Tackling Difficult-to-Crack Healthy Eating Policies

Tackling Difficult-to-Crack Healthy Eating Policies was held September 29-30, 2015 in Sacramento, California.

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Advancing a Public Health Agenda for Native Communities

This webinar discussed the findings of the report, Seven Directions: A Blueprint for Advancing the Health and Wellness of Our Native Communities, and shared their insights and ideas about how philanthropy can help achieve health equity for Tribal and Urban Indian communities.

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Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action on Walking and Walkable Communities

This webinar discussed what the Surgeon General hopes to accomplish with his Call to Action, what the recommendations are and the science behind them, what the Call to Action means for health funders, and how grantmakers can play a role in the work ahead.

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Fostering Partnerships to Improve Native American Health

This webinar explored how foundations can foster meaningful partnerships with tribal communities and support strength-based approaches to improve the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

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Improving Integrated Care with Digital Technology Tools

This webinar discussed the opportunities and challenges health systems face when incorporating new technology in integrated care programs.

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Beyond Medicine: Strengthening Community Wellness Approaches

This webinar discussed foundation roles in strengthening prevention and disease management by addressing often overlooked factors such as stress, sleep, nutrition, and lifestyle.

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Advancing Indigenous Farmworker Health Care

This webinar explored collaborative partnerships and the integrative work happening across multiple sectors, which is helping increase the access of health care for farmworker communities.

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Provider Perspectives on Improving Health Care

As the health care landscape shifts with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, health care providers are being asked to experiment with new ways to improve access to care, fix the delivery system, and help build a healthier society. This webinar explored a variety of health care provider perspectives on what it will take…

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Using Digital Technology to Promote Healthy Food Access

This webinar explored how digital technologies can improve health outcomes by increasing consumer knowledge and empowering consumer decisionmaking.

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Conversation with the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services

This webinar addressed children’s access to health care, and featured Anne Marie Costello, Acting Director, Children and Adults Health Programs Group at the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services.

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Tackling the Social Determinants of Health through Place-Based Initiatives

This webinar explored how health foundations are using place-based strategies to help create healthy and equitable communities. Participants discussed the challenges associated with place-based approaches, and heard how funders are building on past comprehensive community change initiatives.

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Improving Access to Healthy Food in Rural Communities

During this webinar funders learned about strategies to improve access to healthy food in rural communities, ranging from partnerships with community development finance institutions to local policy change efforts.

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Mental Health Literacy: Changing the Community Conversation

This webinar discussed the Campaign to Change Direction, a national initiative to raise awareness about mental health and create a common language for recognizing the signs of emotional suffering.

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Vital Signs: Exploring the New IOM Report

In the new report, Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress, the Institute of Medicine identifies a set of standardized measures, along with steps for implementing and refining them. This webinar discussed the report’s recommendations and discuss potential roles for philanthropy.

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King v. Burwell: What You Need to Know (Part 2)

On June 25th, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credits will continue to be available to eligible individuals, regardless of where they live. This webinar discussed the implications of the Supreme Court decision, what lies ahead for the Affordable Care Act, and potential roles for philanthropy moving forward.

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Medicaid Expansion: Economic Impact and Sustainability

This webinar reviewed findings from recent impact analyses, considered the implications for sustainability of the expansions, and discussed prospects for expansion in additional states.

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King v. Burwell: What You Need to Know

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon rule on King v. Burwell, deciding whether the health reform law’s language allows the government to provide insurance subsidies everywhere in the country, or only in states that have set up their own insurance marketplaces. This webinar discussed the basics of the case and its potential impact on health reform.

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Constructing Healthy Spaces through Multisector Partnerships

This webinar focused on the many different roles the land development and real estate sector can play, the ways health funders can effectively engage with them, and how the evidence-based strategies and recommendations found in the recently released Building Healthy Places Toolkit can be implemented in your own community.

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Building a Legacy of Healthy Children

Building a Legacy of Healthy Children was held from June 9-10, 2015 in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Young Lives in Limbo: Update on the Status of Central American Child Refugees in the United States

In this webinar, participants heard from experts about the how changes in policy and social-political conditions might affect future migration, and implications for current and future flows of child refugees.

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Upcoming Events on Oral Health

Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ Policy Staff

A growing number of health funders employ staff whose responsibilities focus exclusively or predominantly on public policy engagement. Do you lead your organization’s policy or government affairs work? Participants joined this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your experiences to engage communities in setting funders’ policy priorities. Agenda forthcoming.

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Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ Policy Staff

A growing number of health funders employ staff whose responsibilities focus exclusively or predominantly on public policy engagement. Do you lead your organization’s policy or government affairs work? Join this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your experiences to engage communities in setting funders’ policy priorities.

On this webinar, we will hear from Sean McCluskie, Former Chief of Staff at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), regarding his reflections on the current health policy environment, as well as his advice for funders engaging in policy.

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