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RWJF Community Health Leader Named Health Advocate of the Year

February 4, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post

Hilman is executive director of the Utah Health Policy Project, which assures quality, affordable, comprehensive health care coverage for all Utah residents through research, policy advocacy and civic participation activities.

Voices for Change: A Social Action Campaign to Restore the Health and Safety of Residents of the Westside of San Bernardino County, California

January 4, 2011 | Report

Knowledge Asset: Voices for Change engages participants through Photovoice (photography and prose), providing opportunities for individual and group data gathering, reflection, dialogue and social action regarding neighborhood assets and issues.

Developing a Health Equity Toolbox for Health Practitioners to Advance Public Health Advocacy to Eliminate Health Disparities

January 4, 2011 | Report

Knowledge Asset: The Health Equity and Prevention Primer examines historical and current causes of inequities in health care and lays out opportunities and directions for a more equitable future.

2010 Community Health Leaders are Transforming Health and Health Care in Vulnerable Communities

August 23, 2010 | Video/Story

Read the profiles about each of the 10 winners and watch the video to learn how each has made a difference in their communities.

Evaluation of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities: Supporting Community Action to Prevent Childhood Obesity

February 21, 2010 | Evaluation

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities works to implement healthy eating and active living policy- and environmental-change initiatives that can support healthier communities for children and families across the United States.

Raising the Flag for Community Health Workers

January 26, 2010 | Program Result Report

From 2006 to 2009, staff members at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, worked to raise the profile and influence of community health workers in the health care system and among policy-makers.

Role Development of Community Health Workers

December 1, 2009 | Journal Article

This article examines the literature to assess the role of community health workers in the research process. The authors find that community health worker training and selection is inconsistently reported, making the design and implementation of future community health worker programs more difficult.

Lynne Holden is Working to Change the Face of Medicine

October 8, 2009 | Story

Holden has won a 2009 RWJF Community Health Leaders Award for her work to establish an all-volunteer organization that encourages and nurtures disadvantaged students from Harlem and the South Bronx in New York City to enter the medical profession.

Evaluation of Communities Creating Healthy Environments

September 18, 2009 | Evaluation

A participatory evaluation of Communities Creating Healthy Environments (C-CHE) is being conducted to evaluate grassroots activities that has been demonstrated to be optimally useful for grassroots advocacy in particular.

Summary Progress Report Active Living by Design Grant Program

September 1, 2009 | Report

In 2003, there were 25 community partnerships (CPs) from across the country who were selected to receive funding for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) Active Living by Design (ALbD) initiative.

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