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System change

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How Medical-Legal Partnerships Can Link Systems to Improve Health Outcomes

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7 Benefits of a Statewide System Approach to Community Health Work

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Health Equity Work in Action: What Funders Should Know

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Prioritizing Advocacy: How a Nonprofit Created a Full-Time Role

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HealthConnect Fellows: Engaging authentically in systems change

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How empathy is a part of systems-change work

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Health disparities for Black pregnant Iowans: What you should know

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5 reasons why youth should lead systems-change work

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4 insights from researching housing instability in central Iowa

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Get to Know Dr. Nalo Johnson

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System-change achievements advocates are making for central Iowa’s kids

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Disconnection matters

System change
Nov 24, 2020
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Leading system change, even in times of uncertainty

System change
Jul 22, 2020
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What I've learned about system-change work during this time of crisis

System change
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What the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us about system change

System change
May 10, 2020
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5 lessons learned in building the village of support for early-grade reading

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How we can increase everyone's access to quality foods

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We all can do better for Iowa’s children and families

System change
Nov 27, 2019
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A fellow's perspective: Getting to do the work we should be doing

System change
Nov 25, 2019
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Cultivating Change: How the HealthConnect Fellowship lifted a network of advocates to improve children's health

System change
Nov 15, 2019
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One voice for a children’s mental health system

System change
Nov 15, 2019
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Transforming practices to prevent trauma before birth

System change
Oct 31, 2019
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Six insights from listening to health advocates' stories

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Decolonizing every table

System change
Jul 31, 2019
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Long-haul Advocacy: Adopting a long-term, sustained advocacy approach to effective child health systems change

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Mar 29, 2018
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When you have that "aha" moment, there's no going back

System change
Oct 23, 2017
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Decision-makers arent' acting as we'd like: Three reasons

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Oct 23, 2017
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I have a dream... and an action plan

System change
Oct 23, 2017
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The teachers will learn and the students will teach

Partnerships
Oct 23, 2017
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Taking a new approach - A MIHF board member's perspective

System change
Oct 23, 2017
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Mid-Iowa Health Foundation announces new strategic initiative

Foundation news
Oct 23, 2017
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Doula Care Becomes Essential Health Care

An Iowa Doula Project is expanding community-based health care to improve Black maternal health outcomes.

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Improving Health through Community Advocacy

How AMOS engaged hundreds of advocates to push for a children's mental health crisis response system

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Re-Imagining How Iowa's Systems Work Together to Best Serve Families

The Vision Council has led conversations on how Iowa's families and children can be safe, secure, healthy, and well in our communities.

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Champions for Change: A Collective Commitment to Children's Health

Outcomes from Mid-Iowa Health Foundation's HealthConnect Fellowship, October 2019-June 2021

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Protecting Those Who Protect Our Kids

Iowa ACEs 360 shares this story about how supervisors in the Polk County Dept. of Human Services’ Child Welfare Division are addressing trauma in their workforce.

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A New Approach to Supporting Youth in Juvenile Detention

Teenagers in jumpsuits lying on yoga mats, their eyes closed, their bodies still. This is the image Megan Hoxhalli describes as remarkable for juvenile detention, a place where youth arrive shaken, dysregulated, and scared about their future.

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