC highlights two dimensions of network strengthening—engaging new sectors and increasing collaboration.

Strengthening Community-Based Doula Care Amid Shifting State and Federal Policies

HealthConnect One

This policy brief discusses the recent changes to funding, infrastructure, and policies around community-based doula care. The brief centers the role of Medicaid reimbursement in properly integrating doula care into birth work and serves as a call to action for advocates and policymakers to suppport doula care within this shifting political landscape.

Strengthening Families Curriculum

Center for the Study of Social Policy

In partnership with several jurisdictions that are implementing Strengthening Families in their child welfare systems, CSSP has developed a scripted curriculum introducing the Protective Factors Framework and the small but significant changes workers can make in their child welfare practice.

Strengthening Partnerships: A Framework for Prenatal through Young Adulthood Family Engagement in Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Family Engagement Coalition

This roadmap was designed by families and professionals to inform strategies for authentic family engagement to practitioners and families in health, human services, and education.

Strengthening the Diversity and Quality of the Early Care and Education Workforce Paper Series

Urban 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 ProcessesProfessional Development Supports and Teacher Practice in Low-Income Pre-K ProgramsDos Métodos: Two Classroom Language Models in Head Start

Strength in Numbers: A Guide to Building Community Coalitions

Community Catalyst

Community Catalyst is a national advocacy organization that builds consumer and community participation in the shaping of our health system to ensure quality, affordable health care for all. This guide was written to assist anyone interested in building community coalitions, including topics such as how to establish a strong and stable coalition foundation, how to enhance the coalition by developing a broad and diverse membership, and how to increase the effectiveness and lifespan of the coalition.

StriveTogether

Strive

StriveTogether is a national, nonprofit network of 70 communities using a rigorous approach to accelerate progress and sustain success in education. We provide coaching, connections and resources to our local partnerships and work together to measurably improve six results from cradle to career.

StriveTogether News

A national, nonprofit network of 70 community partnerships, StriveTogether works to ensure that every child succeeds from cradle to career. StriveTogether helps communities identify and scale what works in education by providing coaching, connections and resources to help partnerships share data, align resources and shape policy.

Stronger Together: Building an Inclusive System of Supports for Immigrant Families During the Pandemic, and Always

Center for the Study of Social Policy

This brief explores how policymakers can begin to build a comprehensive and inclusive system of supports to protect immigrant families

Structural Racism and Community Building

Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change

This publication describes the problem of structural racism in the United States and highlights its implications for community building.

Suggested Practices for Journalists reporting on Child Abuse and Neglect

CDC

This guide was developed to explain how journalists can impact prevention by expanding the focus of stories about physical, sexual or emotional abuse or neglect of children to include information on the causes of the problem and ways to prevent it.

Sustainability Survey

Center for Story Based Strategy

This two-page document can help assess sustainability in your community and support each other in movement work.

Sustainable Community Indicator Catalog

The Sustainable Community Indicator Catalog helps communities identify indicators that can measure progress toward their sustainability objectives. The indicators in this catalog focus on the relationships among land use, housing, transportation, human health, and the environment. Use this website to identify the indicators that are most closely aligned with the issues of greatest concern to your community. To develop this catalog, a team of researchers evaluated over 100 community indicator initiatives across the United States. Among these initiatives, the team identified nearly 400 examples of indicators being used to measure community progress related to the Partnership for Sustainable Community’s Livability Principles. Here you can learn more about the most popular and most useful indicators.

Systems Thinking in Communities: Understanding the Causes of Inactivity, Poor Diet/Nutrition, and Childhood Obesity in Somerville, MA

Transtria

This evaluation overviews the Shape Up Somerville initiative from a systems thinking approach. It also discusses how these strategies can be applied to other community efforts.

Talking About Birthing Justice — Messaging & Narrative Framework

The Opportunity Agenda

Women in the Room Productions’ documentary, Birthing Justice, addresses this national crisis by turning the spotlight on the progress being made by health initiatives and uplifting evidence-based practices to adopt more widely.

Talking about Racism and Bias: Resources for Parent and Caregivers

Children's Alliance

This list was created by the Children's Alliance to provide support in talking about racism and bias. Resources vary and you are encouraged to utilize the tools and resources that best fit your needs.

Talking Race with Young Children

NPR

This audio lesson and conversation was created and published by NPR to help provide parents with important information and tips on discussing race with their children.

Tapestry Blog: The Conference on Storytelling with Data

Tapestry

This resource includes videos of talks of an annual conference on data storytelling.

Teaching Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom

National Education Association

Created by the National Education Association, this resource offers background information and resources for including Juneteenth in your classroom, including videos, lessons and activities, and more. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, when, on June 19, 1865, the news of emancipation finally reached over 250,00 enslaved Black people in Texas and signaled their freedom.

TED TAlk: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

Dr. Nadine Burke

Childhood trauma isn't something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain and health across a lifetime.

The ABCs of Diversity and Inclusion: Developing an Inclusive Environment for Diverse Families in Early Childhood Education

ZERO to Three

Released as a professional resource by Zero to Three this article gives specific, concrete suggestions about how to build and maintain a welcoming, representative, and inclusive environment for diverse families in schools.

The Art of Facilitative Leadership: Maximizing Others' Contributions

Jeffrey Cufaude, Systems Thinker

This post explores the fundamentals of facilitative leadership, including six major themes of action.

The Beloved Community: A Conversation with bell hooks and Georgie Brosi

bell hooks, and Georgie Brosi

A transcript of a conversation between bell hooks and Georgie Brosi discussing the concept of the beloved community, love, and liberation.

The Black Maternity Mortality Crisis come to the Hill

Cheyanne M. Daniels

Highlights how the rising rates of Black maternal mortality are gaining urgent attention from lawmakers. The piece underscores advocacy efforts, policy debates, and the push for systemic change to address racial disparities in maternal health outcomes.

The Child Tax Credit: How the United States Under Invests in Its Youngest Children in Cash Assistance and How Changes to the Child Tax Credit Could Help

David Harris

In this dissertation, the author examines the Child Tax Credit (CTC), who gets it and who doesn't, paying particular attention to children under the age of three, its legislative and political history, and how it could be improved.

The Coalition Effectiveness Inventory (CEI)

The Society for Public Health Education

The Society for Public Health Education supplies a diagnostic checklist for coalition members and key leaders to assess a coalition's effectiveness.

The Eviction Lab

Princeton university

The Eviction Lab at Princeton University has built the first nationwide database of evictions. Find out how many evictions happen in your community. Create custom maps, charts, and reports. Share facts with your neighbors and elected officials.

The Foundation to Thrive: Connecting The Importance of Safe, Stable Homes with the Health and Wellbeing of Families and Children

Children's HealthWatch, Mission Partner

This toolkit provides key data and messages on the importance of safe housing on children’s mental health as well as the dangers of inaction including intergenerational stress, adverse childhood experiences and lower earning potential in the long term.

The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement

Shawn Ginwright Ph.D.

This essay reflects on the evolution of the concept and responses to "trauma-informed care" and proposed a new framework - healing centered engagement - as a strategy to address persistent inequities. The resources delves into the key characteristics of this approach and implications for practice and policy.

The Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework Promoting Family Engagement and School Readiness, From Prenatal to Age 8

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families Office of Head Start

Connects research, policy, and practice to support a community of people dedicated to advancing children’s learning and development. GFRP fosters collaboration among child- and family-serving organizations so they can create equitable learning pathways across time and place.

The JJ Way: A Patient-Centered Model for Care

Commonsense Childbirth Inc.

This model is effective in reducing disparities and improving outcomes because it operates from the premise that every woman wants a healthy baby and that every woman deserves one.

The National Indian Child Care Association

Stratem Consulting

The National Indian Child Care Association promotes high quality culturally relevant child care and development and unifies tribes and tribal organizations by providing leadership, support and advocacy on behalf of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.

The need to advance nutrition education in the training of healthcare professionals and recommended research to evaluate implementation and effectiveness

Kris-Etherton et al

This article reports on the current status of nutrition and physical activity education for health care professionals and advocates for more training to include nutrition information. This is a serious concern as nutrition is currently recognized as a determinant of 3 of the top 4 leading causes of death in the United States.

The Notebook, an International Resource for Early Childhood Development

UNESCO

This report from UNESCO reviews the impact of HIV/AIDS on childhood development, infant feeding practices in areas affected by HIV/AIDS, global initiatives to combat HIV/AIDS, and case studies from Brazil and Kenya.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and its Impact on Maternal Mental Health

Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance (MMHLA)

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and its Impact on Maternal Mental Health examines how proposed federal legislation could affect access to postpartum care and maternal mental health services. The article highlights potential threats to health equity while emphasizing the importance of supporting mental health resources for mothers.

The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond

The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation.

The Praxis Project

The Praxis Project was founded in 2002 by Makani Themba to “forge a more capable, diverse, effective, connected and visionary cadre of changemakers worldwide.” Helping communities use media and policy advocacy to advance health justice under her leadership, The Praxis Project raised more than $20 million for organizers working in communities of color nationwide.

The State of America's Children, 2020

Children's Defense Fund

This report provides stories, statistics, data and trends to show the state of children in the United States.

The Storytelling Project Curriculum: Learning About Race and Racism through Storytelling and the Arts

Storytelling Project & Barnard College

Created by the Storytelling Project and Barnard College, this toolkit provides curriculum for learning about race and racism through storytelling and the arts. This resource was a spotlight at our April 2020 data webinar.

The Tension of the Turf: Making It Work for the Coalition

Prevention Institute

Tension of Turf is the companion tool to Prevention Institute's coalition-building guide, Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide. “Turf-ism” can be defined as non-cooperation or conflict between organizations with seemingly common goals or interests. Whether over resources, recognition, or control, turf struggles can threaten coalition vitality. The Tension of Turf was developed as a tool to help practitioners working within coalitions to identify, address, and manage turf issues and offers practical support for skillfully managing the dynamic tension that commonly arises when people collaborate.

The Truth About ACEs Infographic

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is part of a growing network of leaders working to increase awareness and understanding of the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the need to develop effective innovative interventions. Learn more about ACEs through this infographic.