Power-building Resources

HIP Resources on Power-Building to Advance Health Equity

Resources for Getting Started

• Resources for Collaboration and Power-Sharing
  • Actions to Support Community Power-Building Organizations 
  • Planning for Collaboration 
  • How to Conduct a One-to-One 
  • Sharing Organizational Charts
• Activities to Deepen your Power-Building Analysis
  • Assessing your Power 
  • Landscape Analysis 
  • Power Mapping
• Power-Building for Health Departments Webinar Series (recording)
• 8 Ways to Connect with your Public Health Department 
• Public Health 101 for Organizers
• Working with Community Organizers (who, why, how) 
• NACCHO MAPP Power Primer *Users must create and login to their free MyNACCHO account to access this resource

HIP case studies about power-building partnerships

• Powerful Partnerships for Healthy Communities – Three part video series
• Power-building Partnerships for Health: Lessons From Santa Barbara About Building Power to Protect Farmworker Health and Advance Health Equity — Journal of Public Health Management and Practice article
• Survey of Health Departments about their Collaborations with Community Organizers — Report PDF
• Health Equity Guide Case Studies about health departments sharing power with community organizers 

Additional HIP Publications

• Theory in Action: Public Health and Community Power Building for Health Equity — Journal of Public Health Management and Practice article
• Shifting and Sharing Power: Public Health’s Charge in Building Community Power — NACCHO Exchange article
• Racial Justice and Power Sharing: The Heart of Leading Systems Change – Book chapter
• Primer on Power-building, Housing Justice and Health Equity — Report co-authored with Right to the City (RTTC)

Frameworks that Inform HIP’s Work 

• Three Faces of Power, Grassroots Power Project
• Building Community Power To Dismantle Policy-Based Structural Inequity In Population Health, Health Affairs article
• Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership, Facilitating Power
• Glossary of Power Building Terms, Lead Local Collaborative
• Co-Governing Towards Multi-Racial Democracy, Partners in Dignity and Rights + Race Forward
• Changing States: A Framework for Progressive Governance, USC Equity Research Institute
• Exploring Community-Driven Change and the Power of Collective Action, Lead Local 

Webinar Series: Power-building for Health Departments

In June and July 2022, HIP hosted  a 2-part webinar workshop series on power-building, geared toward health department leaders, staff, and partners. The sessions dive into power imbalances as a root cause of health inequities, how to build deep alliances with community power-building organizations (CPBOs) to shift power, and ways health departments can leverage and redistribute their power to advance equity.

Part 1: Power 101

Part 2: Tools for Analyzing & Redistributing Power

Stay Connected

If you are interested in receiving updates about upcoming events, webinars, tools, and other power-building and bridging resources, please sign up for PPH mailings.

Or if you are a local health department interested in trainings or technical assistance on community power-building or how to collaborate with community organizers? A community power-building organization interested in connecting or collaborating with a local health department?

Contact us at PPH@humanimpact.org.