Systems, cross-sector collaboration, and policy

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April 10, 2025
Housing insecurity affects millions of Americans, with many families only one financial crisis away from homelessness. Innovative, cross-sector solutions are needed, especially those integrating housing support with other social and health services. Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) offer a promising approach that healthcare systems can use to support those who are housing insecure. CCHE recently published our learnings about Kaiser Permanente’s MLP in Health Services Research.
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February 10, 2025
CCHE conducted a mid-course assessment of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF’S) ten-year commercial tobacco control (CTC) strategy. The strategy aimed to advance equity in the CTC movement by amplifying the work of organizations focused on people most harmed by commercial tobacco: specifically Black Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic and Latino/a/x Americans, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, LGBTQIA+ Americans, people with limited financial resources, and residents of geographic/regional areas disproportionately impacted by commercial tobacco, particularly those in the South and Midwest. CCHE used a mixed methods approach to assess the influence and capacity of these organizations; equity in the CTC movement; changes in the broader messaging employed in CTC advocacy; and policy strategies and successes in the movement in the last five years.
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October 2, 2024
CCHE is wrapping up the evaluation of Well Connected Communities (WCC), a seven-year, national health equity and well-being initiative of America’s Cooperative Extension System funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. WCC used the power of collective action and youth and adult voice to identify and address health inequities. 
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November 16, 2022
Once considered an industry niche, telehealth entered the mainstream during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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March 21, 2022
For the last 5 years, SPARCC (the Strong, Prosperous, And Resilient Communities Challenge) has been investing in the local efforts of six regions to ensure equitable and healthy opportunities in the places people of color live, work and play.
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December 21, 2021
Over the past seven years, CityHealth, an initiative of the deBeaumont Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, has worked with city leaders in the nation’s 40 largest cities to adopt evidence-based policy solutions that ensure all people have access to healthy choices.
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November 13, 2020
The dual pandemics of racism and COVID-19 have underscored the urgency of effectively responding to trauma and promoting resiliency in pediatric primary care. Since 2017, CCHE has contributed to learning in the field by evaluating programs that support health care organizations in adopting practices to be more healing-centered, including screening and responding to adverse childhood experiences.
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