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Finding strategies to improve transportation and community health

The ability to access and use systems that support daily journeys to work, school, the grocery store or a friend’s house can impact the health of individuals and communities. Our team recently updated several transportation-related strategies in our What Works for Health database. 

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Finding Support through Kansas Reading Roadmap’s Literacy Integrated Family Engagement

No matter our age, we all remember how it felt to hear those three little words: back to school. It popped up in late summer - on the radio, on TV, and in every shop window - and inevitably caused that complicated mix of excitement and anxiety about what the new school year would bring. And when you become a parent, those same feelings return, but often with new worries - whether your child is...

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Five-Part Blog Series: Five Communities Who are Creating Real Change

Since its inception in 2011, the Roadmaps to Health Action Center has offered a complement of online resources, tools, and human guidance. As part of the Action Center, community-focused coaches have partnered with individuals and teams in nearly every state across the United States to help them identify and work toward their health and equity goals.

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Focus on What’s Important: Webinar Recap

On July 10 the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps webinar series profiled Bexar County, Texas, where collaborators used the National Association of County and City Health Officials' Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) tool to guide their Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP).

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Focusing on Early Childhood Programs to Improve Community Health

In 2009, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America released 10 recommendations to improve health outside of health care. One of those initial recommendations was “ensure that all children have high-quality early developmental support (child care, education, and other services).” The 2013 reconvening of the...

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Four Trailblazing Communities Awarded the RWJF Culture of Health Prize

Today, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation celebrates four communities from across the country who are rallying around a shared commitment to health, opportunity, and equity. Selected from nearly 200 applicants, the winners of the 2018 Culture of Health Prize are: Cicero, Illinois; Eatonville, Florida; Klamath County, Oregon; and San Antonio, Texas.

These four winners join a growing...