The ongoing collaboration and important work between the Center for Community Resilience within the George Washington University’s Milken Institute of Public Health and a broad coalition of community groups in Cincinnati, Ohio, led to a formal apology from the City of Cincinnati to the local Black community for historical racial injustices. Cincinnati is now pioneering a progressive strategy to foster reparative justice and racial reconciliation through strategic investments in communities most harmed by structural racism. This P4A Spark
blog post outlines this innovative approach and how it could serve as a model for urban centers across the nation committed to dismantling inequitable policies and practices rooted in structural racism.
Mental health diversion, creating a pretrial pathway for people to enroll in community-based treatment as an alternative to incarceration, could be a promising approach to addressing racial disparities in incarceration. P4A researchers at RAND examined how racial equity was considered in the design and implementation of a mental health diversion bill in nine counties across California and its early effects on racial equity and racial justice.
P4A researcher Noémie Sportiche examines the impacts of Massachusetts 40B, a fair share housing policy, on maternal and child health. Massachusetts 40B seeks to move low- and moderate-income households to higher-income areas by increasing the affordable housing in those high-income areas. Findings suggest moving to 40B rental housing produces significant improvements in newborn infants’ health and small improvements in birthing parents’ health.
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