Building Healthy Communities

BHC is an initiative launched by The California Endowment to transform 14 communities devastated by health inequities into places people can thrive.

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

To be healthy, we need opportunities to make healthy choices; to afford food and housing; to have good jobs that sustain a family; to attend quality schools for better education and careers; to live in safe neighborhoods, & breathe air free of pollution. RT if you agree.

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

This holiday season, as we look forward to the new year, @CalEndow wants to honor the courageous men and women who have overcome many barriers and obstacles in the fight for safer, healthier communities for 39 million Californians.

https://t.co/FMni2YGPgt

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

Hector Jimenez and Marivel Servin, student reporters part of @SouthKernSol, were featured in a @nytimes piece, discussing identity politics, health care, and DACA.

Check it out:
https://t.co/Xhx1H6jVVN

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

On our holiday wish list this year is for our country to #CloseImmigrantPrisons, because we believe in liberation not deportation. What's on yours?

[California Endowment @CalEndow]

Every day, families are dealing with the stress, anxiety, and depression caused by deportations and the separation.

These are not American values, these are not California's values. #HereToStay #CloseImmigrantPrisons

https://t.co/IQpmufCD12

[Dr. Tony Iton @dr_tonyiton]

Beyond the Score mobilized to eliminate standardized tests from the admissions process. Anti-testing groups explain that these tests bar students who are low-income, of color, or with disabilities from accessing higher education. #educationequity

https://t.co/sBxRoHXjrQ

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

At the outset of BHC, sites were asked to identify the policy & systems changes most critical to improving health in their community. 10 years later, do these hold up?

Which resonates with you (or what is missing) that you believe is necessary to advance toward health equity?

[Follow us at @MoveLBForward @BHCLongBeach]

With a new decade of community change on the horizon, it’s up to us to create a healthy and just Long Beach for all. Help us make the 2020 People’s State of the City a success by contributing at https://t.co/DBhVx3nCvR today! #PeoplePowerLB

[LA County Library @LACountyLibrary]

Individuals and families who are currently or at risk of experiencing homelessness can visit East Los Angeles Library today from 10 am - 12:30 pm for FREE assistance from The Source Mobile Hub. For details and future locations, please visit: https://t.co/yF7ihLsCWP

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

Illuminating article examining LA's income inequality through an analysis of its trees.

"For years, the city kept tree growth to a minimum in some neighborhoods because police officers were worried that trees could be places to stash drugs and guns."

https://t.co/i8UPZ8OPoS

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

"Providers screen patients for food insecurity.. and then prescribe a list of produce to address their specific health needs... Patients can then take their prescription vouchers and use them to pick up $10 of locally sourced produce at the clinic’s monthly food distribution."

[CalMatters @CalMatters]

🥕🍎🥑🍅 In Alameda County, @La_Clinica_ de la Raza's "food pharmacy" aims to improve the health of low-income patients by connecting them with fresh produce. https://t.co/r5kaZSnsIC via @E_Hellerstein

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

For those of you who missed our last webinar, Messaging 101, we put together some key takeaways.

Out #1 tip? Writing messaging is not easy, so make it useful for you. Make your messaging adaptable for all (or most of) your communications materials!

Check them out 👇

[California Endowment @CalEndow]

What does your Holiday wish list look like?

Here's ours:
Health. ✔️
Justice ✔️
#PeoplePower ✔️

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

┏┓ Why
┃┃╱╲ don't
┃╱╱╲╲ we ask our
╱╱╭╮╲�� unhoused neighbors
▔▏┗┛▕▔ how to improve the housing crisis?

https://t.co/q2YA81p4jW

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

#Healthhappenshere ♥️

[Sanger Mens Soccer @Apache_Soccer]

Day 1 of Little Apaches Soccer Camp off to a great start! Thank you to @TLGapparel for these great camp shirts and to @CalEndowBHC for supporting this community event!

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Breaking: Acidity levels in California coastal waters are rising at a rate double that of the global average, threatening major fisheries and sounding the alarm that the ocean can absorb only so much more of the world’s carbon emissions.
https://t.co/uaqXHdWTMu

[California Endowment @CalEndow]

"When we vote we can make history!"
The #2020Elections are upon us, it's time to dream and imagine a world rooted in health and justice.

What legacy are we creating?

How can we create a future of limitless possibility for all our communities?

#Vote

🎨 by @lazybeamarte

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

Calling all Fresno youth!

[Youth Leadership Institute @ylinstitute]

Do you live in Fresno? Are you a young person with an interest in social justice?

Join our team and #GETPAID to learn about youth-led advocacy, research and movement-building in our county.
10 internships available for #Fresno #youth!

https://t.co/9njOOA2HyN

[ACLU of Northern CA @ACLU_NorCal]

On Saturday, the children of Hugo Hernandez, will lead community members in a march to raise public awareness about ICE continuing to terrorize and traumatize immigrant families. Come to Fresno and stand up for what's right! @FaithInFresno @FaithinValley
https://t.co/TMCytNEzPc

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

#BeCounted and make sure your friends, family, and neighbors are too!

[Los Angeles County @CountyofLA]

**Census workers needed** Earn extra income while helping your community. Apply at https://t.co/CoaLvxvAm5 #MondayMotivation

[Building Healthy Communities @CalEndowBHC]

Today, @PPLosAngeles opened 50 centers in high schools throughout LA county to offer birth control, testing & treatment for STIs, & pregnancy counseling. The program will also train peer advocates to provide info about safe sex.

#Health4All in action.

https://t.co/qa1YeHkxJM

[California Endowment @CalEndow]

In his year-end holiday letter, Dr. Robert K. Ross reflects on prayer, #PeoplePower, and "The Work".

"Peace, joy, and blessings to you, your families, and the community you serve from our family at The California Endowment. " https://t.co/AIv8BHEXDp