Mutual Aid Network and Peer Support Curriculum

People’s Health Solutions is convening a collective to co-design a mutual aid network and peer support curriculum for survivors of intimate partner violence in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Guided by the vision of a day when every survivor has an advocate at their side, the collective is exploring how survivor peers and community allies can offer trusting support, practice resources, and service navigation to empower people through life's major turning points. Backed by The Difference Engine at Arizona State University, the collective is using a human-centered design process to co-design and produce a pilot-ready prototype for presentation at the 2027 BUILD conference in Los Angeles.

Community Safety and ViolMelissa KingSeptember 1, 2026Human-Centered Design

Art of Caring at White Memorial Hospital

Healing-centered care is essential to advancing national health equity initiatives, as well as to fostering therapeutic relationships for patients and providers. Clinics and hospitals have sought our support in exploring what constitutes culturally-relevant care in the communities they serve and designing responsive programs. With our partners at Adventist Health White Memorial Hospital, PHS applied human-centered design thinking to the development and pilot of an OB/GYN medical education curriculum to support healing-centered care. Credit for mural in photo: East Los Skyscrapers

Oregon Human Trafficking Vignettes Project

PHS collaborated with Oregon Department of Justice Trafficking Response and Intervention Program (TRIP) on a community intervention to respond to human trafficking. The TRIP team worked with survivors, advocates, and service providers to compile their stories. PHS in turn designed story cards and a facilitator’s guide to make the stories accessible. The materials are being used to train service providers who engage with survivors of sex trafficking.

Project Healing: A Social Determinants of Health Platform for Justice-Involved Persons

Valley Care Community Consortium, Tarzana Treatment Centers, and Center for Living and Learning sought to improve care coordination for their clients by using a social determinants of health (SDoH) platform to support referral and communication. While the initiative was community-led, the providers partnered with PHS, who served as a process facilitator. PHS in turn designed and facilitated a six-phase process for choosing and piloting a SDoH platform.

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