Health Leads' January Newsletter 📬  

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New Heart of Health Equity Episode:
Lupe Arreola of Tenants Together
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Check out the latest episode of The Heart of Health Equity with host Ashlei A. Rodgers, MPH ([link removed]) featuring Lupe Arreola ([link removed]) , Executive Director of Tenants Together ([link removed]) . Hear their candid conversation on how the organization is fighting for tenants rights, the impact of widespread gentrification in the Bay Area, the importance of practicing self-care, and how we all can do our part to address housing insecurity.
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The SNAP Gap: Food Justice in Massachusetts

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The COVID-19 pandemic has increased food insecurity and created an overreliance on our emergency food system. This report explores how a common application for safety net programs could better serve our most vulnerable residents and showcases a new data mapping tool, created by The Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, National Association of Social Workers - Massachusetts Chapter and Health Leads.
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Access, Data, Power, and Resources:
A Roadmap to Health Equity
Vaccine Equity Cooperative ([link removed]) partners provide recommendations based on lessons learned from shared experiences collaborating at the local, state, and federal level to respond to COVID-19. They address health disparities in the communities served - focused on four key pillars of health equity that reflect the challenges faced by implementers during the COVID-19 response: Access, Data, Power, and Resources.
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COVID-19 and Social Media Best Practices
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Our most recent webinar with the CDC Foundation ([link removed]) shared best practices for equity-centered social media approaches, including tips on community organizing via different platforms, sharing culturally-tailored content, and battling misinformation.
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Organizing in Queer Communities of Color
Later today, Made to Save ([link removed]) and Birmingham AIDS Outreach ([link removed]) will discuss COVID-19 vaccine outreach to people of color in LGBTQ+ communities, lessons learned from their efforts, the unique challenges they have faced, and how they’ve successfully organized their communities to develop and sustain better, long-term healthcare outcomes.
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What We're Reading
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Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activist on Health ([link removed])
The LGBT+ community experiences health disparities at an alarming rate. This book probes into the root causes of the disparities and empowers activists with crucial information to fight for health equity through clinical, behavioral, and policy changes.

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America ([link removed])

The American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods

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Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequity in a Divided Nation ([link removed])

From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to unimaginable chasms. Whether the cause of this inequality is systemic injustice, the entrenchment of racism in our culture, the long war on drugs, or immigration policies, it endangers not only the American Dream but our very lives.

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