September 19, 2019 | 1:00–2:30 p.m. (ET)
Webinar: Informing public health programs through engagement with communities that live with health inequities
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This event took place in English.
Community engagement (CE) is an important step towards understanding the unique circumstances facing populations living with inequities. This is especially true when considering these communities’ opportunities and barriers to achieving health.
Having authentic and ongoing relationships with communities that experience marginalization – beyond one-time engagement events or client satisfaction – requires eliminating processes and practices that make decisions for those communities without their direct and meaningful involvement.
Community engagement (CE) skills
For public health practitioners, the skills, resources and tools for meaningful and participatory CE are beneficial for informing decision-making on actions to address health inequities.
This webinar explores CE as a strategy to reduce the marginalization of populations most impacted by health equities. Speakers reflect on the necessary shift from seeing the community as more than just a target audience for service delivery to drawing on them as a resource to inform public health priorities. It also explores practice-based examples, barriers to and opportunities for CE, ways to establish and maintain engagement with community members and stakeholders, and the importance of evaluating CE.
Listeners will learn about:
- mechanisms to develop and support relationship-building and community engagement to address health inequities;
- examples of short- and long-term practices to engage communities that experience inequities; and
- strategies to increase community influence on public health program decision-making.
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