Webinar Series: Centering Community in Public Health
Centering Community in Public Health Webinars: Praxis is in a unique position to build bridges between basebuilding community organizers and traditional public health institutions. Below includes our 2020 webinars designed for local health departments, public health collaboratives and other agencies interested in increasing community-centered health equity and racial justice; we offer and provide additional webinars and in-person trainings tailored to the needs of our partners upon request.
1. The Praxis Project’s Working Principles for Health Justice & Racial Equity
Date: March 25th
Time: 2pm EST / 1pm CST / 12pm MST / 11am PST
Registration: Free
The Praxis Project has worked with our community allies and partners to organize a set of Principles for Health Justice and Racial Equity to help guide collaborations between community partners and traditional institutions seeking to improve health justice and racial equity in our nation’s most impacted communities. This webinar provides guidance in authentically centering community interests in the design, promotion, and implementation of policies and initiatives that support justice and equity for everyone. These principles are inspired by the Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing, a guiding framework, and coalesce the values of our basebuilding community partner and the Praxis Staff and Board of Directors. Through these principles, we envision a society in which basebuilding community organizers, impacted communities, advocates and policymakers move beyond just addressing inequitable outcomes, to transforming the systems that lead to inequity through community-centered initiatives that advance health justice and racial equity.
Join this webinar for:
First look and access to The Praxis Project's Working Principles for Health Justice & Racial Equity
Examples of Principles in Action
Overview of a tool to assess your agency, organization, or program’s level of integration of these principles
2. Community Centered Health Justice and Racial Equity: Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice
TBA - April/May 2020
Advancing policy, systems, practice and environment change is necessary for health justice and racial equity. In our upcoming interactive webinar, The Praxis Project is proud to provide the context for our recently-released brief “Community Centered Health Justice and Racial Equity: Innovative Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice,” which highlights the vast efforts to improve community health and wellness led by our partners that are organizing across the United States. The purpose of the report and this webinar is to inform public health practice efforts in engaging community organizers to advance policy change.
Join this webinar for:
An overview and context of the Praxis Project’s work with grassroots organizers
Summary of community-led policy priorities across the social determinants of health
Examples of equity-driven policy and practice change
Discussion on how public health professionals can incorporate these learnings into our work
3. Building & Measuring Community Power for Health Justice
TBA - June/July 2020
Building community power is increasingly recognized as a valuable and necessary strategy to improve health justice and racial equity, with both immediate and long-term results. However, there is limited research or documentation of authentic discussions on the definitions, nuances, and front-line measurement of building power. In the fall of 2017, The Praxis Project hosted five learning circles with some of the nation’s most impactful grassroots community organizers to engage in deep reflection and discussion about building and measuring power.
Join this webinar to discuss:
What is community power?
How do grassroots organizations build power within their communities?
Considerations for evaluating power from a public health approach.
4. Community-Centered Engagement: Organizing Beyond The Ballot Box
TBA - September/Oct 2020
Grassroots organizers recognize the need for civic engagement and community-building to advance health justice and racial equity, as well as the importance of engaging community through a range of approaches. Voter engagement is incredibly important for legislative policy changes, and yet community-building includes many other meaningful strategies that authentically center marginalized voices in civic decision-making.
As we approach the 2020 elections, join this webinar to discuss:
Meaningful strategies for civic engagement beyond voting
The role of public health: Advocacy vs. Lobbying vs. Educating
Praxis’ tool for community-centered engagement
5. Health Equity as a Verb: Praxis Principles for the New Year
TBA - December 2020
The Praxis Project has organized a set of Principles for Health Justice and Racial Equity to help guide our work in partnership with allies in order to center community interests in the design, promotion, and implementation of policies and initiatives that support justice and equity for everyone. As 2020 wraps up and we look to 2021, it is the perfect opportunity to reflect upon our practices and actions from this past year: Were they aligned with our values?
Join this webinar to discuss:
Praxis’ self-reflection of 2020
Indicators and examples: How to know when we see health equity in action
The Praxis Principles for Health Justice and Racial Equity self-assessment tool