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This document by PI and Cities United provides talking points for people who want to make the case for a public health approach to preventing violence.
Please join the Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network for Part 3 of our four-part summit series, Equity as a Through Line: Social Movements, Public Finance, and Infrastructure Investments for Healthy Communities. Part 3 will explore what it takes to ensure high-quality, equitable community engagement in land use and infrastructure-related efforts. In recent years, Los Angeles has seen a surge of interest and investment in land use policy and infrastructure designed to promote health, livability, and climate resilience—like affordable housing, transit and complete streets, parks
Enhancing community conditions to support resilience and collective wellbeing through a learning community committed to improving mental health among youth and families of color in Houston, Texas
Please join the Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network for Part 2 of our four-part summit series, Equity as a Through Line: Social Movements, Public Finance, and Infrastructure Investments for Healthy Communities. Part 2 will explore crucial but overlooked challenges facing small cities and under-resourced communities, like the need to compete against larger and wealthier cities for grant dollars, the lack of sustained funding for community-based organizations to facilitate engagement and monitor highly-technical implementation processes, and a system that often favors “shovel-ready” projects over investing in long-term community capacity. Speakers will also reflect on what’s working well and how together we can build capacity in under-resourced communities across LA County and beyond.
In part one of this two-part podcast, Charles Corprew from What's Your Revolution talks with members of Prevention Institute’s Making Connections, an initiative that creates partnerships between community organizations in 14 sites across the country to promote the mental health and wellbeing of men and boys. In this episode he explores healthy masculinities with community leaders from Canton, CT, New Orleans, LA, and Albuquerque, NM who share how vulnerability, art, and self-care play big parts in the work that they do.
Please join the Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network for Part 1 of our four-part summit series, Equity as a Through Line: Social Movements, Public Finance, and Infrastructure Investments for Healthy Communities. Part 1 will explore practical lessons about advancing health equity and racial justice through public finance and infrastructure investments, drawing upon successes and challenges from statewide efforts and Los Angeles County Measure A (parks and open space), Measure M (transportation), and Measure W (stormwater). When: May 2, 2019, 8:30am – 1:00pm Where: Casa Italiana
This edition of the original Community-Centered Health Homes (CCHH) paper provides an updated description of the CCHH model based on the experiences of healthcare organizations piloting it, and offers practical strategies for implementation. The paper also includes a tool that healthcare organizations can use to assess what capacities they may need as they embark on efforts to improve community health.