Health = Wealth Program
What and Why
Urban Strategies Council and Alameda County CAN are partnering with the Alameda County Public Health Department to bring tangible tools and resources that help address the connection between poverty and poor health. This includes planning a Health=Wealth Symposium for the spring of 2010 to share information and referral networks among health and financial service providers. We also provide brown-bag workshops with the Public Health Department staff, sharing Income and Asset and foreclosure prevention resources. In addition, Urban Strategies, as co-founder of the Oakland Community Land Trust (OakCLT), is developing strategies to increase health outcomes in land trust communities via benefits enrollment, access to healthy food, alternative energy to mitigate asthma, and other groundbreaking income-health-environmental initiatives.