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Alex Schneider is a Senior Manager on the Youth Justice Initiatives team at Columbia University’s Justice Lab, which is focused on ending the punitive youth prison model and investing in the communities hit hardest by youth incarceration. We recently sat down with Alex to discuss his vision for the future of youth justice and meaningful actions anyone can take to push for real transformation.

Tamara Bauman is a Wellbeing Blueprint signer and housing advocate with Solid Ground in Seattle, WA. We recently sat down with Tamara to discuss innovations in the housing justice movement, centering community in housing policy and actions anyone can take to advance housing as a human right.

Indigenous activists discuss the power of Native voice and mobilizing the Indigenous vote.

Not all 911 calls require a police response. Denver’s STAR program is changing the way people experiencing homelessness, mental health concerns and poverty interact with the emergency care system by moving case workers out of the periphery and into the community.

This Playbook provides a structured process for assessing organizational policies and adjusting them to reduce harmful impacts on stakeholders.

The Wellbeing Blueprint lays out a shared path forward with policy and decision-making recommendations grounded in six guiding principles.

June Holley is a Wellbeing Blueprint signer who has been weaving networks, helping others weave networks and writing about networks for over 40 years. We recently sat down with June to define network weaving and help us understand how it can be a game changer in building our collective capacity to bring about social change.

Three leaders who are implementing innovations in food justice and sovereignty explore the connections between food, wellbeing, equity, social justice, community and more.

The ability to cast a ballot affects every aspect of individual and community wellbeing – but not everyone has access. With many important elections on the horizon, it's important that we stand up for voting rights, stay informed and vote – including in judicial races.

As cities across the nation begin investing in new infrastructure projects, city planners and policymakers have many options for how they choose to build. In a two-part series published by the American Planning Association, Brookings Senior Fellow Xavier de Souza Briggs and Full Frame Initiative CEO Katya Fels Smyth outline a six-point framework showing how to plan and design a built environment that provides universal access to wellbeing.

In "Connection, Community, Context and Capital," co-creator of the Wellbeing Blueprint Katya Fels Smyth explores how to leverage the American Rescue Plan to create a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing.

Springboard to Opportunities launched the Magnolia Mother’s Trust to provide $1,000 cash, monthly, to low-income, Black mothers living in subsidized housing — no strings attached. This allows these mothers to meet their basic needs, prioritize their health and give them the agency to make decisions for their families while minimizing tradeoffs.