Below are links and resources from PHEARLESS webinars, peer learning, as well as initiative learning and evaluation.

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ChangeLab Solutions

Cohort-based TA supports (CBOs, health systems/hospitals and government): ChangeLab Solutions cohort-based TA partnerships have spanned policy areas, including the Nemours Moving Health Care Upstream and BUILD Health Challenge partnerships, while others are issue-specific, such as housing and food systems. ChangeLab also provides partnership-process supports such as community engagement and strategic planning resources (see examples of all three in the BUILD Community Health Workbook). They have been able to connect teams from different spaces based on issue area or process goal, such as social service referrals or data storytelling, including plugging teams into larger networks such as the Collaborative on Anti-Racism and Equity, Act for Public Health and other communities of practice.

Governmental public health partners: ChangeLab remains committed to supporting public health partnerships to use law and policy — and the policymaking process — to move upstream and address the fundamental drivers of health inequity, defined in its Blueprint for Changemakers and related tools. This includes co-coordination of the Act for Public Health initiative, oriented to understand and respond to shifts in public health’s legal authority to maintain foundational public health services for all and to address the social determinants of health. This includes, but is not limited to, evaluating public health authority and related governmental interactions using equity-centered frameworks and a health justice approach.

Health equity across policy process: ChangeLab’s approach to health equity requires addressing root causes like structural discrimination and racism. This includes shifting from “engagement” to “power sharing” with communities who have been historically marginalized and harmed by existing policies For one example, please see the power-related resources included in the BUILD Community Health Workbook. ChangeLab provides equity-oriented resources all along the policy process, including equitable implementation and enforcement and process-oriented evaluation.

Human Impact Partners

• Part 1: Resources for Collaboration and Power Sharing Between Government Agencies and Community Power-Building Organizations – This resource guides health departments through the why and how of partnering with Community Power-Building Organizations (CPBOs) to advance health equity, via four guides with activities to build capacity and lay the groundwork for power sharing partnerships. It includes four short chapters:
  • Chapter 1: Actions to Support Community Power-Building Organizations
  • Chapter 2: Planning for Collaboration
  • Chapter 3: How to Conduct a One-to-One
  • Chapter 4: Sharing Organizational Charts
• Part 2: Activities to Deepen Your Power-Building Analysis – This suite of resources and activities is designed for governmental health departments and agencies to dive into power: what it is, who holds it, and how to leverage and redistribute it to create more equitable and healthy communities.
  • Chapter 1: Assessing Your Power
  • Chapter 2: Landscape Analysis
  • Chapter 3: Power Mapping

HIP also recorded a two part webinar series in summer of 2022 around the release of these resources. The webinar recordings are available here along with links to the slide decks and resource guides as well as additional materials.

Additional reading from Human Impact Partners:

• Bridging Public Health and Social Movements, a short article on the Commonwealth Fund blob by HIP Co-Director Lili Farhang and Bridging Program Director Julian Drix
• Strengthening Partnerships between Public Health and Community-Based Organizations, a CDC Foundation report developed in partnership with HIP and supported by Kaiser Permanente National Community Benefit Fund at the East Bay Community Foundation. The report offers a set of transformative and inclusive recommendations to strengthen relationships between governmental public health and communities, framed within The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership, a framework to increase community ownership of public decisions.
• Narratives for Health, a project of County Healthy Rankings & Roadmaps in collaboration with HIP.