Supported local leadership to advance community safety strategies.

PI served as the lead facilitator for the Santa Clara County Public Health Department’s new countywide Violence Prevention Learning to Action Collaborative, bringing together four CBOs to strengthen local community leadership in addressing community safety strategies from the ground up. Learning session topics included public health pathways to community safety, community healing, narrative strategy, power mapping, and collaboration, all designed to build trusted relationships and support applied learning. CBOs closed out the year with pride in their accomplishments, including culturally rooted healing and spaces of belonging, youth and parent leadership development, neighborhood improvements that foster safety and positive narratives, new and expanded cross-sector partnerships, and coalition building for youth peace and safety. PI also provided coaching to the health department on developing a robust and sustainable countywide network of violence prevention leaders as part of a larger agenda to advance a public health, primary prevention, and systems change-focused approach to community safety.

Funder: Santa Clara County Public Health Department Image by Annie Wu.