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Creating Community Ownership in San Diego

The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation (JCNI) partnered with San Diego residents to turn a 10-acre blighted site into the Market Creek Plaza, a mixed-use commercial and cultural center. To facilitate community ownership, an initial public offering (IPO) was created that literally made community members stockholders in the project.

Great Beginnings for Black Babies

This southern California program works to improve pregnancy outcomes and strengthen families by encouraging women to seek early and continuous prenatal care and to adopt healthy lifestyles. Through its Fatherhood Initiative, it also seeks to encourage black fathers to be more involved in the care and support of their children.

Well-Being Index for Santa Monica

The Bloomberg Foundation awarded Santa Monica $1 million to create a well-being index for the city. The project researched factors that make cities thrive beyond traditional economic indicators and set the course for Santa Monica’s future direction.

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Sequential Intercept Mapping

The Sequential Intercept Model creates a map that illustrates how people with behavioral health conditions come in contact with and flow through the criminal justice system. In a workshop setting, facilitators and participants identify ways to link services and prevent future crime.

California Health Care Foundation: Mapping the Gaps in Mental Health

One in 20 California adults suffers from a serious mental illness, but rates and level of care can vary widely depending on where you live. California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) created a report showing that the state’s poorest areas often have the highest rates of mental illness – and the fewest licensed mental health professionals.

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UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital: Healing Childhood Trauma

This program provides effective, family-centered interventions for children from birth through age five who experience traumatic events such as violence in the home, death of a loved one, life-threatening accidents, illnesses or disasters. The multicultural, multilingual staff also trains clinicians across the country in the program’s treatment model.

California’s Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System (DMC-ODS): From Recovery to Health

This system provides a continuum of care for substance abuse treatment services modeled after the American Society of Addiction Medicine criteria. It provides beneficiaries with access to care needed for recovery and sustaining health while bringing down other healthcare costs. Several counties have had their plans approved; San Mateo County has begun implementation.

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Santa Rosa’s Community Safety Scorecard

In 2015, the Santa Rosa Violence Prevention Partnership and the Advancement Project developed a Community Safety Scorecard with 17 community safety indicators across four domains (economic conditions, crime and safety, family and community connectedness, and school conditions) to guide decisions to improve community safety at a neighborhood level.

Health Impact Assessments

Where you live can affect your health. Human Impact Partners’ health impact assessments (HIAs) look at a community’s design, transportation, food systems and other factors, and makes recommendations to improve residents’ overall health and reduce health disparities.

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Due Process for All in San Francisco

In November of 2013, San Francisco affirmed that all individuals who are arrested should be treated equally in the criminal justice system. Under the policy, local law enforcement does not generally turn over individuals to ICE to be processed for potential deportation, ensuring that all individuals have equal access to freedom before trial.

A Place at the Table for Everyone

Sanctuary Restaurants is a joint project of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and Presente.org. While not a legal designation, thousands of workers, diners, and allies across the country have declared “a zero tolerance policy for sexism, racism, and xenophobia and a place at the table for all.”

Providing Counsel at Bail Assessments  

As of 2016, Florida, Maryland, Colorado, Kentucky and the federal courts were the only jurisdictions in the country to require all defendants be appointed a lawyer at bail hearings. On top of ensuring due process rights for all, the requirement saves jurisdictions money by eliminating the costs of unnecessary and unjustified incarceration. Clients typically serve shorter detentions and pay less for bail.