As the state continues to work together to agree on proposals for allocating funding from the American Rescue Plan Act, we ask leadership to center health equity as the goal of this funding package. The proposal for American Rescue Plan Act funding, which was passed out of the Appropriations Committee this week, reduces or removes several provisions of the initial proposal that would advance health equity.
As we begin to gradually emerge from this pandemic, Health Equity Solutions aims to ensure that we learn from this past year and address the inequities it has so starkly highlighted. On Monday, Governor Lamont released a proposal for allocating federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act with provisions that show promise for moving Connecticut towards health equity in the coming years
Newly increased focus on health equity and racial justice have led to the enthusiasm and also sometimes a sense that equity is too big and unwieldy of a goal. To launch Health Equity Week 2021, Health Equity Solutions created this “path to health equity” as a way to show that while this journey will be long and challenging, it is also feasible and clearly laid out for us.
03/03/2021
Tekisha Dwan Everette
, She/Her
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