Healthy and Equitable Communities Workshop
Format: Virtual
Length: 16 hours (4 4-hour modules)
Target Audience: Public health professionals, any organization or individuals wanting to learn more about health equity
Pre-Requisite: None
Course Description:
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the components of health equity. The program focuses on reviewing data on racism and other forms of oppression and their impact on health. Topics include implicit bias, root cause analysis, community engagement strategies, and metaphors and mindsets for equity communications. Participants will explore how policies, systems, and environmental changes affect inequities, and will practice using tools for conducting an equity impact review. This course includes a variety of instructional methods including group discussion, break-out sessions, and hands-on learning activities and exercises.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify sectors and partners needed to address health equity and social determinants of health (SDOH)
- Develop organizational and programmatic strategies to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity
- Identify key values, words, and phrases to convey equity messages
- Build the skills needed to conduct an equity impact review
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Health Equity Leadership
Format: Virtual
Length: 16 hours (10 1.5-hour modules)
Target Audience: Frontline staff, managers, and leadership
Pre-Requisite: None
Course Description: This course provides a comprehensive actionable program around equity leadership. The program focuses on understanding thehistorical roots of racism to develop equity champions who work to promote equity in the department. Topics include equity leadership, equity communications, root cause analysis, anti–racism, power dynamics, models of oppression and racism, and white privilege/ white dominant culture. Both personal-leveland organizational-level strategies for mitigating stereotypes and bias are discussed as well. This course includes a variety of instructional methods, including group discussion, break–out sessions, and hands–on learning activities and exercises.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify root causes of health inequities
- Design strategies to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity
- Create and deliver messaging to promote equity to decision-makers
- Support a culture of openness to having ongoingconversations about race and racism
- Build the skills necessary to foster organizational transformation
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Community Participation and Power
Format: Virtual
Length: 2 hours
Target Audience: Healthcare providers, local health department staff, public health organizations
Pre-Requisite: None
Course Description: This course applies the continuum of community participation as a strategy for engaging leaders to improve health outcomes. Participants will assess who is represented in collaborative efforts to ensure equitable participation and inclusion. Participants will discuss expressions of power and the types and distribution of power and leverage their understanding of power dynamics to create more equitable and inclusive partnerships. This course includes a variety of instructional methods, including group discussion, break–out sessions, and hands–on learning activities and exercises.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how the participation of community members as leaders in the improvement of health is beneficial
- List the levels of community participation
- Recognize expressions of power and how the types and distribution of power change
- Identify the three levels of power dynamics and how each can be influenced to create more equitable and inclusive partnerships
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Implicit Bias
Format: Virtual
Length: 4 hours
Target Audience: Healthcare providers, local health department staff, public health organizations
Pre-Requisite: None
Course Description: This course explores the concept of implicit bias. Participants will learn how the brain’s normal functions lead to implicit bias and will discuss how implicit biases lead to health inequities. Participants will discover how our social identities help define what implicit biases we have and will practice strategies to address our own implicit biases. This course includes a variety of instructional methods, including group discussion, break–out sessions, and hands–on learning activities and exercises.
Learning Objectives:
- Define implicit bias and how it differs from explicit bias
- Describe how the brain’s normal functions lead to implicit bias
- Explain how implicit biases lead to health inequities
- Identify how our social identities help define what implicit biases we have
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Equity Messaging and Motivation
Format: Virtual
Length: 4 hours
Target Audience: Healthcare providers, local health department staff, public health organizations
Pre-Requisite: None
Course Description: This course explores metaphors and mindsets that shape thinking about equity in the U.S. Participants will review dominant health models and their impact on messaging approach. Participants will identify key values, words, and phrases to convey equity messages, practice developing and refining messages to target audiences, and gain support for strategies designed to promote equity. This course includes a variety of instructional methods, including group discussion, break–out sessions, and hands–on learning activities and exercises.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the importance of values in equity messaging
- Utilize communication tools to support the development of effective messages
- Apply best practices for framing messages on population health and equity
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Introduction to Cultural Humility
Format: Virtual
Length: 1 hour
Target Audience: Healthcare providers, local health department staff, public health organizations
Pre-Requisite: None
Course Description: This course provides an introductory overview of cultural humility at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational levels. Participants will explore how culture and identity influence their work with individuals, community members, and professional colleagues from diverse backgrounds. Strategies for self–reflection will be reviewed with the goal of strengthening public health professional’s ability to provide culturally appropriate services for the communities they serve.
Learning Objectives:
- Define cultural humility and responsiveness for public health practice
- Describe the tenets of cultural humility at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational levels
- Recognize different aspects of culture and how these can influence people’s thinking and behavior
- Practice self–reflection when treating people of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds
