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Ensuring Health Equity for our Rural LGBTQ+ Neighbors

National Rural Health Association

NRHA’s report on rural LGBTQ+ health equity discusses the need for inclusive and affirming health care in rural areas, highlighting challenges like discrimination and lack of specialized care. It emphasizes education and support systems for health care providers to improve access and quality of care for rural LGBTQ+ communities.

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Rural Playbook

Playbook of rural hospitals pioneering creative partnerships with community development that pave the way for further investments in their communities.

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Research Report Findings: Investing in Dismantling Structural Racism and Economic Inequity in Rural America 

Report authors provide recommendations to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for development of a network to help to dismantle structural racism and economic inequity in rural America.

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Reproductive Healthcare in Rural Communities

Just like other momentous occasions in history, a likely topic of future conversations is “Where were you when the Supreme...

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Disaster Planning and Rural Resilience

Flooding, tornadoes, drought, wildfire, and other extreme weather events cause major disruption and damage wherever they occur and have potential...

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The Thrive Rural Framework
Thrive Rural Framework Overview

The Thrive Rural Framework is a tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity.

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Thrive Rural Framework: Foundational Element

The Foundational Element of the Thrive Rural Framework requires identifying and dismantling historical and ongoing discriminatory practices that disadvantage rural people and places.  

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Thrive Rural Framework: Local-Level Building Blocks

Local-Level Building Blocks highlight conditions in rural places and regions that individual can act on by themselves.

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Thrive Rural Framework: Systems-Level Building Blocks

The Thrive Rural Framework is a new tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We...

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HEALING-CENTERED LEADERSHIP: A PATH TO TRANSFORMATION

Nonprofit Quarterly

This article is from the Winter 2021 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “We Thrive: Health for Justice, Justice for Health,” and was adapted from The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Shawn A. Ginwright (North Atlantic Books, 2022).

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Rural Development & Health Alignment Opportunities

This first in the Thrive Rural Field Perspective Series describes the main trends and catalysts for change that emerged from...

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Rural Public Health and Health Care Trends

This field scan is a contribution to Thrive Rural, specifically intended to provide an understanding of the state of relevant...