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ACTION AND LEARNING COMMUNITY

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A community of action

ACTION AND LEARNING COMMUNITY

Community Health Improvement Leadership Academy (CHILA)

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ACTION AND LEARNING COMMUNITY

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A community of action

ACTION AND LEARNING COMMUNITY

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Together we’ll...

Understand how health and well-being are generated through the relationships we have and the way we live together

Identify issues that are important to us, our collective assets, and opportunities for meaningful work together

Develop tools, skills, and behaviors to equitably address the prioritized social determinants of health topics

Help communities develop the relational trust and resources needed to participate in any change effort or improvement that arises

To achieve health equity, Equity in OC takes action on

SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

What are Social Determinants of Health?

“Social determinants of health are life-enhancing resources, such as food supply, housing, economic and social relationships, transportation, education, and health care, whose distribution across populations effectively determines length and quality of life.”

- Professor Sherman James, Duke University

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The Equity in OC community will take collective actions on three Social Determinants of Health

Food As Medicine

Housing is Health

Health and Healing

Together, teams will implement equity improvement projects addressing the prioritized SDoH areas through:

Community Health Improvement Leadership Academy (CHILA)

Skills and relationship building event

Action Periods and Equity Action Labs

Periods of action and improvements

Milestones & Timeline

PHASE I:
Equity in OCTaskforce

PHASE I AND OUTCOMES
Determined Priority Social Determinants of Health
- Determined Priority Social Determinants of Health
Sep
Launch permanent work
Action Period 1
- Work with EiOC coaches to refine core components of equity improvement teams’ proposed projects
- Submit your implementation grant proposal/application by August. If granted, work with improvement coaches, attend monthly webinars, and continue to build your implementation teams and test your change ideas
DEC

Phase II:
Action and Learning Community

Phase II Starts
Understand how health and well-being are generated through the relationships we have and the way we live together
More Details
- Register to attend CHILA session 1
- Find potential members for your equity improvement team
- Start brainstorming about your equity improvement project ideas
2022 May
Chila session 1
Learning about improvement science, systems change, and building communities
June 28–30
Action Period 1
- Work with EiOC coaches to refine core components of equity improvement teams’ proposed projects
- Submit your implementation grant proposal/application by August. If granted, work with improvement coaches, attend monthly webinars, and continue to build your implementation teams and test your change ideas
June
Chila session 2
Equity deep dive, design thinking, switch thinking, and how to plan for your Equity Action Lab
Action Period 2, Equity Lab 1
- Continue to work and expand your project, work with your coach, and attend monthly webinars
- Plan & implement your first Equity Action Lab
OCT
Chila session 3
Learn how to deepen, expand and sustain your work
Action Period 3, Equity Lab 2
- Continue to work and expand your project, work with your coach, and attend monthly webinars
- Plan & implement your second Equity Action Lab
- Work on sustainability
2023 Mar

Phase III:
Harvesting and Sustainability

Phase III Starts
Celebrate, Grow, Sustain
- Celebrate our time, work, and accomplishments
- Plan out how to grow and sustain the work
2023 May
LAUNCH Permanent Work
June

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