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Enhancing Health Equity Through Community Engagement: Key Principles and Practices

Explore the principles of authentic community engagement for health equity through video illustrations. Reflect on strategies to strengthen and stretch community engagement practices to support health equity. Assess your Community Engagement Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities for further development. Stay connected and take action towards meaningful change.

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Enhancing Health Equity Through Community Engagement: Key Principles and Practices

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  1. Community engagement as a health equity practice Health Equity Learning Community March 2018

  2. Community engagement as a health equity practice

  3. Community engagement continuum

  4. Principles of authentic engagement

  5. Video illustrations As you watch the videos, identify one or more of the principles of authentic engagement that are relevant in the story. Each team will be asked to share one principle that stood out to them.

  6. Local story Building new relationships

  7. Principles in action Thinking about the levels of engagement, the authentic engagement principle, and Jessica’s story: How might your health department strengthen community engagement practices so that they support health equity? How might your health department stretch itself in its CE practice? What is a “leading edge” you can move into?

  8. Share

  9. Main points Community engagement is contextual Shift away from doing things for communities to with communities Authentic engagement starts with an asset-based approach

  10. Next steps Complete a Community Engagement Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Assessment and identify areas for development Complete a brief webinar evaluation, coming shortly After each step, pause and reflect: So what? Now what? Stay connected to your coaches

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