County of San Diego and San Diego County Office of Education partnered to provide over 215 teachers the Be Aware, Be Prepared disaster preparedness curriculum who have taught more than 13,700 students how to be prepared and resilient in an emergency. 

A partnership between Community Health Improvement Partners, the Lemon Grove HEAL Zone, Kaiser Permanente and the City of Lemon Grove brought over 1,000 Lemon Grove residents together to create community transformations, including local park improvements, healthy city and school policy changes and gardening and nutrition education programs to positively impact the health and safety of residents.

As part of its national Thrive Outside Community Initiative, the Outdoor Foundation has awarded a multi-year grant of $410,000 to The San Diego Foundation and a network of regional partners such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, County of San Diego Parks & Recreation Department, Outdoor Outreach , YMCA of San Diego County and the Nonprofit Institute at the University of San Diego, to support capacity building that will strengthen local partnerships, as well as create repeat and reinforcing positive outdoor experiences for youth and families. 

I Love A Clean San Diego and the City of Chula Vista held a 16th annual community cleanup event called Beautify Chula Vista Day where 1,033 volunteers helped remove an estimated 14,067 pounds of debris and 5,300 sq ft of graffiti and planted 246 plants. 

In celebration of Bike Month in May, SANDAG has awarded 20 GO by BIKE Mini-Grants to Beautiful PB, City Heights Community Development Corporation , City of Chula Vista , City of Coronado , City of El Cajon , City of Encinitas , City of La Mesa , Outdoor Outreach , San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, and the Urban Collaborative Project to fund events that encourage biking, including a variety of bike rides, tours, rodeos, scavenger hunts, and even bike-in movies, as well as bike education, safety and maintenance activities. 

At their 2019 Super Shred Event, San Diego County Credit Union in partnership with Shred-It and iHeart Media, broke their existing Guinness World Records^TM title, and achieved a new record of 239,060 pounds of waste paper shredded in an 8-hour period, saving more than 2,000 trees. 

The San Diego County Probation Department reduced the youth arrest rate by 76% in San Diego County between 2008 and 2017 (reported in April 2019) by transforming its treatment model and practices in the juvenile justice system, including the use of alternative sentencing keeping youth out of custody and in their communities with rehabilitation services.

Students in the Cajon Valley Union School District are learning how to stand up to bullying with the help of an interactive play called Safa’s Story which was delivered to approximately 3,000 students with more than 400 students joining the actors on stage to rewrite some of the most difficult scenes using improvisation.

The City of Oceanside won the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors’ 2018 National Exemplary Award for Innovative Substance Abuse Prevention Programs, Practices, and Policies for prohibiting stores within the city from selling synthetic drugs, an effort supported by the North Coastal Prevention Coalition whose members include the American Heart Association, City of Carlsbad , Carlsbad Unified School District , County of San Diego , City of Oceanside , Oceanside Unified School District , Vista Community Clinic and Vista Unified School District. 

After the Chabad of Poway shooting, Jewish Family Service of San Diego brought strength to the San Diego Community by providing safe spaces to process and discuss people’s complex emotions, connecting 22 people to trauma counselors and partnering with the Anti-Defamation League to bring 4,000 people together for a vigil filled with healing and hope.

The Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma promoted violence-free living by training 4,000 professionals, providing 1,200 hours of trauma-focused therapeutic services and publishing 26 academic journals geared towards improving the quality of life for individuals on local, national and international levels. 

“It made me see how the ARTS (A Reason To Survive) program and projects like these, could be something positive for neighborhoods like mine. And how it could be extremely helpful to others because this can be the first step to help them steer away from the negative statistics that often define their community.”

- Attendee of the Urban Collaborative Project’s kaleidoscope art installation who also grew up in Southeastern San Diego.

“She truly invests her time and energy to understand other people’s struggles despite their past or background. With Hauf at the helm of the North County Gang Commission her passion and knowledge about our community has transformed it into an agent of hope.”

- Jimmy Figueroa, a fellow Gang Commissioner and Program Manager of Vista Community Clinic’s Resilience Community Mentoring Program about Laurie Hauf, a Deputy District Attorney for the County of San Diego and a lifelong North County resident.

"Our immediate proximity to the busiest land border crossing in the world makes San Ysidro a special place, but it also creates special air quality challenges for our communities. This grant allows us to continue to expand the air quality monitoring program that we started many years ago with the help of San Diego State University, University of Washington, and California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and to share its data with agencies and San Ysidro residents to develop collaborative solutions.”

- David Flores, Community Development Director for Casa Familiar