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This report highlights promising practices and recommendations for incorporating contextual and experiential evidence into public health decision-making. It outlines how institutions can recognize community conditions and lived experience as valuable forms of evidence. The report offers key strategies for gathering, integrating, and sustaining these forms of evidence to strengthen more equitable and effective prevention efforts.
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
Every community deserves to thrive. Since 2019, Communities of Care (CoC), a five-year initiative that supports collaborative approaches to wellbeing in the greater Houston Metropolitan Area, has partnered with local leaders, residents, and organizations to address the systemic drivers of health inequities and work toward sustainable, community-driven change.
Over the past three years, Prevention Institute (PI) has worked to strengthen the relevance and effectiveness of public health strategies to advance racial justice and health equity within the field. In this podcast, Director Ruben Cantu talks with PI staff members La’Quana Williams (Associate Program Director) and Alberto Espiricueta (Program Assistant) on their journey to accomplish this goal. The podcast details the tools produced within the grant period, the importance of cultivating partnerships with racial and social justice organizations, as well as the challenges, opportunities, and
Prevention Institute shares the principles, strategies, and recommendations from the Uplifting Contextual and Experiential Evidence: Promising Practices and Recommendations report.