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Policy and everyday life
What your neighbor’s health has to do with yours
When a family struggles to afford care or childcare, the effects can reach far beyond home.
Ruby Jones
Shared
Health
Health isn’t an individual matter. When one person can get care, keep a home, earn a living and find information they trust, the whole community is healthier for it. When they can’t, everyone feels it.
Policy and everyday life
What your neighbor's health has to do with yours
When a family struggles to afford care or childcare, the effects can reach far beyond home.
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Employee ownership
When the owner retires, who owns what comes next?
A Western Colorado company handed ownership to its workers—and discovered what the change really takes.
Ruby Jones
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Gender-affirming care
When protected care is still out of reach
In Colorado, gender-affirming care is protected by law. For some transgender minors and their families, finding it is another matter.
Tyler Santora
- 4Upcoming
Housing and community power
What happens when a community takes the property, and the story, back?
A community nonprofit bought the Aurora apartments at the center of national headlines—and plans to rebuild them as affordable homes.
Robert Davis
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Shared-equity homeownership
They finally bought a home in Denver. The next buyer could, too.
A community land trust helped a Denver couple afford their first condo, with resale rules designed to keep it within reach for the next buyer.
Robert Davis
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Health information and trust
Same health story. Different headlines. What can you trust?
A developing health story can look different depending on the source—and what those differences leave out matters.
Priscilla Blossom
Why these are health stories
A company changing hands, a neighborhood taking ownership of its housing, a decision made by a public institution: each can change who has security, access and a say in what happens next.
The series follows those decisions and their consequences, including who bears the greatest burden, who else depends on what is at stake, and what greater stability can make possible.
About the series
Presented by
The Colorado Health Foundation
A statewide philanthropic organization working to improve Coloradans’ health through community-informed solutions and policies that advance health equity. The foundation funded Shared Health.
Distributed by
Colorado Ethnic Media Exchange
A network of independent news outlets across Colorado, owned and operated by media leaders of color.
Produced by
Series development, editing, social content and campaign site production.
Read more about the series and the four journalists reporting it