TA Resource Catalog

This catalog includes all TA products, including training recordings and written products, developed by the COVID-19 Health Equity TA Collaborative for OT21-2103 grant recipients. It will be updated as new products are developed during the grant cycle.

From Survive to Thrive: COVID-19 Health Equity Implementation Best Practices Project ECHO

This resource guide and training series was compiled as part of a seven-session Project ECHO for Public Health. Participants engaged in a virtual community with their peers, where they shared support, guidance, and feedback. This knowledge-sharing model brought together practitioners from multiple focus areas for a robust, holistic approach to improving community health. This guide includes presentation recordings, resources, and tools featured in the training series.

Decolonizing Data Practices through Indigenous Evaluation Approaches

This webinar, created Public Health Alliance of Southern California and the Public Health Institute’s Center for Wellness and Nutrition on November 14, 2022, is the third of a four-part series on data equity. This webinar discussed organizational policies and practices that can be adopted to support evaluation strategies rooted in racial equity, as well as approaches to authentically engage and collaborate with Indigenous populations to support their control over public health data and knowledge.

Best Practices in Transforming Data into Policy Actions for Health Equity and Racial Justice

This webinar, created Public Health Alliance of Southern California and the Public Health Institute’s Center for Wellness and Nutrition on October 24, 2022, is the second of a four-part series on data equity. The webinar reviews The Healthy Places Index (HPI), which is a powerful data, mapping and policy platform. HPI was designed to identify opportunities to improve neighborhood health and help guide investments, programs, and policy changes.

A Race & Place Approach to Advancing Health Equity & Racial Justice

This webinar, created Public Health Alliance of Southern California and the Public Health Institute’s Center for Wellness and Nutrition on September 22, 2022, is the first of a four-part series on data equity. The webinar covers why examining both race and place are critical for promoting health equity.

Building Narrative Power for Health and Racial Equity

This webinar, from the NACCHO Annual Meeting- July 2022, was designed to build a shared understanding of key topics and terms, the relevance of narrative to transform culture, its power for health equity and racial justice, and its ability to translate knowledge and reimagine public health practice.

Addressing the Intersection of Suicide, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences: What Is the Capacity of Local Health Departments

This tool was created to survey local, state, and territorial health departments to collect data regarding their capacity to address suicide, overdose, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) prevention.

Community Engagement in Community Health Improvement

In this session, recorded from July 13, 2022, participants learned about and discussed best practices for community engagement in a CHI process. A guest speaker from Lake County, IL shared their experience engaging community members in CHI. The Power Point presentation slides can be accessed here.

ASTHO’s How-to Guide: Engaging Island Jurisdiction Partners

This how-to guide provides steps, tips, and templates for developing and maintaining effective partnerships within island health agencies. The resource combines methods from evidence based strategies (i.e., collective impact and technology of participation) to support effective partnerships, a key pillar of the CDC’s OT21-2103 project.

Public-Private Partnerships to Sustain and Build Capacity

This on-demand webinar, recorded from June 24, 2022, featured case studies from three partnerships between health departments and public health institutes (the Louisiana Public Health Institute, the Institute for Public Health Innovation, and the Georgia Health Policy Center). Each organization discussed how these partnerships allowed public health systems to nimbly expand public health workforce capacity, equitably distribute funds to community-based organizations, and efficiently build community capacity to address emergent needs.

National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW) Landscape Analysis

This resource includes data and stories on the roles of CHWs in the COVID-19 pandemic response, including filling service and care gaps, addressing vaccine hesitancy and mistrust, and providing resources and social services to address social determinants of health. The analysis also includes a list of recommendations for states who wish to support CHWs and integrate their services into new or existing systems.

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