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Empowering Residents to Lead Their Peers in Improving Upward Mobility for Better Financial and Health Outcomes: Building Uplifted Families
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Empowering Residents to Lead Their Peers in Improving Upward Mobility for Better Financial and Health Outcomes: Building Uplifted Families

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This story highlights how Charlotte, North Carolina, formed a cross-sector and community-driven collaborative that aimed to drive sustainable improvements in health, with a focus on empowering residents to lead their peers in improving upward mobility for better financial and health outcomes, by applying bold, upstream, integrated, local, and data-driven approaches.

This story is part of a broader series of 19 stories that provides a look at what is possible when community based organizations, hospitals and health systems, public health departments, and residents work together for better health. Each one documents the progress made, challenges met, and lives changed in these communities with practical takeaways that any practitioner can not only relate to, but also benefit from.

Webinar

Transit and Treatment: Effectiveness of Transit Systems to Improve Substance Use and Mental Health In Connecticut

Increasing access and retention in treatment services is critical to improving health outcomes and reducing substance abuse overdose deaths. This webinar examines a research project that tests how a transit system can enhance substance abuse treatment outcomes and reduce provider-level treatment costs for substance abuse amidst the opioid crisis in Connecticut. It also examines how treatment costs differ before and after a new transit line and/or a change in transit service schedules.

Podcast

Improving Aging Supports Through Collaboration

In this podcast, Medicaid leaders from Michigan and Indiana discuss strategies they’re using to address these issues, including their efforts to co-design solutions with Medicaid members.

Webinar

Introduction to Shared Stewardship

This webinar explores shared stewardship, a way of working together and making decisions that will build and sustain a future where everyone can thrive.