September 20, 2018 - 8:15 am
Join us as we:
- Promote a shared framework for advancing health equity
- Explore recent progress and emerging opportunities and challenges
- Showcase regional, state, and local policy initiatives, systems change, and strategic practices that advance health equity
- Renew our call to action through cross-sector collaborations and networking opportunities
- Launch the 2018 Association for State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) President’s Challenge
Workshops to include presentations related to:
Community-led, place-based models
- Embedding health equity into your community
- Development without gentrification
- Housing is healthcare
Positive social connectivity
- OneCranston’s approach to social cohesion and health equity
- Stand up to stigma – let’s talk about mental health
- Enhancing transgender community cohesion and health through a trans* wellness program
Community resilience
- Climate, health, and community resilience: Local projects around RI
- Building trauma-sensitive schools
- Immigrants and healthcare: critical issues for health care providers and the community