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Health Equity Coalition

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OVERARCHING GOALS

  •  Further establish governing practices and establishment

  • Practice equity work with each other through intentional design in our work and practice

  • Implement role work

Equity Think-Tank

Professional Network

Community

Advocacy

 What do we provide for each other?

Equity in Practice.

These items are woven into how we do business and also have intentionally carved out spaces to implement and focus on these needs.

  • Go deeper with the circle way, build a more inclusive space

  • Establish ways to relationship build

  • Hold space for deeper conversations held with trust

  • Ensure racism and historical context to race is foundational to practice and feeding into how we advance our work

  • Ensure we create practices to hear from BIPOC- including recognition of the weight that it takes for POC to carry DEI work

  • Role work

  • How do we hold accountability for the “Equity in practice”

  • Make sure it’s not just BIPOC folks not being the ones doing the groundwork

Workgroups

Infrastructure Workgroup

Lead in partnership by Kory Thomas, Maritza Valenzuela and Gillian Grant

  • Further develop the way the HEC operates and is governed

  • Establish workgroup lead, coordinator, and project lead term cycles

  • Approve charter for the infrastructure workgroup 

  • Develop methods for presenting the infrastructure work to the coalition for larger review/approval

  1. Propose Charters for all workgroups

  2. Propose decision-making processes/methods (consensus or other)

  3. Propose potential election processes

 Professional Development

Sedona/Thuyvi

co-lead/ support

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  • Define the work of this group for the year

  • Determine if Health Equity webinars continue and who can lead in Sarah and Marisa’s absence

Community Engagement & Outreach 

NEEDs workgroup co-leads

  • The goal and purpose of the workgroup to be created

  • Ideas for focus brought up at 11/2020 community conversations for consideration when group meets

    • Community centered pandemic response

    • Safe housing and safe isolation

    • Criminal Justice Reform

    • Education

    • Policy Advancement

    • Partnering with community and with tribal communities

    • Presence at Public Health Policy Day (i.e. talking to legislatures); getting Black and Brown folks there!

      • Idea: Collab with CPHA’s Policy Committee to provide a platform for our community to advocate

  • Consider platforms (i.e. virtual) for community involvement and leadership

  • Explore funding community connections potential

Communications

NEEDs workgroup co-leads

  • Update the CPHA site for the HEC (including what is health equity videos).  Add 2021 HEC strategic work-plan (this document) and create an updated overview of who we are and what we do

  • Provide content for the Health Equity Network Exchange about the HEC, what we do and how to contact our members

  • Provide content to the CPHA newsletter for distribution

  • Send out communication requests to the coalition- opportunities and updates about the coalition, jobs, events, requests of the members of the coalition

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