Over the last decade, The California Endowment (TCE) has invested in 14 communities that have historically been marginalized and denied opportunities for their residents to thrive. The initiative, known as Building Healthy Communities (BHC), focuses on creating places where children are healthy, safe, and ready to learn. Del Norte and Tribal Lands (DNATL) are, collectively, one such community. The application of a human-centered design approach by DNATL, illustrates one strategy for engaging and partnering with community members to design an initiative that strives for health equity. BHC-DNATL has been working on implementing multiple strategies for achieving the vision through youth development and attacking challenges of low literacy, food insecurity, and workforce development. This report explores how human-centered design was used in the BHC-DNATL work.