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COVID-19 Resources

Continued vigilance, including limiting trips outside the home, social distancing, regular hand washing and wearing face coverings in public is crucial to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and allow us to resume normal economic activity.

Working together, our community has slowed the spread of COVID-19. Now, King County is working to gradually and carefully reopen the local economy and other aspects of daily living.

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News & Events

Covid-19 and the impact on BIPOC Youth

Since the coronavirus arrived, depression and anxiety in America have become rampant. Federal surveys show that 40 percent of Americans are now grappling with at least one mental health or drug-related problem. But young adults have been hit harder than any other age group, with 75 percent struggling.

Mental health and stigma

You are invited to join us, and a panel of community members as they share their mental health lived experiences and the systems we navigate.

Historical trauma and ways of healing rooted in community

You are invited to join us, and a panel of community members as they share their mental health lived experiences and the systems we navigate.

Storytelling | Mental health lived experience and the systems we navigate

You are invited to join us, and a panel of community members as they share their mental health lived experiences and the systems we navigate.

Resilient Communities: A conversation on mental wellness in BIPoC communities

You are invited to join us and a panel of community members as we engage in a conversation on mental wellness in BIPoC communities.

CHBC’s Mental Health Systems and Policy Work

In light of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of BIPOCcommunities, the CHBC is partnering with health systems to advance four health strategies.

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We Exist To Serve Our Communities

The Community Health Boards Coalition (CHBC) is a community-led organization that works to improve the health outcomes in our refugees, immigrants, and BIPOC communities in Western Washington through policy and systems change. We represent 15 BIPOC communities who are mostly immigrants, refugees, and people of color, representing historically underserved communities.

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Advocacy & Recommendations

Even before COVID-19 became a pandemic in our region, CHBC had been pushing to ensure our communities’ rights in education, health care, mental health were upheld and their humanity recognized by a system that for so long has failed to value them in a meaningful way.

Covid-19 has put these concerns into starker relief. As a result, CHBC is working closely with community partners to lift BIPOC, immigrant and refugee communities voices since they have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

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Policy Initiatives

The CHBC has been working towards improved health outcomes for the communities represented, since 2017. Our focus areas have been mental health and health priorities, which we have determined using Community Based Participatory Research.

Decolonizing Research

Our Elders have passed on important ancestral knowledge that helps us continue to grow and stay rooted. All of the research conducted by CHBC applies decolonizing and anti-racist methods in order to shift health care systems and policy and better serve our communities.

'Everything Is Medicine' Report

Our research team members, lead by Dr. Damarys Espinoza, disseminated the report: ‘Everything is Medicine’, December, 2019. As a result of this work, we arrived at 5 key main policy recommendations.