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Community Workers Lend Human Connection To COVID-19 Response
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Community Workers Lend Human Connection To COVID-19 Response

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This article highlights how systems are investing in workers who come from the communities they serve to meet patient needs that extend well beyond clinic walls.

As people across the United States and the world grapple to survive and eventually emerge from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, a growing number of health planners and advocates propose hiring tens of thousands of additional community health workers to help.

An expanded community health workforce could respond to the enormous need for social, material and psychological support, helping people who have lost their incomes get food, strategize ways to pay their rent or mortgage, fill prescriptions, and figure out how to live more safely in crowded apartments. These needs are especially dire in low-income African American and Latino communities, which have been disproportionately afflicted by the virus.

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Ensuring That Money Intended for Health Equity is Well Spent

publication highlights how a national framework to measure equity can help state and local jurisdictions employ American Rescue Plan Act funds as intended — and hold city, county and state leaders accountable for focusing on equity in their decision-making and programmatic choices.

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The Process of Partnering with Community Members: Preliminary Findings

This brief presents lessons learned about the community partnership process from a series of interviews and a focus group with community members engaging in cross-sector collaboratives.

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Community Member Experiences with Collaboratives: Preliminary Findings

This brief presents findings from interviews and a focus group with 15 community members who have participated in, and in some cases been affected by, cross-sector collaboratives in their communities.