Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice

 
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The Praxis Project is proud to share this working brief, which highlights the vast efforts to improve community health and justice led by our partners who are organizing across the United States. The purpose of this brief is to inform the broader practice of public health in the necessary and authentic engagement of basebuilding organizers—those who represent community’s interests—to advance policies, systems, practices and environmental change designed to improve health justice and racial equity across four thematic peer-learning cohorts, known as Communities of Praxis (CPs).

Community Centered Health Justice & Racial Equity: Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.

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In their brief, @Praxis_Project highlights the work of their Learning Circle collective of base building orgs & what they learned from each other to build healthy & just communities. #OrganicPublicHealth Read their brief: https://bit.ly/3cXK9vM

Read more from @Praxis_Project's Learning Circle collective of base building orgs about their approach to community & equity-led policy change & programs: https://bit.ly/3cXK9vM #OrganicPublicHealth

How can health professionals invest in base building community organizing into their advocacy & programs? Check out @Praxis_Project's brief featuring the work of their Learning Circle collective of base building organizations to learn more: https://bit.ly/3cXK9vM #OrganicPublicHealth

Front line communities have always championed equity-led policy change & programs. Read @Praxis_Project's brief featuring their collective of base building orgs to learn about investing in base building organizing in your work as health professionals: https://bit.ly/3cXK9vM #OrganicPublicHealth

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The Praxis Project (2020, April). Community Centered Health Justice and Racial Equity: Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice. Retrieved from https://www.thepraxisproject.org/resource/2020/organic-efforts-towards-health-equity-driven-policy-and-practice.

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WEBINAR: Community Centered Health Justice and Racial Equity - Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice
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WEBINAR: Community Centered Health Justice and Racial Equity - Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice

The second webinar in our Centering Community in Public Health Webinar Series will focus on Community Centered Health Justice and Racial Equity - Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice. Stay tuned for dates and details!

briefs in this series

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Equity in Action?: Assessing the Role of Community in Declarations of Racism as a Public Health Crisis
Equity in Action?: Assessing the Role of Community in Declarations of Racism as a Public Health Crisis

The purpose of this brief is to present the findings from a series of surveys, Learning Circles, and media analyses designed by The Praxis Project and Berkeley Media Studies Group, a program of the Public Health Institute, to examine the extent to which community basebuilding organizations played a role in declarations of racism as a public health crisis and how the declarations were covered in the media.

From Food Justice to Liberation: Building Community Power through Community Gardens & Urban Farms
From Food Justice to Liberation: Building Community Power through Community Gardens & Urban Farms

From Food Justice to Liberation: Building Community Power through Community Gardens & Urban Farms is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.

The purpose of this brief is to understand how urban farms and community gardens stewarded by Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) power-building and base-building organizations help raise community consciousness about healthy food systems, create opportunities for resident leadership and skill development, promote local economic development, and provide healthy alternatives to the typical commodified foods that are available in marginalized communities.

The Role of Culture in Basebuilding Community Organizing for Health, Justice, & Racial Equity
The Role of Culture in Basebuilding Community Organizing for Health, Justice, & Racial Equity

The Role of Culture in Basebuilding Community Organizing for Health, Justice, & Racial Equity is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.

The purpose of this brief is to inform institutions and institutional allies of the critical role culture plays in community-led movements, and how to positively and respectfully honor and uplift culture in advancing health justice.

 
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