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In Rhode Island, Health Equity Zones Offer Communities a Voice [usnews.com]

 

By Katelyn Newman, U.S. News & World Report, February 18, 2020

The nation's tiniest state is leading the way in community health investment by calling on residents to collaborate and help decide what they need to live healthier, happier lives.

The Rhode Island Department of Health's Health Equity Zones initiative uses a place-based, community-driven model to build healthy and resilient communities statewide. Funds from the program aim to support neighborhoods and municipalities in establishing and maintaining programs that address social determinants of health, such as using a community garden to improve access to healthy food, rehabbing blighted housing or creating a program to help kids walk safely to school with qualified adults. It's a model that even presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has vowed to deploy if elected.

The Rhode Island program is the first of its kind in the United States to use so-called braided funding, pooling multiple funding streams – such as a combination of federal, state and local dollars, blended with investor and foundation funding – to pay for these community health initiatives.

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