Resources

Co-sponsored by Human Impact Partners, the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, the National Collaborative for Health Equity, and NACCHO’s Health Equity and Social Justice Committee.

We’re excited to co-sponsor a 4-part webinar series to discuss the strategic practices outlined in HIP’s Health Equity Guide with national experts and local health departments advancing health equity. We’re hosting this series in collaboration with the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, the National Collaborative for Health Equity, and the National Association of County and City Health Officers’ Health Equity and Social Justice Committee.

An organization promoting the practice of nonviolent communication to clarify observations, emotions, values, and our goals for intrapersonal and interpersonal communication.

dRWorks

Written by Tema Okun, this article outlines how white supremacy can manifest in organizational culture in the forms of perfectionism, sense of urgency, defensiveness, either/or thinking, etc., and offers concrete antidotes/ways to counteract this in interpersonal and organizational relationships.

Coalition of Communities of Color

The Coalition of Communities of Color’s mission is to address the socioeconomic disparities, institutional racism, and inequity of services experienced by our families, children and communities; and to organize our communities for collective action resulting in social change to obtain self-determination, wellness, justice and prosperity.

Nexus Community Partners

This self-assessment tool is intended to grow in understanding of community engagement and to be thoughtful about our own practice of engagement techniques.

PolicyLink and The Kirwan Institute

This guide, developed to support community engagement in the federal Sustainable Communities Initiative, outlines the benefits of community engagement, guidelines for meaningful community engagement, and frequently asked questions.

University of Washington

This website provides an evidence-based curriculum for using CBPR as a tool for developing community-institutional partnerships to improve health.

Alameda County Department of Public Health

This seven-page tip sheet provides concrete and helpful suggestions for group facilitation.

NAACP Climate Justice Program

This Guide includes a disaster policy and governance framework, how to start a community emergency response team, hosting a community visioning session, establishing a community advisory board, civil and human rights in emergency management monitoring tool, partnership matrix of agencies/organizations, disaster management resource list, and more!

City of Seattle

This practical resource guide, which includes six essential strategies, a planning worksheet, a public engagement matrix, an evaluation template, and Seattle policies related to outreach, translation, and interpretation, was developed for a citywide staff training on public engagement.

Boston Public Health Commission

This webpage profiles the Commission’s Language Access working group, and includes a quality language access infographic, presentations on language access on a shoestring budget, a guide to working with interpreters, and conference materials.

CDC

This section from the Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease, provides strategies, reflection questions, and a case study illustrating meaningful health department community engagement.

Twin Cities Metropolitan Council

This plan outlines key definitions, principles, strategies, and evaluation metrics for public engagement processes.

Prevention Institute

Drawing on interviews with grassroots leaders from across the country, this report explores how the political landscape, funding, staff skills, leadership, and partnerships influence the ability of community-based organizations to work effectively with public health agencies to address health inequities and racial injustices.

This organization’s Undoing Racism workshops utilize a systemic approach that emphasizes learning from history, developing leadership, maintaining accountability to communities, creating networks, undoing internalized racial oppression, and understanding the role of organizational gate keeping as a mechanism for perpetuating racism.

Coalition of Communities of Color

Developed by the Center to Advance Racial Equity, this research report provides mainstream organizations concrete advice to assist their assessment and improvement process to advance their cultural responsiveness.

DataCenter

DataCenter’s research tools are designed to help organizers and activists think strategically about the role of information in developing actions and campaigns – and to provide a practical guide for doing effective campaign research.

Coalition of Communities of Color

This article outlines data and research practices that misrepresent and negate the experiences and identities of communities of color including population undercounts, understudy of the unique characteristics of communities of color, inaccuracies in how data are codified and analyzed, and data collection efforts that are infused with white centrism and a colorblindness that renders issues minimized and the experiences of communities of color obscured.

American Journal of Public Health

Written by Wallerstein, Minkler and colleagues, this article presents a new conceptual model and two case studies to illustrate the connections among CBPR contexts and processes, policymaking processes and strategies, and outcomes.

Coalition of Communities of Color

Developed and piloted by the Eliminating Disparities collaborative, this open-source tool helps leaders gain an evidence-based snapshot of practices and policies related to racial equity in their organizations.

Training for Change

Using a popular education approach, this website hosts training tools, activities, and exercises on diversity/anti-oppression, team building, organizing and strategy, meeting facilitation and better trainings, and other areas.

Written by Human Impact Partners, this resource page defines who are community organizers, why health departments should collaborate with them, case studies of health departments working with community organizers, and a list of national community organizing groups to help you find a community organizer in your area.