Resources You Can Use

This resource list is provided as a space to share information and materials that have been identified or requested in our work together or comes up in our conversation, or you have requested. If there is something you would like to see included here, please email Terri March and we'll try to get it added.  If you are looking for materials from past meetings and don't see it here you may find them in the Meeting Materials Archive. Looking for what's new?  Look for the notation in red.

COVID-19 Resources

new Mental Health Resources to support communities of color - As our community responds to COVID-19, there is heightened awareness of the disparity of resources available to meet the mental health needs of people of color.  Please share the following with those who may benefit:

  • A Therapist Like Me is about to reopen their voucher application program, applications accepted between 6/17 – 6/23.
  • Resources for Resilience is starting a Wednesday virtual listening circle led by and exclusively held for people of color.  They are also hosting Tuesday and Thursday listening circles for all community members.  Unlike some of the RFR trainings, you do not have to have attended a RFR training to join any of these
  • The Boris Lawrence Henson’s Foundation offers free therapy to individuals and families experiencing a life-changing event(s) related to or triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and/or stress/anxiety regarding race relations and injustice towards people of color. https://borislhensonfoundation.org/covid-19-free-virtual-therapy-support-campaign/
  • Therapy for Black Girls: Find trusted, culturally competent therapists that know our feelings and can help navigate being a strong, black woman.
  • Inclusive Therapists Black and Indigenous therapists offering reduced fee teletherapy
  • Therapy for Black Men providing men and boys of color a dedicated place to visit when seeking support for mental health guidance or professionals. 
  • Melanin and Mental Health connecting individuals with culturally competent clinicians committed to serving the mental health needs of Black & Latinx/Hispanic communities. 
  • The Loveland Foundation works to ensure access to a comprehensive list of mental health professionals across the country providing high quality, culturally competent services to Black women and girls. 
  • Black Female Therapists making in easy for Black and Brown women  to identify and locate their own therapist
  • Taking Care of Your Behavioral Health: Tips for Social distancing, Quarantine, and Isolation During An Infectious Disease Outbreak. The stress of a public health emergency such as COVID-19 can be very stressful.  This SAMHSA guidance document provides helpful information on how to support behavioral health. 
  • Taking Care of Your Behavioral Health: Tips for Social distancing, Quarantine, and Isolation During An Infectious Disease Outbreak. The stress of a public health emergency such as COVID-19 can be very stressful.  This SAMHSA guidance document provides helpful information on how to support behavioral health. 

Resources for Non-profits and Community Organizations Responding to COVID-19

  • GRANT: NC Local News Lab Fund Grant. “General operating grants of up to $30,000 to 501c3 public charity non-profit entities that serve North Carolina residents and their rapidly evolving information needs. General operating grants will provide organizations the flexibility they need to respond to the needs of their communities at this moment.” https://ncgrantmakers.org/News/Apply-Now-for-North-Carolina-COVID-19-news-and-inf. Questions? lizzy@localnewslab.org.
  • GRANT: NCHF COVID-19 Fill the Gap Response Fund. “To support efforts to intentionally address health disparities worsened by the COVID-19 crisis.” https://www.ncha.org/fill-the-gap-fund. Questions? jkumar@ncha.org.
  • LOAN: NC COVID-19 Rapid Recovery Loan Program. Additional funding appropriated by NC General Assembly. https://www.goldenleaf.org/news/golden-leaf-receives-125m-in-funding-to-support-nc-covid-19-rapid-recovery-loan-program.
  • WEBINARS: Navigating Federal Funding Related to COVID-19. The NC Center for Nonprofits have opened up their membership services in this difficult time. Learn about the FEMA reimbursement process, CARES Act, and Paycheck Protection Program. SEE BELOW.
  • FREE LEGAL SERVICES: The NC Pro Bono Resource Center have launched a new initiative to “help small businesses and nonprofits with their legal needs that have arisen due to COVID-19.” SEE ATTACHED. Questions? help@ncprobono.org.  
  • INTERNS: “Representatives from state government and higher education are discussing the possibility of collaborating to arrange and match internships for college/university students to support organizations with COVID-19 response and other efforts. Responses to this brief survey will help gauge the level and type of interest in connecting you to an intern for the summer.” Questions? gianna.quilici@nc.gov.

Resources for addressing Equity in the COVID-19 Response

  • new An Equitable Systems Transformation Framework for COVID-19 - The National Innovations Services recently posted this thoughtful blog post that provides a framework on how we "navigate the COVID-19 response while centering lived experience and racial equity. 
  • new Public Health Awakened and The Spirit of 1848 COVID-19 - This ever-growing database of public health responses to COVID-19 from Human Impact Partners centers equity, racial justice, and collective care.
  • new COVID-19 & Health Disaprities in WNC - The data included in this report highlight preliminary results from an exploratory analysis of the WNC Healthy Impact Community Health Survey 2012, 2015, 2018 that shine a light on inequities in our region. WNC Health Network chose to release this report in advance of the final report (planned for fall) to give communities information for use in COVID-19 planning and response. They stress they do not propose to know the depth of story behind these issues. However, the hope is that these numbers will prompt deeper questioning into the root causes of these issues and guide an equitable community response to the current crisis.
  • RACE Forward Statement on the Coronavirus Emergency, Official Response and Its Impacts on Communities of Color: Race Forward (home to the Government Alliance on Race and Equity or GARE)  calls on local and state governments and those who are doing emergency planning to pay special attention to the impact that this disease and the response to its spread may have on people and communities of color. Theire statement on the on The Coronavirus Emergency, Official Response and Its Impacts on Communities of Color provides some helpful guidance and language.
  • Buncombe County has developed an Equity Message Guidance document to promote inclusive language and less stigmatizing terminology in talking about COVID-19.

Health Equity

  • Resources for Implementing Equity Frameworks - This resources was compiled by the Nashville Metro Human Relations Commission for the Center for Nonprofit Management's training on Implementing Equity Frameworks.  This list includes a range of resources from recommending reading/learning to tools.
  • The Community Guide's Promoting Health Equity web page discusses the Community Preventive Services Task Force's findings in three categories of health equity-related interventions: education programs and policies, culturally competent health care, and housing programs and policies. The Community Guide also published "Promoting Health Equity," a resource that summarizes the task force's language on health equity and its findings on systematic reviews in all three categories of health equity interventions.
  • NC Racial Equity Report Cards - The Youth Justice Project of the Southern Coalition of Social Justice has released Racial Equity Report Cards intended to help communities better identify the racial inequity that pervades their youth-serving institutions. Using publicly available data, the Youth Justice Project has produced a Report Card for each of the state’s 115 school districts, as well as the state as a whole

Adverse Childhood Experiences [ACEs]

  • This Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) site is a portal to learn more about ACEs, explore data and journal articles, and connect to resources. Click here to explore more about ACE prevention from the CDC.
  • Buncombe ACES is the website of the Buncombe County ACE Collaborative and is a good starting point to learn about the concept of ACEs, how to assess an ACE score and build resilience as well as find help.  The site also provides links to scientific articles, research and additional resources as well as how to get involved in the Collaborative.
  • ACEs Connection is an expansive online resource to support those working increase awareness and action in communities across the country. 
  • The Building Community Resilience Collaborative at George Washington University has many tools and frameworks for working to prevent ACEs in community. Their work focuses on the relationship between When We Are Scared This webinar presented by Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Associate Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of Califonia, San Franscisco is an accessible and detailed presentation on the impact of stress and trauma in young children and how to help them.  This webinar if built around the book Once I Was Very Very Scared, developed to help children and their parents better understand and communicate stress so that adults can support them.  This book and many other resources are available at Piplo Productions.

Collective Impact
  • ACE Nashville - Shared Resources on their Collective Impact Structure and Process
  • Collective Impact. The is the foundational article from John Kania and Mark Kramer that appeared in the Winter 2011 issues of the Stanford Innovation.
  • Engaging Diverse Voices Plenary discussion at the 2016 Collective Impact Convening on What are pitfalls and principles of practice in effectively integrating community voices into collective impact? How can you involve communities who have historically been left out of decision-making processes? How should funders, backbone leaders, and other collective impact partners engage stakeholders in sensitive conversations about race, class and culture? This session addresses these questions and more in a discussion of when and how to confront power dynamics and authentically engage community voices in collective impact.  new  The Collective Impact Forum has also just released a Community Engagement Toolkit for planning community engagement to be more purposeful, equitable, transparent, and strategic so that community members are true partners for achieving impact.
  • Where Collective Impact Falls Short.  Tom Wolfe, known as a leading voice on coalition building and community development outlines 10 elements that the current collective impact framework and discussion fails to incorporate. Click here to read the article   
  • Top Reads of 2016 from the Collective Impact Forum. The forum has compiled a list, (including the two above) of the best writing and resources on collective impact this year.  The list includes four topic areas: 1) Principals and Practice, 2) Lessons Learned from Backbone Leaders, 3) The Evolution of Collective Impact, and 4) Advancing Equity in Collective Impact.
  • Does Collective Impact Really Make an Impact? The Stanford Social Innovation Review looks at eight findings from a recent study of collective impact initiatives, including their effect on systems and population-level outcomes.
  • Recommended Models shared by Robert Albright from FSG’s Collective Impact Forum
  • Project U-Turn: this collaborative in Philly that has been thoughtful about evolving their structure and approach over time. 
  • Road Map Project: this collaborative in Seattle has also done a lot to evolve their community ownership and buy-over the years. They are often inundated with requests for more info because they are highlighted often as a promising example.
  • Study of 25 successful Collective Impact efforts - ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute completed a rigorous study to understand when and how collective impact contributes to systems and population change. Looking across 25 initiatives working on different focus areas, the study looks at the contribution and outcomes of collective impact, the design and implementation of the collective impact approach, with a specific deep-dive into equity. The study also lifts up implications from the study as well as considerations for different audiences.
  • Six Proven Practices of Backbone Organizations  - The Standford Innovation Review takes a more 2018 look at the what it takes for backbone organizations to successfully support effective collaborations across multiple organizations and the critical element of paying close attention to the needs of all participants. 
  • Collaborating for Equity and Justice: Moving Beyond Collective Impact| Nonprofit Quarterly.” Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/01/09/collaborating-equity-justice-moving-beyond-collective-impact/  (May 7, 2018).
General
  • "Jargon Buster" from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Build Healthy Places Network. Working across sectors begins with speaking the same language. If you’re lost in a sea of acronyms, this tool can help. 

Data Tools

Community Commons is a website that provides public access to data in platform that supports mapping and reporting capabilities to help understand community data. Community Commons featured MANNA Foodbank recently in their Member Spotlight.
This feature on Alleviating Food Insecurity in Rural NC is a great way to see how a local partner is using the tool and gain more insight in how this tool can be used.  
North Carolina Social Determinants of Health by Region from the NC Association of Local Health Directors. This story map resource displays a set of indicators along with an overall index to help understand the geographic disparities in the social determinants of health. These data are tabulated at the U.S. Census Tract level and are from the U.S. Census American Community Survey 2016 5-year estimates (2012-2016). The data on food access is from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, (Update 2015 based on 2010 Census). Searching for Buncombe data?  We're in the NC Division of Public Health's Region 2. 
The Opportunity360 platform includes several online data and mapping applications, toolkits and how-to-guides, as well as innovative technologies for engaging community residents. Aggregated into a single platform, Opportunity360 has more than 200 indicators, as well as tools to encourage cross-sector partnership and capture resident feedback. The tools on the platform are free, including a 25-page report that can be generated for any census tract in the country. This report provides data that reflect five key opportunity outcomes: housing stability, education, health and well-being, economic security and mobility. For those who wish to dig a bit deeper, Enterprise has a team of technical experts that can create custom dashboards, develop customized geographies, define neighborhood typologies and innovate additional ways to translate community data into actionable solutions.
Uninsured Outreach Mapping Tool from HRSA was developed to identify where the uninsured reside at the Census Block level (populations from 600-3,000) to assist in efforts to get health care services and coverage to the uninsured.
Using Data to Impact Community Health and Drive Action a strategy brief with practical actions for public health and healthcare to share data across sectors to improve community health.

Food Security

  • WNC Appalachian Foodshed Project (AFP) is a multi-state initiative exploring and supporting food security in West Virgina, Virginia and North Carolina. In Western North Carolina (WNC), the AFP project was designed to engage organizational leaders working within the community food system to create a common agenda to better understand and address food security in the 27-county region. This WNC Food Security Advisory Committee, in collaboration with a research team from North Carolina State University, designed a community food security assessment (CFSA) to systematically examine community food issues and assets to inform actions that make the region more food secure. The report summarizes key findings from the WNC CFSA.
You can download the Western North Carolina Community Food Security Assessment report (pdf) and the presentation on their findings (pdf). 
  • Food Security in Buncombe County Powerpoint Slides from May's CHIP Advisory Meeting provided background information on what food insecurity is, it's complexities, and what food insecurity looks like in Buncombe and Western North Carolina. Data highlights as well as key findings from the WNC Appalachian Foodshed Project (AFP) were discussed. Click here to for a pdf of the presentation slides.
  • Food Research & Action Center: Plan to End Hunger.  This document provides a very comprehensive overview of the policies and practices needed to address hunger in the US.

Infant Mortality

  • Health Connect One's publication The Perinatal Revolution: A Study on Community-Based Doula Programs (2014) goes in-depth into the community-based doula model they have worked with communities across the country to develop, evaluate and replicate. It documents outcomes such as high breastfeeding rates and low c-section rates among participants, and provides a comprehensive summary of the research base and "talking points" for community-based doula programs. Sistas Caring for Sistas is applying to be a replication site for this model.
  • North Carolina’s Making It Work Tool Kit, adapted from the New York State Department of Health, provides essential information for mothers, their families, and employers to support breastfeeding. The kit includes information and resources for moms, family members and employers as well as information on federal labor standards and other supporting documents.
  • The North Carolina Public Health Association (NCPHA) launched the Healthy Babies Initiative as part of their 2016 - 2020 strategic plan. The initiative includes a 12-point plan to close racial disparities in birth outcomes and includes strategies to: improve healthcare for men and women; strengthen families and communities; and address social and economic inequities. More information about the initiative and about addressing social determinants of health may be found in this comprehensive presentation!  
  • The North Carolina Perinatal Health Strategic Plan: The Women’s Health Branch of NC's Division of Public Health convened a group of partners to draft a comprehensive 12-point statewide plan to include a focus on infant mortality, maternal health, maternal morbidity and mortality, and the health status of women and men of childbearing age.  

Mental Health


  • new Back to Our Roots: Catalyzing Community Action for Mental Health and Wellbeing. Prevention Institute.......
Substance Use

Policy

Results Based Accountability

Social Determinants of Health

  • A New Way to Talk About the Social Determinants of Health from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, addresses the challenges of talking about social determinants and provides guidance on how to create more compelling, effective and persuasive messages that resonate across the political spectrum. 
  • Meeting Individual Social Needs Falls Short Of Addressing Social Determinants Of Health. This article highlights that many of the conversations about social determinants are not about how we improve the " underlying social and economic conditions in communities to foster improved health for all  but rather about mediating patients’ individual social needs. The authors stress that for progress to occur in addressing social determinants it is critical to address these divergent viewpoints and ensure we are speaking the same language.
  • The Journey Upstream: Designing Measures for Success. This webinar from Health Begins ​explores how to regularly and efficiently gauge our progress in addressing Social Determinants of Health. With Karis Grounds from Community Information Exchange, 2-1-1 San Diego and Brita Roy from Yale University School of Medicine, this presentation demystifies the measurement of complex outcomes, equipping participants with the essential knowledge to evaluate the impact of upstream interventions at three important levels: for individuals, institutions, and communities.
  • North Carolina's Healthy Opportunities Initiative This is the NC Department of Health and Human Services website that provides an overview of the efforts and resources to create a statewide framework and infrastructure that can support the innovation in our private sector and promote opportunities for health for all North Carolinians. This website provides a portal to an broad array of information and resources including:
  • Health Impact In 5 Years (HI-5) is a CDC initiative that highlights non-clinical, community-wide approaches that have evidence reporting 1) positive health impacts, 2) results within five years, and 3) cost effectiveness and/or cost savings over the lifetime of the population or earlier.  Make sure to check the other resources from CDC on Social Determinants of Health via their web portal, including research and tools to address SDoH at the local level.
  • Social Determinants of Health and the Impact on North Carolina MAHEC convened a conference on Social Determinants of Health on June 18, 2019.  Four conference are available including the following presentations: Opportunities for Health by Elizabeth Tilson, MD, MPH - State Health Director and the Chief Medical Officer for the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services; Strategies Communities Are Using to Ensure Everyone Has a Fair and Just Opportunity for Health by Carrie Lee Carroll, MPA - Deputy Director - RWJF Culture of Health Prize at University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute; Public Health & Social Determinants in North Carolina by Laurie Stradley, MS, DrPH - Director of Wellness, HCA Healthcare, North Carolina Division and Leveraging Collective Impact to Address SDoH by Hannah Legerton, MSW, MPH – MAHEC Health Improvement Specialist & Zo Mpofu – Public Health Program Consultant – Buncombe County Health and Human Services & Terri Zimmerman March, BSN, MPH - MAHEC Health Improvement Specialist.
  • MAHEC Community Population Health Resource Page - This resource page was developed to provide supportive information to residents and community clinicians to assist them in understanding and addressing social determinants of health. 

Transportation

Greenways and Health

  • Greenways to Promote Health, is a document developed for advocacy efforts around the Beaucatcher Greenway. It outlines the evidence that greenways can increase physical activity and have a positive impact on obesity, chronic disease and mental health. These linear parks provide safe and accessible corridors for physical activity, recreation and transportation.





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