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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.
Prevention Institute’s Ruben Cantu discusses what solutions to the opioid epidemic might look like if they took community trauma and resilience into account. He also applies a community trauma lens the issue of immigrant families being separated at the US border.
PI's Sheila Savannah and Larissa Estes co-authored this article in the Mental Health and Community Development issue of Community Development Innovation Review, a publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The article highlights the profound connections between poverty, place, and poor mental health, and presents opportunities for community development to play a role in mental health promotion.
Igniting Change from the Ground Up: Uplifting Best Practices for Community Organizing and Leadership Engagement focuses on tools and resources communities have utilized to build a strong base of support and mobilize leaders around efforts that advance health and equity. Presenters will highlight best practices from both urban and rural communities around the country. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about engagement techniques for cultivating leadership, approaches for fostering community ownership, and action-oriented strategies that support policy and systems change rooted in