Brown School Office of Community Partnerships

Focused on fostering meaningful connections with our local communities, the Office of Community Partnerships (OCP) at the Brown School aims to cultivate, support, and sustain partnerships that bring about transformative social change for local communities and the region. The Brown School has identified priority geographic areas in the most critical need, making a measurable impact through social and economic justice.

Partnerships include:

• Health Equity Works: The Health Equity Works program translates data and research into community action in the health sector. This program engages St. Louis with the implementation of evidence based recommendations on school health, early childhood support, mental health and chronic disease, and other areas.
• Better Family Life (BFL): BFL provides holistic solutions to issues that commonly threaten the family unity. Solutions include everything from employment training to family and clinical services. The Brown School at WashU uses space at BFL to provide meetings, classes, and workshops for WashU students and faculty to become familiar with BFL insights and find ways to aid. The Brown School Evaluation center even helps to develop departmental evaluations and logic models.
• Family Forward Partnership: For more than 40 years, the Brown School has partnered with Family Forward to provide children from abusive environments with an opportunity for a better life. The program provides therapy, education, foster care and adoption, trauma assessment and more for children in the St. Louis region. WashU has been instrumental in this collaboration as they help to establish a model for the elimination of chronic child abuse.

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