WHO WE ARE
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Specialize in healthcare coordination, data analysis, and establishing connections between healthcare systems and community-based organizations.
A world where equity and justice shape system-wide solutions to the most challenging social drivers of health.
FwdSlash was founded in 2020 by friends and colleagues who were committed to using upstream systems change mechanisms to address the greatest drivers of health inequity. Our name is inspired by the forward slash symbol ( / ) - a mark that signifies alternatives and new paths. We challenge the status quo by offering community-centered, justice-oriented solutions to the most complex social drivers of health. We believe progress begins when we demonstrate that there are other choices, and we build the systems to make those choices possible.
We have demonstrated the effectiveness of coordinating Medicaid and housing services for high-need individuals by reducing total cost of care by 50% and an 83% reduction in Emergency Room utilization.
We believe in a Community First model - one that empowers existing, local resources instead of replacing or displacing. With that, we acknowledge and honor the Indigenous peoples, who through the use of genocide, were robbed of and displaced from the land we work on.
In West Virginia, we honor the Shawnee, Lenape (also known as the Delaware), the Cherokee, the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois Six Nations, including the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora), and many other Indigenous peoples.
In Northern Kentucky, the land is primarily that of Shawnee, Cherokee, Chickasaw and Osage.
In Sacramento, we recognize that our housing will sit upon the land of Southern Maidu, the Valley and Plains Miwok/ Me-Wuk and the Patwin Wintun Peoples. We would also like to honor the Wilton Rancheria, the only federally recognized tribe in Sacramento County.
The city of Seattle and its greenspaces are on stolen Coast Salish land, specifically the ancestral land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot People.
In Raleigh Norther Carolina, our honor the Coharie, Cherokee, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi, Sappony, and Waccamaw-Siouan people, of whose land our housing work sits upon.
There are numerous other Indigenous communities that deserve recognition and justice. Learn more about North American Landback here.