Resilience Catalysts in Public Health is a national collaborative of local health departments seeking to eliminate adversity, build resilience, and foster equity. Resilience Catalyst sites use the Community Resilience framework as a Public Health 3.0 strategy to address both adverse childhood experiences and adverse community environments.

An evaluation of Resilience Catalysts found four key outcomes were met, and the majority of respondents gained deeper insight into inequities, strengthened partnerships, enhanced systems-level thinking skills, and improved understanding of community capacities to engage in equity and resilience efforts.

As one local health department representative found, “I personally was able to identify… that in all the five areas that we looked at there was an -ism as the root cause… it was racism and the other was sexism.”

Interested in learning more? Access the full evaluation report here, as well as an infographic here.