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October 17, 2012 | News Release
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Raising the Flag for Community Health Workers
January 26, 2010 | Program Result
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.
Children's Futures: Lessons From a Second-Generation Community Change Initiative
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Children's Futures, a 10-year RWJF initiative, developed a comprehensive, citywide program in Trenton, N.J. focusing on the critical time period of prenatal care to age three to ensure health and school readiness. This article explores the initiative's first five years, the available results and lessons learned.
Taking it to the Streets: Community Health Workers Improve Access for Low-Income Residents
January 28, 2002 | Program Result
The New Community Corporation, the largest nonprofit housing corporation in New Jersey, worked with Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere), a worldwide humanitarian organization in health care, to train Community Health Workers.
How the Health and Community Development Sectors are Combining Forces to Improve Health and Well-Being
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The root causes of poor health experienced by many who live in low-income neighborhoods are well documented, but often go beyond the scope of the health care delivery system. Growing partnerships between the health and community development sectors are forming to address these challenges.
Community Development Efforts Offer a Major Opportunity to Advance Americans' Health
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Community development and public health are two forces that often have the same goals. By enhancing the opportunities for good health in the places where we live, learn, work, play and worship, community development initiatives can be important drivers of improved health.
Partnerships Among Community Development, Public Health, and Health Care Could Improve the Well-Being of Low-Income People
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The community development "industry" draws on public subsidies and other financing to transform impoverished neighborhoods into better-functioning communities. There is a strong potential for cross-sector collaborations to reduce health disparities and slow the growth of health care spending, while improving economic and social well-being in America's most disadvantaged communities.
Despite Obstacles, Considerable Potential Exists for More Robust Federal Policy on Community Development and Health
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the Obama administration's urban policy create an opportunity to link community development with health in new and powerful ways.
Strong Medicine for a Healthier America
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's President and CEO, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey introduces a supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that makes public the research of the Commission to Build a Healthier America.
Citizen-Centered Health Promotion
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A review of findings that support a citizen-centered approach to improving health behaviors argues that lasting change in individuals' health behaviors requires collaboration among communities' clinical, business, educational, civic and governmental entities.