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Prevention Institute’s analysis of California’s proposed budget highlights investments that advance health, safety, wellbeing, and equity. Organized around three priorities—promoting safety and healing, creating healthy community environments, and strengthening prevention-oriented health systems—it identifies key opportunities for advocates to support equitable outcomes across California.
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.
How California’s Community-Based Organizations Filled the Gaps for Underserved Communities
Aniya Wingate and Walter J. Hull II are not just Mentor and Protege but intergenerational storytellers and collaborators that utilize their art as a vehicle towards justice and healing in the Black community. Together, they created a short film, Shoulders Deep about healing after Hurricane Harvey and a feature documentary, Raising Aniya, about their relationship and exposing environmental justice issues in the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana and Texas. Join us in a conversation about the intersections of mentoring, art, and the importance of youth voice with Walter, Aniya, and her Grandmother
Sharon Cheng has over 19 years of experience as a Therapeutic Consultant/ Behavior Specialist, Positive Behavior Support Professional, Service Coordinator and Special Needs Program coordinator. She is currently the Director of the Special Needs Caring Center for Light and Salt Association in Houston, TX. She brings tremendous experience and skills around educational and adaptive living strategies, program development, client support services, and coalition building. Haitrieu Nguyen is the founder of TÂM: Talk and Mend. TÂM is a grass-roots movement to talk and mend the stigma surrounding
The success of students in the education system is highly influenced by early childhood factors. The most prominent factor that plays a role in the success of students in the first few years of their life is kindergarten readiness. Kindergarten readiness refers to the knowledge that a child obtains both in the home and in early child hood centers that prepares them for success in kindergarten and furthermore in the education system. High levels of success in kindergarten is frequently correlated with parental involvement in the home and attendance at early childhood pre k centers. Historically