Power-building Partnerships for Health Cohorts

• Jackson, Mississippi: People’s Advocacy Institute (PAI) with University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC)
  
  • PAI is a transformative justice hub rooted in Jackson that organizes survivors and families impacted by police violence and mass incarceration. UMMC brings clinical capacity and broader health infrastructure as Mississippi’s only academic medical center. Together, they launched the Mississippi Violence Intervention Program – embedding trained violence interrupters and wraparound supports in UMMC’s emergency room to link community-led transformative justice with frontline trauma care.
• Vermont: Community Resilience Organizations (CROs) and The Center for Story & Strategy with Vermont Department of Health – Office of Health Equity Integration (OHEI)
  
  • Emerging after Hurricane Ida with CDC Health Disparities funding, this partnership weaves state public health infrastructure with racial and climate grassroots organizers. CROs now serve as fiscal sponsors and collaborators, helping remove structural barriers for grassroots groups, while working with the VDH to explore how practices of community care and accountability can be aligned with state government.
• Washington State: Carceral Health Equity (CHE) Workgroup with the Washington State Department of Health
  
  • The CHE Workgroup brings together a coalition of currently and formerly incarcerated leaders representing Common Good Tacoma, Northwest Community Bail Fund, Washington Innocence Project, Black Prisoners Caucus and other organizations. The CHE Workgroup works with the Washington State Department of Health to address the health harms of incarceration. Since 2023, the partnership has centered the lived experiences of those most impacted by the criminal legal system and has already influenced prison air quality guidance, mental health crisis response planning, and legislative health impact reviews.
• Seattle & King County, Washington: Health Equity and Anti-Racism Community Advisory Group (HEARCAG) with Public Health – Seattle & King County‍
  
  • HEARCAG is a multi-sector table centering Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities, working at the interconnected crises of health and racism. HEARCAG members represent organizations including the Community Health Board Coalition, Eastside Pathways, Coalition of Immigrants Refugees and Communities of Color, and the Tubman Center for Health & Freedom. HEARCAG works with Public Health – Seattle & King County to shift power to community organizations through co-governance and community-driven policy priorities including divesting from criminal legal harms while investing in health, community development, gender-affirming and reproductive care, and dignified food access.

• ‍Chicago, IL - Closing Chicago’s Life Expectancy Gap: Northwest Center and Chicago Department of Public Health‍
• Ingham County (Lansing), MI - Community Safety and Climate Justice: One Love Global and Ingham County Health Department ‍
• Kane County, IL – Parent/Youth Mental Health: Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI) and Kane County Health Department‍
• Monterey County, CA – Racial Justice: Action Council (Building Healthy Communities) and Monterey County Health Department

• Chelsea, MA – Housing Justice: La Colaborativa / Chelsea Collaborative and City of Chelsea Department of Public Health
• Kansas City / Wyandotte County, KS – Environmental Justice: CleanAirNow and Unified Government Health Department
• New Orleans, LA – Workers’ Bill of Rights & Economic Equity: Step Up Louisiana and New Orleans Health Department‍
• Pasadena, CA – Economic & Food Security: National Day Laborers Organizing Network/ Mano a Mano and Pasadena Public Health Department

• Sacramento, CA: Sacramento Homeless Union and Sacramento County Public Health
• Long Beach, CA: Khmer Girls in Action and City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services 
• Denver, CO: 9-to-5 Colorado and Tri-County Health Department Colorado‍
• St. Louis, MO: Homes for All St. Louis and City of St. Louis Health Department

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For more details, view a Summary Evaluation of the 2021-2022 PPH Cohort

Due to COVID, HIP pivoted to work with the Public Health Alliance of Southern California to support Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and their community partners CAUSE and MICOP’s work to protect farmworker health and safety during COVID-19.  The partnership supported:

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• Development of Latinx and Indigenous Migrant COVID-19 Task Force
• Documentation of community conditions impacting COVID-19 risk
• A Health Order on H2A housing to require COVID-19 control measures in temporary agricultural worker housing and homeless shelters
• Increased attention to Indigenous workers’ COVID-19 risks and language needs in communications and outreach.

• Solano County, CA: Club Stride, Inc. and Solano Public Health Department
• Alameda County, CA: Faith in Action East Bay and Alameda County Public Health Department
• Contra Costa County, CA: Ensuring Opportunity and Contra Costa County Health Services
• Riverside County, CA: Starting Over, Inc/ Riverside All of Us or None and Riverside County Department of Public Health
• Santa Barbara County, CA: Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) and Santa Barbara County Public Health Department