Resources for webinar participants General resources that discuss the ‘causes of the causes’ and what LHDs can do

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Role of the State and Territorial Health Official in Promoting Health Equity. 2013.

Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative. Local Health Department Organizational Self-Assessment for Addressing Health Inequities: Toolkit and Guide to Implementation. 2010.

Ehlinger, Ed. We need a Triple Aim for Health Equity. Minnesota Medicine. 2015.

The California Endowment. Advancing Health Equity Awards: Reviewer’s Packet. 2014.

Health Resources and Services Administration and the Region V Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network on Infant Mortality. Foundational Practices for Health Equity: State Self-assessment. Forthcoming.

Human Impact Partners. Public Health and Equity Cohort Curriculum. 2016.

Iton, Anthony. Health Equity: Moving from the Margins to the Center. NACCHO Exchange. 2016.

National Association of County & City Health Officials. Expanding the Boundaries: Health Equity and Public Health Practice. 2014.

National Association of County & City Health Officials and the Ingham County Health Department. Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: A Handbook for Action. 2006.

King County Equity Impact Review Tool. Revised October 2010. *Colorado’s Checking Assumptions document and a handout on measuring equity efforts can be found here: https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/suite-of-tools. *Other Colorado-specific tools: The guidance documents for environmental health staff and the health equity activities mapped onto the 10 essential services are not in a sharable format, but should be within the next 4-6 weeks. Folks can check back on the Colorado Office of Health Equity website or email Sarah.Hernandez@state.co.us in August 2017. Tacoma Pierce County Health Department’s Health Equity Assessment, Health Lens Analysis Tool, and Health Equity Infographic: http://www.tpchd.org/health-wellness-1/health-equity/ Power Analysis:

https://network.progressivetech.org/system/files/SCOPEpresentationonPA.pdf

http://www.ctbh.org/documents/Power_Analysis_Trainer_Training.pdf

All from SCOPE: http://scopela.org/our-work/training/, who sells a toolkit called “Power Tools”

Below is a draft list of toolkits, articles, websites, templates, guides, and other resources to help health departments advance the Human Impact Partners Build Power for Health Equity: Strategic Practices for Local Health Departments. Although many resources exist, we are lifting these up because they focus on equity and we, our advisory group members, or people we interviewed for the case studies found them helpful. Visit www.HealthEquityGuide.org and sign up for an email update for when the final, easy-to-use, online version of this is up and running later this summer!

Resources to confront power imbalances and racial and other forms of oppression used to maintain them Examples of Health Professionals Speaking Up for Equity and Racial Justice

● Transformation 101: Written by Makani Themba-Nixon, the founder and former Executive Director of the Praxis Project and current Chief Strategist for Higher Ground, this blog outlines ten things social change makers should do differently in these times.

● #BlackLivesMatter — A Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities: Written by NYC Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett, this NEJM Op-Ed is a call to action to the health community to support the Black Lives Matter Movements and confront the root causes of inequality. This Op-Ed subsequently led to the creation of NYC’s Race to Justice initiative.

● Health Equity: Moving from the Margins to the Center: Written by former Alameda County Health Department Director Dr. Anthony Iton, this NACCHO Exchange article describes five principles of equity practice, drawing from his personal and organizational experiences with the Alameda County Health Department and The California Endowment’s Health Equity work.

● We Need a Triple Aim for Health Equity: Written by Minnesota’s Commissioner of Health, Dr. Edward Ehlinger this opinion piece became the basis of his ASTHO President’s Challenge to Advance Health Equity and Optimal Health for All.

Facilitation Resources for Conversations about Racism and Power

● Talking About Race Toolkit: Developed by the Center for Social Inclusion, this toolkit is a collection of the key strategies that they have found are necessary in combating the race wedge and advancing racial equity. This toolkit should be used as a guide for your own strategic messaging.

● Conversations that Matter: A How to Guide for Hosting Discussions about Race, Racism and Public Health: Developed by CityMatCH and the Lee Institute, the guide is intended as a community-empowerment resource, assisting public health professionals in initiating and facilitating open, honest, and efficient conversations about racism’s impacts.

● List of Racial Equity Guides and Workshops: Developed by the WK Kellogg Foundation as part of the Racial Equity Guide, these guides and workshops can provide structure for dialogue, awareness raising, inspiring action and helping achieve racial equity.

● Unnatural Causes Facilitation Resources: A seven-part documentary series about how the distribution of power, wealth and resources shape opportunities for health and how racism, immigration, oppression, place, globalization and employment impact health outcomes and life opportunities. Discussion guides include activities and prompts for facilitators.

● Facilitation Tips: Developed by the Alameda County Department of Public Health, this seven page tip sheet provides concrete and helpful suggestions for group facilitation.

Organizations Doing Transformative Racial Justice Work

● Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation brings systemic analysis to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity.

● Black Lives Matter: Chapter-based national organization working for the validity of Black life. They are working to (re)build the Black liberation movement. See also the Movement for Black Lives: vision, agenda, policy briefs and platform.

● Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society: Brings together researchers, organizers, stakeholders, communicators, and policymakers to identify and eliminate the barriers to an inclusive, just, and

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sustainable society and to create transformative change toward a more equitable nation. ● Showing Up for Racial Justice, through community organizing, mobilizing and education, moves white

people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. ● List of Racial Equity Organizations: Developed by the Kellogg Foundation as part of their Racial Equity

Guide, this list includes grassroots organizations, academic institutions, national advocacy organizations and more.

Participatory Budgeting Resources

● The Participatory Budget Project empowers people to decide together how to spend public money by creating and supporting participatory budgeting processes that deepen democracy, build stronger communities, and make public budgets more equitable and effective.

Resources to develop leadership, support innovation, and reward strategic risk-taking to advance equity Examples of Health Professionals Speaking Up for Equity and Racial Justice

● Transformation 101: Written by Makani Themba-Nixon, the founder and former Executive Director of the Praxis Project and current Chief Strategist for Higher Ground, this blog outlines ten things social change makers should do differently in these times.

● #BlackLivesMatter — A Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities: Written by NYC Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett, this NEJM Op-Ed is a call to action to the health community to support the Black Lives Matter Movements and confront the root causes of inequality. This Op-Ed subsequently led to the creation of NYC’s Race to Justice initiative.

● Health Equity: Moving from the Margins to the Center: Written by former Alameda County Health Department Director Dr. Anthony Iton, this NACCHO Exchange article describes five principles of equity practice, drawing from his personal and organizational experiences with the Alameda County Health Department and The California Endowment’s Health Equity work.

● We Need a Triple Aim for Health Equity: Written by Minnesota’s Commissioner of Health, Dr. Edward Ehlinger this opinion piece became the basis of his ASTHO President’s Challenge to Advance Health Equity and Optimal Health for All.

Networks to Support Leadership Development and Capacity Building

● Health Equity Awakened: A Leadership Institute: Coordinated by Human Impact Partners, the leadership institute brings together a group of emerging leaders from public health agencies around the country to build their leadership to advance equity within their departments.

● Government Alliance on Race and Equity is a national network of government working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all that offers various resources for developing a shared analysis among government agencies about historical and current roles of government in perpetuating racism and discrimination, and how to transform practice.

● Health Equity Leadership and Exchange Network (HELEN): Coordinated by the National Collaborative for Health Equity, HELEN is a national network designed to bolster leadership and the exchange of ideas and information among communities of color and other vulnerable populations relative to the advancement of health equity in laws, policies, and programs.

Local and State Health Professional Leadership Resources

● Role of the State and Territorial Health Official in Promoting Health Equity: Developed by ASTHO, this document includes 5 health officer strategies and a Colorado Health Department case study.

● Guidelines for Achieving Health Equity in Public Health Practice: Developed by NACCHO, this document outlines 10 strategies for local health departments to help identify needs and evaluation of the effectiveness of their practice in achieving health equity.

● Foundational Practices for Health Equity: A Learning and Action Tool for State Health Departments: This COIIN/HRSA tool was developed to help leaders in state health departments evaluate their agency's capacity to advance health equity and take action to transform public health practice.

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Innovation, Risk-Taking, and Other Leadership Resources ● Take a Risk: The Odds Are Better Than You Think: Written by Margie Warrell for Forbes Magazine, this

article encourages leaders to have courageous conversations and take risks. ● Seven Levers of Change: Developed by Dr. Andrea Shapiro, the seven levers are decisions and actions

that leaders can take to engage employees in the change and to leverage the knowledge and enthusiasm of those already engaged.

● Results-Based Accountability: Developed by Mark Freeman, RBA uses a data-driven, decision-making process to help communities and organizations get beyond talking about problems to taking action to solve problems.

Resources to change the conversation about what creates health equity within public health, across government, and in communities Reports about Framing Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health

● Framing 101: Developed by the Berkeley Media Studies Group, this resource provides an intro to how people's minds take in new information and what that means for advocates trying to develop effective messages about public health.

● Health Disparities & Pediatrics Framing: Developed by Glynis Shea from the University of Minnesota’s Konopka Institute, this powerpoint presentation highlights the importance of framing when talking about what one can do to address health inequities.

● Making the Case for Health Equity: This section from the CDC’s Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity provides strategies, reflection questions and a case study illustrating a health department’s equity communication activities.

● Talking About Race Toolkit: Developed by the Center for Social Inclusion, this toolkit is a collection of the key strategies that they have found are necessary in combating the race wedge and advancing racial equity. This toolkit should be used as a guide for your own strategic messaging.

Organizations that Provide TA on Framing/Narratives ● Berkeley Media Studies Group: Through media advocacy training and consultation, BMSG helps health

professionals develop skills to shape journalists' coverage of health issues so that it illuminates the need for policies that improve the places where people live, learn, work and play.

● Center for Story-based Strategy is a national movement-building organization dedicated to harnessing the power of narrative for social change. CSS offers organizations the analysis, training and strategic support to change the story on the issues that matter most.

● Race Forward: Center for Racial Justice Innovation: Supports advocacy and action on complex racial justice issues through mobilization, skill-building, leadership development, organization- and alliance-building, issue-framing, messaging, and advancing solutions.

● The Opportunity Agenda works to advance the impact of the social justice community by shaping compelling narratives and messages; building the communication capacity of leaders through training and resources; and engaging with artists, creatives, and culture makers as powerful storytellers to shift the public discourse.

● FrameWorks Institute works to advance communications capacity by identifying, translating, and modeling relevant scholarly research to frame the public discourse on social problems

● Center for Social Inclusion: works to catalyze community, government, and other institutions to dismantle structural racial inequity and create equitable outcomes for all. We craft and apply strategies and tools to transform our nation’s policies, practices, and institutions, in order to achieve racial equity.

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Resources to join with others in public health to build a movement for health equity Health Equity Movements

● Public Health Awakened is a group of public health professionals organizing for health, equity, and justice, formed in response to the Trump administration.

● People’s Health Movement is a global network bringing together grassroots health activists, civil society organizations and academic institutions from around the world, particularly from low and middle income countries.

● Health Equity Leadership and Exchange Network (HELEN), coordinated by the National Collaborative for Health Equity, is a national network designed to bolster leadership and the exchange of ideas and information among communities of color and other vulnerable populations relative to the advancement of health equity in laws, policies, and programs.

Histories of Health Equity Movements ● Expanding the Boundaries: Health Equity and Public Health Practice. Written by Bob Prentice and

NACCHO, this report provides an overview of early public health history, the roots of health inequities, and a general review of common elements in current health equity practice.

● Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity: Summary of a December 2013 workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine to explore lessons from social movements, both those that are health-related and those that are not primarily focused on health.

● We Are Public Health: This website collects stories of diverse public health heroes, documents their career trajectories, highlights important milestones, shares their concerns and sets the stage for their big ideas and solutions to contemporary public health issues.

Resources to build understanding and capacity to advance equity across the department and workforce Self-Assessment Tools and Guides

● Foundational Practices for Health Equity: A Learning and Action Tool for State Health Departments: This COIIN/HRSA tool was developed to help leaders in state health departments evaluate their agency's capacity to advance health equity and take action to transform public health practice.

● BARHII Organizational Self-Assessment Tool: Developed by the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII), the tool helps health leaders identify the skills, organizational practices and infrastructure needed to address health equity and provides insights into steps LHDs can take to advance equity.

● Build Organizational Capacity to Advance Health Equity: This section from the CDC’s Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity provides strategies, reflection questions and a case study illustrating health department capacity building.

Health Equity Training Resources

● Roots of Health Inequity: Developed by NACCHO, this online learning collaborative is geared towards the local public health workforce and works to explore root causes of health inequity and concepts and strategies that could lead to effective action.

● Public Health 101 Dialogue Series: Developed by the Alameda County Public Health Department, this five module training was designed to create opportunities for dialogue and shared learning and includes public health history, cultural humility, undoing racism, social and health equity, and community capacity building.

● Health Equity Program: Developed by ASTHO, this website includes webinars, reports, case studies, state snapshots, examples of health equity reports, and more.

● Conversations that Matter: A How to Guide for Hosting Discussions about Race, Racism and Public Health: Developed by CityMatCH and the Lee Institute, the guide is intended as a community-empowerment resource, assisting public health professionals in initiating and facilitating open,

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honest, and efficient conversations about racism’s impacts. Organizations that Provide Health Equity TA to Health Departments

● Human Impact Partners: Through research, advocacy, and capacity building, HIP brings the power of public health to social justice campaigns and movements.

● Government Alliance for Race and Equity: A partnership between the Center for Social Inclusion and the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, GARE is a national network of government working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all.

● Prevention Institute: Synthesizes research and practice; develops prevention tools and frameworks; designs and guides inter-sectoral partnerships; and provides training, technical assistance, and strategy development to promote innovative community-oriented solutions, better government and business practices, and policy change.

● Collaboratives for Health Equity: Formerly known as Place Matters, Collaboratives for Health Equity is a national initiative designed to empower leaders and communities to identify and address social, economic, and environmental conditions that shape health and life opportunities.

Other Resources for Internal Equity Capacity Building

● Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Created by the CDC, this Guide provides lessons learned and innovative ideas on how to maximize the effects of policy, systems and environmental improvement strategies—all with the goal of reducing health disparities and advancing health equity

● Role of the State and Territorial Health Official in Promoting Health Equity: Developed by ASTHO, this document includes 5 health officer strategies and a Colorado Health Department case study.

● Guidelines for Achieving Health Equity in Public Health Practice: Developed by NACCHO, this document outlines 10 strategies for local health departments to help identify needs and evaluation of the effectiveness of their practice in achieving health equity.

● Seven Levers of Change: Developed by Dr. Andrea Shapiro, the seven levers are decisions and actions that leaders can take to engage employees in the change and to leverage the knowledge

● Social Service and Social Change, A Process Guide: This guide by the Building Movement Project, provides a framework for service organizations to values and practices into their work that address underlying systemic problems that result in inequalities.

Resources to allocate resources to advance equity Potential Funders

• The Foundation Center: In addition to maintaining a database of 140,000 foundations and 3.5+ million grants, the Center offers philanthropy research, data, and skills building opportunities.

• Federal and State Funding Opportunities: Developed by the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, this website lists fellowships, grants and other awards from U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries.

• Investment Resources: Developed by the Build Healthy Places Network, this list of investment resources includes report on leveraging community development, health care, and other sources of funding to improve conditions impacting health.

• The following is a list of private foundations who have funded health equity, social justice, and/or social determinants of health work.

o Health Impact Project o W.K. Kellogg Foundation o Robert Wood Johnson Foundation o The California Endowment o Public Welfare Foundation o The Annie E. Casey Foundation o The Kresge Foundation

Resources for Equitable Budget Practices

● Equity Impact Review Tool: Developed by the (Seattle) King County Equity Team, use this to identify, evaluate, and communicate the potential impact (both positive and negative) of a policy or program on

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equity. The Tool has been applied to policy decisions, budgets other agency decision-making. ● Equitable Budgeting Tool: Developed by the Tacoma Office of Equity and Human Rights and the Office of

Management and Budget, the tool takes a critical look at how resources and investments have currently and historically been allocated and make necessary changes to ensure that all communities receive a fair amount of resource investment. Used in the 2017-2018 budget development process, equity is reflected throughout the final budget.

Resources to change internal practices and align internal processes to advance equity Changing Hiring/Contracting Practices

• Contracting for Equity: Developed by the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, this guide outlines local government practices to advance racial equity through contracting and procurement.

• Public Sector Jobs: Opportunities for Advancing Racial Equity: Developed by Government Alliance on Race and Equity, this issue brief provides an overview of the status of workforce equity within the public sector, barriers to workforce equity, and policy and practice strategies to advance greater public sector workplace equity.

• Equitable Hiring Handbook: Developed by the City of Tacoma, the handbook provides tools to apply an equity lens during the recruiting, interviewing and hiring process. It also provides interview questions and suggestions for creating and maintaining an inclusive workplace.

• Workforce Change Tools: Developed by the Tacoma Office of Equity and Human Rights, these tools provide examples of internal changes to help create a more diverse staff with a deeper understanding of equity.

Analyzing Equity Impacts of Policies and Budgets

● Equity Impact Review Tool: Developed by the King County Equity Team, this is a process and a tool to identify, evaluate, and communicate the potential impact of a policy or program on equity.

● Health Lens Analysis Tool: Developed by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, this tool helps assess potential impacts of proposed policies/decisions and identify opportunities to improve policy’s potential impacts on the social, economic and environmental causes of health.

Advancing Equity Through Quality Improvement (QI) and Accreditation Processes

● Boston Public Health Commission’s Quality Improvement Plan 2015-2018: Provides a framework for how BPHC will use QI models and build a high performing organizational culture where staff are engaged in continuous QI to ensure measurable progress towards improving public health services, health equity, and racial justice.

● Health Equity and Performance and Quality Improvement (PQI): This powerpoint for the 2016 NACCHO conference describes Houston/Harris County Health Department is working to transform health inequities from within.

● Advancing Health Equity through the PHAB Standards: Organized by the Public Health Accreditation Board, this webinar provides examples of health departments advancing equity through their accreditation process.

Resources to prioritize improving the social determinants of health through upstream policy change SDOH Frameworks

● Framework for reducing health inequities: Developed by Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII), the framework posits that upstream living conditions, institutional power, and social inequalities directly determine health behavior, morbidity, and mortality.

● Conceptual Framework for Action on the Social Determinants of Health: Developed by the World Health Organization, the paper is part of a series to share knowledge on how to tackle the social

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determinants of health to improve health equity. Papers explore themes related to questions of strategy, governance, tools, and capacity building.

● Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity: Kaiser Family Foundation brief providing an overview of the broad factors that influence health and describes emerging efforts to address them, including initiatives within Medicaid.

● Healthy People 2020: Social Determinants of Health overview, interventions/resources, & data snapshots. Tools for Using SDOH Framework

● Tools for Putting SDOH into Action: This CDC website lists a number of datasets, guides, reports, frameworks, and other resources for moving from data to action on the social determinants of health.

● Applying SDOH Indicator Data for Advancing Health Equity: Developed by BARHII, this step-by-step technical guide assists local health departments and community partners in the collection, analysis, and usage of SDOH indicators for local community health assessments, program/policy development, and health equity advocacy.

Resources to mobilize data, research, and evaluation to make the case for, assess, and inform interventions for health equity Sources of Health Equity And Social Determinants of Health Data

● National Equity Atlas: Created and maintained by USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and PolicyLink, the Atlas provides data on demographic change, racial inclusion, and the economic benefits of equity for the 100 largest cities, 150 largest regions, all 50 states, and the United States.

● Kids Count Data Center: A project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this provides data on child and family well-being in the United States and includes hundreds of indicators available at the zipcode, city, county, and state level and provides option for download data and create reports and graphics.

● County Health Rankings and Roadmaps: Developed by RWJF and University of Wisconsin, the Rankings are based on a model of population health that emphasizes the many factors that can help make communities healthier places to live, learn, work and play. Data and rankings are available at the county, state and national level.

● Diversitydata.org: Created by the Heller School, this website create customized reports describing over 100 measures of diversity, opportunity, quality of life for 362 metropolitan areas

● Compendium of Publicly Available Datasets And Other Data-Related Resources: Created by the Federal Interagency Health Equity Team, this is a compendium of existing federal data sets.

Guides for Analyzing and Communicating Data Findings ● Applying SDOH Indicator Data for Advancing Health Equity: Developed by BARHII, this step-by-step

technical guide is intended is to assist local public health departments and their community partners in the collection, analysis, and usage of priority living conditions data indicators for local community health assessments, program/policy development, and health equity advocacy.

● Using Data to Identify Health Inequities: Written by the Minnesota Department of Health, the guide provides local health departments information on how to think about and analyze data related to health equity, and serves as a starting point for understanding how to document health inequities.

● Making Data Talk Workbook: Developed by NCI, this Workbook intends to help you select and communicate quantitative data for the public, policy makers and the press to understand.

● Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: Developed by the University of Washington, this website provides an evidence-based curriculum for using CBPR as a tool for developing community-institutional partnerships to improve health.

Composite Equity Index Tools

● Health Equity Index: Developed by the Connecticut Association of Directors of Health, the HEI is a community-based electronic tool that profiles and measures the SDOH and their correlations with specific health outcomes. The Index also generates community-specific scores and GIS maps.

● Health Disadvantage Index: Developed by the Public Health Alliance of Southern California, the HDI developed a composite index of SDOH that form the root causes of disadvantage using publicly available

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sources. The HDI is intended to help prioritize public and private investments, resources and programs. Resources to build alliances with other government agencies to advance equity Health in All Policies Resources

● Health in All Policies Toolkit: In support of the National Prevention Strategy, ASTHO produced this toolkit to educate and empower public health leaders to promote a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to policymaking and program development.

● Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments: Written by the California Department of Public Health and Public Health Institute, this guide provides strategies and examples of collaborative approaches to improve population health by embedding health considerations into decision-making processes across a broad array of sectors.

● Health in All Policies Resource Page: Developed by the CDC, this website includes links to the National Prevention Strategy, CDC’s HiAP Resource Center, and various guides and toolkits.

Health Impact Assessment Resources

● Health Impact Assessment Resources: Developed by the Society of Practitioners of Health Impact Assessment, this webpage offers links to completed HIAs, tools, guides, evidence, and networking /support for HIA practitioners.

● Promoting Equity through the Practice of Health Impact Assessment: Written by PolicyLink, HIP, Adler School, and SFDPH, this primer seeks to ensure that the practice of HIA maintains a strong focus on promoting equity and describes how HIA can be used as a tool to support equitable decision-making processes and outcomes.

Tools for Conducting Racial Equity Analyses ● Racial Equity Impact Assessment (REIA): Developed by Race Forward, REIA is a systematic examination

of how different racial and ethnic groups will likely be affected by a proposed action or decision. This brief guide provides a summary of when and how to use REIAs, and sample questions to ask in an REIA.

● Racial Equity Toolkit: Developed by the Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative, the Toolkit lays out a process and a set of questions to guide the development, implementation and evaluation of policies, initiatives, programs, and budget issues to address the impacts on racial equity.

● Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity: Developed by the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, this Toolkit outlines the value of using racial equity tools, resources to develop local equity analysis tools, and examples from Seattle, Multnomah, Portland, Madison.

● PolicyLink Equity Tools: This page links to PolicyLink’s Equitable Development Toolkit, Getting Equity Advocacy Results, Community-Centered Policing Tools and the National Equity Atlas.

Resources for Engaging and Making the Case to Other Agencies

● Making the Case for Equity: This RWJF research brief make the case for how investing in equity can help an organization: 1) comply with regulatory requirements and become eligible for federal dollars; 2) prepare for changes in reimbursement and new demands in the health care market; 3) meet quality goals; 4) fulfill mission and vision goals and improve perception among key stakeholders; and 5) maintain or improve its financial stability.

● Economic Case for Equity and Inclusion: Compiled by the National Equity Atlas, this list includes articles, reports and presentations.

● Advancing Racial Equity and Transforming Government: A Resource Guide to Put Ideas Into Action: Developed by the Government Alliance for Racial Equity, this resource guide outlines GARE’s six strategies for advancing racial equity and government transformation. The toolkit shares the stories and lessons learned from local government leaders across the country who have built (and continue to build) racial equity strategies.

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Resources to develop a shared analysis with other agencies about government's role in creating health equity Health Equity and Anti-Racism Training Resources

● Government Alliance on Race and Equity is a national network of government working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all that offers various resources for developing a shared analysis among government agencies about historical and current roles of government in perpetuating racism and discrimination, and how to transform practice.

● The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history across the country and offers teaching materials.

● Unnatural Causes: A seven-part documentary series about how the distribution of power, wealth and resources shape opportunities for health; how racism, immigration, oppression, place, globalization and employment impact health outcomes and life opportunities.

● Making the Case for Health Equity: This section from the CDC’s Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity provides strategies, reflection questions and a case study illustrating a health department’s equity communication activities.

Health in All Policies Resources

● Health in All Policies Toolkit: In support of the National Prevention Strategy, ASTHO produced this toolkit to educate and empower public health leaders to promote a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to policymaking and program development.

● Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments: Written by the California Department of Public Health and Public Health Institute, this guide provides strategies and examples of collaborative approaches to improve population health by embedding health considerations into decision-making processes across a broad array of sectors.

● Health in All Policies Resource Page: Developed by the CDC, this website includes links to the National Prevention Strategy, CDC’s HiAP Resource Center, and various guides and toolkits.

Resources to change the administrative and regulatory scope of public health and other agency practice to advance health equity Examples of Local Agencies Changing their Scope to Address Equity

● Government Alliance on Race and Equity is a national network of government working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all. Their website and network offers numerous examples of government agencies changing their scope of work and resources on how to leverage public sector hiring, contracting and procurement, and other practices to advance racial equity.

● Protecting labor rights: roles for public health: This article in Public Health Reports describes the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s efforts to protect labor rights through leveraging their regulatory authority and research capacities. Figure 2 outlines potential roles for public health agencies in supporting health-protective labor standards in the U.S.

● City Projects Using RESJI: As part of their Racial Equity and Social Justice Initiative (RESJI), the City of Madison, Wisconsin has been applying various racial equity tools to their current work to identify opportunities to improve and mitigate the impact of specific projects and plans on equity. Through this process, they have modified the scope and practice of different city departments.

● Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: A Handbook for Action: Written by NACCHO, this handbook offers ideas, insight, and examples for LHDs in order to strengthen their capacity for influencing the root causes of health inequities through a social justice perspective.

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Resources to build strategic relationships with communities experiencing health inequities in ways that intentionally listen and learn, allow for meaningful participation, and share power and decision making

Guides for Meaningful Community Engagement

● Community Engagement Guide for Sustainable Communities: Developed by PolicyLink and The Kirwan Institute to support community engagement in the federal Sustainable Communities Initiative, this guide outlines the benefits of community engagement, guidelines for meaningful community engagement and frequently asked questions.

● Inclusive Outreach and Public Engagement Guide: Developed by the City of Seattle as a practical resource guide for all city staff and as the basis for their Citywide training on Public Engagement. Includes six essential strategies, planning worksheet, public engagement matrix, evaluation template, and Seattle policies related to outreach, translation and interpretation.

● Meaningful Community Engagement: This section from the CDC’s 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.

● Metropolitan Council Public Engagement Plan: Developed by the Twin Cities Metropolitan Council, this plan outlines key definitions, principles, strategies and evaluation metrics for public engagement processes.

● Facilitation Tips: Developed by the Alameda County Department of Public Health, this seven page tip sheet provides concrete and helpful suggestions for group facilitation.

● Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: Developed by the University of Washington, this website provides an evidence-based curriculum for using CBPR as a tool for developing community-institutional partnerships to improve health.

● The Promise of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) for Health Equity: A Conceptual Model for Bridging Evidence With Policy: This article by Wallerstein, Minkler and colleagues presents a new conceptual model and 2 case studies to illustrate the connections among CBPR contexts and processes, policymaking processes and strategies, and outcomes.

Language Access Resources

● Language Justice: This Boston Public Health Commission webpage profiles the work of their Language Access working group and includes a quality language access infographic, presentations on language access on a shoestring budget, guide to working with interpreters, and conference materials.

Anti-Racism and Non-Violent Communication Training Resources

● Challenging White Supremacy Culture: This article by Tema Okun of Dismantling Racism 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.

● People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond: Their 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.

● Center for Nonviolent Communication Resources and Trainings: Through the practice of NVC, we can learn to clarify what we are observing, what emotions we are feeling, what values we want to live by, and what we want to ask of ourselves and others.

● Training for Change Tools Section: This website organized by Training for Change hosts training tools, activities, and exercises on diversity/anti-oppression, team building, organizing & strategy, meeting facilitation & better trainings, and other areas using a popular education approach.

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Resources to build alliances with community partners to protect against risk and build community power Organizations Helping Build Community Power Each of these organizations is working to build community power and/or advance social justice and equity and has local members/affiliates who are doing community organization. Your organization could potentially connect with the local organization to understand their policy agenda and opportunities for potential collaboration.

● California Calls ● Center for Community Change ● Center for Popular Democracy ● Fair Immigration Reform Movement ● Gamaliel ● Grassroots Global Justice ● Jobs With Justice - Local Network ● MomsRising.org ● Movement for Black Lives ● National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights ● Partnership for Working Families ● PICO National Network - Federations ● Right to the City Alliance ● Showing Up for Racial Justice

Resources to engage strategically in social justice campaigns and movements to advance equity Social Justice Movements and Organizations Each of these organizations is working to build community power and/or advance social justice and equity and has local members/affiliates who are doing community organization. Your organization could potentially connect with the local organization to understand their policy agenda and opportunities for potential collaboration.

● California Calls ● Center for Community Change ● Center for Popular Democracy ● Fair Immigration Reform Movement ● Gamaliel ● Grassroots Global Justice ● Jobs With Justice - Local Network ● MomsRising.org ● Movement for Black Lives ● National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights ● Partnership for Working Families ● PICO National Network - Federations ● Right to the City Alliance ● Showing Up for Racial Justice

Community Organizing Resources

● Organizing for Power Resources: This Alliance for Community Trainers’ website lists numerous tools and resources for campaign planning, organizing, action planning and strategizing.

● Organizing and Campaigns Resource List: Developed by BuildtheWheel.org, this list includes curriculums, tools and organizations doing social change and movement building work. You must create a log-in to access their resources.

● Organizing Resources: From the Communities Creating Healthy Environments’ website, includes tips and guides to conduct effective outreach, resources for personal and political development for organizers, intros to popular education, and more.

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Media Advocacy Tools ● Making the Case Through Media Advocacy Toolkit: Developed by Prevention Institute to expand and shift

the frame of how the media depicts community prevention, to ensure that the whole picture is shown and that community prevention is framed accurately and comprehensively. Includes sample op-eds, letters to the editor, talking points on community prevention, and other tips/suggestions for working with the media.

● Media Advocacy 101: Developed by the Berkeley Media Studies Group, this page provides an overview of why media advocacy is important for health professionals, the purpose of media advocacy, case studies and links to various resources.

Artists’ Networks to Support Awareness Raising for Equity

● CultureStrike: national network of 200+ socially engaged artists that provides space and funding for professional and creative development, develops shared strategy with movement groups, and spearheads dozens of events and campaigns that have resonated in local venues, social media, and the halls of power.

● Design Action Collective: provides graphic design and visual communications for progressive, non-profit, and social change organizations. By providing high-quality professional graphic design and web development services, we aim to help build and strengthen progressive movements fighting for economic and social justice.

Resources Used to Develop the 15 Strategic Practices ● Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Role of the State and Territorial Health Official in

Promoting Health Equity. 2013. ● Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative. Local Health Department Organizational Self-Assessment

for Addressing Health Inequities: Toolkit and Guide to Implementation. 2010. ● Ehlinger, Ed. We need a Triple Aim for Health Equity. Minnesota Medicine. 2015. ● The California Endowment. Advancing Health Equity Awards: Reviewer’s Packet. 2014. ● Health Resources and Services Administration and the Region V Collaborative Improvement and

Innovation Network on Infant Mortality. Foundational Practices for Health Equity: State Self-assessment. Forthcoming.

● Human Impact Partners. Public Health and Equity Cohort Curriculum. 2016. ● Iton, Anthony. Health Equity: Moving from the Margins to the Center. NACCHO Exchange. 2016. ● National Association of County & City Health Officials. Expanding the Boundaries: Health Equity and

Public Health Practice. 2014. ● National Association of County & City Health Officials and the Ingham County Health Department.

Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: A Handbook for Action. 2006. Resources Used to Develop the Actions to Advance Equity

● Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Role of the State and Territorial Health Official in Promoting Health Equity. 2013.

● Health Resources and Services Administration and the Region V Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network on Infant Mortality. Foundational Practices for Health Equity: State Self-assessment. Forthcoming.

● National Association of County & City Health Officials and the Ingham County Health Department. Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: A Handbook for Action. 2006

● City of Seattle. Race and Social Justice Initiative. Inclusive Outreach and Public Engagement Guide. April 2009, revised 2012.

● National Association of County & City Health Officials. Guidelines for Achieving Health Equity in Public Health Practice. April 2009.

● Government Alliance on Race and Equity. Advancing Racial Equity and Transforming Government: A Resource Guide to Put Ideas into Action. 2015.

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If you are wanting to make the case for health equity, we recommend these general resources to help you make the case to your health department. Key Resources to Make the Case for Health Equity

● Roots of Health Inequity ● Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? ● Community Health Equity Reports ● America’s Tomorrow: Equity is the Superior Growth Model ● Advancing Racial Equity and Transforming Government: A Resource Guide to Put Ideas Into Action ● A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic

Disease.

Health Equity Technical Assistance Organizations ● Human Impact Partners ● National Collaborative for Health Equity ● Government Alliance on Race and Equity ● Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative ● Higher Ground Change Strategies

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