Social & Community Context – Page 13 – Collective For Health Equity

The Broken Crayons..Still Color Project

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The Broken Crayons…Still Color Project (BCSCP) is a prevention program, which aims to limit and reduce depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance abuse. The program is designed to assist African-American women ages 18 and older to become more knowledgeable about mental illness, reduce stigma, understand what constitutes good mental health, root causes of mental illness, and strategies for the treatment and prevention of mental illness. It addresses the Phase 1 priority population strategy: providing insight into mental health topics among African-American women in selected faith-based churches.

Sisters Mentally Mobilized

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Sisters Mentally Mobilized (SMM) is a community defined practice and intervention of the California Black Women’s Health Project (CABWHP) that is designed to prevent and reduce mental illness severity in Black women. Sisters Mentally Mobilized incorporates the foundational advocacy and empowerment principles of CABWHP’s signature Advocate Training Program (ATP) while also building the ongoing capacity of Black women to address mental health conditions and barriers in their lives and communities. An additional component of Sisters Mentally Mobilized is the formation of mental-health focused “Sister Circles” that will be mobilized to employ culturally responsive community defined interventions that address mental health issues in the following areas: 1) identification of risk factors and symptoms, 2) stigma awareness and reduction, 3) prevention of early onset and deterioration, and 4) increased awareness, solicitation and access of care. This comprehensive and combined approach is a culturally responsive prevention and early intervention (PEI) strategy to mitigate multiple risk factors and limitations in interventions that contribute to and exacerbate mental health disparities in Black women, their families and communities.

Turning Resilience Into Brilliance for Eternity

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The Turning Resilience Into Brilliance for Eternity (TRIBE) Program is a prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent or intervene in the early onset of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) for foster and adjudicated AA male youth. The CDEP does this by increasing resiliency through skills building, identity development, peer support and mentoring, opening the aperture to higher education, and widening the access to mental health services. Utilizing an ecological approach and brain-based learning, the TRIBE CDEP is designed to address Phase 1 priority population strategy of building on community strengths and demonstrably improving the quality of mental health services by providing services that are culturally congruent, sensitive and competent. The program outcome measures will be, decrease the risks for skid row and homelessness, prison, drug addiction, educational failure, and mental illness, including Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), depression, suicide, anxiety, and reactivity. Additionally, the CDEP anticipates increases in adaptability, self-efficacy, and social connectivity.

Reported community engagement in health equity research published in high-impact medical journals: a scoping review

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A scoping review of 626 health-equity-focused articles that examines how often and at what stages communities were engaged. It finds that reported engagement was uncommon and rarely extended across the full research process.

Achieving the Health Equity Agenda Through Transformative Community-Engaged Strategies

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An essay examining whether conventional community engagement has reached its potential to advance health equity. It calls for transformative, power-aware strategies that position communities as equal decision makers.

Advancing community-engaged research to promote health equity: considerations to improve the field

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An overview of community-engaged research approaches, their value for health equity, and practical steps for applying core principles while avoiding tokenistic engagement.

Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement: A Conceptual Model to Advance Health Equity through Transformed Systems for Health

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An introduction to the Assessing Community Engagement conceptual model, which centers equity, shared governance, trust, culturally centered approaches, and measurable outcomes of meaningful engagement.

Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021

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A review of quantitative approaches used to measure structural racism, highlights methodological innovations, and identifies gaps that limit the evaluation of antiracist policy and racial health equity.

Systemic and Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, and Approaches to Dismantling

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This article defines systemic and structural racism, explains pathways through which they harm health, and describes approaches for dismantling racist systems and advancing racial health equity.

Supporting Communities and Local Public Health Departments During COVID-19 and Beyond: A Roadmap for Equitable and Transformative Change

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This roadmap offers policy, program, workforce, data, funding, and partnership recommendations for public health departments and community organizations working toward an equitable emergency response and long-term systems change.