Working with unconventional partners to drive collective impact for health equity
We all want the best for our family.
We want the best access to healthy food options, walkable paths, clean parks for activities, clean air for our children to breathe and healthy communities to survive and thrive in. Even though multicultural communities are diverse in our makeup, culture and traditions, we STILL face similar challenges when it comes to equity, health outcomes and access to care and healthy foods. Despite external setbacks, these diverse groups have developed unique, sustainable solutions tailored to fit our cultural and community needs that are DISRUPTING HEALTH.
This National Minority Health Month we ask you to join our squad of health disrupters, as we identify and celebrate entrepreneurs, activists, advocates, groups and individuals working to drive collective impact to achieve health equity.
1. Enter the Urban Health Accelerator
Enter health disrupters into the Urban Health Accelerator for a chance to win grant money to expand their work. Watch for this coming later this month.
3. Stay engaged!
Be a health disrupter all month long!
Here are ways to stay engaged throughout April.
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“Move More” on April 4, 2018
Whether you enjoy dancing, speed walking or playing ultimate frisbee, whatever your interest, MOVE MORE this April. The celebration for Move More Day lasts all month long! Interested in hosting a Move More Day Event?
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Check.Change.Control. Your Blood Pressure
You control your destiny. Stay in control of your health by monitoring your blood pressure. Have you heard about the new guidelines? Check out our self-monitoring tracking tool to maintain a healthy heart. Find a Check. Change. Control. Program near you. Be EmPOWERED.
Tracking Tool
Find a Program Near You
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Take Me Home: Watch and Share our NEW mini-docuseries!
Berto and Luis Hernandez, winners of the Biggest Loser, season 17, live busy lifestyles as full-time coaches, husbands, dads and bikers but they also find time to tome el control of their blood pressure by modifying their lifestyle while remaining true to their cultural influences. Be watching for their videos later this month!
Work Out Videos
Take Me Home Video
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Ryan Dunn, Atlanta Social Entrepreneur
Ryan drives sustainable change and impact through his work in aquaponics to solve for the Social Determinants of Health including food deserts and economic impact. His work is a testament to true collective impact!
Take Me Home Video
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Comida por Vida Twitter Chat
Join the Comida por Vida Twitter Chat on April 26, 2018.
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Health Interrupted! Facebook Live
Join the Health Interrupted! Facebook Live on April 27, 2018.
If we want to see change, then we must disrupt the current infrastructure! Join the conversation as we discuss the themes of Black Panther and how the solutions raised within the movie can be implemented in real life to create a better culture of health for all Americans!
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