California Endowment

For months, South Kern’s Building Healthy Communities (BHC) partners have been meeting and organizing efforts for a major WE Connect Health Care Enrollment and Resources Fair. Held on May 18, the event brought together dozens of partners and engaged ...

Brothers, Sons, Selves coalition celebrate their victory outside the LAUSD Board Meeting I am excited to report that Los Angeles Unified School Direct just passed the School Climates Bill of Rights 5-2.  The School Climate Bill of Rights/Every Student ...

Check out our new video, California Teachers Want to Be Armed. You can watch it here.    It’s a response to calls from the National Rifle Association and some politicians who want to arm teachers with guns to keep schools safe. The fifteen or so ...

When one talks about the social determinants of health – the roles that poverty, employment, education and housing play in health status – outside the public health world, eyes glaze over. How to elevate these ideas in a way that resonates with ...

It's exciting for me to be a part of the movement to reform school discipline policies, in California and around the nation. I've met dedicated advocates, innovative teachers and principals, and education leaders who are deeply committed to teaching ...

I've been thinking a lot about the future lately. I turned 58 this year and my sense of urgency about what kind of country we are leaving our children has gone into turbo speed. I have the great privilege of living in California, where many say we see the future first. And in the Golden State, it's becoming quite clear that our future is in color. Seventy percent of youth under 25 identify as people of color, according to the latest Census. Across the U.S., the majority of our youth will be young people of color before 2020. These kinds of numbers demand that we plan in a new way for health and prosperity.

A simple visit to the doctor has been an expensive hardship. Either my husband would have to miss work, giving up a day of wages or I would have to find a ride oftentimes paying up to $30.00 to drive me 40 miles to the doctor’s office in Indio. I live ...

The Silicon Valley Leadership Group, representing more than 375 of Silicon Valley’s most respected employers, has long focused it priorities on influencing policies and programs that improve health outcomes and reduce overall health care costs for ...

On Tuesday May 7 at exactly 1 p.m., health advocates across America are calling on everyone that was touched by the spirit and energy of the late Dr Toni Yancey to get up and celebrate her legacy with 10 minutes of Instant Recess.  It was Toni’s dream ...

Each week in the 14 BHC places, young people knit together experiences at school, at work, at home and in their neighborhoods to tell stories about how health happens. This month, they investigate proposed changes to the Academic Performance Index, ...

"This Tuesday, our state lost a great champion for health, The California Endowment lost a trusted partner, and I lost a wonderful friend. With a sadness that words can hardly convey, I wanted to share that news that Toni Yancey (Dr. Antronette ...

In a talk yesterday at The California Endowment’s Los Angeles office,  Michael Moss, author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, lifted the curtain on the insidious marketing practices of the junk food and junk drinks industry. From ...

The California Endowment mission and work is to improve the health and health equity of Californians.  The passage of Obamacare in 2010 was a significant milestone in this effort, and we continue to support its full implementation. When all its ...

March and April of 2013 proved to be two of the most exciting months for leaders on the education front in the Long Beach, South Los Angeles and Boyle Heights Building Healthy Communities sites with the launch of the Every Student Matters campaigns of ...

In Boyle Heights, Mariachi Plaza is without a doubt the cultural hub of the community. The plaza is modeled after the central town squares in Mexico where families spend weekday evenings and Sunday afternoons catching up with friends and family. ...

“Mija where are you going?” “To a conference, want to come with me?” “What is it for?” “It’s an LGBTQ forum in Boyle Heights. I didn’t know how to ask if you wanted to come, that’s why I didn’t tell you. Do you want to come?” “Let me get dressed.” ...

It has been an extraordinary week for school discipline reform in California.  This week, two of the four largest school districts in the state took major steps to move away from harsh discipline that suspends students for even minor misconduct and ...

Last week, I joined our partners at the American Heart Association (AHA) to celebrate the success of Teaching Gardens making health happen in Long Beach Unified School District.  AHA Teaching Gardens are flourishing in Long Beach schools, teaching ...

It is truly an honor and a privilege to be invited to deliver the Annual James Joseph lecture to you, and the single most illustrative word to describe this collection of sentiments is humility.  Which, of course, my wife believes this to be a good ...

When people think about improving health, the first thing that comes to mind is going to the doctor’s office or the gym. For a long time, public health experts correlated community health with medical settings and individual choices. But years of ...