Tools for Advocates:

• Dare to Get Involved: How to Take Action: What can you do to help raise awareness about minority health policy issues, such as health disparities and uninsurance? Click here to find out!
  
  
• Minority Health Connection is a monthly e-newsletter designed to keep advocates connected to the most pressing issues affecting minority health. Sections include the latest resources in minority health, the impact of health policy issues on communities of color, and highlights from activists in the field who are addressing racial and ethnic health disparities. Click here to begin receiving this monthly publication.
  
  
• Families USA has published Building Blocks of Health Reform: The Social Security Example, which discusses how the Social Security program started out modestly but grew over time, as well as its importance to minority seniors. (March 2010)
  
  
• Working with the Faith Community: Reflections from a National Faith Leader is a tool for advocates that identifies several tips and practical strategies for engaging and working with the faith community around health care issues. Drawing from her work with congregations that represent communities of color, Barbara Baylor, Minister for Health and Wellness at the national office for the United Church of Christ, reflects on how to engage the faith community as an effective way to improve health care. (March 2006)
  
  
• Making Public Programs Work for Communities of Color: An Action Kit for Community Leaders is an Action Kit designed to provide community leaders with the information, tools, and resources necessary to engage in health advocacy and improve the health and well-being of their communities. (January 2006)

So You Think You Know Minority Health? is a new interactive game from Families USA's Minority Health Initiative. Based on the classic Jeopardy game, it is designed to test your knowledge of the health disparities facing people of color in America today. Check it out.

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