The Well Being of Somerville: report 2017

City of Somerville, Cambridge Health Alliance

This report from Cambridge Health Alliance and the City of Somerville is a tool for local leaders, community agency members, and stakeholders to learn about public health issues in Somerville. It also attempts to highlight the strengths and assets of the community.

Think Babies in 2021

Think Babies

The Think BabiesTM Election toolkit is designed to help advocates—like you!—connect with all presidential candidates and educate them on what infants, toddlers, and their families really need. Join the call to Think Babies and make their potential a national priority.

THRIVE Framework

THRIVE: a conceptual framework for CAMHS was developed by a collaboration of authors from the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. The THRIVE framework is an integrated, person centred and needs led approach to delivering mental health services for children, young people and their families. It conceptualises need in five categories; Thriving, Getting Advice and Signposting, Getting Help, Getting More Help and Getting Risk Support.

THRIVE: tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments

Prevention Institute

THRIVE enables communities to determine how to improve health and safety, and promote health equity. It is a framework for understanding how structural drivers, such as racism, play out at the community level in terms of the social-cultural, physical/built, and economic/ educational environments.

toolkit for Expanding Doula-Friendly Hospitals

HealthLeads

This toolkit provides technical assistance, evidence, and resources to support hospital providers and clinicians in building a more inclusive and productive environment for doulas and their work. It outlines both current best practices along with recommendations for future expansion.

toolkit: Protecting Immigrant Families Facing Deportation

Children Thrive Action Network

This toolkit, created by Children Thrive Action Network, is intended to support all providers and community advocates who are committed to supporting immigrant families and communities who are at risk of deportation.

Touchpoints in a Nurse Visiting Program

Kristie Brandt and J. Michael Murphy in Lester B, Sparrow JD. editors.

Chapter in "Nurturing Young Children and Their Families: Building on the Legacy of T.B. Brazelton." This volume celebrates the work and influence of T. Berry Brazelton, one of the world's foremost pediatricians, by bringing together contributions from researchers and clinicians whose own pioneering work has been inspired by Brazelton's foundations in the field of child development.

Toxic Stress

This resource explains how toxic stress can affect childhood development including learning, behavior, and health. It also defines the toxic stress response, relative to other stress responses.

Training for Racial Equity and Inclusion

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This guide provides an in-depth review of 10 different racial equity training programs by examining the theory of practice and theory of change for each program. The guide is intended to help stakeholders, policy makers, and community leaders select and support approaches that best suit their needs and goals.

Transformational Capacity Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, this report provides seven foundational elements of transformational capacity building that support grassroots organizations, with a focus on nonprofits of color.

TransformHarm.org

TransformHarm.org

TransformHarm.Org offers a vast number of insightful guides, toolkits, handbooks, curriculum, workshop and strategy session examples, case studies, and more on focus areas such as healing justice, restorative justice, transformative justice, community accountability, and community organizing.

Transforming the Early Education Workforce: A Multimedia Guidebook

National Institute of Medicine

Building on the National Institute of Medicine’s Transforming the Workforce report, this online guide book delves into the science and recommendations of the report. The resource includes an FAQ about the early education workforce, summaries of the full report’s chapters, videos, interactive maps, a glossary of key terms and more.

Trauma-Informed Advocacy: Practical tools for Working with Vulnerable Populations

Health & Medicine Policy Research Group

In this webinar, Sarah Hess, who works at the intersection of trauma, health equity, and law, discusses how advocates from all fields can use a trauma-informed approach.

Trauma-Informed Community Building and Engagement

Urban Institute

This report offers a guide for those seeking innovative, effective, and responsible approaches to supporting residents of low-income housing communities through community-building and engagement efforts that address community-level trauma.

Trauma-Informed Policymaking tool: A Policy Approach to Preventing and Healing from Trauma

Health & Medicine Policy Research Group

The Trauma-Informed Policymaking tool discusses trauma-informed principles and the application of these principles to the policymaking process, as well as the resulting policy, benefit, and/or program.

Trauma-Informed Public Policy: Why Do We Need It and How Can It be Created?

Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation

This article provides background information about trauma-informed public policy and how to create a system to implement trauma-informed policies

Trauma-Informed tools

Multiplying Connections

Whether you're looking to become more informed, develop new skills, and/or help to advocate for organizational and policy change, this toolkit will provide you with the tools you need to get started.

Treatment interventions for early childhood obesity: a systematic review.

Foster et al

This literature review includes a comparison of treatment interventions for overweight or obesity in preschool-age children. The intervention methods include: systems changes and motivational interviewing, an intensive, multidisciplinary approach, parental coaching, and education on a dairy-rich diet.

Tufts Research Activities & Impact: CHOMPS—Coupons for Healthier Options for Minors Purchasing Snacks

Tufts Research Activities & Impact

This is a research projected designed to determine if children and adolescents will be incentivized to buy more healthier food options if they are given "kids-only" coupons. The study also examines the decision-making processes of children buying snacks outside of school.

Two-Generation Playbook

Ascend at Aspen Institute

Ascend at the Aspen Institute is the national hub for breakthrough ideas and collaborations that move children and the adults in their lives toward educational success and economic security. This resources offers an overview of the Two-Generation approach, key components, and examples of this framework in action.

Two-Generation Strategies toolkit

National Conference of State Legislatures

This toolkit outlines and describes the fundamentals of two-generation approaches to addressing poverty, with a focus on opportunities for state legislators and their critical role in legislating, convening, partnering, championing, and coordinating funding.

Two-Generation toolbox

Ascend at Aspen Institute

Two-generation approaches focus on creating opportunities for and addressing needs of both children and the adults in their lives together. The approach recognizes that families come in all different shapes and sizes and that families define themselves. The 2Gen toolbox at Ascend at the Aspen Institute Features a range of resources and tools to support in planning, designing and implementing a 2Gen approach.

Ubuntu webinar archive

Ubuntu Research & Evaluation, LLC

Ubuntu is a learning organization run by Black women who use liberation and beloved community frameworks to evaluate, facilitate, and strategize with individuals, organizations, and communities. Their webinars focus on addressing racism at multiple levels

Understanding Family Engagement Outcomes: Research to Practice Series - Families as Advocates & Leaders

Boston Children’s Hospital

This report intended for early childhood programs describes the importance of parents and families acting as advocates and leaders to represent the needs of childrens. The report explains what programs can do to boost family advocacy and leadership.

Understanding Family Engagement Outcomes: Research to Practice Series "Family Connections to Peers and Community"

Understanding Family Engagement Outcomes: Research to Practice Series - Family Well-being

Boston Children’s Hospital

This report lays-out various aspects of "family well-being", which include health, safety, and financial security and explains how family well-being can affect school readiness and child outcomes. The report also explains how Head Start and Early Head start programs can support family well-being.

UPLAN

United Parent Leaders Action Network

A network of parents who are fired-up and coming together to shape the policies that matter to families.

Uplifting Birth Justice Through Doula Care!

Southern Birth Justice Network & Forward Together

Available in Spanish and English, this one pager providers critical information on the role of Doula's in addressing racial disparities in maternal and newborn health.

UpTogether

Family Independence Initiative

Connection platform for community members. Supports community conversation, shared community goals, and creating pathways to resources.

Up to Us - Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Asians and Pacific Islanders need assessment

Lavender Phoenix

"Up to Us is the first, most comprehensive study of transgender and gender non-conforming Asians and Pacific Islanders in the San Francisco Bay Area." Read the report from this community-based action research project and explore the key findings that will "shape our solutions and the future we deserve."

Upward weight percentile crossing in infancy and early childhood independently predicts fat mass in young adults: the Stockholm Weight Development Study (SWEDES)

Ekelund et al

Article on presence of weight and percent body fat accumulated by 5 is predictive of adiposity and complication later in life.

Urban95 Starter Kit

Bernard Van Leer Foundation

Focusing on the needs of children under 5 provides a path to better cities. This started kit offers a range of ideas to inspire city leaders to incorporate a focus on the needs of young children and those who care for them into city design, planning and management.

UrbanDisplacement

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The research of the Urban Displacement Project aims to understand and describe the gentrification and displacement and generate knowledge on how policy development and investment can support more equitable development.

Vibrant and Healthy Kids: Aligning Science, Practice, and Policy to Advocate Health Equity

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

Written by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, this report outlines steps needed to move children who are at risk for negative outcomes toward positive health trajectories and reduce health disparities.

Village Vital Signs

Vital Village Network Data Dashboard

Online mapping tool for the greater Boston area. Includes mapping of early childhood, health, housing, nutrition, and community resources.

Violence Preventing: Child Abuse and Neglect

Center for Disease Control

This is a compilation of data and statistics, publications and articles, and other resources on child abuse and neglect.

Vital Signs

NAM

A streamlined set of 15 standardized measures, ”vital signs” of the nation’s health.

Vital Village Signs Dashboard

Vital Village Network

A publicly shared community data dashboard that offers data and resource maps pertaining to child & community health in the Greater Boston area.

Vital Village Social media Guidelines

Vital Village Network

General guidelines and suggestions for social media set up and communication for VVN affilitaed groups/teams.

Voices from the Field: 6 Leadership Imperatives for Philanthropy, Centered on Racial Equity

Keecha Harris & Ali Webb

This article presents six promising leadership imperatives (and guidance for navigating them) for leaders who want to lead in ways that center racial equity and justice.

Wage and Hour Division: The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Fact Sheet

US Department of Labor

This website lists the necessary criteria for both employers and employees to qualify for FMLA. It also explores details of the FMLA such as time off caring for ill service-members, and health certification for employers.

Ways to Promote Children's Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jessica Dym Bartlett & Rebecca Vivrette, ChildTrends

This fact sheet centers strategies to promote children's resilience during the COVID19 pandemic.

Welcome to America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics

An annual report which provides the most recent statistics on children and families in the United States across 41 report indicators, covering a range of domains: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.

We R Native

We R Native

A comprehensive health resource for Native youth, by Native youth, providing content and stories about the topics that matter most to them. The group strives to promote holistic health and positive growth in their local communities and nation at large.

What About the Babies? A Focus on Infants and Toddlers in State Advisory Councils

Zero to Three

This paper offers guidance to states on including a focus on infants and toddlers as they make decisions about the formation of State Advisory Councils and the activities of those Councils.

What If We Owned It?

Nonprofit Quarterly

An article by Darnell Adams looks at the history of Black cooperatives and alternative ecnomics in the United States, and reflects on food cooperatives as one area experiencing a "reneissance" in solidarity economies.

What Makes an Effective Coalition? Evidence-Based Indicators of Success

TCC Group Team

To explore how to increase the value of coalitions, this paper examines the questions: “What are coalitions?” and “How can we monitor their progress and effectiveness?” Part I of the paper presents a basic framework for defining and understanding coalitions. Part II uses the lens of assessment/evaluation to explore what we know about successful coalition members, coalition capacity, and coalition outcomes/impact.

What To Do When Things Go Wrong

The Society for Public Health Education

The Society for Public Health Education supplies a diagnostic tool that provides guidance on how to deal with common coalition challenges

What Works? Social and Economic Opportunities to Improve Health for All

County Health Rankings & Roadmap

This report outlines key steps toward building healthier and more equitable communities and features specific policies and programs that can improve social and economic opportunities and health for all.

Where is the Department of Public Health? Calls to Action for Public Health Professionals

DeeperThan Water Coalition

A call to action for public health professionals to respond to the COVID-19 situation in jails and prisons.

Which aspects of coalition functioning are key at different stages of coalition development? A qualitative comparative analysis

Garrett J Jenkins, et al.

This study explores the functioning and fidelity of substance misuse prevention coalitions at different stages in Washington State. It identifies key factors necessary for achieving high model fidelity and offers valuable insights for guiding technical assistance efforts to enhance coalition effectiveness and implementation success.

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Peggy Mcintosh

For many, the notion of a white privilege is a difficult one to grasp. As sociologist Peggy McIntosh argues, white privilege is akin to an invisible package of unearned assets that white people can count on cashing in each day.

Why diversity, inclusion, and equity matter for nonprofits

National Council of Nonprofits

The National Council of Nonprofits stands with others in denouncing racism, bigotry, and intolerance. Yet taking a "stand" is not enough. We, along with many other charitable nonprofits, are traveling a journey to identify how to build the core values of diversity, inclusion, and equity into all our nonprofit’s operations, as well as model those values as we advance our mission.

Why Race and Place Matter

PolicyLink

This report, produced by PolicyLink, delves into issues of race and place and what they mean in the context of building healthy communities--dynamic groups and initiatives are featured to illuminate action at the intersection of health, place, and race.

WIC Education Materials Healthy Eating

WIC helps families by providing nutrition education, breastfeeding support, vouchers for healthy foods, and referrals to healthcare and other community services.

Wide support for lifting earned income credit

Boston Globe

This article highlights the experience of a single mother in MA, and advocates for the increase of the state's Earned Income Tax Credit as an anti-poverty measure. It also discusses the political and social implications behind this increase.

Words that Change Minds

FrameWorks Institute

An introduction into strategic messaging for advocacy work.

Working Principles for Health Justice and Racial Equity

The Praxis Project

Published by The Praxis Project this framework is designed to be used as a checklist to ensure that our health initiatives and programs will be transformational for our communities.

Young Learners, Missed Opporunities: Ensuring that Black and Latino Children Have Access to High-Quality State-Funded Preschool

The Education Trust

This report, by The Education Trust, looks at race and ethnicity in state-funded preschool programs across the country.

Youth Health Equity Leadership Institute

To engage participants as well as collaborative community partners to help make a difference in their home, school and outside environments within an enriching network environment in the after-school setting.

ZERO TO THREE Policy Network

ZERO TO THREE

The ZERO TO THREE Policy Network is a vehicle for people who care about infants and toddlers, like you, to use your knowledge and expertise to impact public policy for the youngest children and their families.

ZERO TO THREE Policy Pocket Card

Zero to Three

This advocacy tool provides you with a quick and easy way to communicate effectively with policymakers about what we know, what we can do and how we all benefit from supporting early childhood experiences beginning at birth.