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Care Share Health Alliance

Care Share Health Alliance

Helping communities coordinate care and other resources for underserved people through collaborative networks and models

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About Us

At Care Share Health Alliance, we build capacity, create networks, and partner to make change to White supremacist systems so that communities are healthy and equitable. Our work is guided by the prioritization of community voice and the lived experience of community members.

Mission

Collaborating for Health Equity

Vision

Communities are healthy and committed to health equity for all

Strategic Priorities

Increase Access to Equitable Care

Making community-informed efforts so that affordable, culturally competent healthcare that meets the needs of the individual is available to everyone.

Disrupt White Supremacy Culture

Disrupt systems that perpetuate structural violence by intentionally leaving out, othering, and harming People of Color, to advance White individuals. We envision systems that advance everyone. Care Share prioritizes community voice and the lived experience of BIPOC individuals to lead the conversation about what changes are needed in the systems affecting them.

Develop Connections & Networks

Care Share creates opportunities for individuals, communities, and Community Based Organizations to connect in order to increase their reach and capacity through collaboration and partnerships.

Improve Capacity & Sustainability

Ensuring communities, Community Based Organizations, and individuals have the resources, knowledge and supports needed to make their communities healthier and more equitable for all.

Our History

Care Share Health Alliance originated in a Collaborative Network of partners dedicated to connecting uninsured and underinsured individuals in Buncombe County, North Carolina with donated healthcare services.

In 2008, Care Share Health Alliance was officially established to serve as a statewide resource and technical assistance center to help communities develop their own Collaborative Networks to improve access to care and the health of low-income, uninsured and underserved people.

While working with Collaborative Networks, Care Share began to realize that to truly make an impact on overall health, we could not focus solely on clinical care, but rather broaden our scope to address additional factors preventing individuals from seeking or receiving healthcare services. These are the “Social Drivers of Health” (or Social Determinants of Health), which include all areas affecting an individual’s health, such as housing, transportation, access to health insurance, availability of healthy food, education, and job/income opportunities.

Care Share has since been able to address the social driver of access to health insurance in two major ways: in 2014, through establishing NC Get Covered to help North Carolinians get access to health insurance after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and beginning in 2020, through the NC Collaborative on Medicaid Transformation (NCCOMeT), which helps support the implementation of Medicaid Transformation in North Carolina.

Inevitably, through this and our other work addressing social drivers of health, Care Share became aware of the inequities inherent in healthcare systems that predominately affect historically marginalized populations, especially BIPOC communities. We recognized that disparity is due to White Supremacist Systems – systems that perpetuate structural violence by intentionally leaving out, othering, and harming People of Color, to advance White individuals.

That realization led Care Share to shift our organizational focus to making community-led systems change for better health equity and creating opportunities for BIPOC individuals in healthcare and BIPOC-led organizations addressing Social Drivers of Health through professional development, capacity building, and creating connections.

While our strategic priorities may be different, our current work is still deeply informed by the values we have held since our beginning with Collaborative Networks: that we must be responsive to communities, who all have their own assets and challenges; that our work must be driven and defined by those communities, as they are the experts in their own experiences; and that collaboration is fundamental to making change.

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Care Share Health Alliance Statement on the Murder of Tyre Nichols

At Care Share Health Alliance we approach this statement with intense sadness for the loss of life of Tyre Nichols and with the deepest sympathy for his family to have […]

Care Share Honors Jan. 16, 2023 as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

“Of all forms of discrimination and inequalities, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman.” This quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is often cited by those of us […]

NC’s BIPOC Leaders: Rev. Dr. Dawn Baldwin Gibson at Peletah Ministries

Rev. Dr. Dawn Baldwin Gibson still remembers when she was only four years old sitting at a nurse’s station in the hospital, while her mother was visiting with Gibson’s father, […]

NC’s BIPOC Leaders: Yesenia Cuello, Executive Director at NC FIELD

Yesenia Cuello may only be 30 years old, but she has a lifetime of experience to inform her work as Executive Director of NC FIELD, a non-profit working with farmworker […]

Tailored Plans will be delayed until April 1, 2023

NC DHHS has announced that implementation of the NC Medicaid Managed Care Behavioral Health and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Tailored Plans will be delayed until April 1, 2023 instead of December 1, 2022. Tailored […]

Request For Proposal: Independent Auditor

Care Share Health Alliance is seeking a qualified auditing firm to provide accounting services. Specific questions to which we ask your response are listed in Exhibit I.  Please note that […]

Guidance on Preparing for the End of the PHE

Since it began in January 2020, the COVID-19 federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) helped prevent NC Medicaid beneficiaries from losing their health coverage during the pandemic, even if someone’s eligibility […]

NC’s BIPOC Leaders: Josie Williams of Greensboro Housing Coalition

Safe and affordable housing has always had a major impact on the life of Josie Williams, Executive Director of the Greensboro Housing Coalition. Williams spent her youth in an area […]

NC’s BIPOC Leaders: Chester Williams of ABC2

Care Share Health Alliance is excited to share a new series of articles on North Carolina’s BIPOC leaders working in the health equity space. Our first entry features Chester Williams, […]

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