Building Trust Through Engagement

a peaceful space inc’s Environmental Holism Program (EHP) is a granular community engagement platform that provides lived-experience data collection, analyses and modeling based on authentic communication and relationship building. EHP is designed to involve underserved communities in comfortably co-developing community solutions on environmental health and community resilience.

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EHP Components of Community Engagement

Create pathways for frontline residents to become environmental health advocates, data collectors and civic influencers.

Lead participatory science efforts such as, heat and air quality monitoring, documenting lived-experience stories of those impacted by environmental challenges.

Provide a customizable quantitative model based on documented narratives, measurable data, and key performance indicators that can be published and shared with local officials and planning departments.

Advocate for policy changes and program investments rooted in lived experiences and community evidence.

Work with communities, cities, local organizations, and businesses to create wholistic approaches to community resilience.

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EHP COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WORK

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"Feet on the Street"

EHP advances community resilience efforts and environmental health through deep, granular community engagement and co-design processes that promote equitable community participation in planning and designing climate and quality-of-life solutions.

We are the “feet on the street”, building trusted relationships, learning about lived experiences, and building data capture and modeling tool for effective collaboration and decision-making.

Conducting Workshop for Women Going Green Business Startups : Atlanta, GA

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Co-Design

City governments increasingly recognize that technical data alone—traffic counts, emissions inventories, census figures—cannot capture the full realities of the environmental and structural impacts on frontline communities. To build equitable and resilient cities, planners and policymakers are integrating lived experiences and community storytelling into decision-making processes.

These narratives, when translated into reliable and actionable data, provide a richer, more inclusive foundation for city plans, policies, and projects. Translating lived experiences into usable data for policy and planning is EHP Platform.

Coordinating Economic Development Tour for 2C Mississippi : Jackson, Mississippi

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The EHP Model

The EHP Platform provides a framework rooted in lived experiences and community evidence. It relies on participatory science efforts such as, heat and air quality monitoring, in-person interviews, focus groups and perception surveys,

It is a reliable tool for decision-making and planning around program development, policy changes and program investments.

Let's Talk. . .

Conducting Perception Surveys with 2C Mississippi Jackson, Mississippi

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Impacts of Community Engagement

- - - New Orleans, Louisiana – Post-Katrina Recovery
      Residents’ oral histories about displacement and rebuilding were integrated with FEMA data to shape more just housing and land-use policies.
  - - Phoenix, Arizona – Heat Resilience Engagement
      Storytelling workshops captured resident experiences of extreme heat (“choosing between electricity bills and groceries”) and informed policy on utility shutoffs and neighborhood cooling hubs.
  - - Toronto, Canada – Tower Renewal Program
      Immigrant residents’ stories about high-rise living revealed gaps in maintenance and access to green space. Their narratives were converted into indicators guiding investments in retrofits and community amenities.