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Advocacy & Equity
Overview
We are committed to advocating for policies and services that uplift underserved communities, address systemic inequities, and promote racial, gender, and economic justice. Our staff and board stand in solidarity with organizations driving upstream approaches that influence policies, transform practices, build coalitions, and educate providers.
Policy Agenda
We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion at all levels in fulfilling our mission. Our policy agenda prioritizes communities of color and acknowledges the adverse effects of childhood experiences shaped by community environments such as poverty, discrimination, violence, and lack of opportunity.
The Building Community Resilience Pair of ACEs model guides our efforts to improve health and life outcomes through education, programs, advocacy, and coalition-building. Using an advocacy framework, we integrate public awareness campaigns, participation in forums, community organizing, coalition-building, and community mobilization to create lasting change.
Current advocacy priorities include:
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (negative childhood experiences, including physical, sexual, emotional abuse, violence, neglect; substance use; violence, loss that harms healthy development of children and families; mental illness)
- Adverse Community Environments / Social Determinants of Health (poverty and discrimination, food, education access and quality, access to healthcare, housing stability, neighborhood and built environment, economic stability)
- Resilient Communities / Community Health and Safety (emergency and disaster preparedness, public health emergencies, climate-change action)
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