Stronger Together
Working with national organizations to implement innovative programs that advance health equity and help people where they live, learn, work, and play. These programs are free and available to everyone.
TAKE ACTION FOR HEALTH
Developed by a collaboration of 100 Black Men of America, Inc., Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Elevance Health, National Medical Association, National Urban League, and Pfizer Inc.
This interactive website helps African Americans better understand why they are at increased risk for heart disease, prediabetes, depression, and cancer, and how they can protect their health through preventive health screenings. It also provides trusted resources to help get screened.
Ubuntu Program for Emotional Wellness
Brought to you by Take Action for Health, a collaboration 100 Black Men of America, Inc., Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Elevance Health, National Medical Association, National Urban League, and Pfizer Inc. and was created by Marva L. Lewis, PhD, and Candice C. Beasley, DSW from Tulane University.
This easy-to-use workshop series (Community, Body, Mind, Spirit) helps African American communities talk about stress and how it affects daily lives. It builds on cultural strengths and addresses the historical trauma of slavery as unrecognized sources of stress.
TAKING ACTION FOR OUR HEALTH (English/Spanish)
Developed by a collaboration of the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Elevance Health, Hispanic Federation, and Pfizer Inc.
This interactive website helps Hispanics/Latinos better understand why they are at increased risk for heart disease, prediabetes, depression, and cancer, and how they can protect their family’s health through preventive health screenings. It also provides trusted resources to help get screened. Available in English and Spanish.
Sharing Coffee and Chocolate (English/Spanish)
This workshop program is supported by Elevance Health, and Pfizer Inc. and was created by Venus Ginés, M.A. P/CHWI, CEO and Founder, Día de la Mujer Latina Inc.™
This easy-to-use workshop series helps Latino communities talk about stress and how it affects daily lives. It uses a holistic approach to achieve emotional health addressing community, body, mind, and spirit. Available in English and Spanish.
Shine Light on Depression
Developed by a collaboration of American School Health Association, Elevance Health, Erika’s Lighthouse, Families for Depression Awareness, and Masco Corporation.
This online toolkit provides school communities and community-based organizations with ready-to-use mental health, depression awareness, and suicide prevention programs for students in grades 4-12. Its content is designed to be adapted to diverse populations to support mental health in a culturally inclusive manner.
What's Up with Opioids?
Developed by Elevance Health and the National Urban League.
This online toolkit helps keep young people safe from and educated about the dangers of opioid misuse. Its ready-to-use lesson plans and materials help middle- and high-school students learn about opioids, risk factors, warning signs of addiction, and prevention strategies.
Let's Vaccinate
Developed by Elevance Health and Pfizer, Inc.
This online toolkit can help provider practices increase vaccination rates, keep patients healthy, and improve quality of care with its ready-to-use tools and strategies that improve office workflows and enhance communications with patients. See pilot results.
Workplace Transitions for people touched by cancer
Developed by a collaboration of Cancer and Careers, Disability:IN, Elevance Health, and Pfizer Inc.
This website helps advance disability inclusion in the workplace. It provides managers with guidance on how to manage return-to-work for employees diagnosed with cancer from a practical, psychosocial, and legal perspective. It also supports employees with a cancer diagnosis or caregiving for a loved one with cancer by providing information needed to balance work and cancer.
Help for Cancer Caregivers
Developed by a collaboration of CancerCare, Caregiver Action Network, Elevance Health, and Genentech USA, Inc.
This interactive website can help diverse family caregivers care for their own health and well-being since caring for a loved one with cancer can be stressful. The site asks caregivers to answer 5 short questions about how they felt in the past week (on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is "no stress" and 10 is "high stress") and then creates a Self-Care Guide to help with issues like managing money, dealing with feelings, and coping with caregiver burnout.
Reach Out and Read
Reach Out and Read provides children with a solid foundation for achievement by integrating books into pediatric care and encouraging family reading time. The model is endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics as the sole evidence-based national pediatric model centered on literacy development and emotional bonding. Together, we are working in several states to provide children with the foundation they need cognitively, socially, emotionally, and physically to succeed in school and in life.