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Since 2021, the City of New London, Connecticut, has partnered with FFI to shift from business-as-usual to a vision for transformative change. Watch this video from a 2024 event where FFI joined the New London community to reimagine the future of the city.

An interview with Twila Norris, a credible messenger who helped to implement our Wellbeing Insights, Assets & Tradeoffs Tool (WIATT). Resident leaders like Twila administered surveys and analyzed data to understand how the North Coast development project would impact the community's access to wellbeing.

Full Frame Initiative was joined by Angela Cochran, Ohio START Caseworker in Trumbull County, Ohio and Mike Kenney with the Public Children Services Association of Ohio (PCSAO), who shared about their two-and-a-half-year journey toward centering community and co-creating a framework that is led by those most impacted.

In early 2024, FFI Senior Fellow Phyllis Becker was joined by Henry A.J. Ramos and Gladys Carrión, two leaders who are transforming both the narratives that shape perceptions of crime and the systemic responses. Tune into their conversation as they shift the narrative on youth justice to highlight solutions that center wellbeing.

Traditional community engagement tools like surveys and focus groups can unintentionally harm communities. It's time to shift from community engagement to centering community. Watch our video to learn how.

Watch the recording of our conversation with Wellbeing Blueprint signer Elka Gotfryd,

Patrick McNeal of the North Flint Neighborhood Action Council outlines the harms wrought by infrastructure projects on communities of color – and how we can begin to heal by building wellbeing into our environments moving forward.

Watch the recording of our conversation with Wellbeing Blueprint signer the Right Question Institute, who is working to build a more just and equitable democracy.

Watch the recording with the Wellbeing Blueprint with Karen Spiller and Curtis Ogden to explore the connections between racial equity, wellbeing and food systems.

Wellbeing is the set of needs and experiences essential, in combination and balance, to weather challenges and have health and hope. Learn more in this video introduction.

The U.S. should be a country where everyone has a fair shot at opportunity, and to thrive. But let's be real: that's not the case. Watch this video to learn more.

Our brains are hard-wired to make assumptions all the time. Watch this short video that explains how these assumptions can undermine wellbeing.