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Empowering Residents to Lead Their Peers in Improving Upward Mobility for Better Financial and Health Outcomes: Building Uplifted Families
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Empowering Residents to Lead Their Peers in Improving Upward Mobility for Better Financial and Health Outcomes: Building Uplifted Families

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This story highlights how Charlotte, North Carolina, formed a cross-sector and community-driven collaborative that aimed to drive sustainable improvements in health, with a focus on empowering residents to lead their peers in improving upward mobility for better financial and health outcomes, by applying bold, upstream, integrated, local, and data-driven approaches.

This story is part of a broader series of 19 stories that provides a look at what is possible when community based organizations, hospitals and health systems, public health departments, and residents work together for better health. Each one documents the progress made, challenges met, and lives changed in these communities with practical takeaways that any practitioner can not only relate to, but also benefit from.

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A Foundation For Health And Well-Being: Meaningful Employment

This publication explores how Employment and Community First Choices, a program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, created and paid for by TennCare, Tennessee's Medicaid program, helps participants work and live independently.

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Aligning in Crisis: Strategies and Tools to Leverage Federal Funding

On 9/14, experts from Aligning in Crisis, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will discussed how, if deployed strategically and effectively, federal funds can advance equity, shift power to the community, and set the stage for positive, long-term change.

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Patients Lift Their Voices To Advance Maternal Health

This publication compiles insights from EleVATE, a program that offers group-based prenatal care with a curriculum designed by and for Black women. EleVATE explores whether changing the way clinicians interact with patients can, in itself, improve outcomes and equity.