{"id":156,"date":"2022-05-01T20:59:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T20:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dignitybestpractices.org\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2025-07-25T00:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:13:42","slug":"mission-and-method","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dignitybestpractices.org\/index.php\/mission-and-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission and Method"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We help local governments develop effective pilot projects, improve existing programs, and implement best practices from other successful systems in order to address their community\u2019s most pressing concerns. We currently focus on the following spaces: caring for those in crisis, re-imagining public safety, and conflict and violence reduction.<\/p>

Within these spaces, we help local governments design and launch pilot projects, evaluate and improve current programs, and develop their teams. To do this, we gather best practices insights from around the country, and we even stick around to help with nitty-gritty implementation support by providing project management, facilitating cross-agency working groups, drafting budgets, protocol documents, and MOUs, writing job descriptions, designing and executing training, building performance dashboards, and evaluating the early months after a program launches. This begins an iterative improvement cycle that our partners can take with them to continue to improve after we are done.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Best practices research \u2014 with dignity at the core<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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At Dignity Best Practices, we perform best practice research while keeping the dignity of all people at the center of our mission.<\/p>

What is a best practice, and what is best practice research?<\/h3>

At its core, a \u201cbest practice\u201d is:<\/p>

  • a way of acting that produces significantly better results than other known practice<\/li>
  • within the reach of most organizations\u2019 resources<\/li>
  • translatable team to team and context to context<\/li><\/ul>

    And, importantly, it is always being tested and evaluated as new candidates for best practices emerge. And new practices are emerging quickly in the space of public health and public safety. Highly-academic, quantitative, and expensive research methods that do not move at the speed of rapidly developing public health and public safety systems, but best practices research evaluates experimental practices at the pace they are evolving through a qualitative research process based on interviews and community learning.<\/strong> This allows information to be shared across the country in real time, rather than waiting years for academic research to catch up with the field.<\/p>

    Why center dignity?<\/h3>

    At the core of all best practices implemented in the public health and public safety sphere, there must be an underlying understanding of dignity for all people. An inherent quality that every human being possesses, dignity is omnipresent and unyielding. But when individuals are in crisis, first responders who aren\u2019t properly trained may respond with frustration, or even disgust, which immediately creates a barrier to proper care.<\/p>

    The best practices that emerge from our research are consistently vetted to make sure they take the dignity of the human being into account, so that at all touch points, people in crisis are treated with honor, respect, dignity and aid, wherever they are on their journey.<\/strong><\/p>

    This attunement to the humanity of all people enables us to connect not only with the people we are trying to serve, but also with the partners we work with. Civil servants and organizations do the best they can with the information and resources they have. That means we lead with respect for mayors, police officers, social workers, community organizers, and everyone else in the space. When we work together to better their systems, we do so as companions in the pursuit of better practices and better results.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Our method We help local governments develop effective pilot projects, improve existing programs, and implement best practices from other successful systems in order to address their community\u2019s most pressing concerns. We currently focus on the following spaces: caring for those in crisis, re-imagining public safety, and conflict and violence reduction. Within these spaces, we help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-156","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitybestpractices.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitybestpractices.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitybestpractices.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitybestpractices.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitybestpractices.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/dignitybestpractices.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/dignitybestpractices.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitybestpractices.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}