THE ROLE OF BUSINESS IN SUPPORTING VITAL CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR THE WELL-BEING OF PEOPLE, PLACES, AND RACIAL JUSTICE
There is much that businesses can do to ensure that employees are exposed to the positive effects of the natural environment while at work. Access to natural light, clean air and water, ample greenery in and around the workplace can all contribute positively to health and well-being.
For our natural world to thrive we must ensure that it is resilient to future interrelated threats like climate change, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, ocean acidification, and continued habitat destruction. This can positively impact all people including employees, customers, and community members. Businesses can use sustainable practices that do minimal harm to the natural environment and lift up low-income communities and communities of color.
COMBATTING AUTHORITARIANISM: THE SKILLS AND INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED TO ORGANIZE ACROSS DIFFERENCE
As the United States celebrated Martin Luther King Day this January, Americans also confronted the reality of the recently failed attempt to pass voting rights legislation and the ongoing dysfunction of the national-level political system. With this defeat, many political analysts, academics, and organizers feel a growing sense of existential dread that the country is at a tipping point of democratic decline, including an alarming pushback against the struggle for racial justice.
ANNOUNCING THE FEDERAL PLAN FOR EQUITABLE LONG-TERM RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE!
The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) is excited to announce the release of the Federal Plan for Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience (ELTRR), which lays out a whole-of-government approach to strengthen resilience and improve well-being in communities nationwide. Learn more and read the Plan.
TRENDS AND GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION IN POPULATION THRIVING AND SUFFERING ACROSS THE USA
Well-being is a conception of health, including physical, emotional, social, financial, community and spiritual aspects of life. High well-being is seen as important goal for individuals, communities and nations. This study analyzes 9 years of samples regarding well-being in the United States.
HOW DO WE COUNT PEOPLE?
In the second listening session for the WIN Measures Update, researchers, community leaders, and measurement practitioners grappled with the demographics of health, well-being and equity.
Read more about the second listening session for the WIN Measures Update here.
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Read the full WIN Network statement on the events of January 2021.
Tapping the Power of Data to Improve Community Health
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"We may all be in the same storm, but we're in different boats going through this pandemic," said Somava Saha, executive lead of Well-being and Equity in the World and the Well Being In the Nation Network, organizations focused on battling inequities and improving health.
"Some of us might be on little dinghies, and some of us might be in ocean liners," she said, referring to the factors which increase the vulnerabilities of these populations to COVID-19 – including inadequate housing options, unemployment and limited access to health care and chronic disease management.
Watch full webinar here.
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Like many of you, we at the Well Being In the Nation (WIN) Network have been spending much of this weekend feeling devastated by the events surrounding the brutal deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and countless others before them at the hands of police, and the waves of action and reaction that have followed. Our hearts go out to their families and communities. But this is not enough.
What is happening in the country today is a reflection of how our past legacies and current systems are showing up in the everyday realities for Black people and people of color. It shows up in the vastly disproportionate number of Black, Latinx and Native people who are dying from COVID-19 even as they staff our farms, grocery stores, factories and hospitals to keep our country going.
These present day legacies of trauma and exclusion reflect a system of interpersonal and structural racism that has existed since the foundation of our country. This system of injustice undermines all of our lives and tears the social fabric that we all need to survive and thrive together. We are all complicit within this system of racial inequity and have a role to play in building a civic infrastructure that is grounded in justice for everyone.
The WIN Network stands in solidarity with the Black community and other communities of color in this painful time of injustice, racism and inequity with a commitment to work together to create the vital conditions needed for racial justice. During WIN week 2020 (June 1-7), we have created spaces for listening and reflection about the events of this week against a backdrop of a week of events aimed at addressing well-being and equity in the time of Corona. As we reflect together on what we might do to advance racial justice through relationships and system change, we will chart a path for equitable recovery, resilience and transformation not only for the pandemic at hand today, but for the disease of racism that has infected us from the foundation of the country. We hope you will join us in this legacy moment in our nation’s history.