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What does effective leadership look like in a time of uncertainty?

Join the Camden Coalition for The new healthcare leader: Navigating power and policy to take collective action, a hands-on session, hosted by Health Begins, designed to help leaders move from frustration to action, strengthen collaborative power, and respond to today's evolving healthcare landscape.

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The new healthcare leader: Navigating power and policy to take collective action - Camden Coalition Many leaders within health systems, social service agencies, and community-based organizations are quietly experiencing a form of moral injury due to rising compliance mandates, shifting policies that erode the mission they signed up for, and constraints that prevent them from acting on what they kn...

Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health is hosting the second webinar in a two-part series on home modifications. The Best Kept Secret: Programs and Policies Across States to Support Accessible Homes for Children with Disabilities will highlight programs, policies, and resources that exist to help families make their homes more accessible and explore why home modification supports are often difficult to find and use. Join them on Tuesday, September 29th at 11am PT/11pm CT/2pm ET.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Best Kept Secret: Programs and Policies Across States to Support Accessible Homes for Children with Disabilities. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The Best Kept Secret: Programs and Policies Across States to Support Accessible Homes for Children with Disabilities is the second webinar in a two-part series on home accessibility for children with disabilities and complex health needs. This series shares findings from a Foundation-funded landscap...

JUST LAUNCHED ⭐ The Health Leads Community Innovation Toolkit ⭐

From our community partners, we often hear:

💬 "We have pages of community feedback... now what?"
💬 "We're hearing about five urgent problems at once. Where do we focus?"
💬 "We need to show that our changes will make a difference.”

You are not alone.

For 30 years, we've worked with local non-profits and philanthropic organizations to help them understand and design services and solutions around what matters most to their health and well-being. Now, we're sharing that process with you.

Whether you’re solving a new problem or fixing what’s no longer working, this toolkit gives you the pathway to solve your community’s challenges, together.

Download the free toolkit:

The Community Innovation Toolkit | Health Leads A practical guide for turning community knowledge into co-designed solutions that improve health and well-being.

Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted, local leaders, yet are rarely invited to design, lead, or refine interventions often created for their own communities. It’s our mission to change that. With our partners at Biogen, we saw the impact of what happens when CHWs and community members are not just inputting, but decision-making - shaping everything from nutrition education and training, to integrating culturally responsive nutrition support across community and clinical settings.

In our latest blog post, Director of Programs Sarah Primeau MSW, MPH shares five powerful lessons from co-designing alongside CHWs to create healthier communities. Read full blog here:

Small Shifts, Big Impacts: Lessons From Co-Designing with Community Health Workers to Create Healthier Communities | Health Leads Sarah Primeau writes on the power of co-designing with Community Health Workers, highlighting successes and room for growth.

Thirty years of impact. Countless partners. One shared vision: healthier communities for all.

From advocates and donors to healthcare partners and community leaders, every person who has supported Health Leads has helped move us closer to a future where health isn't determined by ZIP code, income, or circumstance.

As we celebrate our 30th anniversary, we're inviting our community to continue building that future with us.

Every contribution helps support community-driven solutions that address the conditions shaping health.

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🤝 Thank you for being part of our story.

30 Year Anniversary | Health Leads 30 Years of Health Leads Celebrating the people and partnerships building health, well-being, and dignity for every person, in every community. Thirty years ago, Health Leads began with a simple but radical idea: health is shaped by far more than what happens inside a doctor’s office. Since then, ...

From March 2025 to May 2026, the Amplifying Impact Initiative poured direct, intentional investment into California’s healthcare providers, collaboratives, and workforce development. By centering community-led care, the initiative accelerated the integration of CHW/P/Rs into the state's health care system and expanded access to care for communities facing historical barriers.

Now, this critical work enters a new chapter led by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI). Together we are deepening organizational capacity, delivering specialized workforce support, and securing long-term targeted infrastructure needed for CHW/P/Rs to thrive.

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The ongoing overhaul of SNAP is becoming one of the most consequential social policy stories in America. According to recent reporting, by Julian Kim in NPR, participation in the program has fallen by more than 4 million people since mid-2025, even before some of the largest reforms take effect. Expanded work requirements and increased state cost-sharing responsibilities are expected to further reshape how food assistance is delivered nationwide, causing local leaders to ask: what happens to communities when millions lose access to a program that has long served as the country's primary nutrition safety net?https://n.pr/3RsmuxB

The most important debate about AI may not be about technology at all—it may be about governance. In this TIME piece, Vilas Dhar argues that the future of AI is fundamentally a question of who gets to make decisions on behalf of society: governments, technology companies, citizens, or some combination of all three.https://bit.ly/3UjTGYQ

What if we stopped viewing caregiving as a career gap and started recognizing it as leadership training? A recent article in MIT Sloan Management Review highlights how caregiving cultivates many of the skills organizations need most today—from adaptability and empathy to problem-solving and resilience. Read more here:

Why Businesses Should Value Caregivers Now Caregiving is a form of leadership training for vital skills that machines can’t replicate.

We’re celebrating 30 years — and raising funds for the next 30.

30 years of partnership.
30 years of connection.
30 years of community-driven health equity. 🤝

Make a gift of any size today and help Health Leads continue shifting power and resources to the communities closest to the challenges — supporting local solutions that are built to last.

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