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Our Basic Needs for Health and Safety help us sustain our physical and mental well-being. Our need to feel safe from violence, crime, traumatic stress, and injury in our homes, schools, workplaces, and communities falls under this vital condition.
Safety
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While this brief focuses on our basic need for safety, it relates to other vital conditions like humane housing, thriving natural world, and belonging and civic muscle. We also apply a racial justice and equity lens across all the vital conditions.
CASE STUDIES
Hewlett-Packard
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Internet connection is important to ensure health and safety for patients and the community.
Since hospitals, pop-up clinics, and lifesaving devices require Wi-Fi-connection to operate, Hewlett-Packard Enterprises donated $50 million worth of secure connectivity kits for use in hospitals in the US, Canada, Asia, and Europe.
Hewlett-Packard Enterprises has also provided secure, remote work options to help businesses quickly create virtual workspaces for their employees.
Homeboy Industries: Improving Safety through Second Chances
Founded in 1988 by Jesuit priest, Father Gregory Boyle, Homeboy Industries is the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world.
After Homeboy Industries was created, it began forming and operating its own job training businesses. Homeboy Industries has since grown from its initial business, a single bakery, to nearly a dozen social enterprises. These provide a vital training ground for clients as well as revenue streams to support the mission.
Homeboy also provides a range of free services and programs including case management, workforce development, educational services, and mental health services. It operates ten social enterprises that serve as job-training sites.
Homeboy Industries also provides legal services, substance abuse programs and referrals, and a comprehensive domestic violence program.