This study, funded as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Systems for Action research program, will assess the feasibility and acceptability of an intervention designed to align medical, public health, and social service systems to support integrated, culturally responsive early childhood care for Latino and farmworker families residing in California’s northern coast in order to prevent and manage early childhood developmental delays and disabilities. The intervention is designed to disrupt systemic racism in early childhood systems that limits access to care for minority communities—including language inaccessibility, fragmented referrals, disinvestment in clinical infrastructure, and institutional distrust—by redesigning access points around trusted community infrastructure.

This study, funded as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Systems for Action research program, will assess the feasibility of implementing a community co-designed initiative that integrates health, social, public safety, and justice services under a single local government umbrella agency. The initiative focuses on improving the health, safety, and wellbeing of communities harmed by systemic racism and to reduce involvement in the criminal legal system.

Mandela Yoga Project, based in Cambridge, MA, offers an evidence-based group practice of mindful movement paired with breathing as an integrative health intervention to treat the racially traumatized nervous systems of people of color. Mandela Yoga is peer-led, which allows participants of color to...

Open Doors for Multicultural Families (ODMF) serves multicultural individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities and their families in King and Pierce counties in the Seattle, WA region. Families they serve often struggle to navigate a broad network of services, opportunities and...

Community Action Hub (CAH) at the Institute for Community Health (ICH) serves the greater Boston area. This group of current and formerly homeless people have identified their systems alignment challenge as becoming effective leaders and partners at all levels of the region’s effort to end...

Each project supported with grant funds from the Systems Alignment Innovation Hub (SAIH) will examine an innovative systems alignment approach that engages partners from the medical, public health, and social services sectors in collaborative efforts to dismantle structural and systemic racism and...

The Systems for Action program has several research arms. Each arm serves a distinct purpose and has different aims, funding, and products. Grantee Research Projects Investigators across the nation develop proposals and apply for funding through annual Systems for Action funding opportunities. Each...

Overview The panel assembled for the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science 2018 Conference presented research findings from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Systems for Action research program. About Social, economic, and environmental conditions strongly influence population...

Local Health Departments (LHDs) undergoing the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) process engage with a number of public health systems partners to satisfy accreditation standards and pre-requisites. In addition, the accreditation process positions LHDs to more effectively deliver core and...