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As team members of Community Catalyst’s Vaccine Equity and Access Program (VEAP), this fall we traveled to Puerto Rico to visit Waves Ahead, a community-based partner and the only LGBTQ+…

In the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Community Catalyst launched its Vaccine Equity and Access Program (VEAP) to meet an urgent challenge: vaccine confidence and acceptance to address disparities in…

Words are powerful. The words we use to reflect our identity can be the difference between a limited understanding of our history or a rich complexity of our culture, history,…

Partner Spotlight – East Bay Sanctuary Covenant’s Mayan Voices Program Contributors: Esmeralda Mendoza, Marta Alicia Mendoza, Rosalba Lorenzo, Catarina Mendoza Ramirez, Maya Kandell  Over 50 years ago, President Lynden Johnson proclaimed…

There is no official language in the United States. While English is the most commonly used, over 350 languages are practiced across the country. Still, in many important health care…

The community organizers had reconnected as part of a bilingual English/Spanish gathering, hosted by Community Catalyst and held at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, for ten organizations that we…

Through Community Catalyst’s Vaccine Equity and Access Program (VEAP), advocates throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico have been fighting tirelessly to combat lack of vaccine access, dis/misinformation and hesitancy.

Youth with lived experiences of mental illness and substance use challenges, including addiction, understand first-hand the limitations, inequities, and failures of the current system.

For the first time in history, the U.S. National Drug Control Strategy includes support for harm reduction – drug overdose prevention and health interventions that save lives. This is a…

Executive Director Emily Stewart on Community Catalyst’s strategic vision to create a health system rooted in race equity and health justice, and a society where health is a right for…