We developed Health Equity in Practice modules to support violence prevention partners in integrating health equity and racial justice into their practice and programming. Each module outlines specific action steps that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) program recipients and other partners can use to integrate health equity into their work through training, tools, and resources.
- Module 1: Putting Principles to Practice: Achieving Safety by Advancing Racial Justice provides foundational content for integrating health equity and racial justice into violence prevention efforts.
- Module 2: Narrative Change, Framing, and Communications draws connections between community voice and power building, highlighting the importance of narrative change and storytelling as a strategy to advance racial justice and community safety.
- Module 3: Advancing Policy, Systems Change & Resources focuses on strategies that contribute to shifts in structures, procedures, and distribution of resources to address past and present levels of structural racism.
The modules were adapted into a learning series in which nearly 200 public health professionals discussed and provided input into the racial justice principles and frameworks, the role of “Big P” and “little p” policy in advancing racial justice and safety, successes and lessons learned from communications and narrative strategies, and more. This work continues to inform our community safety and violence prevention work, including our new CDC-funded Strategies for Youth & Neighborhood Centered Safety project.
Funder: Division of Violence Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with support from Cooperative Agreement Number NU38OT000305. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC.
Image “Advocacy and Mobilization Workshop” by inclusivesecurity on Creative Commons.