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✍️ A new report by Nonprofit Finance Fund captures the experiences of 11 Los Angeles-based homeless service providers in various stages of engaging with California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (#CalAIM). Read the full report for details about the challenges faced by providers, approaches for meeting providers where they are, and actions funders can take to offer support: https://lnkd.in/e-tbFcew

Reflecting on 2023, we wanted to remind you that NMF matters and will continue to make a difference in health care with your support. ❤️ About one in five Black adults (18%) and about one in ten Hispanic (11%), Asian (10%) and AIAN (12%) adults say they have been treated unfairly or with disrespect by a health care provider in the past three years because of their race or ethnic background compared with 3% of white adults (Source: 2023 KFF Survey on Racism, Discrimination and Health: Experiences and Impacts Across Racial and Ethnic Groups). Imagine feeling uncomfortable during a doctor’s appointment because your health care provider doesn’t understand your concerns or passes judgement due to your cultural background. 🤔 Cultural competency goes a long way in ensuring that patients from diverse backgrounds feel seen and are comfortable enough to advocate for their health. NMF scholars become health care professionals who prioritize racially concordant care. Please consider supporting NMF during this season, as we look forward to a new year of hope and impact. Donate at https://bit.ly/41oE7P7. #HealthCare #HealthEquity #NonProfit #Giving #CulturalCompetence

To fully address health, medicine needs to integrate social connection into standard care. Luckily, Children's Healing Center provides the social connection piece of the PUZZLE. Kids and families navigating a medical diagnosis must isolate from the outside world in an effort to protect their child from harmful pathogens - leading to social isolation and loneliness, which can have adverse health impacts. Children's Healing Center fills the gap in healthcare and provides opportunities to promote social connection. #GoodCleanFun #SocialConnection #NonProfit #OurWhyWednesday

Join us for an Overloaded: Understanding Neglect podcast event, "Reimagining Mandated Reporting", on May 14th at 11am. In Wisconsin, 72,942 reports were made to Child Protective Services last year alone. To make sense of that, 200 children are being reported every day because someone believes they are being abused or neglected. Every single day. To put that in further perspective, that comes out to about 1 out of every 17 children in our state being subject to a child protective services report. Now, of those nearly 73,000 reports, 51,000 of them (or 7 out of every 10) is screened out, meaning that they don’t rise to the level of maltreatment that would require an assessment to be completed by CPS. And finally, just over 3,000 children were separated last year from their parents from those nearly 73,000 initial reports. At the same time this is happening, we have nearly 40,000 non-profits statewide that support our children, families and communities, yet families too often need support or services that are unknown to them or hard to access. So how might we work smarter, not harder, to elevate solutions to ensure all families can access the help they need when they need it? How might we lead with compassion and curiosity to build bridges between service providers, community organizations, and the families we serve, so we can create a more equitable, collaborative, and impactful support network rather than a reporting network? Join us as Luke Waldo hosts a panel discussion with Julie Ahnen of Dane County CPS, Sarah Henery of Milwaukee County, Penelope Nevicosi of Waukesha County, and Marc Seidl of Brown County to explore these questions as they have been on a journey of confronting the challenges of mandated reporting and opportunities to improve systems and service collaboration. After the panel, we will have an interactive conversation with participants to share lessons learned and explore future opportunities to improve outcomes for overloaded families. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gX9BT7F7 

🧠 National Concussion Awareness Day 📅 Today is a day to unite health care practitioners, teachers, coaches, and parents in a vital conversation to discuss this topic. For the seventh year, health care professionals, non-profit organizations, and support groups nationwide are coming together to mark this significant day. National Concussion Awareness Day aims to raise awareness and promote understanding education and prevention. 👥 Connect with experts and fellow advocates. 📚 Learn about baseline testing and signs 🗣️ Address the emotional and social aspects of brain injuries. #ConcussionAwareness #StayInformed #HealthyMinds https://lnkd.in/enRV3PM

GUIDE | Grantmakers In Aging (GIA) released a new guide, "Care is Fundamental: How Funders Can Accelerate Vital Progress on Caregiving," drawing on interviews with seventeen leaders in philanthropy, including JAHF's Rani Snyder. The new guide shows how people across different sectors are stepping up to promote caregiving strategies, shift societal attitudes, create public-private partnerships and drive change. "Looking back, RAISE was a signal moment," says JAHF's Vice President of Program, Rani Snyder. "Prior to it, there had been no national approach to recognize and support family caregivers." Read more: https://ow.ly/OGiq50Rk4so

For this month's newsletter issue, we featured lessons learned from three community-based organizations in our Vaccine Plus: Community Health and Power grant program – El Centro, Inc., New Direction Health Care Solutions, and the Organization for Black Struggle. Each led community-centered public health responses during the height of the pandemic, and are now leveraging the relationships, collaborations, and access to resources that they built from their response efforts to continue advocating for and serving the ongoing and evolving needs of their communities. Last August, each organization served on a panel discussion about power in the context of the pandemic. What became clear throughout the conversation is that power-building and community engagement are essential components to achieving health justice, especially in the face of complex crises that affect our health, social, and economic well being. Every lesson shared illuminated the impact of putting power at the center of health philanthropy. Read their lessons learned: https://lnkd.in/epMtEq_q Never miss another issue by subscribing to our monthly newsletter: https://lnkd.in/e3zxMqr5 #HealthJustice #HealthEquity #COVID #Equity #HealthcareAccess #Healthcare #CommunityHealthWorkers #PublicHealth #Philanthropy #Nonprofits #HealthAdvocates

There is a discreet rigour in grassroots #perinatalmentalhealth services. It may sound like an odd term to use but it's intentional. When a vulnerable new or expectant parent engages with services like Smile Group Charity and its fellow VCSEs, they are designed to feel warm, welcoming and non-clinical. This is evident from our work at The Hearts & Minds Partnership within the growing community of grassroots PMH services across the country. Rooted in local communities, these third sector organisations are nurtured and grown often via lived experience. We want them to feel non-judgemental and friendly and to have a perceived simplicity to them. This massively helps to reduce (understandable) apprehension and anxiety about engaging with a support service. From behind the scenes it's a different perspective. There's a deliberate invisibility to the complex layers of safeguarding, processes and partnership liaison (we're embedded in the clinical network) that keeps parents (and the service itself) safe and protected. If a parent is experiencing suicidal ideation, we can promptly accelerate support via safeguarding pathways, while ensuring they are held with compassion. Just because there is tea and chat, doesn't mean there isn't sophistication to the model. This nuanced approach means the admin, data capture and careful consideration of risk is not overtly part of parents' experiences. While parents are aware of our joined-up working, they don't get bogged down in the bureaucracy. The discretion here is sometimes underplayed. Commissioners, stakeholders and even peers in the health system may not always fully appreciate the rigour and skill that goes into the delivery of a grassroots service. We want it to feel warm, 'real' and friendly at the point of access (that's why it works so well), but the scaffolding to protect it is not often recognised by those with an untrained eye. When a lovely beneficiary-turned-volunteer joined one of our strategy meetings at Smile, she later confessed she didn't realise quite how professional and in-depth the inner-workings were. Discreet rigour at play. #perinatalmentalhealth #growthegrassroots #vcse #community

Today marks five years of working to #endperiodpoverty, and we're just getting started! This past year alone has been monumental for our organization. The impact of your generosity and support in 2023 was undeniable. 👉Renewing Dignity distributed over 4 million free menstrual products across 12 counties in Northeast and North Central Florida so those who menstruate are not held back from work, school, or other activities due to something as normal and natural as their periods. 👉As an outgrowth of Renewing Dignity's successful pilot project with Duval County Public Schools, DCPS has installed free menstrual supply vending machines in their Title 1 schools. 👉Due to advocacy efforts by Renewing Dignity and many others, the State of Florida unanimously passed legislation in 2023 encouraging all middle and high schools to provide free period supplies to students. 👉Renewing Dignity launched a middle and high school menstrual management workshop to educate young girls about menstrual options and good menstrual health. In 2024, as we join together with Feeding Northeast Florida, we look forward to the additional resources this opportunity provides to make a greater impact in our community. Read more about our merger with Feeding NEFL: https://lnkd.in/gqefG6kZ #MenstrualEquity #BreakingTaboos #periodsupplies #MenstrualHealth #menstrualequity #periodequity #menstrualproducts #FLnonprofit #periodadvocacy #community #MenstruationMatters #endperiodpoverty #periodpoverty

"Empowering Humanity: Unveiling the Impact of Private Foundation Funding 💙✨ . Did you know that a remarkable 13% of Private Foundation funding is dedicated to enhancing Human Services? . These funds act as a lifeline for initiatives that uplift communities, drive change, and extend support where it's needed most. . From healthcare access to education programs, homelessness prevention to mental health advocacy, the transformative influence of these investments is immeasurable. . Exploring the incredible stories of how a fraction of funding is making a world of difference. . Together, we'll delve into the heart of this vital sector, shedding light on the power of compassion and collaboration. #EmpowerHumanity #FoundationImpact #ChangingLives"