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Cities, counties and tribes, supported by State
government actions, will establish and act on
policies that reduce the resource disparities
among neighborhoods in a variety of ways,
support physical improvements, eliminate
environmental hazards and stabilize
California cities and counties, with state and tribal
partners, build health into land use decisions,
stabilize neighborhoods and shift resources from
punishment to prevention.
gentrifying neighborhoods. This includes
efforts to create, with schools, supportive
environments that keep young people on
track for healthy and successful lives,
including reducing the reach of the justice
system in underserved neighborhoods.
HEALTH HAPPENS IN NEIGHBORHOODS
Land Use, Physical Improvements, Community Stabilization and Safety
Cities and counties, with state and tribal partners, include health in land
use planning and policies, make health-promoting physical
improvements in neighborhoods and create safe, stable communities.
Measures include:
Evidence of healthy land use and greater community safety and stabilization, such as:
• Communities, engaging residents, incorporate health elements or health
considerations throughout their general plans and/or create health development
guides and actively monitor policy implementation
• Community groups organize to address gentrification and displacement
• Community groups organize to address community safety
• Community groups win Community Benefit Agreements that provide amenities and
jobs for long-time residents who face increasing housing costs
Evidence of set asides that increase resources to low income communities.
• This may include efforts at the state and regional levels to ensure that funding
coming from such programs as the Governor’s Active Transportation Program and
Cap and Trade Auction Proceeds are allocated to and prioritized for low income
communities.
Evidence of new or improved physical features that contribute to residents’ improved health, such as:
• Skate parks or gymnasia
• Water stations, Agua for All, restrictions on soda
• Sidewalks, hiking paths, bike paths
• Increased access to public transportation
• Crosswalks, safe routes to school
• Playgrounds, soccer fields, parks
• Libraries and/or community centers
• School health centers or wellness centers
• Community gardens or other food distribution systems
• Grocery stores with healthy food
Addressing trauma, building resilience and shifting investments from punishment to prevention:
Cities and counties, with state partners, recognize the toxic effects of
trauma, prioritize youth development and resilience and shift the
balance of public investment from punishment and incarceration to
health and prevention.
This indicator relates equally powerfully to Goal #3 and further
supports transformative activities in schools.
Measures include:
Evidence that jurisdictions are:
• Expanding access to positive youth development programs and supports.
• Prioritizing diversion by empowering youth to be accountable outside of the justice
system, and providing community-based mental health and substance abuse
treatment
• Providing “pre-entry” behavioral and physical health services to help keep young
people out of the juvenile justice system
• Promoting restorative justice practices at the neighborhood and school level,
forging stronger relationships and healing from trauma across generations.
• Supporting juvenile and adult re-entry including health and mental health services,
addiction treatment, housing and education/training.
• Helping reduce the number of youth and adults involved in the justice system.
Shifts in investment
Investment is shifting away from justice system involvement and toward school
supports and neighborhood improvements that offer healthier opportunities for youth
and families, as evidence by measures such as:
• State and county savings from Prop 47 are invested in school and
community-based health prevention
• Fewer jails and prisons are built, and more jails and prisons are closed
• Less money is spent on juvenile justice and youth probation
• Money from the justice system is reinvested to support young people’s connection
to school
• Percentage of county dollars spent on law enforcement, jails, probation, and
juvenile justice decreases while spending increases for health, schools, youth
development, parks and recreation and re-entry services.
North Star Indicator #8
North Star Indicator #9
10More youth and adults with positive community connections and less involvement in the justice system
This indictor measures positive connections to people and
organizations and relationships that youth and adults maintain in their
communities, and the extent to which BHC communities are able to
reduce over-reliance on the juvenile and criminal justice system.
Measures of positive youth connections to their communities will likely
be linked to the longitudinal youth survey; measures for adult positive
connections are still being developed.
Regarding the justice system, this indicator calls for measures of change
in the rates of arrest, incarceration, probation, diversion, and re-entry,
initially for BHC communities. Measures will also include attention to
youth and young adults “under the supervision of” the justice system
(e.g., on parole, serving split sentences, with bench warrants, and in
mandated drug treatment) to get a more complete picture of shifts in
the numbers of people involved in the justice system. All data will be
broken out by race/ethnicity and age and compared to historical
averages.
North Star Indicator #10
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MENU N O R T H S T A R G O A L S & I N D I C A T O R S
B U I L D I N G H E A L T H Y C O M M U N I T I E S
POLICY,
SYSTEMS &
PRACTICE
CHANGE
INDICATOR
POLICY,
SYSTEMS &
PRACTICE
CHANGE
INDICATOR
FOCUSED
POPUL ATION
INDICATOR
GOAL 4