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Early CDPH Equity TA Team Office Hours: Hiring This CDPH Equity Technical Assistance Team Office Hour has two guest panelists from Marin and Madera County who share successful practices in hiring, working with human resources (HR) to remove barriers, and ideal places to advertise your job listings.
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Early Health Equity in Rural Communities This webinar discusses rural health equity efforts in the state of Colorado and contains supplemental documents of real-life examples of equity work. While this resource is Colorado-centric, it is a helpful introduction to the concept of rural health equity and multi-partner collaboration necessary when addressing inequities in small, rural communities. Rural Resource
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Early Fostering Community Partnerships to Advance Health Equity This webinar describes how the Alameda County Public Health Department has worked with the housing sector to advance population health.
Early Health Equity in Cross Sector Partnerships This training provides examples of cross sector partnerships and explains why these partnerships are essential to advancing health equity.
Early Cross Sector Collaboration Making Partnerships Work for Your Community This webinar provides real life examples of cross-sector partnerships along with resources and tools to strengthen these partnerships.
Early Strategies and Resources for Working Across Sectors In the final episode of Keeping Up With Public Health: Cross-Sector Collaborations (Season 3)., we review the value of working across sectors for developing public health infrastructure and advancing health equity, and discuss general approaches to cross-sectoral work and relationship building. Resources for engaging in cross-sectoral work are shared. Guests: Ruben Cantu, Melissa Jones, MPA.
Established Art and Public Health The arts have long been used to communicate messages, raise awareness, and bring about change. Hear more about collaborative projects connecting art to health, resiliency, and advocacy. Discuss ways that art may be incorporated into health promotion, advocacy, and social justice.
Established PPEC Spring Webinar Series: Supporting your Engagement Work through Evaluation Evaluation can play an important role in supporting your engagement work through goal setting, learning and improvement, and impact assessment. In this webinar we collaborated with Maureen Smith, Patient Partner and Chair of OSSU’s Patient Partner Working Group, to introduce participants to the growing number of engagement evaluation tools, discuss the importance of choosing the right tools for your purpose and stage of engagement activity, work through case examples of how to implement different evaluation tools in different contexts, and reflect on the current state of public and patient engagement evaluation.
Established Engaging Across Sectors and Disciplines to Build Community and Capacity for Health Equity This webinar details why developing cross- sector partnerships are essential to advancing health equity. The webinar focuses on understanding the concept of health disparities, building a community, and case studies of partnering for equity.
Established Evaluating Your Engagement Activities Learn how to design and implement a strategy to evaluate engagement activities and how to participate in a process of continuous learning and improvement of engagement practices.
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Early Principles and Guidance for Remedying Racial Inequality Stephen Menendian, assistant director of the Othering & Belonging Institute, presented at the California Racial Equity Commission's Framework Development Committee meeting on March 20, 2025. Stephen presented principles for how to develop sustainable racial equity policy and guidance. His presentations begins around 33:10.
Early Organizational Capacity for Health Equity Action Initiative Webinar Series This webinar series discusses integrating health equity in your public health department. While Webinar #1 is not relevant, others in the series include "Living health equity values within public health organizations" and "Governance and decision-making for health equity." Note: Please scroll down to the "Knowledge Sharing" section to see the list of webinars.
Established Increasing the success of health equity change initiatives: Organizational enablers and barriers Presented by the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health, this webinar guides organizations through finding their capacity to integrate a health equity lens internally. Notably, the webinar also discusses change management concepts as a way to facilitate this transition, such as proactive and reactive change and internal versus external change.
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Early Institute for Local Government : Equitable Funding Strategies for Local Government This webinar focuses on equitable funding strategies that local governments can implement to operationalize conversations around equity in order to improve community engagement for inclusive decision-making.
Early Expanding Funding Streams in Local Public Health This recorded webinar discusses an innovative approach to address financial management in local public health. Participants will learn about how a local health department established a 501(c)(3) to vary their funding streams. This training also includes a discussion on challenges they encountered, successes they have seen due to this unique approach, and lessons learned throughout the process.
Established Building Internal Infrastructure to Advance Health Equity This webinar, hosted by Human Impact Partners, focuses on how to build internal infrastructure within local health departments to further drive health equity efforts. The webinar highlights case studies from the Rhode Island Department of Health and New York City Health. Both departments have shifted internal policy priorities and funding to produce upstream change.
Established CDPH Equity TA Office Hours: RFP Process This office hour hosted by the Equity TA team featured guest speakers from Marin and San Diego counties. During the hour, a series of panel questions were asked and shared practices for an equitable Request for Proposals (RFP) process were discussed.
Strong Addressing Systemic Racism: A Place-based Approach to Building Healthy Communities In this presentation, Renae Badruzzaman of the Building Healthy Places Network will describe place-based interventions that bring in community development as a key partner to address social determinants of health; explore moving further upstream to systemic, institutional, and structural change; and demonstrate how the public health workforce can adapt to address systemic racism and health inequities.
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Early Health Equity Policies and Practices From the Pennsylvania Public Health Association, this webinar helps participants gain a deeper understanding of the core concepts of health equity, how to incorporate equity into everyday practices, and approaches to facilitating meaningful change in communities.and within the public health workforce. It also presents frameworks for using a culturally responsive and racial equity lens in public health practice.
Established Advancing Health Equity in Local Health Departments: 4- Part Webinar Series Organized by Human Impact Partners, these webinars were co-sponsored with the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, the National Collaborative for Health Equity, and NACCHO’s Health Equity and Social Justice Committee. Each webinar focuses on a set of strategic practices to help health departments build internal infrastructure, work across government agencies, foster community partnerships, and champion transformative change to advance health equity.
Established Embed Equity, Belonging and Lean Principles into Your Strategic Planning Process This webinar from Washington State's Office of Financial Management discusses how to integrate equity, belonging and lean principles into the strategic planning process to ensure everyone can fully participate in a hybrid environment, all voices are heard, and the final product is co-created and doesn’t end up sitting on a shelf.
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Early Achieving Equity with Results- Based Accountability Under the framework of Results-Based Accountability (RBA), this 1.5-hour webinar covers multiple topics geared toward equity in a community starting with data. Topics span from using disaggregated data to understand racial inequities to basic information on racism, racial equity, and racial bias. The webinar ends with examples, success stories, and resources from local health departments and beyond.
Established North American Equity Data Convening: Empowering Belonging Through Data Equity-centered data is the foundation for creating a more inclusive and just society, ensuring that data collection, analysis, and decision-making processes include the needs of historically marginalized groups when setting goals for strong and inclusive communities. By focusing on equity, this approach actively seeks to uncover disparities and by amplifying the voices of those most affected by systemic inequalities, help build structures that ensure everybody thrives. Data—objective, measurable, and actionable—serves as a powerful tool to guide and refine these effort.s
Strong Coffee Break Webinar: Sharing Data With Your Community A webinar overview of the newly launched tipsheet on sharing data with your community. The tipsheet outlines steps on best practices and examples on how to easily share data within your organization, work, and daily tasks.
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Early Promoting Health Equity by Uniting Sectors Around Shared Data ($3 fee to watch) This 1-hour webinar covers successful practices for data sharing as well as improving multi-sector collaboration and communication to address social determinants of health.
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Early Power-Building for Health Departments, Part 1 This webinar features Salomeh Wagaw, Program Director of Health Equity for Riverside County, California Department of Public Health, who discusses strategies for building power with communities.
Early Creative Ways to Solicit Stakeholder Feedback Virtually Learn practical ways to stay in touch with your stakeholders… without surveys! With the “new” normal moving to virtual, learn how to seek feedback from your stakeholders virtually.
Early Advancing Health Equity Through Power Building and Narrative Change This webinar discusses the importance of building community power and provides strategies for LHJs to advance health equity change using public narrative.
Early Messaging Health Equity to Decision-Makers This webinar provides public health professionals with effective communication tools that could sway decision-makers to advance health equity through policy change.
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Established A Blueprint for Establishing a Health Equity or Minority Health Office There are many considerations when forming and managing an office of health equity or minority health. The National Association of State Offices of Minority Health shares how agencies across the United States have overcome common challenges and benefited from having a dedicated health equity office. In addition, the United States Virgin Islands Department of Health discusses initial successes and challenges experienced while establishing their office. Finally, the California Department of Public Health, with a well-established office of health equity, shares how their office utilized health equity liaisons and supported rural/tribal communities.
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Established Power-building for Health Departments Webinar - Part 1 Part 1 of Human Impact Partners webinar series, Power-Building for Health Departments: Power 101. This webinar is intended for health department leaders, staff, and partners. It focuses on the foundational concepts, introductory frameworks, and strategies for shifting, sharing, and building community power.
Established Power-building for Health Departments Webinar - Part 2 Part 2 of HIP webinar series, Power-Building for Health Departments: Tools for Analyzing and Redistributing Power. This webinar focuses on tools for analyzing and redistributing power. Participants include representatives from Santa Barbara and Riverside Counties in California.
Established Advancing Healthcare and CBOs Partnerships to Address Social Determinants: Lessons from the Field This webinar includes effective strategies for producing and sustaining healthcare and CBO partnerships that address the social determinants of health.
Strong Bridging the Gap: How to Build and Sustain Effective Multidisciplinary Collaboration "In Part 1 of this two-part training, we will address assessing the needs in your community and identify concrete, foundational supports necessary for effective multidisciplinary and cross-organization/system work. In Part 2, we will share information and evidence-based practices and skills that promote clear and effective communication, diffuse and de-escalate tension, build trust among individuals and disciplines, and result in better outcomes for survivors and communities. We will also learn the three pillars of system change and how teams can use protocol, training, and audits to successfully change the system."
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Established Achieving Health Equity in Georgia: The Landscape of Health Disparities in Georgia- Engaging Communities in Solutions This webinar from the Georgia Health Policy Center uses Georgia-specific examples to guide participants through a structured framework for organizing community engagement efforts and conducting a landscape analysis of community-based organizations (CBOs) and partners that can advance health equity. Participants explore persistent health disparities in Georgia—shaped by race, gender, identity, socioeconomic status, and geography—and learn from two real-world initiatives that center community engagement as a pathway to equity. The session equips attendees with practical strategies to strengthen partnerships, elevate resident voices, and build inclusive, equity-driven collaborations.
Strong Shifting power: Understanding community building for health equity Recognizing that structural racism, sexism, and other structural marginalization as the root cause of health inequities is a major step forward in the field of health equity. However, it is not enough. Efforts to make changes on the structural level require shifts in power that center the views, experiences, and desires of the communities that experience harm. Understanding and collaboration across multiple sectors are needed to build community power to affect change. This webinar showcased work that uplifts the idea that building power in communities is key to changing structural drivers of health inequities and health equity. Audience members left with a renewed understanding of the role of power inequities and approaches to shifting power.