Grant Makers in Health

12/6/23

How Community Health Workers Can Improve Heart Health

11/27/23

How Medical-Legal Partnerships Can Link Systems to Improve Health Outcomes

9/18/23

Creating a Culture of Sustainability in Helping Professions

9/8/23

Meet Dr. Daniel Zinnel, Incoming Mid-Iowa Health Foundation Board Member

Foundation news

8/2/23

Using Data for Systems-Level Advocacy

7/28/23

7 Benefits of a Statewide System Approach to Community Health Work

7/27/23

Why I Advocate for Heart Disease Preventive Strategies

7/11/23

4 Ways to Center Youth in Mental Health Conversations

6/6/23

Economic Burden of Health Inequities: 5 Insights to Inform Action

6/1/23

Disability Rights Attorney Shares What Iowans Should Know About Medicaid

5/18/23

Health Equity Work in Action: What Funders Should Know

4/5/23

Basic Income: 4 Things to Know

4/4/23

Meet the team leading UpLift – The Central Iowa Basic Income Pilot

12/8/22

HealthConnect Fellows: Engaging authentically in systems change

12/7/22

7 insights gained through a nonprofit merger

11/17/22

Six Elements to Consider with Community Conversations

10/4/22

How student research informed the basic income project

9/20/22

Making the Case: Communications Tactics that Work

7/26/22

4 ways to measure system-change progress

5/31/22

Health disparities for Black pregnant Iowans: What you should know

5/26/22

5 reasons why youth should lead systems-change work

5/5/22

What we mean by 'system change'

4/6/22

4 insights from researching housing instability in central Iowa

3/3/22

Iowa youth aging out of foster care: How are they doing?

2/3/22

7 lessons learned from Sesame Street partnership

1/31/22

A closer look at mental health in schools during the pandemic

11/29/21

5 questions for leaders in philanthropy

11/5/21

5 ways to think about your personal brand as a part of your work

Leadership

11/1/21

4 issues impacting children’s health during the pandemic

10/12/21

7 lessons learned about systems change work

9/9/21

Planning from strength: questions to ask your team

4/26/21

Preparing yourself to center the voices of those impacted by issues

4/23/21

Vision vs. Tactics: How we can achieve the change we want to see

2/22/21

System-change achievements advocates are making for central Iowa’s kids

2/1/21

How we can begin to find peace in 2021

1/8/21

Disconnection matters

11/24/20

3 questions to reshape your policy agenda

10/30/20

Leading system change, even in times of uncertainty

7/22/20

We must all do our part to be anti-racist

7/14/20

Lessons in preventing burnout

7/13/20

5 barriers pregnant women in poverty face in getting the care they need

7/1/20

What I've learned about system-change work during this time of crisis

6/11/20

What the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us about system change

5/10/20

We have the resources to build a better food system here in Iowa

5/8/20

What we should do about COVID-19 racial disparities in Iowa

5/6/20

4 ways to understand weight stigma and promote a healthier community

2/17/20

Approaching storytelling with authentic engagement

1/20/20

How my advocacy work became personal

1/6/20

One voice for a children’s mental health system

11/15/19

Persistence for quality health care

11/14/19

Who's at your table?

11/13/19

A call to action for Latinx youth

11/12/19

Putting the pieces together for children to learn

11/9/19

Housing code for healthier lives

11/7/19

Transforming practices to prevent trauma before birth

10/31/19

A small, thoughtful group isn't the only thing

Grassroots

10/16/19

4 skills to being an effective leader in advocacy

8/23/19

Medicaid makes a difference

7/31/19

If we're going to reduce trauma and family stress, we have to start at the very beginning

7/31/19

Decolonizing every table

7/31/19

Latinx youth mental health: Resiliency and its limitations

3/7/19

What does opportunity look like for Iowa children (and are we doing the right things help them thrive)?

11/29/18

Mobilizing the political will to develop a children's mental health system in Iowa

8/3/18

Together, inching closer to a tipping point on children's issues

5/22/18

Long-haul Advocacy: Adopting a long-term, sustained advocacy approach to effective child health systems change

3/29/18

What do youth who are homeless need? And how far am I willing to go to help?

1/31/18

The teachers will learn and the students will teach

10/23/17

I have a dream... and an action plan

10/23/17

Decision-makers arent' acting as we'd like: Three reasons

10/23/17

When you have that "aha" moment, there's no going back

10/23/17

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Surgeon General's Advisory on Protecting Youth Mental Health

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Harkin on Wellness Report 2021

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Frameworks Institute: Changing the conversation on social issues

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Systems Change & Deep Equity

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Iowa Coalition for Collective Change

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Iowa Public Health Association

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Cultivating Change: How the HealthConnect Fellowship lifted a network of advocates to improve children's health in central Iowa

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Shifting the Lens: How The ACE Study sparked action to collectively improve our community's health

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National Academy of Medicine

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Results-Based Accountability Implementation Guide

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Healthy People 2030

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ACEs Connection

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Understanding the Upstream Social Determinants of Health

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Innovations in Health Equity and Health Philanthropy

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Centers for Disease Control

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United Way Community Impact Report

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1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative 2020 Report

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2020 One Economy: The Blueprint for Action

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Human Trafficking Awareness for Youth

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Mental and Sexual Health Education for Youth

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Teen Substance Use and Abuse

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Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program

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2020 Iowa ACEs Report

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Al Exito Mental Health Study

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CAMHI4Kids Children's Mental Health System

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Transforming Iowa's Foster Care System to Support Kinship Caregiving

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Community Catalyst System of Advocacy

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