As a community health center, HealthPoint is actively re-centering around its roots in the civil rights movement, building stronger systems to acknowledge and reduce health disparities that adversely impact its communities. It has developed new governance structures, including a Health Equity Advisory Council and Diversity Equity and Inclusion Workforce Council.  It has launched a Health Equity Learning Collaborative, invested in stratified data to bring transparency to disparities in populations for key health outcomes, and supported opportunities for staff and community to discuss how the social construct of race has impacted their work and their health. Learn more about their efforts.

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Mentorship is a crucial way to support and retain Under-Represented Minority (URM) students throughout their educational and professional journeys. To develop the next generation of URM healthcare leaders, clinicians from Kaiser Permanente of Washington organized a campaign to create a state-wide, multidisciplinary network of racially-conscious clinician mentors. They trained engaged, trained and coached 65 clinician-mentors dedicated to racial justice and equity, with a shared purpose of changing the complexion of medicine. Learn more about this innovative program.