Center for Health Progress

We believe our health care system should work for all Coloradans.

So, we bring people together to ensure factors like race, income, and ZIP code don’t determine a person’s access to care and opportunity to live a healthy life. When we uncover commonsense solutions to these complex challenges, we get closer to ensuring our health care system works for everyone. Because when our neighbors are healthy, our communities prosper, and Colorado is stronger.

STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE

Policy
Advocacy

We shape, impact, and advance good public policy.

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Community Partnerships

We work with communities to create lasting change.

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Community Organizing

Community voices will lead the way to health equity.

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Professional Services

We want to partner with you to improve health.

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From Our Blog

The Healing Powers of Pueblo Chile

Pueblo Chile Festival - chiles hang from the edge of a festival tent with more chiles inside the tent and a man in the background

The fall of 2019 will go down in history as another chapter in the Chile Wars, pitting New Mexico’s Hatch green chile against Colorado’s Pueblo green chile.

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Theresa Trujillo

Colorado is Home | Colorado es el hogar

Erika Serrano, a latina and staff member of Center for Health Progress, poses for a selfie with her two young sons, all dressed up to go to a quincinera

Driving back home to the United States always throws me off. Although I am a United States citizen, I will still wear my brown skin and my Mexican culture.

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Erika Serrano

Racism Hurts Our Teeth

Smiling black daughter sits on smiling black dad's shoulders at a community festival

My mom has fillings in 16 of her 28 teeth. She’s the eighth of twelve kids, and her dad used hard candies as a reward for quiet at bedtime.

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Sarah McAfee

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Publications

Racism and Nationalism Are Root Causes of Violence in the US

Hate--rooted in racism, nationalism, and other extremism--has festered in our country since its founding and continues unchecked today.

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Health Equity Scorecard 2019

Every year, we closely track legislator votes on each bill we are supporting or opposing. At the end of the session, we analyze each legislator's overall voting record and create a scorecard.

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Beyond Brushing: the Impact of Racism on Oral Health in Colorado

Racism is a significant cause the preventable differences in the health of our mouths, teeth, and gums, which are closely connected to our overall health.

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