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Shasta County's Healthy Eating Active Communities collaborative helping to bring parks, trails and open space plan to the unincorporated areas of the county
The California Endowment's Healthy Eating Active Communities childhood obesity prevention program is changing the food and fitness environments in communities across the state. Learn how Shasta County's Healthy Eating Active Communities collaborative is helping to bring a park to the community of Happy Valley and is supporting the development of a Parks, Trails and Open Space Plan in the unincorporated areas of the county. Click here for the story
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On Newsstands Now -- The American Prospect's Special Report: The Politics of Mental Illness With our jails and prisons serving as the default institutions for housing and treating many of those suffering from mental illness, how much longer can we brush aside the issue of inadequate funding for and access to mental health services? This special report, funded by The California Endowment and a number of other foundations, examines the issue of mental health from various perspectives, including that of Pete Earley, former Washington Post reporter and author of CRAZY: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness, which was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.
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Building Healthy Communities: The California Endowment's Strategic Vision Web Site Online In 2010, The California Endowment will embark on a new, 10-year strategic direction: Building Healthy Communities. Our goal is to support the development of communities where kids and youth are healthy, safe and ready to learn. We have created a special Web site to answer questions about The Endowment and changes in its programmatic direction.
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Limited-English Proficient Californians share their communication challenges when accessing health care services
In an effort to associate actual Limited-English Proficient people, their faces, their lives, and their communication barriers to the issue of language access, PALS for Health has compiled a book of patient stories, In the Absence of Words. Here you will read the narratives of those who struggle with the English language and have experienced medical complications and difficulties due to the lack of health care interpreters. In the Absence of Words’ main intention is to educate and raise awareness about the language barrier in health care by presenting individual narratives of challenges and successes. One key message that the book conveys is that language services in health care are a basic human right. The book can be used to educate community members and leaders, policy makers, health care providers, and community organizations about the importance of medical interpretation. We hope that In the Absence of Words will not only inspire those who read it, but also become a meaningful, community driven advocacy tool.
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 The California Endowment provides support for health programming with select news providers. Use the menu below to see a list of our partners and visit their websites (opens a new window).
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