The Washington State Lived Experience Coalition is a diverse, multi-generational community of people who have endured homelessness, victimization, emotional or physical violence, or mistreatment in the criminal justice system. Launched in 2018, the coalition was formed to ensure that it sits at tables where solutions to the crisis of homelessness are being discussed. The Survive to Thrive study will focus on gun violence and the role of systemic racism in the public health, health care, and social service systems in preventing and responding to gun violence among our young, BIPOC community members, especially young Black and Indigenous men.