Think about your community: what are the assets that help you and your neighbors feel connected, safe and better equipped to weather challenges? This #WellbeingWednesday, we're highlighting our partnership with the Hispanic Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut and the City of New London in implementing Community Wellbeing Asset Mapping. New London youth gathered input from their peers and presented recommendations to elected officials on how to improve access to wellbeing for young people. Some of the assets identified fell into categories such as parks and beaches, apps and games, sports and activities, shopping, schools and food.
The Full Frame Initiative
Non-profit Organizations
Greenfield, MA 1,544 followers
We're building a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing
About us
The Full Frame Initiative is a social change nonprofit working toward a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing—the needs and experiences essential for health and hope. We partner with a growing cohort of pioneering public systems, communities and nonprofits across the country to fundamentally transform the structures and beliefs that perpetuate poverty, violence and oppression. We are bold, mission-focused, creative and committed learners and are willing to use our passion, humor and hope to fuel change. We’re working toward one goal: a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing. That’s our North Star. We don’t all have a fair shot at wellbeing because racism, sexism, homophobia and additional otherings are baked into our systems and our country. This creates fast tracks to wellbeing for some and dramatically reduces access for others. The system is rigged and the solution isn’t to create more programs for people harmed by these same unfair systems. The solution is to reimagine these systems to make our country fairer and more equitable for everyone. That means ensuring that the places where we work, live, play and pray tap into people’s universal drive for wellbeing, instead of undermining wellbeing for some and enabling it for others. That’s what we do. Every day, the Full Frame Initiative is: - Challenging the narratives that drive us apart and hold problems in place - Reimagining our country’s most complex and inequitable systems - Supporting institutions in shifting toward wellbeing, equity and transformation - Fostering unlikely alliances that spark movement – not programs - Uplifting what’s possible so access to wellbeing becomes the norm - And more
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External link for The Full Frame Initiative
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Greenfield, MA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2007
- Specialties
- Full Frame Approach, Social Justice, Community-based Interventions, Human Service Programs, and Systems Change
Locations
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Primary
308 Main St.
Suite 2A
Greenfield, MA 01301, US
Employees at The Full Frame Initiative
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Jessica Lee
Generating resources for systems change
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Gary Anderson
Producing Artistic Director at Plowshares Theatre Company
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Sandra Ambrozy
Fellow - Civil Legal Justice - Urban Institute and Full Frame Initiative
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Sean Goode
🔴 TED Speaker| Community Servant| Mindset Coach| Consultant| Choose Yourself| Right Here-Right Now
Updates
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We're introducing a new way to map the assets in communities — because what matters to people is so much more than the financial assets that are often the focus when it comes to making decisions about communities. Instead of focusing on gaps and deficits, Wellbeing Asset Mapping puts the community in the driver's seat to identify the strengths, assets and spaces that are essential for access to wellbeing. Our CEO & Founder Katya Fels Smyth shares how this new approach is a game-changer for driving real, sustainable change in communities.
Katya Fels Smyth on Community Wellbeing Asset Mapping
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If we understand that people deserve a fresh start after serving time, what systemic changes could support their chance at a fair shot at wellbeing when they re-enter their communities? One solution is automatically clearing criminal records. Read more about how Code for America has worked with over 20 states to implement automatic record clearance.
Crafting Record Clearance Policy in Over 20 States — Code for America
codeforamerica.org
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We're thrilled that FFI Senior Fellow Phyllis Becker is joining the conversation this Thursday, 10/24 on how scholars and civic leaders can inform and advance youth development nad criminal justice reform policies. Register to join here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eVpHtRYR
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Many youth who are involved in the justice system are losing out on key pathways for their future and their #wellbeing. This #WellbeingWednesday we're highlighting a new Colorado law that seeks to end this trend. Youth who are systems-involved are gaining rights to complete their education and pursue opportunities that support wellbeing.
Colorado’s first-in-the-nation law aims to graduate youth who have been in the justice system
cpr.org
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The Violence Prevention Index from the Annie E. Casey Foundation evaluates how policymakers and communities can reduce violence and invest in safety. The report supports spanning boundaries by combining public health-informed strategies to address the root causes of gun violence.
Violence Prevention Index Provides Scorecard for Cities
aecf.org
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We've seen what's possible when we center wellbeing in how governments and residents undertake and experience development projects. As American Rescue Plan funds are invested into building climate-resilient and equitable infrastructure, there's a crucial opportunity to focus on what matters most to people. The Brookings Institution highlights notable examples where community assets are amplified and built upon instead of undermined.
Deploying American Rescue Plan funds for climate-resilient and equitable infrastructure projects
https://www.brookings.edu
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What does it look like to co-design a public space? This #WellbeingWednesday, we're highlighting the Harlem Playground, a playground created by and for public housing residents. Funded through a participatory budgeting initiative, the new multisensory playscape came out of a four-month community design process. As a result, residents are seeing increased access to wellbeing in the form of increased safety, social connectedness, mastery and more.
The Harlem Playground Co-Designed by Public Housing Residents
nextcity.org
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What does it look like to co-design a public space? This #WellbeingWednesday, we're highlighting the Harlem Playground, a playground created by and for public housing residents. Funded through a participatory budgeting initiative, the new multisensory playscape came out of a four-month community design process. As a result, residents are seeing increased access to wellbeing in the form of increased safety, social connectedness, mastery and more.
The Harlem Playground Co-Designed by Public Housing Residents
nextcity.org
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We're excited to partner with Kingston, NY to shift thinking and policy through our Wellbeing Insights, Assets and Tradeoffs Tool (WIATT). With residents and city officials, we'll evaluate the wellbeing benefits and tradeoffs of redevelopment to guide better decisions about how, when, whether and what is built. Kingston's Mayor, Steve Noble, shared, "We are thrilled to partner with the Full Frame Initiative to delve into deeper community engagement so that we have the data we need to make informed, equitable, and impactful decisions on future projects." Read the full announcement of our collaboration in the Daily Freeman.
Midtown Thriving Initiative in Kingston chosen for nationwide pilot project
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