Announcing the Launch of the Health and Wealth Network!

Prosperity Now is excited to announce the launch of the Health and Wealth Network. In recent years, we have learned more about how financial well-being and physical and mental health are inextricably linked. The connections and impacts are clear: poverty and financial insecurity lead to toxic stress and poor mental and physical health outcomes. At the same time, not only do healthcare costs serve as a major barrier to care, leading to adverse health consequences, the costs of treatment can be financially ruinous. Moreover, the practices of discrimination throughout the health, financial and policy systems have led to wide disparities in health and wealth outcomes between households of color and white households.

The Health and Wealth Network will explore how to advance shared policy priorities and address disparities as well as how organizations, researchers and policy makers can have a greater impact on key social determinants of health, like economic stability.

When you sign up to join the Health and Wealth Network, you will share in our journey to reach the following objectives:

Creating intentional space for financial capability practitioners, health providers and members of related fields such as housing and community development to learn from each other and share best practices for developing participant-centered and participant-driven programs.
Challenging practitioners to think critically about how racial equity can be centered and advanced in the design of programs, research and policy meant to address social determinants of health and financial capability services.
Elevating best practices for forming and managing Medical Financial Partnerships.
Exploring and furthering research projects to learn more about how the connections between health and wealth influence individuals and communities.
Identifying and advancing shared policy solutions to address critical social determinants of health.

Please be on the lookout for blogs, webinars and other updates about the work of Prosperity Now’s Health and Wealth Network.

In partnership,

The Health and Wealth Network Team