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Shifting Systems Toward Racial Equity for Child Health: An Evaluation of Healthy and Equitable Futures
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schultz, Dana
- Language:
- English
- Other Title:
- Shifting Systems Toward Racial Equity for Child Health
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2024
- Summary:
- Evolving dialogue about racial equity and the importance of holistic child health and well-being led the Greater Rochester Health Foundation (GRHF) to launch the Healthy and Equitable Futures (HEF) initiative in 2021. HEF seeks to center racial equity in systems serving children and families and thereby improve health and well-being for Black and Latino children ages 0 to 8 in Monroe County, New York. The initiative focuses on transforming these systems to better serve children and their families and on emphasizing whole child health, which includes physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development. HEF uses three main levers to propel change: advancing family leadership, providing social-emotional supports, and creating representative and inclusive systems. GRHF asked RAND to evaluate the implementation of the first three years of HEF operations and the progress of HEF toward its goals. In this report, the authors review the strategy and structure of HEF and its progress on the three main levers. The report identifies overarching lessons for transforming systems to achieve racial equity in the health and well-being of children. This report's findings will be of interest to those concerned with the Rochester area, as well as those concerned with efforts to improve racial equity in health and well-being of young children.
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