Champion Health Equity

Utilize community mobilization, base building, legal advocacy and implementation support to increase immigrant legal defense funds across Colorado, promote accountability in providing drivers licenses for immigrants, stimulate mobile home park protections, and empower Latinx immigrant and undocumented communities to advocate for improved health, safety and economic outcomes.

Cultivate community leaders to develop solutions to community challenges by supporting technical skill development, establishing a support network of other community leaders and organizations, and identifying pathways for community leaders to lead their work and organization independently.

Organize powerful statewide BIPOC-led, multi-racial, community-led organizing efforts to forward structural change impacting health equity at municipal and state levels. Efforts will address affordable housing, criminal justice system reform and equitable taxation and economic justice supporting health equity priorities for our communities. Together Colorado utilizes a proven 42-year organizing process with a radical commitment to the development and leadership of low income leaders of color.

Support birth-related organizations and birthworkers to navigate and use lived experience to dismantle reproductive and maternal policies and systems that create inequities in healthcare for black women and other women of color.

Expand work with a focus on health equity advocacy and collective action in underrepresented and rural communities in Colorado by building leadership, advocacy skills and grassroots organizing, working specifically within Southwest Colorado Tribal, rural monolingual Spanish-speaking and youth communities.

Support CCHI's Community Advisory Board (CAB), community driven coalition work, and relational organizing to identify, prioritize, and amplify communities' health needs and policy solutions for and by BIPOC Coloradans. The CAB and its membership will tackle health disparities by valuing and centering on the lived experiences of community members with the biggest barriers to health care, especially BIPOC.

Develop young leaders focused on equity and racial justice through a multi-issue organizing model, which prioritizes engaging and developing young people of color and LGBTQ+ youth in civic engagement approaches.

Strengthen organizational systems and structures to bolster our vision and mission, and ensure long-term organizational viability and sustainability.

Support paid digital public education and public opinion research to guide the creation of best messaging around TABOR refund checks arriving in August and early January 2023 to inform efforts to reform Colorado's tax policies.

Strengthen organizational capacity to support expansion of the Equity Action Project (EAP) Alumni Network series. With this support, MANAUS will facilitate the development of more equitable organizations, shift cultural and racial dynamics, and growth of equitable practices across the Roaring Fork Valley region.