Align Systems with Community Priorities
Communities understand their needs and strengths best. Supporting them to have more say in which issues get addressed is the best way to build lasting, more equitable solutions to health disparities, domestic violence, or any other societal issue.

Bold goals, refined strategy: Foundation takes new approaches to fulfilling its mission
September 10, 2021The Foundation recently updated its priorities with three new multidisciplinary tracks to turn California into the healthiest state and end domestic violence.

Applying the lessons of one pandemic to another
August 23, 2021The echoes of the AIDS crisis have been ringing loudly since the start of COVID-19 pandemic.

How to leverage federal dollars to advance equity through community councils
May 27, 2021This piece...

Communities of tomorrow can be free of violence by focusing on prevention today
December 11, 2020We explore five ways communities of the future can prevent domestic violence.
Prevention Institute Beyond Screening: Achieving California's Bold Goal of Reducing Exposure to Childhood Trauma
October 30, 2020California is facing a crisis: adverse childhood experiences. Fifteen percent of children under the age of five show...

New grants support Californians whose ‘new normal’ in the pandemic is intolerable
April 15, 2020When I came to the Foundation just a few weeks ago, I was energized to help achieve our bold goal: to make California the...

Prevention Institute: A Health Equity and Multisector Approach to Preventing Domestic Violence
October 15, 2019Prevention Institute conducted a preliminary landscape scan to inform and strengthen a statewide approach to preventing...

South Stockton Promise Zone: Case Study
August 2, 2019

Imperial County ACH: Case Study
August 2, 2019The Funders Forum on Accountable Health conducted ten...

Establishing a Local Wellness Fund: Early lessons from the California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative
July 15, 2019In the past decade there has been rapidly growing interest and funding for multisector health collaboratives to improve...