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The Paradigm Shift: Education as a Determinant of Health and Well-being
Education is more than just academics—it can address social issues like poverty, mental health, and inequality. By expanding supports for ...
How Bringing a Community Resilience Framework Has Shaped Our Understanding of Youth Leadership and Engagement
The role of uncertainty and chronic stress and how this impacts young people’s access to opportunities. There is longstanding literature ...
Upholding Justice, Confronting Backlash, and Embracing Historic Black Resistance
W.E.B. Du Bois shared this sentiment in 1935, and in 2024, amidst anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) backlash, it remains ...
Essential Ingredients for Building Intergroup Relationships and Bridges
A stronger sense of community enables them to become more inclined to view someone else’s triumphs, concerns, and struggles as ...
Achieving Equity by Building Community: Strategies, Interventions, and Evaluation
Introducing the "Strengthening Community Framework" designed to enhance community inclusiveness and interconnectedness. This framework emphasizes the expansion of community boundaries ...
Achieving Equity By Building Community: Why Community and Why Now?
There are few words tossed around as much as “community” without requiring further definition or exploration by community leaders, public ...
Racing Against Educational Inequities: Writing a New Chapter in Black History
Step into the narrative of a childhood escape from a failing system, resonating with the struggle for equity in today's ...
Building Bridges and Mobilizing Collective Action Parental Involvement in Achieving Assessment Equity
Examine the struggles parents face in advocating for their children's special educational needs within a system often ill-equipped to accommodate ...
Parent Leadership in Disney’s Encanto: Support Our Families, Strengthen Our Communities
Parent leadership has a positive impact on children, families, and society. Carlos Anguiano, Managing Associate, explores this topic through an ...
Demonstrating the Use of Data for Health Equity: A Look at Immigrant Health
Structural racism embedded in U.S. health care systems not only affects people of low income and minoritized populations who have ...