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27-9-3 Tool: Developing Your Persuasive Message
This tool (from M + R) describes a process for creating powerful, succinct, messages—no more than 27 words, delivered in nine seconds, containing just three (or fewer) ideas. It can be found in: Act on What's Important under...
3 Questions Key to Partnering with Business to Improve Health
If you want to partner with businesses in your area to improve health, it’s important to do your homework, according to Cara McNulty, Senior Group Manager‐Prevention and Wellness for Target Corp. McNulty, who works on partnering with groups to improve the health of more than 365,000 workers, shared her experiences in a recent County Health Rankings & Roadmaps webinar,...
40 cities rated on policies that improve residents quality of life
Our health is directly impacted by where we live and the conditions that shape our environment. To become a healthier community we have to ask: Are there safe places for kids to play and be active? Do residents have access to safe, affordable housing? Is high quality, universal pre-K education available for all children? According to the CityHealth Initiative, more than half of the nation’s 40...
5ByAge5: Preparing children for success
Research shows that children who enter kindergarten ready to learn are more likely to experience greater academic success and that adults with more education typically live longer and healthier lives. 5byAge5, an initiative in the Normandy Schools Collaborative footprint of North St. Louis County, set a goal to ensure all children from ages zero to five have the supports they need to be ready...
A Blueprint to Help Communities Achieve Health Equity for All Children and Families: A Q & A with Kate Kingery
Kate Kingery, CHR&R’s deputy director of community transformation, discusses how and why she became involved in the development of ChangeLab Solutions’ A Blueprint for Changemakers: Achieving Health Equity Through Law & Policy, which presents legal strategies and best practices to help policymakers,...
A Catalyst for Conversations about Health
The County Health Rankings provide local leaders, community partners, and residents an opportunity to look at factors that influence how well and how long residents live. A catalyst for conversations about health in communities all across the country, the Rankings also garner significant national and local media attention.
Since the Rankings release on...
A Culture of Health Gets Built as a Team: Celebrating Algoma, Wisconsin
Situated along the Lake Michigan shoreline, 2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Culture of Health Prize winner Algoma, Wisconsin is a thriving community of caring hearts and big ideas committed to building ...
A Dialogue about Poverty in America
Reducing poverty is necessary for a healthy society. In this webinar, we will explore a new County Health Rankings data tool that highlights differences in poverty rates by race in the healthiest counties and have a frank conversation the roots of poverty and strategies to advance equity in all counties.