Advancing Equity for AA & NH/PI Communities in COVID-19 Response Efforts: Best Practice Resources Guides
The HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) developed a set of resource guides to provide guidance on best practices to advance cultural competency, language access, and sensitivity toward Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NH/PI) communities in the context of the Federal COVID-19 response. These guides were developed based on input and […]
NRC Hosts 6 webinar panels, Changing the Paradigm: Who Tells Our Story Shapes Our Destiny, featuring guests from the Native American, African American, Latino and Asian American Pacific Islander communities.
The National REACH Coalition has held six webinars in 2023. ‘Changing the Paradigm: Who Tells Our Stories, Shapes Our Destiny,’ focuses on the Native American, African American, Latino and Asian American Pacific Islander communities sharing how, through the process of these communities reclaiming their history, confront oppressive structures and promote and support healing and resilience; […]
6/30/2022 – 2nd Annual National REACH Coalition Digital Storytelling Screening
‘Who Tells Our Story, Shapes Our Destiny’ is the National REACH Coalition’s multi-year effort to celebrate Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) telling their stories and reclaiming their right to shape their destiny. In furtherance of this cause, please join the National REACH Coalition and StoryCenter in collaboration with the Arizona Telemedicine Program, National COVID-19 […]
National 4/7/2022 – REACH Coalition FREE Webinar: Changing the Paradigm: Who Tells Our Story, Shapes Our Destiny
The National REACH Coalition (NRC) in collaboration with Arizona Telemedicine Program at the Southwest Telehealth Resource Center and the Department of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, National COVID-19 Resiliency Network, invites you to join us for a FREE webinar: Changing the Paradigm: Who Tells […]
Diary of a Frontline Worker: A Follow Up
A few weeks ago, I asked my coworkers about their views on the COVID-19 vaccine and whether they planned on getting vaccinated. Of the entire 20 person staff, only four of us signed up and received the vaccine. Several of my coworkers cited concerns over the speed of the vaccine’s development and the lack of […]
REACH Grantee Bronx Health REACH Helping to Get Bronx Residents Vaccinated
NY1 recently did a story about REACH grantee Bronx Health REACH’s work in the Bronx as part of the Test & Trace Corps, New York City’s comprehensive effort to test, trace, and treat every case of COVID-19 and schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments for Bronx residents. Through a partnership with NYC Health + Hospitals and the […]
Senators Introduce the REACH Act
Senator Tim Scott (R-SC, above left) and Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD, above right) introduced the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Health Act (REACH). If passed, funding for the bill would be budgeted at no less than $70 million for each of the fiscal years from 2021 to 2025. Specifically, the REACH Act “would codify the […]
National REACH Coalition Partners with Morehouse School of Medicine’s National COVID-19 Resiliency Network
The National REACH Coalition received funding as part of the National COVID-19 Resiliency Network (NCRN) project, led by Morehouse School of Medicine. The focus of this new initiative is to address racial and ethnic disparities of COVID-19 mortality and morbidity by widely disseminating information through NRC’s network of community organizations. This project will also seek […]
Flint Eliminates COVID-19 Disparity Among African Americans
ABC-12 in Flint, Michigan ran a story about the launch of the Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities in Michigan that reduced COVID-19 disparities. Michigan was one of the first states to analyze data by race and its disproportionate effects on communities of color since Black people made up 40 percent of the population that […]
NRC Profile: 3 Doctors Leading COVID-19 Equity Efforts
Dr. Joneigh Khaldun is a member of President Biden’s COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. This Taskforce is dedicated to addressing and rectifying the racial and ethnic health disparities made apparent by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Dr. Khaldun is the chief medical executive and deputy director of the state health department of Michigan. In 2012, Dr. Khaldun […]