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The Colorado Trust’s Early Childhood Health Integration grant initiative helped Colorado’s Early Childhood Councils integrate health into their local early childhood system, allowing them to connect more children and families to services.

The Colorado Trust celebrates how the Early Childhood Councils successfully integrated health into their work.

With support from The Colorado Trust, the Montelores Early Childhood Council integrated health into their local early childhood system. Chelsea Vehill discusses how the council connected her to resources to improve the health of her son.

With support from The Colorado Trust, the Early Childhood Partnership of Adams County integrated health into their local early childhood system. One parent shares how the council connected her to resources.

The Colorado Trust's Early Childhood Health Integration grant program helped Colorado's Early Childhood Councils integrate health into their local early childhood system, allowing them to connect more children and families to services.

With support from The Colorado Trust, the Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council integrated health into their local early childhood system. A parent discusses how the council connected her to resources for her twins.

Laura Frank, president and general manager of news for Rocky Mountain PBS, and Llewellyn Smith, director of media for production at BlueSpark Collaborative, presented how they have told the story of health disparities through video, print and photos, as well as the importance of sharing compelling health equity stories.

The Colorado Trust awarded $25,000 in grants to recognize nonprofits in Southwestern Colorado working to improve health and well-being in their communities.

Manuel Pastor, PhD, a professor of sociology, American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California, presented on how building a social movement can help achieve health equity and how communities can be involved. His presentation included recent success stories and a list of 10 key elements to building an effective social movement, such as the need for scale, a viable economic model and a pragmatic policy package.