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We Can Do Better than Hunger in Oregon

by Amy Fellows | Dec 26, 2013 | Blog, Learn

Please read this story and with the holidays over, continue to give food and support programs that fight hunger in your local...

Alliance of Children’s Program hosts January 30 conference in Salem

by Amy Fellows | Dec 20, 2013 | Blog, Events, Events from selected partners

What About Us? Do you know what’s going on? Housing services for youth are transforming. Health delivery for kids and school based health centers are expanding. Behavioral health and intervention are gaining increased focus. The Youth Development Division at the...

Cover Oregon Extends Dates

by Amy Fellows | Dec 15, 2013 | Blog, Learn

Cover Oregon extended deadlines to give consumers until December 27 to select a plan that would take effect January 1, 2014 (if you applied to Cover Oregon by December 4). Read more here including about a temporary plan for OMIP...

Nike, OHSU and Cambia team up to improve Oregon’s health

by Rick Ray | Dec 13, 2013 | Blog, Learn

Elizabeth Hayes, writing in the Portland Business Journal, reports on a venture to create a Healthiest State Initiative, similar to the one now underway in Iowa: Oregon ranks No. 24 on a national well-being index, and that’s something Nike Inc., Cambia Health...

We Can Do Better when it comes to our kids and smoking in Oregon

by Amy Fellows | Dec 9, 2013 | Blog, Learn

According to this article. About 9.4 percent of high school students in Oregon smoke, and more than 2,900 kids in the state take up the habit each...

An Analysis of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions Across the Country

by Amy Fellows | Dec 9, 2013 | Blog, Learn

Interesting data on Medicaid expansion nationally. Feeling thankful to be in Oregon where over 100,000 more people have signed up to be insured through Medicaid...