Session TIMELINE & Themes

Timeline

The Alliance Equity Collaborative bring together LHJ leaders from across the region to participate in virtual learning sessions aimed at building cross-disciplinary capacity to advance health equity and racial justice. The sessions will dive deep into existing and emerging equity priorities and provide hands-on skill building and training in topic areas that are urgent and critical to advancing equity locally and as a region. Each Collaborative session will be led and facilitated by the Public Health Alliance Collaborative Leads and invited State and national equity experts and leaders. Participants will also be provided ample opportunities for shared learning, and local and regional visioning and goal setting.

SESSION 01

Collaborative Launch - Building Internal Capacity to Advance Equity

November 10, 2021

Local health jurisdictions will explore the fundamental steps needed to enhance local departmental and regional infrastructure and capacity for advancing health equity and racial justice. We will elevate promising models and practices to establish a robust equity team, strategies for strengthening cross-departmental capacity to advance equity, and potential key roles of equity staff.

Session 02

Addressing Racism as a Public Health Crisis: Strategies for Departments to Advance Racial Equity

February 24, 2022

Local health jurisdictions will gain a shared foundational understanding of racism’s role as a root cause driver of inequitable health outcomes. Participants will learn from and identify opportunities for LHJs to advance racial equity both internally (e.g., departments, cross-governmental) and externally (e.g., community advisory boards, action plans) in partnership with the communities they serve. We’ll discuss strategies and promising practices, such as racial equity plans and community-based partnerships to pursue cross-jurisdictional and multi-sectoral commitments to addressing racism as a public health crisis.

Session 03

Strategies for Authentic Community Engagement and Co-Creation

May 5, 2022

Local health jurisdictions will explore community-informed approaches that support authentic engagement and the co-creation of solutions with community members most impacted by inequities. Participants will dive deep into promising practices, gain an understanding of equity-centered engagement, and explore exciting partnerships happening between LHJs and community partners, such as tribal groups, community-based organizations, and faith-based leaders here in California and across the nation.

Session 04

Advancing Equity in Workforce Development

July 14, 2022

To proactively meet the challenges of the COVID-19 response and recovery process, as well as future workforce considerations, LHJs will need to hire and retain a multi-skilled, diverse, and community-based workforce. In this session, LHJs will focus on planning for equity in workforce development by leading with intentional and explicit equity, working collaboratively with community to understand their needs, and prioritizing workforce development strategies that offer shared, direct, and multiple benefits to communities. Participants will explore practice and policy changes that ensure equitable and inclusive recruitment, hiring, retention, and promotion processes.

Session 05

Data Best Practices & Standardization

October 6, 2022

Local health jurisdictions will learn how to harness data at the local level to advance equity. We’ll cover best and emerging practices for handling both quantitative and qualitative data and focus on tools to leverage local data for equity. Using lessons from the COVID-19 crisis to spotlight the critical need for equitable data collection, disaggregation, analysis and sharing, we’ll discuss gaps in individual departmental data capacity and regional inconsistencies in data practices. We’ll conclude with an exploration of approaches to data equity that center the lived experience of communities most impacted by inequities in the decision-making process.

Collaborative Session Themes

Cross-Cutting Resources for Advancing Equity

The Public Health Alliance has compiled a growing set of critical resources to strengthen individual and collective capacity to advance equity. This includes foundational resources, framing and language support, and connections to aligned governmental, non-profit and community partners in the field.

Readings

Videos

Public Health Alliance Resources

External Resources

Regional Public Health Collaboratives

California is home to three regional public health collaboratives based in Southern California, the Bay Area, and the Central Valley. Individually and collectively, these public health collaboratives demonstrate the ability to harness the power of public health at both the local and regional level to advance health and race equity.

Health Equity and Racial Justice Partners

Below is a list of aligned public health and equity partner organizations, each bringing a specific focus and lens to the work of advancing health equity and racial justice. These partners have a wide variety of additional resources to support LHJs in their work to build their internal and external capacity to advance equity.