The CCI Resource Center

This podcast is about strengthening the health and wellbeing of historically underinvested communities. Every episode offers new ideas and practical advice that you can apply today.

Providing trauma-informed care to patients isn’t enough: Providers and staff also need to create a healing work environment for themselves.

With the help of Latina community health workers, Petaluma Health Center is strengthening its trauma-informed care in rural West Marin.

Providers are preparing for the expiration of the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency on May 23, 2023. Find out more here

This Sacramento collaborative was devastated by the pandemic, a tragic shooting, and the death of a beloved partner to Covid. But it endured.

The Native Women’s Collective draws on culture, coming of age rituals, dance and sports to model healthy relationships as well as trust, self-care, and empowerment.

This Seattle health center piloted remote blood pressure monitoring so patients could test in the comfort of their own homes.

Yakima Neighborhood Health Services is working to increase telehealth access for its patients in supportive housing.

Tri-State leaders say telehealth needs to be seen as easy, smooth, and seamless to get all parties on board.

This Oregon health center is working to ensure that all its patients who are Black, Indigenous and people of color have equal access to telehealth services.

The Los Angeles Christian Health Centers has expanded telehealth to help its unhoused patients and others keep their diabetes under control.

Peer circles are often described as small groups of peers, sometimes guided by a facilitator, designed to support each other and work on issues in a warm and supportive environment. In a peer circle r…

Orange County, California has relatively high rates of opioid overdose compared with its surrounding counties and the rest of California. KCS Health Center, a local safety net clinic, was determined t…

How Denver Health improved telehealth equity for its 55,000 patients who speak a language other than English.

In LA County, Northeast Valley Health Corporation has expanded access to mental health services by hiring a tech navigator to link patients in shelters with therapists via telehealth.

Since 2018, the SLO Education Collaborative has worked with young people in person to foster healthy relationships and combat intimate partner violence. But when COVID-19 struck in early 2020 and then…

The Live Oak Youth Partnership found that teens didn’t just want to be seen, but treated with dignity and respect. Here’s how they made it happen.

One of my favorite times at work is when I am in a meeting and it feels like we’re in a sandbox, where everyone realizes they want to build toward the same thing and starts creating it together. Des…

Maui is famed for its white sand beaches and beautiful ocean, mountain trails and waterfalls. But for people who live on the island, there is another side to Maui that visitors don’t often see. Many s…

When the Community Health Centers of the Central Coast (CHCCC) teamed up with the local nonprofit Fighting Back – Santa Maria Valley, its providers expected to focus on intervention and preventive men…

The phrase “community partnerships” typically conjure up images about warm, like-minded people collaborating together towards a common cause or mission. But such relationships can have a dark side…

In the youth conference, teens discussed self-care and the difference between healthy and abusive communication in all types of relationships.

What does strengths-based guidance mean for physicians and other providers counseling patients after screening them for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)?

“Positive childhood experiences can help a person become resilient or heal from adversity,” says Dr. Robert Sege, a pediatrician and a professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine.
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The collaborative’s data and findings form the basis for the next phase of California’s ACEs Aware initiative, designed to screen for, treat and heal childhood trauma.