5/29/2020: Centering Community in Public Health

THE PRAXIS PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENTS Join us for the next webinar in Centering Community in Public Health! New webinar with guest speakers from Southwest Organizing Project and Chinese Progressive Association Building community power has been widely recognized as valuable and necessary to improve health justice and racial equity, both immediately and for the long-term. In the fall of 2017, we hosted several learning circles with some of the nation’s most impactful grassroots community organizers to engage in deep reflection and discussion about what it takes to build and measure community power. Join our next webinar, as we delve into our collective learnings you'll find in the next brief. → Register here! POLICY NEWS & ACTION Call your senators to pass the Heroes Act!  Recently passed by the House of Representatives, this legislation would, among other things, provide major improvements to unemployment insurance, paid family leave and paid sick days, nutrition assistance, includes support for immigrant families and aid to struggling state and local governments.  → Call your senator with the script below Join the 100+ organizations in calling on Congress to invest in close-to-home parks! More than 100 million Americans don't have access to green space, but we can fix that.  During the pandemic, nature has taken on a whole new meaning for many of us, becoming a vital respite from the stress of our current reality. But not everyone has safe, equal access to the outdoors - more than 100 million Americans don’t have a park close to home. Emergencies like this show that in too many communities, access to quality parks is a privilege when it should be a right. As Congress determines how best to provide economic relief for millions of Americans impacted by the crisis, we see an opportunity to create jobs, invest in the hardest hit communities and ensure every American has access to a quality park within a 10-minute walk of their home. That’s why we’re calling on lawmakers to include a one-time federal investment for close-to-home parks in a future economic stimulus bill. → Send a letter to congress with The Trust for Public Land! Send your story to the Birthing Justice Project in effort to improve pre-natal care in California Black Women for Wellness, ACLU and other allied organizations created ac survey designed to catch the stories of pregnant people as well as people who have recently given birth. Advocates, health professionals and doulas are working to re-imagine perinatal care both during COVID-19 and beyond that centers our most vulnerable communities. Please use the form to share your story, you do not need to provide your name or contact information if you do not feel comfortable and we will not share any identifiable information. → Share your story POLICY NEWS & ACTION: ON OUR RADAR What are differences between the CARES Act and the Heroes Act? Response to Pandemic Shows What’s Possible in Housing RESOURCES & OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCES Read National Health Law Program's Doula Report to be an informed advocate for expanding access to full-spectrum doula care through Medicaid A Public Health Messaging Toolkit to Invest in Health, Not Punishment by Human Impact Partners Wellness Guide: Being Well in the Midst of a Pandemic by Black Women for Wellness It Takes Roots Challenge to Philanthropy by Climate Justice Alliance Database of COVID19 related Laws, Orders, and Enforcement & other resources on criminalization by The Community Resource Hub We Can’t Police Our Way Out of the Pandemic – Webinar & Discussion Document by The Community Resource Hub In case you missed it, visit our site for our compiled list of resources & other opportunities to take action from our previous community power monthly digest. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES National List of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response and Recovery Funds from Giving Compass. Learn More>> More funds for coronavirus relief from Candid. Learn More>> Global Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response Funds List compiled by Council on Foundations. Learn More>> JOB OPPORTUNITIES Join Black Organizing Project as a Solidarity Organizing Fellow to uplift their Bettering Our School System (B.O.S.S.) campaign across California Black to the Future Public Policy Institute is a policy advocacy and leadership training fellowship for Black organizers. Apply by June 12. Al Otro Lado is searching for a staff attorney to be based in San Diego/Tijuana CAIR-San Francisco Bay Area is looking for a Deputy Director, Administrative Assistant, and Post-Bar Legal Fellow to join their team SHARE YOUR OPPORTUNITIES Do you have any resources or opportunities to share with our network? Reply to this email and tell us about it! The Praxis Project is a values-driven national nonprofit organization that seeks to improve health justice through partnerships to build community power. 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