The Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency collaborated with the UC Davis Center for Regional Change and Rose Kagawa, PhD, MPH, from our team for evaluation of the Yolo County Basic Income (YOBI) pilot project.
After one year of the YOBI pilot project, families in YOBI reported increases in renting or owning their homes and being better able to afford basic needs.
In this issue: This week is National Public Health Week. Each day within National Public Health Week has a specific theme. Today’s focus is “Healthy Neighborhoods.” This is particularly important because where we live, work, and play can significantly affect our health and safety:
Once again, the headlines are dominated by a gruesome mass shooting, this time resulting in the deaths of 19 school children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, right on the heels of the white supremacist attack in a Buffalo, New York supermarket that killed 10 people. Public mass shootings have profound impacts on survivors, families, and communities of victims, and the wider public's feelings of safety.
“As a public health researcher and the leader of the nation’s largest community development organization, we are making an urgent call for locally led, anti-racist approaches to stopping the gunfire that for years has ripped through our communities...” Continue reading
“Firearm violence is a pervasive and uniquely American problem. Our firearm homicide rate is 25 times higher than that of similarly large and wealthy countries, despite comparable rates of crime overall...” Continue reading
