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The Culture is Prevention Project
Measuring cultural connectedness and providing evidence that culture is a social determinant of health for Native Americans.
A Portrait of Sonoma County
Sonoma County Human Development Report
Commissioned by the County of Sonoma Department of Health Services (DHS), A Portrait of Sonoma County: Sonoma County Human Development Report 2014 is an in-depth look at how residents of Sonoma County are faring in three fundamental areas of life: health, access to knowledge, and living standards.
Self-Healing Communities Model
A comprehensive model of building community capacity in Washington helped make dramatic reductions in rates of health issues and social problems. A report commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
A Portrait of Sonoma County
Sonoma County Human Development Report
Commissioned by the County of Sonoma Department of Health Services (DHS), A Portrait of Sonoma County: Sonoma County Human Development Report 2014 is an in-depth look at how residents of Sonoma County are faring in three fundamental areas of life: health, access to knowledge, and living standards.
A Just Recovery for Sonoma County Farmworkers?
By Martin J. Bennett
Last year the trade publication Wine Enthusiast recognized Sonoma County as the ‘Wine Region of the Year,’ and the Sonoma County Winegrowers Association announced that 99 percent of the county vineyards achieved their ‘sustainability’ certification. But the county’s farmworkers–who produce the wealth of the wine country–are mostly invisible to the public. Winegrowers and the media rarely recognize the actual value of their labor, and their contribution to the local economy is seldom acknowledged.
Most county farmworkers do not earn a living wage or receive employer-provided health insurance, lack access to affordable housing, and confront dangerous health and safety conditions on the job. A just, equitable and, sustainable recovery from the 2017 and 2019 wildfires must include new public policy and grower initiatives to improve the economic security and general health of farmworkers...
How California’s Community-Based Organizations Filled the Gaps for Underserved Communities
Meeting the needs of racially & ethnically diverse communities during the pandemic
This report — created by ChangeLab Solutions, the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, and Prevention Institute, with contributions from 21 California CBOs — shows policymakers and community leaders how they can improve California’s efforts to support an equitable recovery from the social, economic, and health effects of the pandemic.