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As the year ends, we want to stay connected—to each other, to communities, and to you!
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As the year comes to a close, and as the holiday season typically spotlights relationships, we’re reflecting on connection. The connections we create, nurture, and strengthen internally as an organization (especially after nearly three years working remotely due to the pandemic) are as essential as our connections with community-based and public health organizations who partner with us to promote health equity and racial justice. And, during a contentious and transitional time for social media platforms like Twitter, we’re thinking of ways to stay connected to you.
Social media remains a space for justice-minded people and organizations to connect in meaningful ways about our work and our collective futures. We don’t believe that will change. However, we want to be mindful about where we choose to engage supporters like you, and we encourage you to follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, where we plan to grow our presence and engagement significantly in the coming year. And visit our website for current updates and information about each of our focus areas. We also invite you to forward this email to your network—and encourage them to subscribe—so they can connect to our work promoting health, safety, and wellbeing.
Community and connection are at the heart of everything we do. Learn more about some of our initiatives: Communities of Care: With support from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, this initiative promotes mental health and wellbeing through community-level prevention solutions in the greater Houston Metropolitan Area. The collaboratives around transforming their communities in Houston to strengthen protective factors and resilience. Safety Through Connection: This learning program was designed to find solutions that promote safe relationships and health equity and address the root causes of domestic violence in communities. People, Parks, and Power (P3) : People, Parks, and Power (P3) is the first national funding initiative in the U.S. to support power building by community-based organizations to reverse deep-seated park and green space inequities in Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities across the country. The inaugural P3 cohort includes 14 groups that will organize their communities to advocate for park and green space equity. Read their latest newsletter and sign up to receive news, funding alerts, and networking opportunities.
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Appreciating our long-serving board president, and connecting with new board members:
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After almost a decade serving as our board president, Kalahn Taylor-Clark, PhD, MPH, is stepping down at the end of this year to make room for new leadership. In her recent LinkedIn blog, Kalahn welcomed PI’s new board members: Sean A. Haley, Ph.D., Katie Sellers, and Jason Lacsamana. Their combined experience in education and civic engagement, public health research and strategy, and funding and partnerships will amplify our commitment to health equity and racial justice and complements the assets of our entire board of directors.
Read Kalahn’s reflections on LinkedIn.
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Connecting in partnership with Big Cities Health Coalition:
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Joint Report - Centering Racial Justice to Strengthen the Public Health Ecosystem: Lessons from COVID-19
The public health field experienced a collective “moment” in 2020, declaring racism a public health crisis in cities, counties, and states across the country. However, since then, too many have slipped back to “business as usual.” The new report Centering Racial Justice to Strengthen the Public Health Ecosystem: Lessons from COVID-19 from Prevention Institute and Big Cities Health Coalition calls on us all to reignite our collective commitment to bold transformational change rooted in equity and racial justice.
Learn more about this project.
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Webinar Series - Cities: The Future of Health
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Join Big Cities Health Coalition for part two of a three-part webinar series, Cities: The Future of Health on January 12, 2023, 2 pm ET.
This webinar will focus on collaboration with community-based organizations as a key component of public health’s success, and feature a discussion with Charlene McGee, Program Manager, Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) for the Multnomah County Health Department. Learn more and register here. |
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