Perspectives from Community Health Workers: Success Stories and Professional Highlights

As part of our work for the Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities grant, Health Impact Ohio completed site visits with each HUB participating in the grant earlier this year. This video details Community Health Workers from across the state of Ohio sharing success stories, impact statements, and highlights from their work in their communities and about their profession.

Thank you to all of the CHWs who participated in these short-form interviews to share their experiences with us!

Ohio’s poverty rate is up for the first time in years, report shows. Here’s why

By: Grace Tucker and Erica Thompson, The Columbus Dispatch

A new poverty report from the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies (OACAA) indicates that Ohio’s poverty rate has increased for the first time in years. 

Produced with the Columbus-based Strategic Research Group and released on July 10, the study found that the state’s poverty rate jumped to 13.4% in 2021 from 12.7% in 2020 — marking the first time these poverty numbers have increased year-to-year in over a decade.

The Heart Healthy Ohio Initiative (HHOI) had the distinct honor of being invited to present two posters at the 2023 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM). ARM convened a large and diverse group of stakeholders at the intersection of health, health care, and policy to share important findings and showcase the latest research on how the health system works, what it costs, and how to improve it.

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