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Join this session with Prevention Institute and CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention to learn about and contribute to the Uplifting Contextual and Experiential Evidence project, which seeks to elevate and integrate contextual (i.e., measurable factors in a community) and experiential (i.e., the collective experience and expertise of those who have practiced or lived in a particular setting, or lived experience) evidence alongside the accepted and institutionalized science base. This project builds off of Prevention Institute’s Health Equity in Practice (HEiP) modules to embed health equity
Learning Lab #1 introduces a public health approach to violence, drawing on CDC tools and the role of public health partners. It explores pathways to violence and safety through Prevention Institute’s Community Safety Realized framework and highlights five racial justice principles to guide action.
We're pleased to share our summary and analysis of Governor Newsom’s California Budget Proposal for 2024-2025. This summary highlights elements of the budget proposal that advance equity and justice through health, safety, and wellbeing, and is organized by our three overarching policy priorities: Strengthening community-driven approaches to safety and wellbeing Healthy, equitable built environments and land use planning Aligning public investments with health equity and racial justice With the state facing a budget deficit, we hope this summary can serve as an effective tool for advocates and
*** This blog was originally published in the Othering & Belonging Institute or UC Berkeley The colonization of Indigenous lands and peoples in what is now called California included the state-funded genocide of 90 percent of Indigenous populations and the accumulation of land and wealth among white settlers. According to Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy, an associate professor and chair of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt, this genocide was also a "gendercide" because white settlers enforced gender binaries and enacted patriarchal violence, slavery, and trafficking of women and girls for
Building a responsive support network for community leaders and advocates
Structural racism is a determinant of violence; racial justice is a determinant of safety. In 2021, in collaboration with the Division of Violence Prevention, Prevention Institute researched the ways that communities can achieve safety addressing structural racism. Based on that work and input from leaders and practitioners across the country, we developed this set of modules to assist violence prevention partners integrate health equity and racial justice into their practices, programming, and policy work. The modules contain specific action steps that CDC program recipients, staff, and other