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Advocacy

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Why I Advocate for Heart Disease Preventive Strategies

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Disability Rights Attorney Shares What Iowans Should Know About Medicaid

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4 ways to measure system-change progress

System change
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5 reasons why youth should lead systems-change work

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4 insights from researching housing instability in central Iowa

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

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7 lessons learned about systems change work

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

Action planning
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3 questions to reshape your policy agenda

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Lessons in preventing burnout

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

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

Advocacy
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How my advocacy work became personal

Advocacy
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One voice for a children’s mental health system

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Persistence for quality health care

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Who's at your table?

Advocacy
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Housing code for healthier lives

Advocacy
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4 skills to being an effective leader in advocacy

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

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

Advocacy
May 22, 2018
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Long-haul Advocacy: Adopting a long-term, sustained advocacy approach to effective child health systems change

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

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

Advocacy
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I have a dream... and an action plan

System change
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The teachers will learn and the students will teach

Partnerships
Oct 23, 2017
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Creating Space for Change

Advocates connect through a shared commitment to improve health outcomes.

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Amplifying Philanthropy’s Impact

Iowa funders are making shifts to center communities and advance equity.

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Improving Health through Community Advocacy

How AMOS engaged hundreds of advocates to push for a children's mental health crisis response system

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Latinx Project Tells Story of Strength and Opportunity

New report highlights central Iowa Latinos contributions and disparities and elevates Latinx leaders

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Champions for Change: A Collective Commitment to Children's Health

Outcomes from Mid-Iowa Health Foundation's HealthConnect Fellowship, October 2019-June 2021

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