What Essential Resource Data Tell Us about our COVID Recovery

11.18.2020 | Damon Francis MD

As we work to to flatten the next COVID-19 curve – the increased demand for essential resources like food, housing and income supports – it is critical that we lean on data to inform the path forward. In this post written with several of our Bay Area partners, we review various data sources to show how social services systems have been impacted by the pandemic and discuss the power of harnessing data in partnership with community input to shape interventions.

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Rightnowish: Keeping Yourself and Your Culture Healthy During COVID

08.26.2020 | Health Leads

In this podcast episode of Rightnowish, our very own Chief Clinical Officer Damon Francis discusses his work on the front lines and offers advice for healthy living during COVID-19.

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Q&A with Dr. Janice Underwood, Virginia’s first cabinet-level Chief Diversity Officer

08.10.2020 | Health Leads

Since September 2019, Dr. Janice Underwood has served as Virginia’s first cabinet-level Chief Diversity Officer, and she currently leads the Health Equity Task Force. We sat down with Dr. Underwood to discuss the transformative work the Northam administration and her team specifically are doing to fight racial injustice, advance equity across many dimensions of diversity, and build equitable systems in response to racial injustice and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Addressing Community Needs and Preparing for the Secondary Impacts of Covid-19

06.25.2020 | Health Leads

The CEOs of Health Leads and Hopelab provide learnings from the field, and a framework for understanding the dimensions of the growing gap between essential resource needs and the capacity to meet those needs, which includes the ability to effectively coordinate resources and facilitate cross-sector collaboration as we rebuild systems with sustainable solutions.

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We Need a Community-based Essential Resource Workforce – And The Training To Support Them

05.27.2020 | Tigee Hill

Volunteers, advocates and others are responding to the economic fallout of the pandemic - and their training will be critical. Built on 20+ years of testing, our Workforce Training Guide can help. We hope to support and accelerate the number of people deployed to respond to the essential resource crisis that’s only just begun.

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