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The East San Jose PEACE Partnership is made up of neighborhood residents, grassroots community organizations, businesses, healthcare organizations, schools, youth leaders, and many Santa Clara County and San Jose government agencies.
With leadership from the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health and funding from the California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative (CACHI), they’re working to achieve health equity for East San Jose residents by pushing for policies and practices to improve the community environment. These include things like advocating for affordable housing, promoting safe relationships, reducing access to dangerous weapons, creating community gathering spaces, and beautifying the neighborhood.
They’re also putting hope and healing at the center of their activism for policy change. As part of PI’s work supporting the PEACE Partnership, we were able to provide them with tools like our Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience (ACE|R) framework to assess challenges they face as a community and strengths they possess. The ACE|R framework helped the PEACE Partnership incorporate healing and resilience into its community-level strategies to promote health equity.
Learn more about communities across the US that are using the ACE|R framework to address community and domestic violence, mental health and suicide, substance misuse, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and climate change, among other issues.
PI is available to provide training, technical assistance, and consulting to organizations and coalitions doing work similar to that of the PEACE Partnership.
Photo credit: SOMOS Mayfair
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