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Academic-Community Partnerships to Reduce Inequities for Adult Learners

Academic-Community Partnerships to Reduce Inequities for Adult Learners

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A Dignity-Centered Guide to Reflecting on Cooperative Funding Structures

Developed as part of a Cooperative Design Lab, this reflection guide encourages funders and their potential partners to think intentionally about the goals and outcomes of their relationship, building on elements of successful cooperative and collaborative structures.

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As School Reopens, Don’t Forget The Hidden Victims Of Police Violence: Children

When our children return to school this fall, they will be met with new and difficult challenges.

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Boston Breastfeeding Coalition

The Boston Breastfeeding Coalition aims to improve access to breastfeeding support and support pathways for professional lactation counselors.

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Breastfeeding Group Flyer

Boston Breastfeeding Coalition Free Lactation Support

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Building Bridges: How Sean Thimas is Shaping a More Connected Boston

A lifelong Bostonian and devoted father of two, Sean Thimas has spent his career rooted in one powerful belief: community is everything, particularly in the diverse city of Boston.

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Child Opportunity Index

The goal of child opportunity index mapping is to create measures of neighborhood-based opportunities that children need to develop and lead healthy lives

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Children's Mental Health Storytime Toolkit

Rhythm & Rhyme: activities for early childhood mental health

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Codman Trauma-Informed GWCC Curriculum

Adding a Trauma-Informed Lens to Group Medical Visits for Caregivers & Children

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Connected by HOPE: Vital Village Leadership Summit 2016

A window into the 2016 Leadership Summit.

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Dignity-Centered Care

Deepening Equity in Community Health Dignity-Centered Care: Deepening Equity in Community Health

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Food Access in Boston

Limited access to nutritious food can be a contributor to obesity, chronic disease and poor nutrition. Here is the story about the Vital Village Network Food Access Community Workgroup.

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From Classroom to Community: Erica Beverett's Journey of Advocacy and Environmental Justice

After 18 years of teaching in the education system, both at Head Start and in private preschools, Erica Beverett got to know families and children well.

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Growbaby Research Network

A Framework for Advancing Health Equity Through Community Engaged Practice-Based Research

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GROW.V.BABY Research Roundtable with Cynthia Osborne

Cynthia Osborne joins the GROW.V.BABY and explores how state-level prenatal-to-three policies translate evidence into measurable benefits for families.

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GROW.V.BABY Research Roundtable with Dr. Arvin Garg, MD, MPH

Social Care in Pediatric Primary Care and the Role of Group Models - with Dr. Arvin Garg, MD, MPH, President of the American Pediatric Association

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Held to Hold

How Reflective Supervision Builds Resilience

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Here’s what doulas do, and how they’re fighting for Black maternal health

Black doulas in Massachusetts describe a skewed landscape where their services are accessed primarily by clients who are either financially comfortable or in crisis.

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In the Arena with NOW - Season 3

The theme for this season is Imperative of NOW: Community Power and Healing-Centered Advocacy. Tune in to hear from community leaders who are centering healing, power sharing, and narrative change in their advocacy efforts to create thriving, healthy communities.

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Massachusetts Diaper Resources

Massachusetts diaper banks and free diaper programs.

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Mental Health Committee (MHC) Spotlight: Cheryl Jean

Cheryl had dreamed of bringing her sons to a professional basketball game for years. But with their busy schedules, it had always been hard to find the time.

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Neighborhood Context and Parent Perspectives

Neighborhood Context and Parent Perspectives on Practical Considerations Related to Preschool Location

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NOW Bright Spot Story: Witnesses to Hunger

Witnesses to Hunger, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bringing Witness to the Needs of Children and Families.

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NOW Coalition Development & Governance

Coalitions have emerged as an effective and impactful vehicle to bring diverse sets of organizations and stakeholders to the table, leverage collective resources, and coordinate action

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NOW Community Engagement

We believe that equitable transformation and alignment of community systems requires intentionally shifting those most impacted by inequity from margin to center.

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NOW Data Storytelling

What story is the data telling us? We recognize that data — quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods — is only as powerful as the stories behind it.

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NOW Equity Tools

NOW Levers of Community Change. Equity requires intentional and targeted attention to the communities that bear the disproportionate burden of health, economic, and education inequality.

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NOW Learning Community: Adelante

Since 2017, Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH) and Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition (CSPC) have partnered to support Spanish speaking families and service providing agencies

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NOW Learning Community: Austin Neighborhood Network

Austin Neighborhood Network's mission is to increase the collective impact of its member organizations.

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NOW Learning Community: Berkeley Early Education and Care Collective

The Berkeley Early Education and Care Collective (BEE Collective) was formed in 2017, to build an integrated mental health framework to increase the social-emotional development outcomes of children, birth to 6, in Berkeley County, SC.

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NOW Learning Community: Essex County Council for Young Children

Essex County Council for Young Children (ECCYC) aims to create an environment where parents and families come together with providers and other community members

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NOW Learning Community: Family Engagement Network

First Things First creates a family-centered, comprehensive, collaborative and high-quality early childhood system

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NOW Learning Community: Generations Forward Children’s Collaborative

Generations Forward Children’s Collaborative is a growing collaborative of over 150 Whatcom County partners with a shared purpose

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NOW Learning Community: Linking Immigrant Families to Early Childhood Education Project

The Linking Immigrant Families to Early Childhood Education (LIFE) Project was developed and launched in January 2017.

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NOW Learning Community: McKinley County Early Childhood Coalition

The membership of the McKinley County Early Childhood Coalition (MCECC) consists of health and education representatives, home visiting programs, child care, non- profit organizations, early intervention and any individuals who are interested in the objectives of the Coalition.

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NOW Learning Community: Voices and Choices for Children Coalition

Our coalition focuses on developing strongly engaged cultural communities of learning, organizing and advocacy

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NOW Learning Community: Young Child Wellness Council

Tuscaloosa Young Child Wellness Council (YCWC) was formed in 2015, where fourteen agencies were represented and has since grown and continued to identify potential partners.

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NOW Newsletter

Stay up to date on events, programs, resources and more by signing up for our monthly newsletter.

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NOW Playbook: Transformative Community Capacity to Advance Equity

The Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW) Playbook is a resource guide that provides tools for those working to promote the wellbeing of children and families, advance equity, and align systems of care and education in early childhood.

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NOW Sustainability

Planning for sustainability can help mitigate these challenges and help your coalition thrive for the long term.

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Philadelphia Early Care and Education Collaboration Strategic Roadmap

The ECE Strategic Roadmap prioritizes collaborative actions and outlines elements of successful partnerships between early learning programs and community based organizations that promote equitable engagement of parents and families that support healthy child development.

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Resting in the Collective

Alongside featured local leaders, we will learn how lessons from the early care and education field show us what Prentis Hemphill describes as “rest[ing] in the collective”

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SJMP Handout

The Social Justice Mediation Program (SJMP) aims to reduce conflict and create traumasensitive environments that support the greater VVN mission

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State's real maternal health crisis lies in stark and widening racial disparities

You may have seen the recent headlines, warning of a crisis in maternal health, citing reports of an explosion in the number of women who die in childbirth.

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STRIVE Partnership Framework (SPF): 1 and 2-day

The purpose of the STRIVE Partnership Framework (SPF) is to develop understanding, agreement, and accountability

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STRIVE Partnership Framework (SPF): Full Model

The purpose of the STRIVE Partnership Framework (SPF) is to develop understanding, agreement, and accountability

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Village Healing Circle Video

The Village Healing Circle is a ten-week program supporting the healing, wellbeing, and leadership of Black men in Greater Boston.

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World Virtual Field Trips

Take a virtual field trip of more than 100 zoos, aquariums, museums, national parks, and world cultural heritage sites!

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