Restorative Community Solutions (RCS), works to restore, empower and heal historically divested communities in the San Francisco Bay Area through individual, group, and community coaching. The Equity Capacity Building Grant will contribute to their systems alignment challenge focused on building a...

Chuang E, Bunger A, Smith R, Girth A, Phillips R, Miech E, Lancaster K, Martin J, Gadel F, Himmeger M, McClellan J, Millisor J, Willauer T, Powell B, Dellor E, Aarons G. (2024). Collaboration strategies affecting implementation of a cross-systems intervention for child welfare and substance use...

This study, funded as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Systems for Action research program, tests a holistic admissions approach in health sciences education at Salt Lake Community College and its impact on the BIPOC healthcare workforce. Higher education admissions have always been fraught with systematic racism, given the equity gaps existing within the standardized tests relied upon in the process. The holistic admissions model involves including representatives from the medical system in the admissions interviews and taking into account a students lived experiences with adversity.