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Engaging communities in the development of a Health in All Policies Strategy in Richmond, CA
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Shasa Curl, MA
,
City of Richmond, City of Richmond, Richmond, CA
Jason Corburn, PhD
,
Dept of City and Regional Planning, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Morgan Westfall, BA
,
Community Clinic Consortium, Richmond, CA
Richmond is one of the first cities in the country to develop a comprehensive general plan element that addresses the link between public health and city services. The development of the Richmond General Plan 2030 involved over 2,000 residents and multiple community organizations and system partners. As the Community Health and Wellness Element of the Richmond General Plan 2030 was in the early stages of implementation a new school based (place based) community engagement strategy in neighborhoods facing health disparities was developed. This linguistically and culturally responsive community engagement approach has been an essential component in the development of the cities Health in All Policies (HiAP) strategy. The HiAP strategy will be how the city’s general plan which focuses on creating a healthy city will be operationalized. The poster will focus on concrete examples of best practices and challenges to community engagement over a four year initiative and how public health, equity, institutionalized racism, and community social stressors concepts and themes were introduced. The data and community narratives from the engagement exercises are being used to develop policy interventions and built environment improvements in their neighborhoods.
Learning Areas:
Public health or related public policy
Learning Objectives:
Explain the development of a school based linguistically and culturally responsive community engagement strategy with an explicit goal of working towards health equity; Discuss best practices and challenges to introducing health equity themes to communities in the development of a Health in All Policies strategy; Demonstrate concrete examples of community engagement data being used to make built environment improvements; Discuss a community based organization and clinic perspective working with a city on Health in All Policies
Keyword(s): Health Disparities/Inequities, Policy/Policy Development
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have worked for the City of Richmond, CA for four years leading work related to the implementation of the Community Health and Wellness Element and development of the Health in All Policies community engagement strategy and document. I have been the lead support for the Richmond Health Equity Partnership. My MA in the field of education focused on language socialization and how educational inequality is being challenged by students and communities.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
