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We're pleased to share our summary and analysis of Governor Newsom’s California Budget Proposal for 2024-2025. This summary highlights elements of the budget proposal that advance equity and justice through health, safety, and wellbeing, and is organized by our three overarching policy priorities: Strengthening community-driven approaches to safety and wellbeing Healthy, equitable built environments and land use planning Aligning public investments with health equity and racial justice With the state facing a budget deficit, we hope this summary can serve as an effective tool for advocates and
*** 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
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Structural racism is a determinant of violence; racial justice is a determinant of safety. In 2021, in collaboration with the Division of Violence Prevention, Prevention Institute researched the ways that communities can achieve safety addressing structural racism. Based on that work and input from leaders and practitioners across the country, we developed this set of modules to assist violence prevention partners integrate health equity and racial justice into their practices, programming, and policy work. The modules contain specific action steps that CDC program recipients, staff, and other
Under the theme of "Transforming Our Communities Collectively," in November 2023, more than 300 community advocates, youth, and thought leaders came together in Houston for the Young Minds Matter Conference. Co-hosted by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health and Prevention Institute, the conference is part of a movement shaping the future of mental health and fostering healing, justice, and connection.
In this video, Tiffany Iheanacho, Director, Buncombe County Justice Services, describes how Buncombe County, North Carolina, is putting racial justice principles into practice to prevent violence and promote safety.