Prevention Institute has deep roots in California, with offices in Oakland and Los Angeles. We collaborate with partners up and down the state, weaving together our core organizational focus areas to advance a shared vision of a healthier, safer and more equitable California. In our experience, strategies that take root here often point the way towards effective approaches to advancing community health nationwide. By building a multi-sector network of prevention partners, we work to capture learnings from one community, health condition, or issue to ensure that successful methods and models for transformation are understood and implemented broadly. Our projects span from consultation with local collaboratives, foundations, and health departments to embed prevention into community initiatives to state-level research and advocacy to ensure health is central to California policy decisions. 
With the influx of $43 billion in flexible state and local recovery funds via the American Rescue Plan Act and a historic state surplus, it's time for California's leaders to “bake in” health equity and racial justice to public funding programs at every stage. By designing and implementing funding programs grounded in California’s commitment to equity, we can foster community health, safety, and wellbeing in our state’s racially and economically diverse communities. This brief recommends ways to operationalize equity in each phase of a public funding program.
