Innovate Health seeks to advance healing-centered and trauma-informed approaches to promote individual, family, and community resilience. Compassionate and healing interpersonal relationships, coordinated and evidence-based responses to trauma, and cross-sector collaboration are key to promoting healing and resilience at the individual, community, and systems levels.
The CAHMI, and initiative of Innovate Health, partnered to create the EnAct! framework with the five-year Mississippi Thrive! Child Health and Development Project initiative, which was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration through the State Programs of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS) program.
The Engagement In Action (EnAct!) Framework aims to promote positive health equity for all children and families and sets forth a pathway to support national, state and local efforts to establish a family and community engaged, whole child and family, integrated early childhood health system.
The EnAct! Framework is catalyzed by the Cycle of Engagement Well Visit Planner (COE WVP) Approach to Care for early childhood services. This evidence-based approach and family-facing online tools facilitate family-engaged care and promotes an integrated health system for children and families through streamlined data sharing across early childhood system partners. The COE WVP approach, in addition to the Prioritizing Possibilities National Agenda and Payment for Progress Report, helped inspire the development of the EnAct! Framework, and was specifically designed for all states to apply it within their own unique contexts for the enhancement of child, youth, family, and community services.
Go to the EnAct! Framework Resource Portal
View a two-page overview of the EnAct! Framework - ONE Big Doable Thing!
Innovate Health’s President, Dr. Christina Bethell, was pleased to partner with the California Surgeon General’s office to develop the Roadmap to Resilience report, which aims to guide California’s health care providers and communities in their work to promote a safe, stable, and nurturing relationships and environments for children and families and prevent and heal impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). The report integrated Dr. Bethell’s leadership to advance state level data on ACEs and possibilities for flourishing amid adversity as well as her work to lead the collaborative design of the:
Innovate Health staff and consultants developed the Prop 64 Recommendations Roadmap in collaboration with the California Campaign to Counter Childhood Adversity (4CA) and a multidisciplinary Advisory Committee of state and national advocates, California community-based organizations, providers and academics.
The Recommendations Roadmap provides a set of recommendations for California state departments to support culturally responsive, racially just, healing-centered and trauma-informed approaches in the spending of certain Prop 64 marijuana tax initiatives funds. Although developed specifically in the context of California’s Prop 64, these recommendations serve as a starting point for policy-makers, advocates, and community leaders as they consider and advocate for public policies related to advancing a culturally responsive, racially just, healing-centered and trauma-informed approach in the expenditure of public funding. We encourage stakeholders to utilize and adapt these recommendations for various audiences and contexts. Moreover, we will continue updating this site with new resources as they develop.
Read the Prop 64 Recommendations Full Report
Watch a presentation on the CA Roadmap hosted
by the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color (2021)