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Racial Equity Tools
Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large.
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Publisher: Racial Equity Tools
Racial Justice and Power-Sharing: The Heart of Leading Systems Change
Chapter 2 of "Leading Systems Change in Public Health: A Field Guide for Practitioners" discusses:
- How to develop a shared analysis and expand our mental models regarding the manner in which power imbalances, racism, and other forms of oppression define and structure the systems that drive health.
- Attending to the work of “being” together, and not just “doing” together, as a way of deepening the relationships necessary to disrupt these patterns at the interpersonal, team, organizational, and community levels.
- Establishing change processes that embody a model of sharing power and shifting who represents and is leading transformation.
Author: Kristina Y. Risley, Christina R. Welter, Grace Castillo, & Brian C. Castrucci
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Racism and Health
APHA works to improve access to care, bring about health equity, and support public health infrastructure. The Racism and Health section of their website includes a list of resources on how to use a healing and heart-centered approach to eliminate the false belief that any people are superior to others based on their skin color.
Author: Publisher: American Public Health Association
Racism is a Public Health Crisis. Here's How to Respond.
Racial disparities in health and wellbeing are well documented. In 2003, the Institute of Medicine issued the landmark report Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare, which connected racism in mortgage lending, access to housing, employment, and criminal justice to racial health disparities. This report and the World Health Organization’s 2008 report on health equity led to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Social Determinants of Health Framework (SDOH), which recognized that racial health disparities are a result of inequalities in education, employment, healthcare, housing, and law enforcement.
Author: Ruqaiijah Yearby, Crystal N. Lewis, Keon L. Gilbert, & Kira Banks Publisher: Data for Progress, St. Louis University, & The Justice Collaborative Institute
Recovery Homes Collaborative
The Recovery Homes Collaborative is a group of long- term Residential Substance Use Treatment programs whose purpose is to provide an association for the joint mutual effort of individuals and groups.
Recovery Research Institute
A leading nonprofit research institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, the RRI's mission is to enhance the public health impact of addiction recovery science through the summary, synthesis, and dissemination of scientific findings and the conduct of novel research.
Reducing Vaping Among Youth and Young Adults
The Evidence-Based Resource Guide Series is a comprehensive set of modules with resources to improve health outcomes for people at risk for, with, or recovering from mental and/or substance use disorders. It is designed for practitioners, administrators, community leaders, and others considering an intervention for their organization or community.
Author: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Reframing Adolescence and Adolescent Development
This toolkit is a resource for communicators who want to change the narrative about adolescence and adolescent development.
Author: FrameWorks Institute Publisher: FrameWorks Institute
REPAIR Framework for Community-Institution Solidarity in Racial Healing
This framework can be used by leaders in the healthcare, community development, and philanthropic sectors to work with community development corporations to determine the most effective ways to rectify past harms done to historically marginalized and under-resourced communities in ways that are both tangible and sustainable. In addition, this framework provides guidance for institutions to more effectively partner with BIPOC communities to build trust, and ultimately solidarity to develop a shared vision of racial healing.
Author: Build Healthy Places Network
Publisher: Build Healthy Places Network
Research and Data Analysis Services Approved Vendors from DPH COMMBUYS
This is a list of approved vendors from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health who provide Research and Data Analysis Services listed by organization.
Author: Massachusetts Department of Public Health Publisher: