Webinars
Improving Health Outcomes for Seniors in Rural Communities
In this webinar, participants learned about an innovative telemedicine program supporting optimal healing and wellness for older adults in seven states that focuses on providing proactive medical care to avoid unnecessary transfers, hospitalizations, and read missions.
Meeting Substance Use Needs with Medicaid Expansion
Thirty-one states have expanded Medicaid eligibility as outlined in the Affordable Care Act. This second strategic conversation in a series discussed progress in the 19 remaining states.
Building Healthy Communities: Reducing Children’s Exposure to Environmental Toxins
This webinar discussed how exposure to environmental toxins effects the health of all children, why they are often an unseen barrier to the work of health funders, and how grantmakers can incorporate an environmental health lens into their efforts to build healthier communities.
Mental Health and Addiction Policy Briefing
This webinar updated participants on the latest mental health and addiction policy issues, including efforts to address the opioid epidemic, parity law implementation, youth prevention, and public education initiatives such as Mental Health First Aid.
Moving the Needle on Medicaid Expansion
Thirty-one states have expanded Medicaid eligibility as outlined in the Affordable Care Act. Your grantmaking colleagues held a strategic conversation about making progress in the 19 remaining states.
Strategic Learning: Pacesetting Practices
This webinar discussed key findings from interviews that Episcopal Health Foundation staff conducted with leading peer funders who have navigated this shift. We also learned about the Colorado Health Foundation’s experience of developing a learning practice, including lessons learned and suggestions for others who want to get started.
Opportunities to Address Substance Use Disorders
This webinar reviewed the latest research and policy issues, explored key findings from a recent report, Lifting the Burden of Addiction: Philanthropic Opportunities to Address Substance Use Disorders in the United States, and discussed ways funders can help improve substance use prevention, early intervention, treatment, and recovery supports.
What the Flint Water Crisis Tells Us about Public Health, Lead Risks, and Safe Drinking Water Nationally
The webinar reviewed the latest scientific research on the effects of lead, identified why water systems are failing so many communities, and highlighted what can be done about drinking water inequities.
Food Marketing to Children
This webinar explored the latest national trends and the state of the field, promising approaches to public policy and working with industry to reform practices, and potential strategies for foundations of any size to make a difference.
Can Mobile Applications Improve Health Outcomes?
This webinar discussed the potential of mobile health apps, how vulnerable populations tend to apply this technology, and one approach that is working to improve health outcomes.