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People are always talking about empowerment and empowering people and communities. And while the intention behind the word is good, it assumes that people don't already inherently have power. Embolden WI recognizes that while people truly do have the power to radically imagine a better future and to create community-driven systems change, we often lack the curiosity, connection, and courage to harness and apply that power.
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EMBOLDEN means to impart boldness or courage : to instill with boldness, courage, or resolution enough to overcome timidity or misgiving. Embolden WI is here to serve as a home for innovative health equity and civic health advocacy projects. We envision healthy, vibrant, equitable, and socially just communities and to achieve this, we are here to amplify and catalyze programs and initiatives to improve health outcomes, health equity, and civic health.
Projects & Partners powered by embolden
When you support Embolden WI, you are supporting this network of health justice programs creating a force multiplier.
The Providers and Teens Communicating for Health (PATCH) Program is an innovative, youth-driven program working to improve adolescents' health and well-being.
As a sponsored partner, Roots4Change Cooperative is working to improve the maternal and child health landscape in Dane County by providing resources and information to empower families and challenge the system.
Engaging Communities to Change Health Outcomes (ECCHO) centers the voices and lived experiences of BIPOC women and non-binary people to drive policy change and transform local systems of power
As a sponsored partner, AMIWI's mission is to build a thriving, happy, successful, healthy community by bringing together the Kinyarwanda Speaking Community and their friends and providing a vehicle to support one another and implement programs and projects for the betterment of themselves and the community of where they live.
The Building Families Alliance is proposing fertility-friendly legislation in Wisconsin and providing networking opportunities for patient advocates and fertility professionals in their quest to build a family.
As a sponsored partner, the Parkinson's Disease Alliance of WI is working to pass state legislation that would create a valuable Parkinson's Disease Registry in Wisconsin leading to better treatment and care strategies.
As a sponsored partner, KindPath connects adults with ADHD, autism, anxiety, and depression and other mental health conditions to real-time peer support, personalized tools, and crisis intervention, all in the palm of your hand.
Health Equity & Civic Health
At the heart of Embolden WI is the commitment to health equity and civic health.
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Health equity is the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health
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Civic health relates to the way that communities are organized to define and address public problems.
By focusing on health equity and civic health, we proudly recognize the powerful opportunity we all have to holistically and sustainably improve the wellbeing of all individuals through just and fair systems informed by and driven by community.
