During Child Abuse Prevention Month, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that $3 million in funding was allocated to help Family Resource Centers in California extend emergency relief to families. The funding was intended to provide direct support and services to at-risk and foster families, including material items, assistance with isolation needs, parenting resources, and staff time to help link families to…
Zero To Three has published their State of Babies Yearbook for 2020 and the data continues to show significant disparities in opportunity for our youngest children throughout the country. Babies of color, babies in families of low-income, and those living in urban and rural areas face inequities that challenge the foundational brain development of the earliest years. The Yearbook also…
The goal of this toolkit is to leverage evaluation to bolster DEI in an organization’s day-to-day work and encourage data literacy by demonstrating how we all play a role in creating an equitable evaluation culture. Since so much of evaluation work is centered around data, the DEI Evaluation Toolkit does this by improving data literacy throughout an organization. Access the…
Sustaining Community Resilience The final toolkit in the series offers a pathway towards sustaining community resilience with tools to support information and communication, community competence, social capital, economic development, and resident leadership training. Access the BCR, Volume 4 Toolkit here: https://sdsusocialpolicyinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SDSU_SPI_TOOLKIT_4_FINAL.pdf
Cross-Sector Partners: Connecting and Collaborating This toolkit provides an in-depth exploration of the importance of cross-sector partners in building community resilience. The tools will guide organizations in engaging, expanding, and strengthening cross-sector partnerships. Access the BCR, Volume 3 Toolkit here: https://sdsusocialpolicyinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SDSU_SPI_TOOLKIT_3_FINAL.pdf
State of Readiness: System and Provider Abilities to Respond This second volume describes the organizational capacity needed for a shared approach to building community resilience within an organization or network. The tools in this volume will assist organizations in: (1) building a logic model to focus the work; (2) assessing their level of readiness to implement BCR efforts; and (3)…
Shared Understanding: Working Together to Build Community Resilience This toolkit provides a succinct description of the core concepts of the BCR Model as well as tools to: (1) assess understanding of organizational and community factors related to building community resilience; and (2) to build a shared understanding of these factors through collaborative learning, both within the family and community strengthening…
“SPI has a track record of collaborating across systems to maximize well-being in communities. One example is our work with AAP-CA3 and other San Diego-based organizations on ACEs Aware. We strongly believe that together we can raise awareness, promote ACEs screening, treat and heal from the negative consequences of trauma to promote the importance of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and…