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The Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE) Resource Library is a virtual portal containing action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies. The library aims to increase equity in health by offering free access to field-tested, evidence-informed and evidence-based programs strategies and high-quality research.


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  • Recognizing that authentic community engagement and partnership are essential for sustained health and social impact, this document is meant as guidance outlining best practices for engaging the power of families and the community to improve the impact of philanthropy. By working collaboratively with the community through building trust and creating meaningful opportunities for input,…
    January 2023
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • Detailing Action Kits contain clinical tools, resources for providers and patient education materials, promoting evidence-based best practices and chronic disease management. These materials are available for health care providers and their practices to help improve patient care related to key public health challenges. Clinical topics have been chosen largely because of their anticipated impact…
    January 2023
    Services & Programs
  • Since 2015, the AAMC has produced an annual series of Community Engagement Toolkits in collaboration with our members and their communities. These toolkits provide unvarnished community perspectives on crucial issues and views about how our members can be better partners. The AAMC Collaborative for Health Equity: Act, Research, Generate Evidence (CHARGE) — the AAMC’s national collaborative…
    January 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • This guide aims to grow understanding of what digital equity is, why it is important, and identify best practices for ensuring equity when using digital platforms. The world’s shift to a heavy reliance on virtual platforms to collaborate, exchange information, and conduct business in recent years requires that people have access to internet and utilize various digital mediums. It is important to…
    December 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • This toolkit outlines the steps for public health programs that engage communities. It covers the process from start to finish. Its main goal is to share how to work well with communities. It also describes community partners’ role in improving public health. We use examples from two programs that gave out COVID-19 tests. This toolkit is for anyone who wants to work with communities for a public…
    November 2022
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • Applying specific strategies throughout an organization’s continuous quality improvement (CQI) process can provide the focused, proactive, and sustained attention needed to identify and address racial and ethnic disparities in child welfare outcomes. This resource offers action steps that can be applied within each of the core functions of the CQI process as well as a set of cross-cutting…
    November 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • Are you working to promote economic mobility for children and families? Are you curious about how cross-sector partnership can address systemic challenges? Want to learn more about how housing and education can come together to advance mobility from poverty? This toolkit is intended as a resource for individuals and organizations seeking to build and advance cross-sector partnerships to…
    November 2022
    Services & Programs, Social/Structural Determinants
  • This document provides information on respectful and person-first language for inclusive communication. 
    August 2022
    Communication
  • Too often, foundations get in the way of nonprofits doing the work they know best. This can slow down progress, perpetuate inequities, and obstruct nonprofit growth and innovation. Trust-based philanthropy reimagines that dynamic, building a world in which funders authentically partner with grantees in a spirit of service.How to Use this Guide: While this guide offers insights and practical…
    June 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • The CMS Framework for Health Equity provides a strong foundation for our work as a leader and trusted partner dedicated to advancing health equity, expanding coverage, and improving health outcomes. This includes strengthening our infrastructure for assessment, creating synergies across the health care system to drive structural change, and identifying and working together to eliminate barriers…
    April 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Services & Programs
  • As Healthy People has evolved over the decades to reflect the most current science and address the latest public health priorities, it has strengthened its focus on health equity. This focus is reflected in one of the overarching goals of Healthy People 2030: “Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve the health and well-being of all.”…
    March 2022
    Education, Systemic Determinants, Racism
  • The Equitable Healthy Aging in Public Health Toolkit Report aims to increase the capacity of public health departments to enhance equitable health and wellbeing of older adults and promote healthy aging across the life course in community health improvement practice. The toolkit begins by framing and defining the scope of equitable healthy aging vis-à-vis the roles and opportunities for…
    January 2022
    Communicable Disease, Aging and Life Course
  • As a member of your community, you already know a lot about what your community needs to better support youth. Other members of your community – like youth, parents, teachers, youth advocates and school counselors – also have important perspectives and are vital decision-makers and champions when you select and implement a health ed curriculum. The steps and tools in the Implementation…
    January 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
  • The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change. It offers thousands of pages of tips and tools for taking action in communities.Want to learn about community assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, advocacy, and other aspects of community practice? Then help yourself to over 300 educational modules and other…
    January 2022
    Advocacy, Environmental/Community Health
  • As the health equity movement continues to build momentum, there is now a timely window of opportunity to unite leaders in the public health field to learn, connect, and strategize with one another about how health equity can be The leaders of these centers that advance health equity have become an informal network of leaders over the past several years. PolicyLink has convened them on several…
    January 2022
    Advocacy
  • This toolkit is intended for researchers, policymakers, direct service providers, or technical assistance providers interested in finding and building relationships with partners to facilitate community-engaged work.In this toolkit, you will learn:▪ Why building equitable and sustainable partnerships is important▪ How to find and evaluate potential partners▪ What the best practices are for…
    October 2021
    Policy and Practice
  • This document utilizes various frameworks and a three-phase program to outline how organizations can define their health equity strategy to impact the community. Specifically, it offers insight into how organizations can evaluate their current DEI efforts, use data to influence action, build a representative team of leaders, and develop a roadmap for the future that addresses health equity.…
    October 2021
    Social/Structural Determinants
  • The COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate impact on people of color has accelerated the integration of health equity into health care strategy playbooks across the nation. Within health care settings, from urban to rural and from hospitals to ambulatory care sites and clinics, there is renewed focus on efforts to advance health equity. Furthermore, there is growing recognition that a commitment to…
    August 2021
    Policy and Practice
  • The Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA) is committed to supporting its member hospitals to ensure that every person in every community receives high-quality, equitable and safe care. This guide was developed by the MHA Keystone Center to provide practical guidance for organizations seeking to eliminate disparities in care to advance health equity, including:The importance of…
    July 2021
    Policy and Practice
  • In this guide, we explore ways to help data scientists, researchers, and data communicators take a more purposeful DEI approach to their work. To do so, we conducted more than a dozen interviews with nearly 20 people about their experiences and approaches to being more inclusive with their data exploration, analysis, and communication. Our interviewees included data journalists in major media…
    June 2021
    Policy and Practice
  • AAMC Community Engagement Toolkits provide unvarnished community perspectives on crucial issues and their views about how our members can be better partners. The 10 Principles of Trustworthiness integrate local perspectives with established precepts of community engagement to guide health care, public health, and other organizations as they work to demonstrate they are worthy of trust. (author…
    May 2021
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • This 11-minute video features interviews with 30 community members from diverse areas across the United States. The interviews were recorded in the summer of 2020, at a time of great tribulation in our society. The video highlights what diverse communities across the country had to say about trust in health care, science, public health, and the COVID-19 vaccines. From those time-bound…
    May 2021
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • Appreciative Inquiry is a philosophy of relationship building and problem solving. It flips the focus from what isn’t working to what is working, and how to build on that. When the positives of a situation or relationship are highlighted, stakeholders are energized, responses are constructive, and confidence in a strategy for moving forward becomes mutual. This activity can be conducted with…
    May 2021
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • In defining health equity, rural communities may consider examining the language they use to describe populations that experience inequities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offer Resources & Style Guides for Framing Health Equity & Avoiding Stigmatizing Language that provide important considerations for communicating with a health equity lens. The guiding principle of…
    May 2021
    Communication
  • In January 2021, the federal government funded 64 state, territorial, and local immunization programs for COVID-19 vaccination efforts and required 10% of funding to support groups at higher risk of COVID-19 and under-resourced communities. As immunization programs continue to get funding to support COVID-19 vaccination uptake, the Guide for Community Partners can be used to support organizations…
    April 2021
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Vaccines

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