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Newly Released - California's Rural North: Exploring the Roots of Health Disparities

CCRP's new report California's Rural North: Exploring the Roots of Health Disparities has been released. This report identifies the many challenges the Rural North faces, including striking health disparities compared to the whole of California. The report aims to identify high-impact health determinants contributing to health disparities between the region and the state and to provide targeted policy recommendations for closing these gaps.

To read/download the full report go to the report's webpage linked below

California's Rural North: Exploring the Roots of Health Disparities

Newly Released - California's Rural North: Evidence-Based Strategies and County-Level Best Practices to Improve Health Equity

CCRP's new report California's Rural North: Evidence-Based Strategies and County-Level Best Practices to Improve Health Equity has been released. This report identifies strategies for building trust and engaging Rural North communities in equity work.

To read/download the full report go to the report's webpage linked below

Evidence-Based Strategies and County-Level Best Practices to Improve Health Equity

Newly Released - Opportunity Youth and Postsecondary Pathways Reports

As part of CCRP's efforts to amplify the voices of Opportunity Youth in Del Norte and Tribal Lands (DNATL), Humboldt, and the North Coast Region, we present two essential reports. The first report focuses on data enhancement, addressing the rate of disconnection from school and work in DNATL for young people ages 16-24. The second report emphasizes postsecondary pathways available for Native American youth in our community. 

To read/download the full reports go to the webpages linked below:

Opportunity Youth - Year One Findings (2022)

Postsecondary Pathways in the North Coast (2023)

Join Redwood Region RISE's Monthly Collaborative In-Person Meeting: April 29-30!

Redwood Region RISE's regular Collaborative Zoom meeting for April is cancelled, as we will be hosting an in-person Collaborative Meeting from April 29 from 10:00 a.m.-April 30, 1:00 p.m. We welcome members of our Equity Council, Tribal Table, Sector Tables, Voting Block, and community leaders and residents from our Tribal Lands and four counties.

Date: April 29 from 10:00 a.m.-April 30, 1:00 p.m.
Location: Humboldt County (venue TBD)

What do we hope to achieve through this in-person gathering?

  1. Foster better connection and collaboration across the region, raise awareness of different initiatives, and sow seeds for partnership on project development with lots of unstructured networking time;

  2. Deepening knowledge of and defining actionable steps to move the needle on ‘cross-cutting’ topics such as housing, broadband, entrepreneurship, transportation, and access to healthcare;

  3. Take care of Collaborative business: vote on vision statement, finalize project scoring rubric, process for approval of Regional Roadmap and investments;

  4. Kick off the project work.

We will share the RSVP form, agenda and more information on the accommodations and available reimbursements soon.

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