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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.

Donate in honor of our 30th anniversary:
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What happens when you meaningfully invest in the community health worker, promotor, and community health representative (CHW/P/R) workforce? Access to culturally responsive care increases, CHW/P/Rs thrive in high-quality jobs, and health equity efforts advance across your community. In our next webinar Thursday, July 23rd learn how grantees of the Amplifying Impact Initiative, a joint venture between Health Leads and the California HealthCare Foundation, achieved these outcomes and more.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Amplifying Impact Initiative Evaluation Findings. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us for the fourth and final webinar in the CHW/P/R Amplifying Impact Initiative series on Thursday, July 23rd, Amplifying Impact Initiative Evaluation Findings. As the CHW/P/R Amplifying Impact Initiative transitions from the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) oversight to the California....

Envision and the Center for Community Health Alignment (CCHA)—a national team of CHWs and allies—are building new tools and supports to strengthen CHW programs nationwide. If your organization employs, partners with, or plans to support CHWs, take a few minutes to share your perspective. Your feedback will help shape future training, tools, and learning opportunities:

Community Health Worker (CHW) Capacity Building Assistance - Interest Survey Thanks to funding from the CDC, we at Envision and the Center for Community Health Alignment (CCHA) are developing new capacity building assistance offerings (e.g., tools, webinars, learning collaboratives) to support organizations and programs nationwide that employ, contract with, or support the C...

California’s healthcare landscape is evolving, staying informed is key to navigating what’s next. Join California Health Care Foundation’s Amplifying Impact Initiative on Thursday, May 28th for their webinar CHW/P/Rs in California: Updates, Opportunities, and What’s Ahead to learn:
🔹 What recent renewals and policy shifts means for providers, CHWs, and communities
🔹 How to maximize the new CHW/P/R Resource Center to streamline your workflow
🔹 Practical frameworks to strengthen community-centered care and workforce support
Plus, we’re sharing exclusive updates on the next phase of the initiative! You don’t want to miss this - Register here: https://bit.ly/4vFRIk5

Calling all Chicago-area community-based orgs: join a free, 1-hour info session on Project Resolve, a new initiative exploring the co-creation and ownership of tech and data systems that actually work for your community. Project participants receive funding to support your time, proof points for funders, a national peer network and expert AI trainings. Register here: https://healthleadsusa-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/-BhPBN2QT7isJFqrT4xlgg #/registration

Our friends at the The Wellbeing Project, Center for Healthy Minds, and Humin, have launched The State of Changemaker Wellbeing Survey. For the first time, there’s a global effort to understand how people driving social change are really doing. Open to all changemakers worldwide, the survey is available in 12 languages, fully anonymous, and designed to build evidence the field has long needed. Take the survey today:https://bit.ly/3QGI5BH

Community health workers, promotores and community health representatives (CHW/P/R) strengthen community-based organizations by expanding their reach, bridging gaps between systems and underserved populations. In partnership with the California HealthCare Foundation, Amplifying Impact Initiative is designed to support and enhance CHW/P/R Medi-Cal providers. See their latest newsletter here:

Spring 2026 Amplifying Impact Newsletter Back in March 2025, the California Health Care Foundation and its partners — Cedars-Sinai, Health Leads, and Bright Research Group — launched the Amplifying Impact Initiative to help expand, integrate, and sustain the Community Health Worker, Promotor(a), and Community Health Representative (CHW...

Our recent webinar, Where Are We With AI? What Health Equity Champions Need to Know, was more than a deep-dive into the technologies currently reshaping our sector, it was a captivating discussion that brought together over 400 leaders from 49 states spanning technology, health care, public health and community engagement sectors. Access all webinar materials here including the recording and the full chat transcript here:

Where Are We With AI? What Health Equity Champions Need to Know | Health Leads From ethical red flags to health equity risks, there’s a lot to be wary of when it comes to AI. Health Leads hosted an open and honest dialogue with health leaders and tech experts to differentiate reality from the truth.

Every parent deserves support through pregnancy, birth, and beyond. As we mark , we're reminded of just how far we still have to go.

Doulas are one of the most evidence-backed tools we have to make that possible. Yet for many families, especially Black, low-income, and Medicaid-covered birthing people, this care is often out of reach.

This year, we're focused on changing the system through two main pillars:
🤱🏾 Building Doula-friendly Clinical Environments
🤱🏾 Strengthening the Doula Workforce

We'll keep sharing updates as we learn, iterate, and push for a future where every birthing person has the support they need. Want to get involved?
→ Learn more about our Maternal Health Initiatives: https://healthleadsusa.org/initiatives/maternal-and-child-care/
→ Consider making a gift to fuel this work: https://healthleadsusa.org/donate/