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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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Community Health Boards

strategic healthcare partners

News & Events

CHBC Healing Session

Zoom ID: 818 6833 8277Thursday, December 17th, 20206 PM to 8 PM "To know your history is to know you are sacred and stand on the shoulders of a resilient people. Your past does not have to be your narrative, it is your tool for healing." Leanne Ryebrock is an...

CHBC Weekly Meeting Reminder Every Thursday at 6PM Unless Posted Otherwise

Join us for our recurring weekly CHBC meeting where we discuss issues with our leadership, our members, and our community. The meeting is an online meeting that happens every Thursday at 6pm unless posted otherwise. We look forward to seeing you there!

Community Based Participatory Research Training with Dr. Bonnie Duran – October 15, 2020 @ 6pm

Dr. Bonnie Duran will be leading this session to help develop healing methods, through an acknowledgment of historical trauma in our BIPOC communities. Dr. Duran is a Professor in the Schools of Social Work and Public Health at the University of Washington, in Seattle and is on the leadership team at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute.

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.