Human Impact Partners (HIP)

Register today! On December 11, HIP's Health Instead of Punishment Program Director Christine Mitchell will speak on the Harvard Kennedy School's Fall 2024 Speaker Series, The Diagnosis of Incarceration: The Health Impacts of Criminal System Involvement. The theme for the panel is "Broken Bars: Reimagining a Blueprint for Healthcare in and Beyond Carceral Settings." Register for the series here! https://lnkd.in/dBJAgnwy

With Trump’s return, the people’s health is under threat. We can’t stand by. Join us in building the bold, justice-centered public health movement we need. Donate today at humanimpact.org/donate #publichealth #healthequity #advocacy #justice

This new video from Human Impact Partners (HIP) is such a powerful intervention in the stories we tell in public health. If we're going to broaden how people think about health, we need to start by updating our own narrative tools. ?? https://lnkd.in/ecBJXVgD #PublicHealth For more about changing the narrative about public health, see https://lnkd.in/gF2_jB_G

Check out HIP's new short film, Narratives for Health Equity, and our accompanying blog post by Jessi Corcoran, MPH exploring the power of narratives to change our world! ?? https://lnkd.in/gYYs8bZS ? https://lnkd.in/gNqGsxYn It’s never been more important to advance a new, transformative narrative about what creates health. The 2024 election demonstrated that toxic narratives asserting white supremacy, misogyny, and capitalism, driven by fear and individualism, are a major threat to our attempts to build a world that truly supports health, equity, and justice. Those narratives don’t serve our long term goals of health equity and racial justice; they reinforce the exact systems and structures we aim to dismantle and transform. But we believe we can change the narrative. The film discusses how toxic dominant narratives about individual responsibility, scarcity, and free-market solutions are harming our communities and our health – and offers a path to shifting those narratives so we can transform what is possible to achieve for our collective health. #healthequity?#narrative?#film?#publichealth?#healthjustice

"Instead of incarceration, investments should be made 'into safe and stable affordable housing, increased employment, affordable health care, mental health care and accessible and reliable transportation, as well as non-carceral and non-punitive forms of accountability for harm.'" HIP's Health Instead of Punishment project director Renae Badruzzaman in a new piece out from Waging Nonviolence, "Inside the campaign to close California's remaining women's prisons." Read the full article! https://lnkd.in/dg35UfUE #california #womensprisons #Prisons #abolition #incarceration #HealthNotPunishment #healthequity #publichealth

In the midst of *so much* terrible news, we are excited to share a powerful ballot victory from our friends at Step Up Louisiana, partners from last year's HIP Power-Building Partnerships for Health (PPH) cohort. Step Up Louisiana won their economic justice campaign to pass the Workers Bill of Rights with 80% of the vote! This ballot initiative amends the City charter and initiates the process to create a Workers Commission and establish a Healthy Workplace Policy through the New Orleans Health Department. A win for worker power is a win for public health! https://lnkd.in/gC2yFfMw

?? Holding hope and each other, through difficult times: https://lnkd.in/g4qkTfMD "Wherever you are, honor it. We're there with you, taking a deep breath, hugging our loved ones, reminding ourselves of the principles we stand for." Read a statement from HIP Co-Directors Solange Gould and Lili Farhang, reflecting on hope, grief, care, and connection through these painful times.

Mark your calendars for "How to Address Inhuman Prison Temperatures in a Warming Climate," a webinar on November 12 at 11am PT / 2pm ET featuring people with lived experiences, leading advocates, and researchers working to challenge inhumane prison conditions in a changing climate — including HIP's own #HealthInsteadofPunishment program director Christine Mitchell with the Deeper than Water Coalition. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gNXMEn-b #healthnotpunishment #climatechange #abolition #climate

"The commodification of housing — when we treat homes as something to make a profit off of, instead of something that's a fundamental health and human need — has functioned alongside racism to concentrate wealth in corporate hands and white communities, and concentrate insecurity and health risks in BIPOC communities." ??Thank you KPFA Radio for having HIP's housing justice team, Will Dominie and Mariana Huerta, on La Raza Chronicles to talk about our research on the health harms of corporate landlords and the commodification of housing. Listen to the segment now! https://lnkd.in/gd3BdVC7 And check out the full research at https://lnkd.in/gJ9rkyub #housing #housingjustice #publichealth #healthequity #corporatelandlords #housingcrisis

Capacity Building Moments 4 is here! Our latest blog, Cultivate, Plant, Harvest, Repeat, dives into the background and process for our recent updates to the Health Equity Guide, a comprehensive online resource of strategic practices and case studies to support health equity work within governmental public health. Read on to learn how to plant your own garden of flourishing health equity strategies! https://lnkd.in/grZkSStm #healthequity #capacitybuilding #publichealth