Community Solutions for Healthy Child Development PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS

Community Solutions for Healthy Child Development Grants will support the cultural and community strengths of communities of color and American Indian communities in developing strategies that promote early childhood and family health and development Part of the One Minnesota Vision: Community Prosperity $2 million over four years to support and promote health and racial equity for young children (prenatal to age 8) and their families PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS

Community Solutions for Healthy Child Development Action: Build on cultural and community strengths Commissioner will convene an advisory council made up of people from communities experiencing racial, geographic, and economic inequities MDH staff from the Center for Health Equity as well as from the Division of Child and Family Health will work with the Advisory Council to develop administrative processes, technical assistance, evaluation, and accountability metrics Action: Reduce racial, geographic, and economic disparities within health and developmental outcomes Community members identify inequities that lead to disparate outcomes and create community – centered solutions to mitigate or eliminate those inequities MDH provides data, and technical assistance to support a community’s capacity to coordinate and collaborate   4/8/2019 PROTECTING, MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF ALL MINNESOTANS