This 1-pager shows how SHINE builds and resources anchor organizations that become trusted go-to hubs, translating community power into concrete systems and policy wins.
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This 1-pager demonstrates how SHINE treats belonging, healing, and cultural practice as core infrastructure that enables leadership, organizing, and sustained collective action.
In this piece, Grace Guerrero Ramirez shares how SHINE collaboratives cultivate leadership through mentorship, advocacy, and outreach—creating inclusive, supportive spaces where women and youth feel empowered to lead change in their communities.
*** 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
SHINE is a California project stewarded by Prevention Institute (PI), co-created with a Learning Community of five collaboratives, and supported by the Blue Shield of California Foundation. SHINE collaboratives work at the intersection of racial and gender justice, Indigenous sovereignty, immigrant/refugee rights, and housing/economic security to address the root causes of domestic violence and promote safety and healing in their communities. This work requires significant mental, physical, and creative energy from its leaders, demanding they show up as their whole selves. During July’s SHINE
*** This article belongs to the Othering & Belonging Institute's Impact Stories series in which scholars, activists, artists, policymakers, and everyday people share their experiences putting OBI's research and principles into action in their communities. -- In 2022, the Safety Through Connection team at Prevention Institute led a design process with our Learning Community partners. After three years of building capacity for culturally-rooted strategies to promote safe communities and prevent domestic violence, two of which fell squarely during the height of the pandemic, it was time to
This 1-pager highlights SHINE’s investment in embodied, culturally grounded leadership pathways that transform individuals into collective leaders who sustain community power and action.
A webinar about Mujeres Poderosas Amorosas, a Safety Through Connection collaborative, on building on cultural strengths to facilitate change.
This paper documents SHINE’s community-centered approach, outcomes, and learning through a retrospective evaluation that traces the initiative’s evolution, articulates its theory of change and underlying values, presents case studies of collaborative partners, and synthesizes key accomplishments, field-level insights, and implications for future work.
These 1-pagers draw from findings from the evaluation of the first seven years (2019-2025) of SHINE (Safety & Healing in Networks of Equity) and bring that learning to life through quotes, images, and examples of actions and accomplishments. Together, they show how SHINE invests in leadership, anchor organizations, and community connectedness and cultural practice to build community power, advance policy and systems change, and support safety, equity, and healing. They also describe who SHINE is as a statewide and trans-local effort and outline what’s next, including continued investment in
In this piece, Lisa Fujie Parks writes about SHINE’s commitment to community power building through culturally rooted organizing, healing-centered leadership, and expanded training to advance safety, healing, and health equity in underserved communities.
In September 2023, the Safety Through Connection (STC) and Leveraging Collaboration to End Domestic Violence (LCEDV) learning communities gathered in Prevention Institute’s Oakland office and the RYSE Center in Richmond under the theme of Thriving Community Ecosystems: Culture and Systems Change for Safety and Healing. This assembly of eight collaboratives from across California generated a wealth of conversation on the ins and outs of working toward a future that promotes safe and healthy relationships, supports young people, and amplifies BIPOC voices, histories, and cultures. During our
In this piece, Prevention Institute's Alissa Leung writes about how SHINE collaboratives are embracing Healing Justice to prevent violence, honor cultural traditions, and build collective healing in BIPOC and underserved communities.
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