Applying a Health Lens to Business Practices, Policies, and Investments Workshop Summary (2016) / Chapter Skim
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4 Developing Human Capital in Communities
4 Developing Human Capital in Communities
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Flores then described some of the human capital development initiatives of The California Endowment, including the Building Healthy Communities initiative. Highlights from this session are in Box 4-1.
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• Social enterprises earn and reinvest their revenue by helping more people who are willing and able to work to get jobs that build skills and lead to a career (Javits) • Disconnected youth facing barriers to employment are provided with mul tiple education pathways and work experiences that are responsive to local demand so that they can become citizens, workers, learners, and parents building healthy families (Ali)
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The social enterprises REDF works with are mission-driven businesses focused on hiring people who are otherwise not likely to get hired, and providing support and a pathway into the mainstream workforce. These employment social enterprises hire people who face significant barriers, including people with histories of homelessness and/or incarceration, at-risk young people who are disconnected from work and school, people with mental health disabilities or addiction issues, and other highunemployment populations.
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Evidence of the Impact of Social Enterprises Through the Social Innovation Fund (a federal government program that seeks to lift up promising practices and build the evidence base) , REDF partnered with Mathematica Policy Research on a study of the REDF portfolio in California.
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Javits listed some of the social enterprises in REDF's current and prior portfolio of investments, such as JUMA Ventures, which employs young people who face significant barriers to getting through high school and college to work ballpark concessions in partnership with Center Plate. Of those served by the REDF portfolio, the average age is 40 years, 78 percent are male, 8 percent are married, 27 percent have dependents, 4 percent are veterans, 25 percent have no high school diploma, and 57 percent are African American.
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A company partners with a nonprofit or social enterprise to recruit and develop a pipeline of trained and prepared people for the company to hire. Another approach is an in-house social enterprise, where the employer manages most of the recruitment and employment of individuals facing barriers on its own.
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The remaining 15 percent are considered disconnected or "opportunity youth" who are far from achieving high school diplomas or work readiness, and face serious barriers to employment. Ali emphasized that low education levels are known to be linked with poor health and lower life expectancy.
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with multiple educational pathways and universal work experience responsive to demand, so that they can become citizens, workers, life-long learners, and parents building healthy families in Durham (Strattan et al., 2012)
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For students, it helps them to make a clear connection between classroom activities and a successful career. There is also a reduction in dropout rates, and increased success rates of dropout recovery programs.
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The California Endowment is working with its long-standing partners in state and local public health and other private foundations to advance population health improvement efforts in low-income communities, including universal access to health care coverage, healthy nutrition and parks, youth development, and job training opportunities. The California Endowment supports the California FreshWorks fund, a private–public partnership loan fund that has raised $272 million to invest in bringing grocery stores and other forms of healthy food retailers to underserved communities.
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DISCUSSION During the open discussion, participants considered the association of employment with health outcomes, including mental health; funding for human capital development; the balance between education and job development training; and taking a place-based approach to health. 6 For more information see http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/resentencing under-californias-proposition-47.html (accessed August 17, 2015)
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Sometimes being involved in the process of trying to get work makes people more willing to deal with these underlying health conditions that may be preventing them from succeeding in finding employment, said Javits. Evidence about the actual impact of work on health is limited and mixed, and she suggested it would be useful to study this.
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or a pay for success model could be used for the development of human capital. Javits said both the CRA and pay for success offer substantial opportunities for capital to be invested in social enterprises.
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Flores explained that The California Endowment takes a place-based approach with the slogan "health happens here," which signals the recognition that everything that goes on in a community matters to overall health through shared responsibility. This slogan lets people know that they can make health happen in their community, or impede health based on their practices and investments, or lack of those factors.
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