Center for Health Progress

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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

What We’re Reading

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With a long weekend on the horizon, we’re looking to catch up on some reading, watching, listening, and absorbing of wealth of knowledge, art, and culture.

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How Organizers Build Power in Immigrant Communities

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ISAIAH is a multi-faith, multi-racial group of community members and organizers that came together to fight hate speech in their rural town of 22,000.

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Joe Sammen

The Healing Powers of Pueblo Chile

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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

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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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