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...

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