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Early Universal Policy Equity Diversity and Inclusion in State Employment The Universal Policy Equity Diversity and Inclusion in State Employment document outlines the State of Colorado's commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce by implementing equitable hiring and retention practices. It emphasizes the importance of creating a workplace where all individuals feel comfortable bringing their full selves to work, and details the responsibilities of various state personnel in promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion.
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Early Partnership Assessment Tool for Health (PATH) This fillable tool is intended for community-based organizations (CBOs) and healthcare organizations engaged in partnerships to provide services to populations in need. The tool includes a partnership questionnaire and discussion guide to facilitate future meetings.
Early PATH Addendum This tool is an addendum to PATH that allows for CBOs and healthcare organizations to identify benchmark characteristics within partnerships that advance health equity.
Early Preparing for Successful Public Meetings: Checklist for Before, During, and After This tool provides a short, accessible checklist for preparing successful public meetings with communities and partners.
Established Value Proposition Tool: Articulating Value within Community- Based and Healthcare Organizations Partnerships This tool is intended for CBOs and healthcare organizations looking to form a new partnership or seeking clarification on the value of an existing partnership. For those considering a new partnership, this tool can help unite common objectives and determine the overall value of a partnership.
Established Estimating the Total Cost of Partnership This Excel spreadsheet can assist organizations to estimate the overall cost of a partnership for up to three years. It identifies the resources required to prioritize crucial decisions, consult with stakeholders, advocate for additional funding and maintain focus on the shared objectives.
Strong Healthcare Coalition Recovery Plan Template The Health Care Coalition Recovery Plan Template, developed by ASPR TRACIE, is designed to help healthcare coalitions organize comprehensive recovery strategies following emergencies. Rather than simply restoring pre-disaster conditions, the template encourages coalitions to use recovery as an opportunity to enhance community resilience and improve service delivery—making systems more efficient, safe, and cost-effective. It also emphasizes that HCCs may play a more prominent and sustained role during recovery than in response, by convening stakeholders to assess public health impacts, prioritize restoration efforts, support patient care continuity, and navigate competing community needs. These insights underscore the importance of inclusive, forward-looking recovery planning.
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Early Community Engagement & Participation Checklist Developed by PolicyLink, this outline identifies important components of an authentic and participatory community engagement process. Characteristics of participatory community change include trust, shared vision, partnerships with public agencies, capacity, and policy action.
Early Community Engagement Assessment Tool This Community Engagement Assessment Tool serves as a guide to help grow an organization’s understanding of community engagement and define its intentions. Organizations can use this tool with staff and external partners to assess strengths and gaps.
Early Community Engagement Toolkit This toolkit shares a series of tools for the development of an equitable and strategic community engagement plan. It includes tools for exploring areas in the spectrum of community engagement, asset-based community development, and capacity building.
Early Community Based Assessment: A Guide for HIV Prevention Workers This guide provides HIV prevention workers with practical tools and strategies for conducting community-based assessments that inform effective, culturally responsive interventions. It emphasizes the importance of engaging community members throughout the assessment process to ensure relevance and trust. Key lessons include building relationships with local stakeholders, using both qualitative and quantitative data, and tailoring outreach to reflect the lived experiences of priority populations. The guide can serve as an example for public health workers in identifying community needs, assets, and gaps to do a variety of health equity work through inclusive, data-informed planning.
Early Community Mapping Introduction and Worksheet This resource introduces Community Mapping as a grassroots organizing tool that helps communities gather accurate information about their own assets, challenges, and dynamics. The process is designed to mobilize community members and put them in a stronger position to represent themselves, rather than relying on external actors to define their needs. By fostering deep listening, inclusive communication, and long-term engagement, community mapping builds local capacity, strengthens solidarity, and supports sustainable, community-led change.
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Early Collaborative Health-A Health in All Policies Presentation This customizable PowerPoint template helps to build support for Health in All Policies (HiAP). The package for this resource also includes a guide on how to support HiAP initiatives in government, which is a companion to the template. It is recommended that organizations review both before giving the presentation to internal or external partners.
Established Collaborative Effectiveness Assessment Activity The Prevention Institute presents a practical worksheet designed to help coalitions and cross-sector partnerships assess the effectiveness of their collaboration. The tool allows for reflection on group dynamics, shared goals, and the quality of engagement among partners. It guides participants through a series of prompts to evaluate trust, communication, leadership, and decision-making processes within their collaborative. The tool is intended to support continuous improvement by identifying strengths and areas for growth. Recommendations are included to help public health and community-based organizations strengthen their partnerships and advance equity-focused outcomes through more intentional, inclusive collaboration.
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Early Health Equity Statements and Goals Resource Assembled by the Association of Immunization Managers, this literature review compiles mission & vision statements from organizations that perform equity work, analyzing the common themes and recommending resources for organizations wanting to craft their own statements.
Early Equity Mission Statement Template The following prompts serve as a guide to help create an equity mission statement.
Established Moving to Institutional Equity: A Tool to Address Racial Equity for Public Health Practitioners This tool guides organizations on how to address racial equity in public health organizations. It includes a process to determine if your organization is ready to address racial equity that consists of a checklist of starting conversation points, such as, "are you doing this for the right reasons, or have you already had initial equity talks?” The tool also helps with decision points and feasibility of anti-racist policies.
Established Health Equity & Social Justice in Public Health : A Dialogue Based Assessment Tool This resource is a dialogue-based internal needs assessment about organizational health equity developed by the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI). The assessment focuses on four categories: Leadership, Workforce, Community, and Systems Change. Similar to CDPH’s Baseline Organizational Assessment for Equity Infrastructure, the assessment allows for conversations about health equity within the organization and gives staff a chance to express opinions on organizational commitment to equity.
Established Baseline Organizational Assessment for Equity Infrastructure Developed by the CDPH Equity Technical Assistance Team, the Baseline Organizational Assessment for Equity Infrastructure is a tool that can be used by organizations to assess their level of internal equity infrastructure via twelve different competencies encompassed in four domains. In addition to the assessment, the link includes definitions of the competencies, frequently asked questions, and a results report from the debut of the assessment in May 2022.
Strong City of Saint Paul Racial Equity Assessment Toolki The City of St. Paul presents a racial equity focused assessment in order to determine the future impact of developing policies and programs on different populations of color. The assessment includes a PowerPoint slide training deck to guide users through the tool.
Strong BARHII Organizational Self-Assessment Toolkit BARHII presents an organizational self- assessment tool specifically aimed at helping local health jurisdictions identify their baseline capacity for health equity work. The assessment contains surveys for staff and external stakeholders of the organization, as well as focus and interview guides to help facilitate conversations. The package also consists of equity- focused review guides for pre-existing documents and human resources data systems in order to address health equity in past and future programs.
Strong Health Equity at Work: Skills Assessment of Public Health Staff This report provides sample survey templates (in the appendix) on how to assess equity knowledge of organizational staff. This resource has results from the survey and the sample survey itself to use as a template, including a script from focus groups.
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Early Washington State Office of Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises (OMWBE): Inclusion Plan Guide & Template (Pages 1-2): A guide for public agencies on how to use inclusion plans as part of bidding requirements to increase equitable contracting opportunities. (Pages 3-5): An inclusion plan template form with instructions for the bidder. Bidders submit the plan as part of their bid package when your agency requires inclusion plans on bids.
Early Santa Clara County Public health : Budget Equity Assessment Tool This resource, developed by Santa Clara County Public Health, is an example of a racial equity tool that is intended to put out a procedure and a series of inquiries for determining how budget proposals will help or hurt communities, particularly those of color.
Strong Participatory Budgeting Outreach Toolkit This toolkit aims to equip participatory budgeting implementers with a solid grounding in the basic principles of community outreach and a set of concrete tools to guide you.
Strong Good Decision Making in Real Time: Practical Public Health Ethics for Local Health Officials Facing program cuts, public health departments may be tempted to enter into partnerships that create conflicts of interest that could compromise their core values. Learn how to avoid unethical situations in public health partnerships.
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Early Three Dimensions of Power: Building a Multi-dimensional Approach to Power This worksheet helps LHJs assess their current approach to building power. It is based on the three dimensions of power: organizing people for direct political action, building organizational infrastructure and reshaping worldviews and ideologies.
Early Nexus Community Partners: Community Engagement Assessment Tool This tool allows organizations to reflect on their community engagement techniques. It presents methods in a variety of ways, including assessment of potential partnerships, and identification of strengths and limitations.
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Established State Health & Value Strategies: Health Equity Policy Tool The Health Equity Policy Tool is a framework for reviewing and assessing the impact on equity of current and/or proposed policies. The questions guide the user to research and consider the potential for the policy to impact equity (positively or negatively), with the final section guiding the user to integrate the information gathered in early sections into a set of decisions or recommendations.