Income, race, geography and other factors contribute to wide disparities in health outcomes across our state. We report on how Colorado residents are impacted by these inequities, and what they're doing about it.
And three things you can do about it.
As Colorado struggles to meet more stringent air quality standards, children, low-income residents and other populations remain most vulnerable to persistent airborne pollution.
Language is power, explains Rosa Guzman-Snyder, founder of the Community Language Cooperative.
The inexorable rise of vaping in Colorado has illuminated longstanding disparities in tobacco consumption and marketing practices, especially along age, income and race lines.
In Pueblo County, communities hope that talking about the past will influence the future.
Violence against Indigenous womxn is “political and purposeful,” said Lakota activist Taté Walker in the latest presentation of The Trust’s Health Equity Learning Series.
Activists fear that low-income communities of color are being disproportionately impacted by oil and gas drilling in northern Colorado.
The Trust's vice president of Community Partnerships & Grants says white people have a responsibility to fight racism.
New census tract-level data reveal significant discrepancies in the life expectancies and future earnings of Colorado residents based on where, exactly, they live.
$45 million in new funding should provide new mental health services, and keep more people in mental health crises out of jail.
Colorado has emerged as a national model for its investment in trying to cure hepatitis C, especially among historically disadvantaged patients.
The Trust’s community partner working in Colorado Springs wants the city’s new long-term development plan to value equity and inclusion, acknowledge the city’s history and learn from the past.
