We Envision an oregon

… that collects data for the people, by the people. That is honest about what harms are occurring and builds a compelling story about collective agency, action, and liberation. That gathers the data and conducts analyses equitably, and in service to collective healing.

the pathway: data justice → 

… in which all people are housed, connected, educated, and meaningfully employed. That heals the land and her people, in which no person experiences identity-based oppression. Traditional medicine, including foodways, is accessible. All people live as part of loving, resilient, and safe communities.

the pathway: Access + Delivery of Care →

… in which relationship to land and community are the primary source of health and wellbeing. That stabilizes people and families across generations with investments in climate resilience, universal basic income, quality housing and education, and health care.

the pathway: community health →

Data Justice

Access + Delivery of Care

Expand access + options 

All people have choice in their health care. We expand access to care by providing universal health care and ensuring people and communities have access to western and traditional medicine at home, in clinic, in public spaces, hospital settings, and virtually via telehealth. Our workforce is as diverse as the people receiving care.

Body sovereignty as healing + health care

All bodies are understood as sovereign and sacred. All people experience authentic and trusting relationship with their care providers in which their needs, wants, and desires for their bodies are unconditionally respected and honored. That does not coerce or make laws that prevent any person from receiving the health care they need and want.

Indigenous, traditional + spiritual medicine is accessible

Until new systems of health-giving are created, public and private insurance companies and health care systems integrate and make accessible traditional healing and medicines as a “covered” benefit.

Universal access to health + wellbeing

We create health-giving systems and provide universal access to health care. That fully resources communities to ensure all people experience inclusion and belonging, economic stability, educational attainment, spiritual and religious wellness, and safe housing.

Culturally + racially diverse providers + systems of practice

Our providers and health-giving systems reflect the full diversity of our cultural experiences, lived identities, and community needs. We make equitable opportunities for academic, professional and apprenticeship pathways for BIPOC peoples, LGBTQI2+ peoples, people with low income, and people with disabilities to train, work, and thrive as traditional healers and medical providers.

Community Health

Community as health, health as community

Health is created in and by community, not by health care systems. Community systems are fully funded and resourced to meet each other’s basic needs for housing, economic stability, access to nature and green spaces, education, and social connection.

Expand access + options 

All people have choice in their health care. We expand access to care by providing universal health care and ensuring people and communities have access to western and traditional medicine at home, in clinics, in public spaces, hospital settings, and virtually via telehealth. Our workforce is as diverse as the people receiving care.

Truth, Reconciliation + Reparation as Life-Giving Care

To improve the health of all Oregonians, we make systemic + institutional racism and oppression obsolete. That formally convenes a truth and reconciliation process to describe and heal from the impact colonization, racism, and capitalism have inflicted on the planet and her people. That recreates systems to provide equitable care for Oregon’s Indigenous, Black, and all communities of color experience.

Anti-racist, (re)Indigenized Systems

Truth, Reconciliation + Reparation as Life-Giving Care

To improve health, we make systemic and institutional racism obsolete. Oregon formally convenes a truth and reconciliation process to describe and heal from the impact colonization, racism, and capitalism have inflicted on the planet and her people.

Trauma-informed, humanized systems of care

We (re)create health-giving, life-centered systems of care. Our systems authentically reflect the communities they serve. Providers have personal and professional experience and training that ensures all helping professionals are able to provide culturally relevant, nurturing care inside of culturally relevant, nurturing systems.

White-Bodied People Heal From Internalized White Supremacy + Oppression

We envision an Oregon in which white-bodied people are willing and able to recognize the costs of maintaining white supremacy culture, racism, and other forms of colonial oppression. In which, white-bodied Oregonians are active and authentic co-conspirators working to end the preventable, inequitable, and disproportionate illness and death Oregon’s Indigenous, Black, and non-Indigenous communities of color experience.