[HealthyTribes] Announcing: Regional Equity Coalitions

[Kati MOSELEY]

Colleagues,
During the throes of the end of the last fiscal year, HPCDP partnered
with the Office of Multicultural Heath and Services to fund three
regional coalitions focused on heath equity (regional equity coalitions
or RECs). The populations that HPCDP and OMHS seek to affect by funding
these coalitions are:
 
Black/African American; Latino; Asian/Pacific Islander; American
Indian/Alaska Native; immigrant and refugee; migrant population;
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning and intersex;
people living with mental illness; people with disabilities; and people
living with fewer financial resources. 
 
Coalitions will reduce health disparities by identifying and fostering
policy, system and environmental changes that address the social
determinants of health. 
 
The awardees, and the geographic areas that they cover are:
The Health Equity Alliance. Fiscal lead: Benton County Health
Department. Covers Benton and Linn counties. 
The Let's Talk Diversity Coalition. Fiscal Lead: BestCare Treatment
Services. Covers Jefferson county and the Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Indian Reservation.   
The Healthy Oregon Partnership for Equity (HOPE) Coalition. Fiscal
Lead: The Urban League of Portland. Covers Multnomah, Clackamas,
Washington and Marion counties. 
During this first year of funding, each coalition will complete six
core activities:
Convene partners and facilitate a new or existing coalition to identify
policy, system and environmental changes that will increase health
equity in the region or statewide. 
Work with coalition members to collect: 1) existing data from within
their region on health disparities and health promotion policies; 2)
political and individual support and feasibility to address equity
through policy, system and environmental changes that address the social
determinants of health equity. 
Build capacity to reduce health disparities and increase health equity
through evidence-based and promising tobacco prevention best practices
and action on the social determinants of health equity. 
Write a regional plan that clearly demonstrates utilization of existing
or developing public health assessments and regional data on health
disparities and health promotion policies. 
Report, disseminate and communicate the coalition recruitment process,
meetings, data collection and plan. 
Prepare and submit quarterly and annual reports. 
These coalitions will be connecting and working closely with county and
tribal health departments in their area around all of their activities,
with a particular focus on gathering existing community data (e.g., the
CHANGE tool). If you'd like to learn more about these coalitions, or a
particular coalition in your area, I've attached contact information for
the lead agencies. 
 
Best,
Kati
 
 
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Kati Moseley, MPH
Workforce Capacity Coordinator 
Health Promotion & Chronic Disease Prevention
Public Health Division
Oregon Health Authority
Tel: 971-673-1002
Email: kati.moseley at state.or.us 
 

*If you want to build a ship, don*t drum up people together to collect
wood and don*t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long
for the endless immensity of the sea.* -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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