Training Description

What does health equity mean on the ground? What does it look like to work together toward more equitable communities and how do we do it? This interactive training will prepare coalitions leaders and members to answer these and other questions. Participants will explore and share strategies for increasing meaningful participation of diverse populations in the planning and decisions of local health coalition initiatives. 

Learning Objectives: By the end of this trainings participants will

1. Apply a health equity lens in the stages of a planning process.
2. Understand how to move beyond inclusion to build relationships that lead to shared decision making.
3. Develop clear next steps to take toward health equity in their own community.

Trainers

Aleya Martin, HRiA

Mo Barbosa, HRiA

Presentation

Agenda - Health Equity in Action 

Health Equity in Action

Resources

Health Equity Resources - Final.doc

For Local Health Departments

1. The Health Equity and Prevention Primer (HEPP) is a web-based training series for public health practitioners and advocates interested in policy advocacy, community change, and multi-sector engagement to achieve health equity. The Primer helps practitioners integrate a health equity lens into their initiatives in pursuit of overall health and safety. http://www.preventioninstitute.org/tools/focus-area-tools/health-equity-toolkit/6-health-equity-and-prevention-resources.html
2. NACCHO - Roots of Health Inequity
   The Roots of Health Inequity is an online learning collaborative. The site offers a starting place for those who want to address systemic differences in health and wellness that are, actionable, unfair, and unjust. https://live.blueskybroadcast.com/bsb/client/CL_DEFAULT.asp?Client=354947&PCAT=7117&CAT=7117
3. MAPP – Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships

            This supplement to the MAPP User’s Handbook provides tools and resources for   communities that seek to frame their MAPP process around health equity.
            The section is available here: Health Equity PDF

Webinar Archives

1. Training resources: http://tiach.pbworks.com/w/page/94473398/Health%20Equity%20in%20Action 
2. Expanding the Boundaries: Health Equity and Public Health Practice

Presenters: Jeanne Ayers, Renée Canady, Katherine Schaff http://www.dialogue4health.org/web-forums/detail/expanding-the-boundaries-health-equity-and-public-health-practice

Organizations

1. Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation https://www.raceforward.org/
2. The National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (NPA) is a coordinated, multi-sector effort to tackle health disparities in the United States.
3. The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) http://www.racialequity.org/
4. The Praxis Project www.thepraxisproject.org  
5. Transportation Caucus

            http://equitycaucus.org/About/StatementofPrinciples 

Tools

1. Developing an Equity Impact Statement: A Tool for Policymaking—A Product of The Praxis Project http://www.racialequityresourceguide.org/guides-workshops/developing-an-equity-impact-statement-a-tool-for-policymaking-a-product-of-the-praxis-project
2. Directors of Health Promotion and Education (dhpe) Health Equity Tool http://dhpe.site-ym.com/?page=HealthEquity_Tool
3. King County Equity and Social Justice Tools http://www.kingcounty.gov/elected/executive/equity-social-justice/tools-resources.aspx
4. National Equity Atlas from PolicyLink and PERE 
   
5. Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit

https://www.raceforward.org/practice/tools/racial-equity-impact-assessment-toolkit

6. Racial Equity Resource Guide http://www.racialequityresourceguide.org/
7. Racial Equity Tools http://www.racialequitytools.org/home