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This guide and the associated checklists and toolkits focus on the often hidden or subtle ways that data analysts and communicators fail to incorporate equitable awareness in the data they use and the products they create.
This guide offers DEI organizational assessments for general audiences, child- and youth-serving organizations, disability organizations, K-12 audiences, workforce development, city government, health and healthcare providers, and food security organizations. Several racial equity impact assessments are also included in this compilation.
Includes on understanding culture, diversity, racial justice and inclusion, how to strengthen multicultural collaboration, and spirituality and community building. Each section includes tools and resources to use with coalitions.
Educational systems in this country have been shaped by the influence of White dominant culture, frequently precluding the authentic partnership of families and stakeholders who are vested in the success of historically marginalized students in their communities. This resource describes characteristics associated with White dominant culture as compared to those rooted in an intentional equity mindset. This resource can be used to assess the cultural norms that currently exist and to think about what changes are needed to create authentic opportunities for partnership that can improve learning conditions and outcomes for historically marginalized populations.
A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity is designed to help public health practitioners advance health equity through community prevention strategies. While health disparities can be addressed at multiple levels, this guide focuses on policy, systems, and environmental improvements designed to improve the places where people live, learn, work, and play. It is designed for those who are new to the concept of health equity, as well as those who are already working to create equitable environments. The guide is designed to help health practitioners develop, enhance, and apply the critical skills necessary for advancing health equity in their community. It provides tips and concrete strategies to ensure that initiatives decrease disparate health outcomes, as well as increase community buy-in to achieve good health for all. The guide focuses on four key areas to increase equitable health outcomes: strategies to incorporate equity into foundational principles of public health practice, tobacco-free living strategies, healthy food and beverage strategies, and active living strategies.
The PTTC Network’s Building Health Equity & Social Justice Working Group developed this resource for prevention professionals. The overall goal is to incorporate anti-racist, bias-free, and inclusive terminology into the framework of prevention efforts. Diversity and inclusion in the prevention workforce is both ethical and imperative. Preventionists must not only be aware of the knowledge presented throughout this factsheet but be able to practically apply the information given. As you create programs, information resources, collaborate with key partners, and develop presentations, look to integrate the information within this resource into your work. With the practical application of this terminology, prevention professionals can help guide their organizations towards a culture of inclusion as we work towards healthy equity.
In 2011, the Massachusetts legislature passed and the governor signed into law the Expanded Gaming Act, which expanded legal gambling to include a limited number of casinos and formed a state Gaming Commission to oversee legal gaming in the
Commonwealth. It also established the Public Health Trust Fund (PHTF) to prevent and treat problem gambling and related issues by allocating significant resources to research, prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery support services.
This report presents the findings and recommendations from a Regional Needs Assessment of the roles that community health workers (CHWs) could effectively play in future systems of prevention, identification, assessment, support, and referrals to treatment services to mitigate problem gambling. Also included are expert perspectives concerning the nature and content of the training needed to properly prepare CHWs for their roles.
In 2011, the Massachusetts legislature passed and the governor signed into law the Expanded Gaming Act, which expanded the domains of legal gambling to include a limited number of casinos and formed a state Gaming Commission to oversee legal gaming in the Commonwealth. It also established the Public Health Trust Fund (PHTF) to prevent and treat problem gambling and related issues by allocating significant resources to research, prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery support services.
This report presents the findings and recommendations from a Regional Needs Assessment of the roles that community health workers (CHWs) could effectively play in future systems of prevention, identification, assessment, support, and referrals to treatment services to mitigate problem gambling. Also included are perspectives shared by respondents, including the directors of the two main CHW training programs in western Massachusetts, concerning the nature and content of the training CHWs need to be properly prepared for their roles.
In 2011, the Massachusetts legislature passed and the governor signed into law the Expanded Gaming Act, which expanded legal gambling to include a limited number of casinos and formed a state Gaming Commission to oversee legal gaming in the Commonwealth. It also established the Public Health Trust Fund (PHTF) to prevent and treat problem gambling and related issues by allocating significant resources to research, prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery support services.
This report presents the findings and recommendations from a Regional Needs Assessment of the roles that community health workers (CHWs) could effectively play in future systems of prevention, identification, assessment, support, and referrals to treatment services to mitigate problem gambling. Also included are expert perspectives concerning the nature and content of the training needed to properly prepare CHWs for their roles.
This report details the partnership planning process and results of the Springfield Community Level Health Project (CLHP) planning year, an initiative funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Office of Problem Gambling Services and administered by the Public Health Institute of Western MA (PHIWM).
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