Oregon Health Equity Alliance

Today is the day, turn in your ballots by 8pm. Go Vote!

Election Day is tomorrow, here are the websites/qr codes to drop off your ballots. You can also find the links to find the ballot boxes based on your county below.

You have until 8pm tomorrow, November 5th. Here is more on the ballot measures as well. Go vote!

El día de las elecciones es mañana. Aquí están los sitios web o códigos QR para saber donde pueden entregar sus boletas. También puede encontrar los enlaces para localizar las urnas de votación según su condado en nuestra biografía.

Tienen hasta las 8 p. m. mañana, 5 de noviembre. Aquí también encontrarán más información sobre las propuestas electorales. ¡Vayan a votar!

https://www.clackamas.us/elections/official-ballot-drop-sites?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZl75mkZ-x5S9ElGzMkDz90Uwy8ve-BpkOlOxf4jVCCYmGPtkgJsSMmyP4_aem_zctJOeVgFP-DtxLEXj88xg

https://www.multco.us/elections/official-ballot-drop-sites?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabJZepftL9EYsGUsN9Q8B2L6iOQA2Pmuux3DVHjeWoo8woICHpSXQf2NLQ_aem_pW7PDRiHeCYp66uvqCaIYA

https://www.washingtoncountyor.gov/elections/ballot-dropsites?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaVoFW4vR13cISn7_R9AzRezk0gNPUZgU18ZSOFzgZTJL0F9gQnhttizyE_aem_KDV2Vnb0OWi9mx6C8zF5QQ

Clackamas County Voters! If you live in Clackamas County these are state legislative seats that are open for re-election this 2024 General Election. We encourage you to visit their website campaigns to learn more about them. You can also find the Clackamas Voter Pamphlet by scanning the first QR code.

Washington County!!!
Election season is in full swing. If you live in Washington County these are state legislative seats that are open for re-election this 2024 General Election. We encourage you to visit their website campaigns to learn more about them. You can also find the Washington County Voter Pamphlet by scanning the first QR code.

Remember this election is important! Your Vote Matters!

Join the Oregon School-Based Health Alliance (OSBHA) and the Oregon Health Equity Alliance (OHEA) for an interactive webinar as we discuss how to make youth spaces (clinical, school, extracurricular, etc.) body positive to foster a safe environment. Attendees will learn approaches to model and promote body confident behavior, language, and practices that are accepting and reduce harm. This presentation will include scenarios to help participants think critically about how they can implement inclusive strategies into their work settings. Registration link is in our LinkTree.

Election season is in full swing. If you live in Multnomah County these are state legislative seats that are open for re-election this 2024 General Election. We encourage you to visit their website campaigns to learn more about them. You can also find the Multnomah Voter Pamphlet by scanning the first QR code.

Remember this election is important! Your Vote Matters!

ETA multnomah county ballots are safe

If you dropped your ballot off at one of the burned ballot boxes this morning (not this weekend, both were early this Monday am sorry!), or think you might have, track your ballot to see its status or request a new one:

https://multnomah.ballottrax.net/voter/

https://voter.votewa.gov/portal2023/login.aspx

Oregon Health Equity Alliance October Newsletter

Oregon Health Equity Alliance Monthly Newsletter October 2024

We are proud to be one of the 125+ organizations that endorse Measure 117! Measure 117 would enact ranked choice voting for statewide and federal races, which gives voters the option to rank candidates in order of preference: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. It's a simple improvement to our elections that gives you more choice and more power on your ballot. We urge Oregonians to vote YES on Measure 117 this election!

Today is the last day to register to vote or make any changes to your voter registration. Use this this link to register or make updates: https://sos.oregon.gov/voting/Pages/registration.aspx?lang=en

Check out our newsletter!

Oregon Health Equity Alliance Newsletter https://wix.to/CUaZe6a

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In a culture of hustle and bootstrap mentality, time is our most valuable commodity. We celebrate those who “do it all” and prioritize performance and productivity. The four-day workweek is an equitable way to not only provide workers with a better work-life balance, but to acknowledge that the way we think about work needs to change.

This is why we’re highlighting who’s working on the state and national levels to advance a four-day workweek policy and prove that not only is it possible, it’s beneficial for employers and employees alike. They’re also working to make a four-day workweek attainable to hourly, non-unionized, working-class, essential, and industrial workers at all levels.

The future of work is now, and the momentum is on our side. It’s time to make time poverty a thing of the pas

Last year OHEA launched an open call for personal stories and expressions of art, related to experiences of COVID-19 and long covid for people living in Oregon. With help from our friends at Gard Communications, we have compiled those submissions into a website that is now live and open to the public.

Please visit www.oregoncovidstorytelling.org to witness the submissions by way of artwork, audio files and written testimony submitted by community members throughout Oregon.

We truly appreciate and would like to extend our gratitude to those who provided a submission.

Be Well and Take Care.

OHEA endorsements are now open, see the graphics for details! Use the liknk below to access the form
https://ohea.jotform.com/232077738993976

Great news! The Interest Form for the QTBIPOC Reproductive and Gender Affirming Care Advisory Council will be open for applications for an additional week, closing on September 4th. The intention for this extension is to receive more applications from people who live, work, or receive Reproductive and Gender Affirming care services specifically in Clackamas and Washington Counties.

OHEA is organizing an Advisory Council to lead our QTBIPOC Reproductive and Gender Affirming Care Community Health Needs Assessment. We’re looking for 11-13 Q***r and Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color living in the tri-county area (Clackamas & Washington Counties in OR) to work with us through June 2025. Clackamas and Washington county residents, OHP receipients, and older Oregonians prioritized!
If you are interested, please use this link to complete our interest form! Interest form will be open until
https://ohea.jotform.com/242116271784052

OHEA está organizando un Consejo Asesor para liderar nuestra Evaluación de las Necesidades de Salud Comunitaria en cuanto a la Atención Reproductiva y Afirmación de Genero de la comunidad QTBIPOC. Estamos buscando entre 11 a 13 personas que se identifiquen en las siguientes comunidades: negras, indígenas y personas de color q***r y trans que vivan en el área de los tres condados (condados de Clackamas, y Washington en Oregón) para trabajar con nosotros hasta junio de 2025. Residentes de los condados de Clackamas y Washington, beneficiaros de OHP, y residentes mayores de Oregon tendran prioridad.

https://ohea.jotform.com/242116271784052

Join a UHP Governance Board Committee — HCAO - Health Care for All Oregon Join a Universal Health Plan Governance Board Committee! Apply today!

Primary Election Day is tomorrow!
May 21, 2024Make sure you drop off your ballot by 8pm

OHEA is hosting a legislative event: Where Are They Now? We will have our first session May 9th from 10:00-11:30 in English and our second session May 9th, from 2:00-3:30 pm in Spanish. Both of these events will have interpretation available. Please register for event in English Here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqd-ypqTgpGNbR_WMHUWHLJ9tEODNF6CF5 #/registration

or Spanish Here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcumhrzMjHde5VXqOppjhlDG-d-826jKX #/registration

The first 15 participants to register for each event will receive a gift from OHEA, please share your address in the registration if you’d like to be eligible.

Our upcoming Covid Storytelling Website Launch Event has been postponed to ensure that the website accessibility meets our standards. We will reach out early Fall with a save the date and more information for the rescheduled event.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to ensure a successful launch.

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Join us this Wednesday March 13 at 8am PT/11am ET for a Press Conference on the CDC's new isolation guidance.

Leading public health experts and disability advocates will urge CDC Director Mandy Cohen to revisit the abrupt elimination of isolation guidelines and open CDC guidance to a public comment period and make CDC Processes accountable to the public, not corporate interests, hospital groups, and insurance companies.

Speakers include:

Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH, People’s CDC
Rocelyn de Leon-Minch, National Nurses United
Kim Rhoads, MD, MPH UCSF
Raj Chakalashiya, UAW Local 2865
Gabriel San Emeterio, Long COVID Justice Network
Lisa McCorkell, MPP, Patient Led Research Collaborative

Hosted by Rita Valenti, RN, People’s CDC

Register at linktr.ee/peoplescdc

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Last week, the CDC announced new respiratory virus guidance that changed the isolation timelines for COVID-19. These new guidelines pose a significant and unnecessary danger to disabled and high-risk people. Let's be clear: COVID is NOT over. The pandemic is still raging on, killing and disabling far too many. AAPD released a statement expressing our major disappointment and frustration with the CDC's new policy, which you can read at our .

Disabled and high-risk people who are feeling terrified and alone in the face of this news: Your life is worthy. Your safety and care should be centered. Now is a time for us all to practice community care more than ever.

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OHEA is Hiring! OHEA is hiring for a Reproductive Justice and Gender Affirming Care Strategist. This is a Full-time, limited-duration position through June 2025 with potential opportunity to extend. For more information, follow this link: https://jobs.macslist.org/job/yzgpcz/reproductive-justice-and-gender-affirming-care-strategist/portland/or

Oregon Health Equity Alliance A people-of-color led collaborative, organized to center and uplift the wisdom of our community.

Drafted behind closed doors, leaving out the input of Black and brown people most affected by increased police power, HB 4002 will increase racial disparities in Oregon. And it fails to address the state’s addiction crisis. ACLU of Oregon

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HB 4002
- treats addiction as a crime
- increases racial disparities
- increases geographical disparities
- will convict thousands more people for addiction
- allows police and prosecuters to decide who gets treatment and who gets jail
- wastes taxpayer dollars
- upends the public defense system
- restarts the war on drugs in Oregon
- criminalizes poverty and homelessness.

Today we celebrate Brad Lomax, an unflinching advocate for Black empowerment and disability rights! Lomax was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP), founder of the BPP supported East Oakland Center for Independent Living, and protestor during the 504 sit-ins of 1977.

He was joined by fellow Black Panther Chuck Jackson during the 25 daylong sit-ins who not only provided attendant care for Lomax, but for several other protesters. The Black Panther Party also provided one meal a day to protestors in support of their sustained efforts compelling the government to implement section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Learn more about the Black power of the 504 Sit-Ins from Disability Studies Quarterly at https://ow.ly/Ajht50QzQwn