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Heart of Health Equity Season 2 Ep 2:
Yolo Akili Robinson of BEAM

The latest Heart of Health Equity episode with host Ashlei A. Rodgers, MPH features Yolo Akili Robinson founder and executive director of BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective). Hear their candid conversation about BEAM’s work in the Black community, Megan Thee Stallion, mental health stigma, the intersectionality of Blackness and queerness, and the importance of boundaries.

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COVID-19 CBO Bright Spots

Community-based organizations have worked tirelessly throughout this pandemic to keep their communities informed and protected -- and those efforts have had a lasting impact. The Vaccine Equity Cooperative is looking to celebrate and elevate local policy accomplishments and wins as bright spot examples in upcoming learning and advocacy content. Take this quick survey to highlight your work!

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New Report and Resource:
Keeping Kids Healthy

The Vaccine Equity Cooperative Kids Vaccine Working Group created updated Recommendations to Protect Children Under Age 12 and their Families and Communities, featuring immediate actionable steps to equitably redirect the course of child vaccinations, then shared strategies to protect our children from infection, illness, and hospitalization in their latest webinar with the CDC Foundation.

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Join Our National Caregiver Coalition

One of the many lessons of the pandemic has been how critical a wide range of caregivers are to our systems of health - yet how under-resourced that workforce has become. We are accepting applications for our National Caregiver Coalition that will work towards caregiver sustainability. Share this opportunity with your network using this promotional toolkit!

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Senior Program Director, Massachusetts

We’re searching for a director to help lead the strategic growth of our Massachusetts programming and state-wide advocacy efforts. Join us and play a role in ensuring that every person has the agency to achieve health with dignity. Not a fit for you? Please share with your network!

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What We're Reading

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You Are Your Best Thing

New York Times Best Seller Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience. Contributors include Yolo Akili Robinson, Laverne Cox, Jason Reynolds, and more.

The Body Keeps the Score

Author Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, and has spent over three decades working with survivors. In this book, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments and offers new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Lori Gottlieb sprinkles in humor and honesty as she shares her perspective as a practitioner and patient. Through her words, readers will be left with wisdom and hope about the human condition we all share. If you’re nervous about seeing a therapist, this book will help you see sessions through a counselor’s eyes and understand they are human just like you.

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