Webinars

To intervene to change the structural determinants of health, public health must work to build power with communities facing inequities and disrupt the power of those who use it to maintain the status quo. Community organizing is a proven strategy to build community power yet, while examples of public health partnering with community-organizing groups and utilizing organizing methods exist, these strategies remain an underdeveloped area for practice. In this webinar, NCCDH and an organizer from Migrante Manitoba will deepen public health practitioners’ understanding of community organizing as a public health intervention by defining community organizing, describing community organizing practices as well as the benefits of public health engaging with organizers, and providing case studies (focused on precarious work and immigration) of public health both partnering with organizers and using organizing methods to advance equity.

This webinar will be of interest to public health practitioners and students interested in learning about community organizing as a tool to build community power and shift the structural determinants of health.

Objectives:

• Explain community organizing as a public health intervention to address the structural determinants of health and advance health equity  

• Describe examples of public health partnering with community organizers and using community organizing methods to advance health equity  

• Identify actions participants can take to integrate community organizing into public health interventions