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Recommendations for Title V Programs: Co-Creating an Equitable Future with the Wisdom of Communities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level National

State(s) All States

Source The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs

Policy Areas Children & Families, Health

Title V MCH Services Block Grant programs provide funding for three categories of essential services--direct, enabling, and public health services--but requires funded programs to be "family-centered, community-based and culturally competent." This report examines the methodologies...

Remarks by Jacky Grimshaw at Capital Bill Signing

Type Ordinance

Year 2009

Level State

State(s) Illinois

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Energy, Health, Transportation & Mobility, Food, Community Development, Public Spaces

Remarks by Jacky Grimshaw at the state capital bill signing by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn laying out five critical areas where public investment would help achieve a sustainable future: clean energy, clean water, toxic waste clean up, open space, and transportation....

The Center for Health Organizing: Building a Movement for Health

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Faith in Action

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Democracy & Governance, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Health, Transportation & Mobility, Education

In order to improve the health of Americans, policymakers must expand the focus around health to include the socioeconomic and environmental factors that affect an individual’s and a community’s health. This report addresses the factors that contribute to a healthy lifestyle and community;...

Model Health in All Policies Ordinance

Type Ordinance

Year 2015

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source ChangeLab Solutions

Policy Areas Health

This model ordinance is designed to help a jurisdiction implement "Health in All Policies," a collaborative approach to improving health by incorporating health, sustainability, and equity considerations into decision-making across sectors and policy areas. The ordinance formally...

Chronic Disease Prevention Success Stories from Big Cities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source National Association of County & City Health Officials

Policy Areas Food, Health

This report features case studies of big cities successfully preventing and/or combating chronic disease. Strategies include improving nutrition by increasing access to healthy food and limiting sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, increasing physical activity through promoting healthy...

All States Must Set Higher Wage Benchmarks for Home Health Care Workers

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year -

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Economic Policy Institute, New America

Policy Areas Community Development, Economic Justice

Home health care workers are being underpaid for their work caring for vulnerable persons across the United States. This report calculates the gap between current pay levels land just-wage-for-work-performed for home health care workers in every American state, and introduces state-specific...

Assessing & Addressing Preemption: A Toolkit for Local Policy Campaigns

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source ChangeLab Solutions

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Health

Local policy is more likely to generate lasting change if it responds to the needs and priorities of local residents and is grounded in their lived experiences. However, some state legislatures are using the legal doctrine of preemption to block local policy innovations. This report...

COVID-19 Response Tools and Resources for Employers and Workers

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) -

Source The Aspen Institute

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we approach job quality, and created a new context for how employers and workers dramatically conceptualize and pursue quality employment. COVID-19 mean that strengthening job quality is more important than ever—both in the short-term to support...

Ensuring Health and Justice for Undocumented Boys and Men of Color

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) California

Source The Greenlining Institute

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health

The health and well-being of undocumented boys and men of color are vital to the future of California. State and local lawmakers must make the lived experiences of undocumented boys and men of color a focal point of health care, immigration, criminal justice, and education policiy....

Driving Down Emissions: Transportation, Land Use, and Climate Change

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, State

State(s) All States

Source Smart Growth America

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Housing, Health, Transportation & Mobility

Transportation accounts for the largest share of carbon emissions in the U.S. Car-oriented land use and community design play a significant role in the nation’s transportation emissions; communities are built in a way that makes it difficult and unsafe to access daily needs outside...

Healthcare for All Platform

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2019

Level -

State(s) All States

Source People's Action

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health

The United States’ current healthcare system is driven by profit and governed by insurance and pharmaceutical companies, rather than by the people. This platform calls for improved Medicare for all, which will shift power from corporations and the one percent (insurance & drug corporations),...

American Rescue Plan Act: Innovative MCH Fund Applications

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2022

Level Other, Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) All States

Source The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs

Policy Areas Children & Families, Health

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 allocated $1.9 trillion rescue funds to help the nation overcome the post-pandemic devastation. The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs produced this report to illustrate the ways in which they have utilized the funding provided by...

Meeting the Health Equity Imperative

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2022

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Mayor Innovation Project

Policy Areas Community Development, Economic Justice, Health

Healthy living in American cities is a luxury inequitably distributed to residents. Access to quality food, public natural spaces, and the impact of pollutants are restricted to those who cannot afford to pay. This report suggests mayors must rethink their policy approach to be more...

Transforming Approaches to Qualitative and Quantitative Data for Optimal Community Impact

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2021

Level National

State(s) All States

Source The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs

Policy Areas Children & Families, Health

Organizations conducting research on and proposing policy solutions to structural inequalities in maternal and child care often fail to integrate the perspectives of the people being studied into their work. This report explores reasons to include the perspectives of research subjects...

The Critical State of Black Women’s Health

Type Ordinance

Year 2022

Level State

State(s) All States, Arkansas

Source Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families

Policy Areas Health

This report provides an overview of the issues affecting Black women's health, including systemic racism, discrimination, and implicit bias within the health care system. It offers the following recommendations: create policies with an intentional racial equity lens, expand Medicaid...

Anchor Mission Communications Toolkit

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source The Democracy Collaborative

Policy Areas Community Development, Health

Hospitals and health systems across the country are adopting an “anchor mission”—an approach that aligns institutional resources like hiring, purchasing, and investing, in order to tackle the underlying economic and social determinants of community health outcomes. If everyone in...

Phoenix Plants Hedges to Reduce Kids' Exposure to Pollution

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2021

Level State

State(s) Arizona

Source Mayor Innovation Project

Policy Areas Children & Families, Community Development, Health

Dedicated to limiting students' exposure to pollutants, Phoenix City staff, school faculty, and Arizona State University researchers planted trees and shrubs with K-8 students on unused school playgrounds. This project is poised to benefit more than 121,000 children under the age...

The Oregon Preterm Birth Rate in Context: Zooming in Spatially and Racially

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2021

Level State

State(s) Oregon

Source The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs

Policy Areas Children & Families, Health

Following the release of the March of Dimes annual report on progress to improve the health of moms and babies, the only state to receive an "A" was Oregon. This report studies the approach taken by Oregon to address racial and systemic inequality preventing better maternal, prenatal,...

Tobacco Retailer Licensing Playbook

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source ChangeLab Solutions

Policy Areas Health

Tobacco retailer licensing (TRL) is a policy requiring all stores that sell tobacco to obtain a special license for the privilege of selling these products to consumers. TRL can be used to implement and enforce a variety of policies aimed at reducing access and exposure to tobacco...

Equitable Enforcement to Achieve Health Equity: An Introductory Guide for Policymakers and Practitioners

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source ChangeLab Solutions

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Health

Oftentimes the laws designed to keep people safe and healthy are not enforced equitably and do not protect the health and well-being of underserved communities. To mitigate this problem, this report poses a series of questions that policymakers, advocates, and enforcement officials...

Perinatal Cannabis Use in the Era of Increasing Legalization: Considerations for State MCH Programs

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level State

State(s) All States

Source The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs

Policy Areas Children & Families, Health

Cannabis is becoming increasingly legalized in states across the nation. With legalization comes policy concerns regarding the impacts of cannabis consumption on maternal and child health (MCH). This report discusses the current policy landscape, the research conducted on cannabis...

Lean Exercise: Open Gyms

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source The Project For Lean Urbanism

Policy Areas Health, Community Development, Public Spaces

We've done a great job developing technology and labor saving machines, which unfortunately has produced a population that is disconnected from nature and sedentary. Our fondness of sitting is reflected in growing rates of obesity, diabetes, and chronic pain. One of the best things...

Scranton, PA Makes City Parks a COVID-Safe Destination

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2022

Level City or Town

State(s) Pennsylvania

Source Mayor Innovation Project

Policy Areas Children & Families, Health, Public Spaces

Recognizing the mental health and physical health of children in poverty who have been impacted by the COVID lockdowns, Scranton, PA launched an innovative outdoor exposure program that helped children engage with outdoor spaces. By introducing a City Parks Passports to children and...

2020 Forces of Change: The COVID-19 Edition

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source National Association of County & City Health Officials

Policy Areas Data & Technology, Economic Justice, Health

In 2020, the Forces of Change survey was conducted to identify infrastructure challenges among local health departments (LHDs) caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The data highlights the capacity, preparedness, and activities of LHDs in the first year of the pandemic, including trends...

Supporting Contextualized Resilience as a Buffer to Structural Violence and a Bridge to Healthier Birth Outcomes

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2021

Level National

State(s) All States

Source The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs

Policy Areas Children & Families, Health

Structural violence reduces health outcomes through systemic stratification along race, class, and gender. People exposed to more structural violence are disproportionately likely to experience preterm birth. This report illustrates the role of structural violence in creating adverse...

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