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Below you will find a list of helpful readings and resources that our team would like to share.

View data and reports published by the Center for Health Equity

Coming soon: An archive of all the great resources we share through our Center for Health Equity E-newsletter.

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Community Engagement:

  • Partnering with Community-Based Organizations for More Broad-Based Public Engagement, Institute for Local Government
    • A report aimed at local government officials interested in collaborating with local community-based organizations to enhance the breadth and depth of participation by community residents in local decision-making. Interviews with both local officials and community leaders throughout California were used to generate guidance for those who are getting started or want to enhance their relationships with more of their community.
  • Community Engagement Toolkit, Collective Impact Forum
    • The Community Engagement Toolkit shares a series of tools for planning community engagement to be more purposeful, equitable, transparent, and strategic so that community members are true partners for achieving impact.
  • Community Engagement Toolkit: Guidance and Resources for Engaging Community in Planning and Policy Development, Futurewise
    • A toolkit that focuses on developing and identifying promising practices for successfully engaging residents that traditionally have limited participation in planning processes, and, developing specific tools that communities can tailor and use to successfully engage residents in local planning and problem-solving efforts.
  • Strengthening and Sustaining Public Engagement: A Planning Guide for Communities, Public Agenda
    • A helpful planning guide on community engagement, which covers types of community engagement, how it happens, and how to strengthen those approaches. Also provides an useful chart of public engagement tactics and goals.

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Disability Rights:

  • Job Accommodation Network
    • The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is the leading source of free, expert, and confidential guidance on workplace accommodations and disability employment issues. Working toward practical solutions that benefit both employer and employee, JAN helps people with disabilities enhance their employability, and shows employers how to capitalize on the value and talent that people with disabilities add to the workplace.
  • Workplace Accommodation Toolkit, Job Accommodation Network
    • This is a free, comprehensive online resource for employers seeking to move beyond basic compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in order to create more disability-inclusive workplaces. The Toolkit provides guidance and resources for developing or updating accommodation policies and processes while leveraging the best proven practices available to date.
  • Make Your Events Truly Accessible and Inclusive, The Chicago Community Trust
    • A helpful checklist by The Chicago Community Trust which outlines how to make your events more accessible. A great how-to based of their personal experiences.
  • There's Already a Blueprint for a More Accessible Internet; If only Designers Would Learn It, Quartz
    • A short online read that challenges readers on how inaccessible the internet can be, and what are simple things we can do to fix it.
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, W3C
    • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general.
  • Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool, Pope Tech
    • WAVE is a suite of evaluation tools that help authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content. Our philosophy is to focus on issues that we know impact end users, facilitate human evaluation, and to educate about web accessibility.
  • Microsoft Word Accessibility Quick Reference Guide, Microsoft
    • 2-page info sheet that covers eight ways to create a more accessible Microsoft Word Document.
  • Microsoft PowerPoint Accessibility Quick Reference Guide, Microsoft
    • 2-page info sheet that covers eight ways to create a more accessible Microsoft PowerPoint Document.
  • Improving the Accessibility of Social Media for Public Service, Digital.Gov
    • A toolkit intended to help agencies evaluate the accessibility of their social media programs for persons with disabilities, identify areas that need improving, and share their own ideas and recommendations for helping ensuring our modernization programs are easily accessed by all who need them.

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Health Equity:

  • Advancing Public Narrative for Health Equity and Social Justice, NACCHO
    • A report by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) that exposes public health practitioners to the power of public narratives. This report includes tools to analyzing, subverting, and reclaiming the narrative of what health and racial equity mean for public health.
  • HealthEquityGuide.org, Human Impact Partners
    • A compendium of strategic practices, case studies and resources for public health departments designed to confront the power imbalances and forms of oppression at the root of health inequities, change the conversation about what creates health equity, develop leadership and support innovation, and build a movement for health equity.
  • Advancing a System of Prevention to Achieve Health Equity, Prevention Institute
    • A System of Prevention: Achieving Health, Safety, and Wellbeing for All, uses graphic design to illustrate the lessons we’ve learned about what it takes to advance quality community-level prevention.
  • Implicit Bias Resource Guide: A Resource to Increase Health Equity and Address Implicit Bias, NICHQ
    • A 15-page document by the National Institute for Children's Health Quality (NICHQ) that focuses on recognizing that and addressing biases is a critical step towards eliminating health disparities and achieving health equity. This includes covering 7 steps to minimize implicit bias, a Q & A with experts on how to address implicit bias, and a selection of stories of those impacted by implicit bias.
  • Blueprint for Changemakers: Achieving Health Equity Through Law and Policy, ChangeLabSolutions
    • This new resource presents legal strategies and best practices to help policymakers, practitioners, and communities improve health outcomes. The Blueprint outlines ways to leverage the unique power and efficacy of local policy solutions, incorporate health in all policies, and engage diverse community members in the policy process. At its core, the Blueprint focuses on comprehensive strategies to address the fundamental drivers of health inequities.

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Racial Equity:

  • Systemic Racism Short-Video Series, Race Forward
    • "What Is Systemic Racism?" is an 8-part video series that shows how racism shows up in our lives across institutions and society: Wealth Gap, Employment, Housing Discrimination, Government Surveillance, Incarceration, Drug Arrests, Immigration Arrests, Infant Mortality… yes, systemic racism is really a thing.
  • Racial Equity Institute: The Groundwater Approach, Racial Equity Institute
    • The Groundwater metaphor is designed to help practitioners at all levels internalize the reality that we live in a racially structured society, and that that is what causes racial inequity. The metaphor is based on three observations: racial inequity looks the same across systems, socio-economic difference does not explain the racial inequity; and, inequities are caused by systems, regardless of people’s culture or behavior.
  • Seeing White Podcast, Scene on Radio
    • Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring. Some of this feels new, but in truth it’s an old story. Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for? Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, in this fourteen-part documentary series.
  • Segregated By Design, Richard Rothstein
    • A 17-minute animated video examines the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy.
  • Racial Equity Resource Guide, WK Kellogg Foundation
    • A report by WK Kellogg Foundation that provides practical resources that will assist those community-based organizations engaged in the fields of healing, equity and inclusion, diversity and the elimination of structural racism.
  • Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity, Racial Equity Alliance
    • A toolkit by Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) on how to operationalize equity in larger organizations. When racial equity is not explicitly brought into operations and decision-making, racial inequities are likely to be perpetuated.
  • Awake to Work to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture, Equity in the Center
    • A report by Equity in the Center, which outlines through their Race Equity Cycle, how organizations can fundamentally change how they approach racial equity. Their Race Equity Cycle shows how organizations can become more committed, more knowledgeable, and more skilled in analyzing race, racism, and race equity, and in placing these issues at the forefront of organizational and operational strategy
  • Talking About Race Toolkit, Center for Social Inclusion
    • This toolkit is a collection of the key strategies that we have found are necessary in combating the race wedge and advancing racial equity. Effectively talking about race is an essential skill for advancing racial equity. We believe that this approach can help a variety of stakeholders to effectively talk about race and policy.

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