Community Partnership Development

A1. Engage community groups or organizations, particularly those representing populations experiencing health disparities or inequities; private businesses and health care organizations; relevant federal, Tribal, state, and local government agencies; elected and non-elected officials.

A2. Dedicate resources to community partnership development and engagement.

A3. Identify power dynamics and relationships to understand how different communities are organized.

A4. Create and maintain organizational policies and practices which advance relationship building and authentic engagement.

A5. Identify and convene strategic public health partnerships across sectors and governmental agencies.

B1. Create organizational policies and practices to advance relationship development and effective community engagement methods.

B2. Identify and implement processes which advance health equity.

B3. Facilitate gatherings which encourage community-driven approaches.

B4. Assure community members, including those most affected by health inequities and those with lived experience, are engaged in bi-directional information sharing.

C1. Collaborate with community partners by participating in their discussions, planning, and program development and implementation.

C2. Convene communities at the grassroots level to support bi-directional information sharing, foster leadership opportunities, and facilitate participatory decision-making and action.

C3. Develop a broad understanding of how communities within the jurisdiction are organized and how community relationships and history may affect the public’s health.

C4. Establish relationships with communities located within the jurisdiction with the goal of building trust and authentically engaging through community-driven approaches, particularly in historically marginalized and underserved communities and those most impacted by health disparities and underlying inequities.

D1. Engage partners and community in a health improvement process and developing plan(s) to improve health outcomes by addressing priorities most important to them.

D2. Use health assessment data, including root cause analysis, to establish plan(s) for addressing priorities.

D3. Coordinate efforts, resources, and policy agendas across partners for awareness of priorities and to implement the plan(s).

D4. Convene and collaborate with partners and community to evaluate and monitor the health improvement plan(s) and associated interventions, making updates and improvements as appropriate.

• Health Equity Community of Practice