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Rent control can strengthen community resilience by stabilizing housing, supporting wellbeing, and helping people stay connected to their communities. Amid rising evictions and unaffordable rents, this resource shows how public health partners can advance housing justice and protect health.

This paper documents SHINE’s community-centered approach, outcomes, and learning through a retrospective evaluation that traces the initiative’s evolution, articulates its theory of change and underlying values, presents case studies of collaborative partners, and synthesizes key accomplishments, field-level insights, and implications for future work.

Learning Lab #3, Telling Compelling Stories of Hope and Healing, strengthened CBOs’ evaluation and storytelling capacity by introducing best practices and six data-informed story types to measure impact, demonstrate value, and fundraise effectively.

Learning Lab #2, Strategic Fundraising, Partnering with Philanthropy, Sustaining the Work, Focused on principle-driven fundraising, relationship-building with philanthropy, and practical tools to help CBOs craft compelling Stories for Impact to sustain and grow community safety efforts.

Learning Lab #1, Healing with Communities and Intergenerational Organizing, explored healing-centered strategies rooted in cultural strengths and “relationships as medicine,” while uplifting youth-led and intergenerational organizing approaches to advance community-driven violence prevention.

Building Bridges. Building Bridges 2.0 presents foundational principles of health equity and racial justice, as well as their role in data / evidence and community engagement. The four modules include examples, activities, discussion questions, and resources to facilitate deeper learning on these topics. This resource and accompanying facilitation guide (download on the right) will best serve public health and racial / social justice organizations who are looking to effectively align and integrate issues of equity and racial justice.

Analysis of Governor Newsom’s 2025–26 California Budget Proposal, highlighting impacts on community safety, healthy environments, health equity, and key funding gaps affecting community wellbeing.