Category: Social Factors

KC Common Good: youth employment programs critical to reducing violence

By Noah Ybarra on December 2, 2021
AmeriCorps VISTA
KC Common Good

Adam McClun
Community Engagement Manager, KC Common Good

Black and brown communities in cities across the United States face challenges limiting upward mobility — Kansas City is no different. Excluded from prosperity, faced with higher rates of poverty, and lower life expectancies, these communities have fallen victim to cycles of violence. However, the power of hope shared by our community members led them […]

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CATEGORIES
Equity, Social Factors

New research project to explore digital equity’s effect on health of refugee, immigrant communities

By Ryan Hudnall on November 5, 2021
Executive Director
Della Lamb Community Services

It has been said that nothing is permanent except change. Consider the past 18 months. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2, more commonly known as COVID-19, prompted global change, resulting in an exceptional era of transition and disruption. We collectively stepped into an environment characterized by uncertainty, and we are still adjusting to the nature and extent […]

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CATEGORIES
Pandemic Impact, Policy, Social Factors

Pages with Partners: Mercy and Truth Medical Missions

 Pages with Partners

By Cori Stites on October 14, 2021
Program Associate
Health Forward Foundation

Join us for our newest blog series Pages with Partners, where Health Forward staff select a book to discuss with a community partner. If you have a book recommendation, fill out the form at the end of this post. Maid: Hard work, low pay, and a mother’s will to surviveBy Stephanie Land In Stephanie Land’s […]

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CATEGORIES
Equity, Health Care, Health Forward, Safety Net, Social Factors

A call for equity in breast cancer care

By Karen Dehais on October 7, 2021
Evaluation and Learning Officer
Health Forward Foundation

In 2011 I was diagnosed with breast cancer and embarked on a treatment journey that brought me to a significant milestone – I’m thankful today to be celebrating 10 years cancer free. This year an estimated 281,550 women in the United States (about 2,100 in Kansas and 4,600 in Missouri) will be diagnosed with breast […]

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CATEGORIES
Equity, Health Care, Health Reform, Healthy Communities, Social Factors

Pages with Partners: The Whole Person

 Pages with Partners

By Cori Stites on April 15, 2021
Program Associate
Health Forward Foundation

Join us for our newest blog series Pages with Partners, where Health Forward staff select a book to discuss with a community partner. If you have a book recommendation, fill out the form at the end of this post. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights ActivistBy Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner Judith […]

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CATEGORIES
Health Forward, Healthy Communities, Social Factors

Affordable housing units important to health of community

By Jennifer Tidwell on October 27, 2020
Division Manager, Housing and Community Development
City of Kansas City Missouri

Tania Hewett-Mader
Policy Associate, Health Forward Foundation

Few events in history highlight as clearly as the pandemic that housing and health are inherently connected. Families struggle to make ends meet after job loss or reduction in pay due to the coronavirus.  At the onset of the pandemic, governments  requested that residents stay at home, schools moved to a virtual environment, and many […]

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CATEGORIES
Policy, Social Factors

Uneven opportunity: Safe and available employment during a pandemic

By Karen Dehais on June 12, 2020
Evaluation and Learning Officer
Health Forward Foundation

Even as businesses and workplaces cautiously re-open, Health Forward is acutely aware that among low-income individuals and people of color, employment opportunities, working conditions, and benefits vary dramatically.  Addressing these disparities is essential, as is advocating for policies that advance economic inclusion and health equity. Unemployment disparities We all know that too many people are […]

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CATEGORIES
Pandemic Impact, Policy, Social Factors

Emerging data show COVID-19 disproportionately impacts communities of color

By Qiana Thomason on April 23, 2020
President/CEO
Health Forward Foundation

An abundance of national historical data reminds us that in public health, when America catches a cold, people of color catch pneumonia. As coronavirus (COVID-19) rips through our communities, it exposes social injustice and divisions that determine whether people have necessary resources to be healthy.  As such, we are paying acute attention to nascent local […]

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CATEGORIES
Health Reform, Healthy Communities, Pandemic Impact, Policy, Social Factors

Data – An increasingly powerful tool to inform health strategy

By Karen Dehais on August 8, 2019
Evaluation and Learning Officer
Health Forward Foundation

Early in my career I was tasked with collecting information about the characteristics of people lacking health insurance. As an eager graduate student intern, I worked diligently to gather, analyze, and share data on this vulnerable population. That research included visiting libraries, requesting and waiting days or weeks for journal articles (hard copies only!), and […]

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CATEGORIES
Evaluation, Grant Writing, Social Factors


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