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Caregiver Involvement

• Adolescent and School Health: Parent Engagement in Schools | CDC
• Early Childhood Services and Resources for Families | Mass.gov
• Engage Parents to Promote Healthy Schools | CDC
• Family Engagement | CDC
• Parent and Community Education Involvement: Advisory Councils | MA DESE

Health Equity and Inclusive Practices

• 2024 Annual Report of the Racial Imbalance Advisory Council (RIAC): Racial Segregation in Massachusetts Schools
• Build Healthy Places Network: Tools & Resources
• Building Coalitions To Promote Health Equity: A Toolkit for Action | Campaign for Action
• Civil Rights Data Collection from the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (March 2014)
  • Data Snapshot: School Discipline (PDF)
  • Data Snapshot: Early Childhood Education (PDF)
  • Data Snapshot: College and Career Readiness (PDF)
  • Data Snapshot: Teacher Equity (PDF)
• Cultural Respect | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Cultural Responsiveness and Equity - Resources | NASN
• Data resources for researching students' social contexts:
  • Child Opportunity Map | Diversity Data Kids
  • Data Profiles | American Community Survey | U.S. Census Bureau
  • Massachusetts Data Sets | County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
  • PLACES: Local Data for Better Health | CDC
• District Analysis and Review Tools (DARTs) | MA DESE
• Educator Effectiveness Guidebook for Inclusive Practice | MA DESE
• The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity
• Health Equity Tools | Prevention Institute
• Living Language Guide
  • This is an ever-changing glossary of diversity and inclusion-related terms curated by BU's Diversity & Inclusion Team.
• MDPH: Making Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Happen | Mass.gov
• Moving Beyond Florence: Why We Need to Decolonize Nursing History by Kylie Smith
• National Collaborative for Health Equity (NCHE)
• A Nurse Educator's Perspective About Institutional Racism and White Supremacy in Nursing Education by Amy Harding
• Nursing a Radical Imagination: Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures edited by Jess Dillard-Wright, Jane Hopkins-Walsh, & Brandon Brown
• ONL: A Tool Kit for Addressing Racism in Nursing and Healthcare (PDF)
• Our Racial Reckoning Statement | American Nurses Association (ANA) (PDF)
  • See also: A Black Nurse’s Reaction to the ANA Apology by Lucinda Canty
• Racial Equity and School Health | Mass.gov
• Racial Justice Competency Model (RJCM) – For Public Health
• Statement on Racism in America | National Association of State School Nurse Consultants (NASSNC) (PDF)
• What is Health Equity? | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

Homelessness

• Guidance on Fixed, Regular, and Adequate Housing: Identifying Family and Youth Homelessness | MA DESE
• Guidance on Supporting Homeless Students During the State of Emergency | MA DESE (Word Doc)
• Guide: School Enrollment for Students in Temporary Housing | Switchboard (PDF)
• Horizons for Homeless Children
• Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
• McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act | Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts
• McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act | MA DESE
• McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance - Advisories | MA DESE (Word Doc)

Immigration and Refugee Population

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MA DESE):

• Enrolling and Supporting Newcomer Students in Massachusetts Schools & Districts - Frequently Asked Questions (Word Doc)
• Resources for Supporting Immigrant and Refugee Students