Keep current on Health Equity Works news and projects, current research, and meaningful media coverage in the fields of health equity and opportunity.
Express Scripts awards $350,000 to the new Show-Me School-Based Health Alliance
The funds will help the emerging Missouri organization build infrastructure to support and expand high-performing health centers in schools statewide Health Equity Works (formerly For the Sake of All) is pleased to announce a $350,000 grant award from Express Scripts to help build statewide infrastructure for the new Show-Me School-Based Health Alliance of Missouri (SMSBHA-Missouri). […]
Presenting a new tool to examine poverty and upward mobility in America
We know that where you live in St. Louis has a considerable influence on health. Children born into low-income areas with fewer resources are expected to have poorer health and live shorter lives than more affluent children in a zip code a few miles away. Now, thanks to a new, sophisticated data tool created by […]
Introducing Health Equity Works
We have some very exciting news to share about the future of our work. Our team has spent several months taking stock of what we are best positioned to do in the world. It has been an immeasurably valuable exercise that led to the transition we are beginning today from For the Sake of All […]
St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger creates affordable housing task force, cites Segregation in St. Louis: Dismantling the Divide
Today, St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger signed an executive order creating a task force to begin the process of building an Affordable Housing Trust Fund for the county. Stenger announced the news at a press conference at the St. Louis County Health Department before the first meeting of the task force. The 18-member group […]
Faith and For the Sake of All: Merging faith and research to mobilize action on health inequity
What can you do to help solve the St. Louis region’s inequity regarding the health and well-being of African Americans? How can you get the message out about systemic injustices that have blocked many of our region’s African American residents from essential opportunities that significantly influence their health? How can you be a partner to […]
Embracing consciously inclusive communities makes economic sense: A look at recent publications
This week, For the Sake of All Director Dr. Jason Purnell argued in an editorial in the St. Louis American that we continue to live in a deeply segregated America that has not met the great expectations envisioned in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech delivered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Dr. Purnell […]
For the Sake of All and six partners release Segregation in St. Louis: Dismantling the Divide to a sold-out crowd
How do we begin to dismantle more than a century of damaging laws, policies, and practices that have created a “geography of inequity” in St. Louis so pervasive that our region currently ranks among the ten most segregated areas in the country? For the Sake of All in partnership with ArchCity Defenders, Ascend STL Inc., Community Builders Network of […]
Extra! For the Sake of All is in the news
For the Sake of All has been receiving positive attention in local and national media. Here’s a round-up of the many places people from around the country are learning about the work of For the Sake of All in St. Louis. On Sept. 11, Director Dr. Jason Purnell wrote an opinion piece on For the […]
A shiny bite of hope: Partners celebrate a new health center at Normandy High School
For the Sake of All doesn’t usually get the time to truly celebrate the positive work happening among our partners in the St. Louis region to solve health inequity. But the morning of Thursday, Aug. 31st was a tremendous exception. Nearly 100 people attended a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the recent opening of Affinia Healthcare at Normandy High […]
The latest on school-based health: Partnership launches a health center at Normandy High School
The choices were not great: attend school sick and not feeling well or spend the entire day getting to the doctor’s office to obtain treatment. That was a decision often made by many students at Normandy High School, according to surveys, interviews, and focus groups on community health held by For the Sake of […]
Investing in our children’s futures: hope grows for Child Development Accounts
Research from the Center for Social Development at Washington University suggests nine out of ten parents aspire for their children to go to college regardless of their income, their ethnicity, or where they live. Ask Charlene Jackson of St. Louis. She firmly believes college will one day happen for her two young grandchildren, despite her […]
“It’s dramatic.” Where you live in America could mean a lifespan difference of 20 years
Last week a landmark study in JAMA Internal Medicine analyzed county to county health data in all 50 states over a recent 34-year period. Researchers found average life expectancies varied as much as 20.1 years depending on the county where people live. "What we found is that the gap is enormous," one of the study’s […]
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