Engagement for Equity
Centering community voice.
Building community power.
The questions running through everything:
Who benefits? Who decides? Who’s missing? Who’s harmed?
People who experience the greatest health inequities are routinely shut out of the decisions that impact them the most. Engagement for Equity provides free tools to help public health professionals flip that script, shifting power to communities, not away from them.
The Practitioner Journey
Free resources for practitioners. One through line.
Authentic community engagement requires examining our assumptions, building internal readiness, and centering community power. Each resource on Engagement for Equity has entry points into that journey, with additional resources for specialized applications along the way.
Step 1 – Shifting Mindsets
Foundations of Community Engagement
Seven self-paced modules to broaden practitioners’ mental models to integrate approaches that intentionally build community power.
Step 2 – Checking and Building Internal Readiness
Temperature Check for Health Departments
Discussion guides to honestly assess your organization’s readiness for equity work and identify where to focus time, energy, and resources.
Step 3 – Building Community Power
The POWER Playbook
Insights, strategies, and real-world examples that support shifting resident decision-making power in municipal processes.
Additional Resources for Specialized Application
Community-Centered Legal Epidemiology
Discover a community-centered approach to legal epidemiology that helps organizations analyze policy impacts, elevate community voices, and advance health equity.
Public Health Visual Commons
The Public Health Visual Commons is a free library of images for public health professionals that captures the diversity and breadth of the field.
Equitable Community Compensation Toolkit
Meaningful engagement starts with valuing community expertise. This toolkit provides templates and real-world examples for establishing a policy-driven approach to equitable community compensation.
