Keep current on Health Equity Works news and projects, current research, and meaningful media coverage in the fields of health equity and opportunity.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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