Quick Guide
Established Resources
All the resources in this page fall under the "Established" Development Level, which corresponds with a 3-4 on the Equity Development scale. A "3" means work from each competency has started but an organization has not yet achieved all their goals and plans. A "4" signifies that an organization is actively and routinely engaging in equity work and has made meaningful progress in integrating equity throughout their organization.
| Type | Title | Description |
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| 2023 CA LHJ Examples | New 2023 Resource Test Part 1 | Short Description |
| 2023 CA LHJ Examples | Riverside Example | Short Description |
| 2023 CA LHJ Examples | Sacramento County’s Public Health Pipeline Project | The Sacramento County Public Health Department formed a partnership with California State University, Sacramento’s Health & Human Services Department and created a Public Health Partnership to increase the diversity of the public health workforce by providing career exposure to undergraduate students, mentorship, academic enrichment, and leadership development. Note: This is a mockup, info in the image is not accurate. |
| Articles | 10 DEI Metrics Your Organization Should Track | This article shows you the 10 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) metrics organizations should track. DEI metrics measure fairness in the workplace, strengths of your organization’s brand, and overall employee satisfaction. If you are unsure of how to calculate these metrics the article includes the formula you would use, along with examples. |
| Type | Title | Description |
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| Examples | CDPH Office of Health Equity - Equity Officer Sample Duty Statements | The CDPH Equity Technical Assistance (TA) Team created sample duty statements for different Equity Officer levels such as leadership, management, and coordinators. Additionally, this document includes links to Equity Officer job posting examples from various LHJs. |
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| Examples | King County Affinity Groups | This example shows the Affinity Groups for the county staff in King County, Washington. This page lists the different groups, as well as mission and purpose statements. Forming affinity groups is a way to support diversity within your organization. |
| Examples | Nantucket Health and Human Services Department Workforce Development Plan | This Workforce Development Plan from Nantucket, Massachusetts goes into topics broader than equity, but provides a great example of how to integrate diversity and equity priorities in workforce development. It also explores an equity needs assessment and equity training plans within its development plan. |
| Trainings | Health Equity Consultants | This is a list of equity consultants compiled by CDPH representatives, but not endorsed or necessarily recommended by CDPH. |
| Trainings | Race Forward Racial Justice Training | ($100 fee, scholarships available) These interactive training modules are focused on advancing racial equity and understanding the roots of structural racism. Organizations should start with the training "Building Racial Equity” then continue learning with additional trainings, including “Organizing Racial Equity: Shifting Power” and/or “Decision-Making for Racial Equity.” |
| Guides | Moving Into Equity : The Public Health Journey | This guide focuses on how to increase your organization’s equity development from "Content with the Status Quo" to "Committed, Engaged, and Activated." The guide has a checklist to see where your department is and recommendations for each step on how to move further down the equity journey. |
| Guides | ASTHO Workforce Development Plan Toolkit | The Association of State and Territorial Health Offices (ASTHO) Workforce Development Guide gives examples and resources on how to integrate equity into an organization's workforce development plan. A notable example to review includes Ohio State's workforce development plan, which requires staff to receive health equity training. |
| Frameworks | Center for Addition and Mental Health:Health Equity and Inclusion Framework | This framework demonstrates the process of integrating health equity into trainings. Organizations can use the framework (as a guide) to review trainings of all topics to make sure they are appropriate for the organization, and equitable in content and delivery methods. |
| Articles | Development, Implementation, and Assessment of Health Equity Action Training (HEAT) | This article recounts Hartford, Connecticut's Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) equity training initiative. The article details training development, final curriculum, and staff response. |
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| Examples | 2-1-1 San Diego - Connecting Partners through the Community Information Exchang | Developed by 2-1-1 San Diego, this case study highlights the Community Information Exchange (CIE) data platform, which enables health and social services to obtain a better understanding of interactions across systems, agencies, and community services. |
| Templates | Value Proposition Tool: Articulating Value within Community- Based and Healthcare Organizations Partnerships | This tool is intended for CBOs and healthcare organizations looking to form a new partnership or seeking clarification on the value of an existing partnership. For those considering a new partnership, this tool can help unite common objectives and determine the overall value of a partnership. |
| Templates | Estimating the Total Cost of Partnership | This Excel spreadsheet can assist organizations to estimate the overall cost of a partnership for up to three years. It identifies the resources required to prioritize crucial decisions, consult with stakeholders, advocate for additional funding and maintain focus on the shared objectives. |
| Webinars | 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. |
| Webinars | 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. |
| Webinars | 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. |
| Type | Title | Description |
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| Trainings | Collective Impact Part 1: Common Agenda & Shared Measure | This training is part one of a two-part introductory series to the Collective Impact framework. Participants will gain an understanding of what collective impact is and how it can be used to advance public health initiatives. |
| Trainings | Collective Impact Part 2: Mutually Reinforcing Activities, Continuous Communication, & Backbone Support | Part two of a two-part introductory series to the Collective Impact framework, this training builds upon lessons of part one by learning about the last three conditions of the Collective Impact framework and mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support. |
| Guides | Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): A Strategy for Building Healthy Communities and Promoting Health through Policy Chang | Presented by PolicyLink and UC Berkeley, this guide combines lessons and best practices from around the country. Included are six case studies from California that share learned experiences, promising practices, sample resources, and tools to assist local leaders in planning their own CBPR inspired projects. |
| Guides | A Guide to Supporting Engagement & Resiliency in Rural Communities | While this guide is catered towards Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (MAP) process, concepts and strategies identified in this guide are relevant for rural communities. Provided are essential elements of successful engagement with rural communities, including trust and partnerships. Rural Resource |
| Frameworks | Prevention Institute: Collaboration Multiplier | The Collaboration Multiplier is a framework and tool used for analyzing collaborative efforts across sectors. It is designed to serve as a starting point for understanding the contributions of different fields and for building effective interdisciplinary efforts through partnerships. |
| Type | Title | Description |
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| Trainings | An Overview of Public Health Reaching Across Sectors | This training course takes about 30 minutes to complete and discusses why communication is essential to sustaining cross-sector partnerships. |
| Webinars | 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. |
| Guides | Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide | This guide provides actionable steps for building effective partnerships. |
| Frameworks | Rural Health Networks and Coalitions Toolkit | This toolkit provides tips and strategies for developing partnerships in rural areas. The toolkit includes real life examples of networks, strategy brainstorms for developing networks, and how to evaluate and sustain these partnerships. Rural Resource |
| Articles | Supporting Change Agents Across Sectors to Improve Health and Equity in Rural Communities | This article describes how cross sector collaboration is important to improving health and equity in rural communities. Rural Resource. |
| Type | Title | Description |
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| Examples | Saint Paul- Ramsey County Public Health Health Equity Plan 2016-201 | This health equity plan for Saint Paul- Ramsey County, MN discusses concrete equity activities for staff, supervisors, and leadership. The plan also comprehensively discusses internal capacity for equity, resources available for the county to integrate equity, sustainability of equity efforts (including career pipelines), and external equity efforts. Additionally, the plan presents the county’s health equity lens with instructions for those interested in using it in their departments, and their approach to Health in All Policies. |
| Examples | National Association of Counties: County Declarations and Resources on Racis | The National Association of Counties lists real-world examples of declarations of racism as a public health crisis. This resource includes 12 examples from California counties that have made declarations, as well as declarations from many other states. |
| Examples | Hennepin County Health Equity Assessmen | The health department in Hennepin County, MN presents their adaptation of BARHII's equity assessment into a shorter (10-15 min) and more specific survey to be completed by individual staff members. The survey covers priority areas for staff capacity, strengths and challenges for the department, and overall capacity and desire to address the root causes of health inequity. Hennepin County also did a follow-up survey after one year. |
| Examples | Dane County Equity and Inclusion Plan | As a show of commitment to equity, Dane County, WI compiles an equity and inclusion plan that details their organizational commitments, leadership development, program innovation, and resource mobilization. The guide states what county employees want to do in the future, a timeline for implementation, specific steps they will take, and a cost/benefit analysis of the actions. |
| Templates | Health Equity & Social Justice in Public Health : A Dialogue Based Assessment Tool | This resource is a dialogue-based internal needs assessment about organizational health equity developed by the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI). The assessment focuses on four categories: Leadership, Workforce, Community, and Systems Change. Similar to CDPH’s Baseline Organizational Assessment for Equity Infrastructure, the assessment allows for conversations about health equity within the organization and gives staff a chance to express opinions on organizational commitment to equity. |
| Templates | Moving to Institutional Equity: A Tool to Address Racial Equity for Public Health Practitioners | This tool guides organizations on how to address racial equity in public health organizations. It includes a process to determine if your organization is ready to address racial equity that consists of a checklist of starting conversation points, such as, "are you doing this for the right reasons, or have you already had initial equity talks?” The tool also helps with decision points and feasibility of anti-racist policies. |
| Templates | Baseline Organizational Assessment for Equity Infrastructure | Developed by the CDPH Equity Technical Assistance Team, the Baseline Organizational Assessment for Equity Infrastructure is a tool that can be used by organizations to assess their level of internal equity infrastructure via twelve different competencies encompassed in four domains. In addition to the assessment, the link includes definitions of the competencies, frequently asked questions, and a results report from the debut of the assessment in May 2022. |
| Webinars | 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. |
| Articles | Public Health Workforce Perceptions About Organizational Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:Results From PH WINS 2021 | This article presents results from a national U.S. survey on public health workers’ perceived organizational commitment to DEI. The article concludes that a foundational commitment to equity must be seen in the organization before equity initiatives are started in order to have maximum impact on staff. Essentially, policies that are aimed at increasing equity capacity must feel as though they are being done purposefully and intentionally. |
| Type | Title | Description |
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| Examples | San Mateo County Funds Community Implementation Projects to Advance Equity | This case study highlights the Community Implementation Fund developed by the San Mateo County’s Health Policy and Planning Program (HPPP), which recognizes the active leading role of nonprofit organizations in addressing the social determinants of health. Through the Community Implementation Fund, funding priorities are redirected to more policy- oriented projects that improve overall community health outcomes and address inequities within the social determinants of health including housing, education, economics, and neighborhood conditions. |
| Examples | Solano County Leverages Internal Champions and External Experts to Advance Equit | This case study highlights best practices for utilizing existing resources to build internal capacity to advance equity through three partnerships between Solano County Public Health and GARE, Human Impact Partners, and the National Organization of Urban Maternal and Child Health Leaders (CityMatCH). |
| Webinars | 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. |
| Webinars | 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. |
| Guides | Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity | This toolkit, developed by GARE, is intended for governmental jurisdictions looking to operationalize equity into policies, practices, programs, and budgets. The racial equity toolkit can be utilized at multiple levels (local, regional, state, and federal) and shares guiding questions for considerations. |
| Frameworks | City of Long Beach Memorandum : Equity Investmanet Framework | This resource is a memorandum released by the City of Long Beach and highlights the equity investment framework and the approach taken by the LHJ. |
| Frameworks | City of Long Beach : Equity Investment PowerPoint Slides | This resource provides the PowerPoint slides from the City of Long Beach which defines the health equity framework and RFP process. |
| Type | Title | Description |
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| Trainings | Changing Internal Practices to Advance Health Equity | Human Impact Partners (HIP) presents a training for organizations interested in addressing barriers to integrating health equity into their department. The program confirms the role of local health departments in addressing the roots of health inequity, addresses change management and different levels of influence in staff around equity initiatives, and gives examples of how to use internal actions to advance health equity. The reframing tools in this training are also very useful to all organizations in their equity discussions. |
| Trainings | Serving Diverse Communities: Building Cultural Competence and Humility into the Workplace | This training discusses culture, cultural competence, cultural humility, and the differences between them. Three online resources are included in this training to promote cultural competency and humility. |
| Webinars | 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. |
| Guides | A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease | This Health Equity Guide includes strategies and tools to incorporate equity into foundational skills of public health. This guide touches on the integration of health equity into local practices such as building organizational capacity, engaging the community, developing partnerships, identifying health inequities, and conducting evaluations for various public health initiatives. |
| Articles | Equity & Inclusion: The Roots of Organizational Well-Being | This article discusses the need to go beyond simply adopting standard diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices in order to build healthy and resilient organizations. Strategies include building capacity to develop new skills, creating an environment where DEI can grow, and implementing equitable systems internally and externally. |
| Type | Title | Description |
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| Examples | Oakland Equity Indicators - Measuring Change Toward Greater Equity in Oakland | This Oakland Equity Indicators Report is an example of the type of analyses that can be developed after going through the data collection process. The city of Oakland showcases a quantitative framework for city staff and community members to understand the impacts of race, measure inequities, and track changes in disparities over time. |
| Trainings | Data for Rural Health Equity, Vol. I: Understanding Population Health Concepts | The first of a three-part series, this 1.5-hour module reviews how to use data and make a connection between social determinants of health and health disparities in a community. (Rural Resource) |
| Trainings | Data for Rural Health Equity, Vol. II: Communicating Effectively | The second of a three-part series, this 1.5-hour module dives into how to communicate data to your community. (Rural Resource) |
| Trainings | Data for Rural Health Equity, Volume III: Visualizing Data Stories | The last of a three-part series, this 1.5-hour module covers data visualization strategies to help deliver health information to your audience and tell a more captivating story. (Rural Resource) |
| Guides | How Can We Mobilize Data? | This website provides ideas, actions, and resources on how to utilize data to understand and investigate inequities and evaluate public health interventions. The various materials span the spectrum of our early, established, and strong categories. |
| Articles | A Rising Tide: Increasing Rural Local Health Department Capacity to Address the Social Determinants of Health - Data and Evaluation | (Page 13 & 21) The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describe five essential themes within rural local health departments to combat social determinants of health in their communities: Partnerships, Leadership, Community Engagement, Data & Evaluation, and Strategic Planning. (Rural Resource) |
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| Examples | Mobilize Data, Research, & Evaluation Case Studies from HealthEquityGuide.org | This website showcases case studies of health departments that successfully mobilize data, conduct research, and develop evaluations within their departments and communities. There are case studies in all levels of our early, established, and strong spectrum, each with a description of factors that enabled the work, their impacts, and advice to replicate successful efforts. It includes five case studies from California LHJs. |
| Guides | Health Equity Data Analysis | The Minnesota Department of Public Health shares their Health Equity Data Analysis (HEDA) guide to assist public health workers in separating their data into different vulnerable populations. This allows organizations to look at health outcomes among different populations in their community and plan equity activities based on data. The guide explains how to do a HEDA step-by-step, as well as how to both share and use the findings. |
| Guides | Evaluating Community Programs and Initiatives | (Chapters 36, 38-39). Part of the Community Tool Box from the University of Kansas, this section focuses on how organizations can use Community Participatory Research to evaluate and make decisions on community facing programs and policies. The section includes a toolkit specifically focused on how to evaluate a community initiative with a detailed and easy-to-follow step-by-step guide. |
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| Guides | Resources for Collaboration and Power Sharing Between Government Agencies and Community Power-Building Organizations | This guide is for health departments seeking to share power with community power-building organizations (CPBOs) and provides action-oriented steps to improve collaboration. |
| Guides | Making Equity Endemic in Solano County | Using the Solano County Public Health Department as an example, this report includes recommendations on ways to support BIPOC communities during the post pandemic recovery. |
| Guides | Ensuring Equity in COVID-19 Planning, Response, and Recovery Decision Making | This resource helps health departments ensure that equity is at the center of the decision-making process before, during and after a public health emergency. It provides examples of California health departments, (e.g., Santa Clara County, City of Long Beach etc.), embedding equity into their COVID-19 response. |