'A Better Normal' Community Discussion Series

Kanwarpal Dhaliwal, associate director of RYSE Youth Center in Richmond, CA, is leading a cross-sector emergency pandemic response community initiative called West Contra Costa Covid Community Care, which puts in practice policy action that helps build the "better normal" right now — a time when the gaps in the social safety net have never been so glaring.

Covid Community Care focuses on the "adverse community experiences" that are always present, and have been exacerbated in a crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic.

Covid Community Care is a real life model that demonstrates what socially just, community-driven public health policy looks like in action.