2017 Health Equity Awards - Arnold Perkins Winner - Monterey
Since 2012, Monterey County Health Department (MCHD) has been using Health in All Policies (HiAP) framework with a Collective Impact approach to intentionally expand upstream work on social determinants, including staffing and funding support for a department ‘backbone’. MCHD developed a stronger county-wide commitment to health equity both within the department and outside with stakeholders by using five key HiAP elements:
1. Promoting incorporation of HiAP into policies, programs, and processes and embedding HIAP into government decision making;
2. Fostering intersectoral collaboration;
3. Creating co-benefits;
4. Engaging stakeholders; and
5. Creating structural change.
HiAP has been a catalyzing force for partnership development with community residents, coalitions and community-based organizations across public works, housing, transportation, and community empowerment. Their work has led to strategic wins – like the County adopting “promoting access to equitable opportunities for healthy choices and healthy environments in collaboration with communities” as a priority in its 2017-2018 Legislative Platform – as well as the building of power in communities facing inequities through, for example, the enLACE Leadership and Civic Engagement Academy.
If you, like us, missed the beginning of this session bc you were at the #EndPoliceViolence #APHA2018 rally, watch this short video of @MCHDPIO's valuable health equity work!
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