Improving health and advancing equity in King County, WA. Collaboration + Innovation.
08/26/2024
Meet our first cohort of Community Hub Case Management Partners! HealthierHere is supporting partner organizations from across King County to build capacity and expand their case management skills to better serve their communities.
The HealthierHere Community Hub offers a no-wrong-door approach, providing individuals and families with culturally and linguistically responsive care coordination. Community health workers from our partners serve as trusted guides for clients, helping them navigate systems and connect to the resources they want and need to thrive.
Learn more:
Get to know our 17 partner organizations providing community-based care coordination through the HealthierHere Community Hub.
06/03/2024
Frustrated by health inequities in your community? Let’s turn challenges into solutions together.
Our CEO, John Kim, discusses the power of collective action as we prepare to launch the HealthierHere Community Hub.
There's room at this table! Join our efforts to advance health equity.
Tackling persistent health inequities requires transforming challenges into solutions. HealthierHere's CEO John Kim shares how the HealthierHere Community Hu...
05/21/2024
We’re thrilled to share HealthierHere’s 2023 Annual Report: Growth in a Season of Change!
Our first-ever interactive digital report draws inspiration from the natural world to illustrate our 2023 journey.
Read the report to explore highlights of programs, partnerships, and powerful stories from our cross-sector efforts to advance health equity.
bit.ly/HH2023AR
04/15/2024
Join us in making a difference in King County! HealthierHere is a Workforce Development Manager to lead training efforts, skills building, and learning opportunities for the HealthierHere Community Hub!
Pay Range: $95,000 - $115,000
Learn more about the position here:
Become a valued member of our team!
04/03/2024
Today, National Public Health Week explores climate change and its effect on public health.
With rising temperatures, atypical weather patterns, and changing landscapes, climate change inevitably becomes a public health threat. It is critical for local health departments to incorporate learnings on climate change’s public health impact to provide better whole person care for their communities.
This resource guide for local public health departments was created by Public Health Institute, American Public Health Association, The Kresge Foundation, and the California Department of Public Health.
National Public Health Week is here, and Civic Engagement is at the forefront of the first theme.
The Community Health Worker Access Act (S. 3892) was recently proposed to Congress. This bill seeks to enhance access to healthcare services for enrollees of Medicare and Medicaid by improving reimbursement for Community Health Worker provided services under Medicare and integrating them into Medicaid.
To sign your organization on to support the bill, please fill out this sign-on form (sign ons accepted on a rolling basis): https://bit.ly/3J3Et5z
PIH-supported legislation will strengthen community health workforce
03/29/2024
2024 starts April 1st!
Join us to celebrate community efforts to improve public health. All week long we will be amplifying ways to make our communities healthier, safer, and stronger.
American Public Health Association
Public health is more than just health care. It's the steps we take to make sure our neighborhoods and environment are free from pollution. It's making sure our food and water are safe to eat and drink. It's also the relationships we foster in our communities. We're all interconnected. When we all c...
03/26/2024
Looking to start a new chapter in your career this spring? HealthierHere is now for 3 full-time roles:
- Assistant Director of Information Privacy and Security
(Pay Range: $110,000-$130,000)
- Director of People and Culture (Pay Range: $130,000-$150,000)
Learn more about the positions and apply at: bit.ly/HHCareers_
03/25/2024
HealthierHere is excited to share the findings from the Washington Integrated Care Assessment (WA-ICA)!
Learn about the WA-ICA, HealthierHere’s work analyzing the results, next steps, and to access the reports.
Learn more about the valuable insights from the Washington Integrated Care Assessment (WA-ICA) and access the report findings.
03/21/2024
Welcome to our new Partnership and Engagement Manager, George Farrell (he/him, Hunkpapa Lakota, Standing Rock Reservation)! George joins our Equity and Strategy Office, and brings unique experience in nonprofit operations and development, as well as re-entry coordination and community engagement. We are excited to have him join the team.
Read more about George in his welcome interview.
Learn how George hopes to combine innovation and partnerships in his new role!
03/20/2024
Nearly 50% of youth across the U.S.A. experience significant emotional challenges, but less than half of them receive the behavioral health services they need.
This free online training from Seattle Children's Care Network (SCCN) equips pediatric primary care providers with effective strategies to communicate with patients and family about behavioral health concerns.
This learning resource was created in collaboration with Seattle Children's Care Network, Seattle Children's , and the University of Washington AIMS Center, as part of the HealthierHere Scale and Sustain projects.
Learn in this training how to more effectively navigate behavioral health conversations in pediatric settings.
03/11/2024
There is still time to register for this year's NAMI Eastside 2024 Youth Mental Health Conference!
NAMI Eastside is the East King County affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. For over a decade, this conference has brought together the community to discuss the importance of mental health solutions for youth.
This year's conference will be held in person on Friday, March 22, 2024 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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HealthierHere is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health and advancing equity in King County, Washington. HealthierHere currently serves as the Accountable Community of Health (ACH) for the King County region, as part of the WA State Medicaid Transformation.
Our vision is:
The people of King County will experience significant gains in health and well-being because our community worked collectively to make the shift from a costly, crisis-oriented response to health and social problems to one that focuses on prevention, embraces recovery, and eliminates disparities.
Our organization includes:
Multidisciplinary staff team
27-member cross-sector Governing Board
6 formal committees of the Board and additional goal-specific workgroups
Partner organizations, including primary care and behavioral health providers, hospitals, tribes, community and grassroots organizations, consumers and advocates, payers and managed care organizations, city and county and state government, and philanthropy.
How we work:
in partnership and collaboration with providers, community organizations and consumers
on behalf of people in our community, especially the most vulnerable
to catalyze and test new and better ways to respond to health and social problems
so that the system can work better for everyone
What we do:
Collaborations with community and social service organizations and health care providers, including tribal health and behavioral health providers.
Current work includes...
*We are in the process of adjusting our workstreams to provide the specific supports our partners need due to COVID-19 (novel coronavirus).*
