Taking community action on health disparities: A Critical MASS toolkit overview

Members of diverse geographic, ethnic, racial and linguistic communities face serious but often different health disparities. They want to take action to eliminate those disparities but often lack the tools to identify key points of change, mobilize community members, recruit allies and develop an action plan directed at specific health disparities affecting their own community. Written in accessible language, Critical MASS has produced a toolkit detailing practical tools and techniques for community members to organize their community, draw upon the resources of the often exclusionary world of professional public health and engage in the needed advocacy for disparities elimination. Available in print and on the Critical MASS website, www.enddisparities.org, this presentation provides an overview of this community-organizing toolkit.