The Power of Community Wisdom in Advancing Health Justice & Racial Equity

 

The Praxis Project and our community partners operate with the acknowledgment that the practice of traditional public health and allied professions has made significant and necessary progress in improving population health, and yet is still not benefiting all communities equitably. As the traditional practice of public health continues to evolve, it remains largely focused on approaches centering research, surveillance, evaluation, and behavior-change interventions, often perpetuating inequities. Basebuilding, community organizing and power-building, however, remain largely untapped and represent an area of great opportunity for advancing racial and health equity. The Praxis Project’s work with basebuilding community partners consistently shows us that building community power through supporting community organizing is crucial to improving health justice and racial equity across issues, and that there are opportunities to strengthen collaboration with traditional public health and allied partners. In honor of the collective community wisdom of our grassroots partners, Praxis is releasing a series of briefs with lessons learned and recommendations for centering community in public health.

The Power of Community Wisdom in Advancing Health Justice & Racial Equity provides an introduction to the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.

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Check out @Praxis_Project's brief series, Centering Community in Public Health, to learn from their Learning Circle collective of base building orgs about what is necessary to incorporate community organizing in our health justice & racial equity work: https://bit.ly/3aLQaKt

Public Health as a profession has a difficult history with BIPOC communities. In their brief series, @Praxis_Project & our collective of base building orgs for BIPOC communities share lessons & recommendations for advancing health justice & racial equity: https://bit.ly/3aLQaKt

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The Praxis Project (2020, March). The Power of Community Wisdom in Advancing Health Justice and Racial Equity. Retrieved from https://www.thepraxisproject.org/resource/2020/the-power-of-community-wisdom-in-advancing-health-justice-amp-racial-equity.

 

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Briefs in this series

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Equity in Action?: Assessing the Role of Community in Declarations of Racism as a Public Health Crisis
Equity in Action?: Assessing the Role of Community in Declarations of Racism as a Public Health Crisis

The purpose of this brief is to present the findings from a series of surveys, Learning Circles, and media analyses designed by The Praxis Project and Berkeley Media Studies Group, a program of the Public Health Institute, to examine the extent to which community basebuilding organizations played a role in declarations of racism as a public health crisis and how the declarations were covered in the media.

From Food Justice to Liberation: Building Community Power through Community Gardens & Urban Farms
From Food Justice to Liberation: Building Community Power through Community Gardens & Urban Farms

From Food Justice to Liberation: Building Community Power through Community Gardens & Urban Farms is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.

The purpose of this brief is to understand how urban farms and community gardens stewarded by Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) power-building and base-building organizations help raise community consciousness about healthy food systems, create opportunities for resident leadership and skill development, promote local economic development, and provide healthy alternatives to the typical commodified foods that are available in marginalized communities.

The Role of Culture in Basebuilding Community Organizing for Health, Justice, & Racial Equity
The Role of Culture in Basebuilding Community Organizing for Health, Justice, & Racial Equity

The Role of Culture in Basebuilding Community Organizing for Health, Justice, & Racial Equity is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.

The purpose of this brief is to inform institutions and institutional allies of the critical role culture plays in community-led movements, and how to positively and respectfully honor and uplift culture in advancing health justice.

 
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