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Improving Housing Availability and Affordability through Workforce Development and Local Planning Policies Greater Eureka Housing Alliance led by Westside Community Improvement Association in partnership with Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka This video highlights the work of the Intersections partnership in Eureka, California. The partners in Eureka, led by Westside Community Improvement Association, focused on improving housing availability and affordability through workforce development and local planning policies. Video production credit: The Social Impact Artists.

This past June, Prevention Institute, We-Collab , and our partners convened the inaugural meeting of the SYNC Safety learning community. SYNC (Strategies for Youth and Neighborhood Centered Safety) is a CDC-supported project to increase the capacity of Black- and Brown-led community-based organizations to take a public health and health equity-focused approach to preventing violence. Please join us for this look at the convening! We-Collab website: https://www.we-collab.com/ SYNC Safety learning community page: https://preventioninstitute.org/projects/s... This past June, Prevention Institute

Building off of the CDC's Framework for Thinking about Evidence , UCEE seeks to elevate and integrate contextual (i.e., measurable factors in a community) and experiential (i.e., the collective experience and expertise of community residents and practitioners, or lived experience) evidence alongside best available research evidence (i.e., peer-reviews, published scientific literature) for evidence-informed decision-making. Participants had an opportunity to engage with and provide feedback on a set of proposed principles and strategies to integrate these forms of evidence into decision-making

In this webinar, public health practitioners discussed how they use Uplifting Contextual and Experiential Evidence to guide decisions on funding, strategies, policies, programs, and long-term planning. The session featured Dr. Kathryn Bocanegra and Fareeha Waheed, who shared their successes, challenges, and strategies for integrating all three forms of evidence as presented in the CDC’s Framework for Thinking about Evidence. The Prevention Institute also discussed our ongoing work on the Uplifting Contextual and Experiential Evidence (UCEE) project.

In this Webinar, Prevention Institute shares the principles, strategies, and recommendations from the Uplifting Contextual and Experiential Evidence: Promising Practices and Recommendations report.

Opioid settlement funds provide a critical opportunity to invest in public health approaches for substance use and overdose prevention. In this webinar, Prevention Institute and Big Cities Health Coalition invite you to learn more about the activities these funds currently support. Jennifer Kolker (Clinical Professor of Health Management and Policy and co-lead of the Policy Core, Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University) shares preliminary insights into opioid settlement fund planning. Jeanene Fowler (Executive Director of Maricopa County Department of