Black Lives Matter When It Comes to Community Violence
Violence in underserved communities is a symptom of Systems Thinking. Getting tough on crime alone is not the solution. Learn why ...
Advancing Oral Health Equity: Oral Health as Whole Health
Oral health is an important but often overlooked component [...]
Health Equity—More than Equal Access
Much attention has focused on reaching, educating, and enrolling uninsured people in health coverage programs. Getting people health coverage is one way to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health, but it does not achieve health equity—going beyond eliminating differences among groups of people and attaining the highest level of health for everyone.
Community Science in Action: Establishing Baltimore’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund
Community Science, in addition to our consultation, capacity building, and evaluation services, also works on local issues of national importance. There is an affordable housing crisis in Baltimore City, as in all American cities. Over half (53%) of city renters and 40 percent of homeowners pay more than one-third of their income in housing, putting them at risk for housing instability and even homelessness.
Voting Rights and Get out the Vote Efforts: Evaluation of the Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative
Community Science is working with the Racial Equity Anchor [...]
Measuring the Effect of Habitat for Humanity’s Quality-of-Life Approach on Neighborhoods
Community Science has worked closely with Habitat for Humanity [...]
New Report from Community Science to Help City Governments Get Ready for Racial Equity Work
Community Science is proud to present one of our [...]
Evaluating the Barr Foundation’s Fellowship Program
One of the many defining characteristics of a thriving [...]
Using Systemic Thinking to Transform Juvenile Justice in the United States
Seeing the problem. The juvenile justice system in the [...]
Interviews with Notable Contributors in the Development of Community Science
Ricardo Millett, Ph.D., Principal AssociateIn celebrating our 20th anniversary, [...]
Community Science Gives Back!
Part of Community Science’s mission is to directly give back to the local and national community. In 2016 donations were made to the list of organizations noted below. Charitable giving along with two days of service annually are among the many ways Community Science works "to strengthen the science and practice of community change in order to build healthy, just and equitable communities."
Staff Profile: Pete York
Meet Community Science: Pete York, MSSA