HIP Resources on Power-Building to Advance Health Equity
Resources for Getting Started
- Resources for Collaboration and Power-Sharing
- Activities to Deepen your Power-Building Analysis
- 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
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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
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.
