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iHeLP Policy Lab
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To manifest the Institute mission and link its service and educational goals with unique possibilities for scholarship, the Institute launched the iHeLP Policy Lab to foster policy-based service work through interdisciplinary, community-focused engagement.
With support of the ACE Awareness Foundation, the Policy Lab's first initiative focused on supporting system-level health policy change in the Mid-South Community for the specific purpose of childhood trauma mitigation and reduction through policy research, policy advising, and drafting new policies. Additional support of the Urban Child Institute expands and deepens the work of the Policy Lab, now the policy core to the University's new iIMPACT initiative. Specifically, the Policy Lab: iIMPACT Initiative – through policy research, capacity-building, and as facilitator of community conversations – helps further the goals of building a "culture of health" for children and families in Memphis. In the short term, it will help connect data and case "stories" to policy, with a long-term goal to facilitate upstream change for systemic, collective impact benefiting children and families in Memphis.
Building on this model, the iHeLP Policy Lab will continue to seek out opportunities to partner in and with the community to address policy-related obstacles to community health and well-being. |