The COVID-19 pandemic forced many people to self-isolate and quarantine and challenged everyone’s assumptions about how the world works. The authors of this resource offer guidance for people in COVID-19 lockdown experiences on how to retain wellbeing in this kind of situation, based on their own lived experience expertise of incarceration. This resource is an example of what it looks like to centering community by leaning into the expertise of people with lived experience.
Marietta's story showcases how someone going through a traditional systems experience would have a drastically different experience than one going through an experience designed with wellbeing.
Full Frame Initiative partnered with community leaders to develop the Community Bill of Rights. This resource serves as a guide for government systems, philanthropy and nonprofits to center community, shift power and heal systemic harms.
All of us share a drive to feel whole, individually and collectively. We're all hardwired for wellbeing, and we all deserve a fair shot at it, too. But we don't all have the same access.