Organizational Self-Assessment to Achieve Health Equity Gail Brandt Health Equity Consultant National Association of Chronic Disease Directors November 4, 2013 APHA 20131

Objectives Identify three benefits of completing an Identify three benefits of completing the organizational Self-Assessment. Select one strategy from the organizational Self-Assessment appropriate for use by your department November 20132

Purpose of Toolkit and Guide Provide information to guide strategic planning Set baseline measure of capacity, skills, and areas for improvement Inventory set of organizational and individual traits that support health equity Serve as ongoing set of tools to measure progress toward goals developed through the assessment process. APHA 20133

Background  entered into partnership with BARHII to plan revisions of the Local Health Department toolkit and GuidanceLocal Health Department toolkit and Guidance  eleven states reviewed and revised all tools and guidance  pilot tested the revisions with three state health departments APHA 20134

Partnership Review the original toolkit and guidance developed for local health departments Make revisions suitable for use by state health departments ASTHO Affiliate Meeting 20115

Revise Recruit state health department staff to make initial revisions Go through each tool and implementation guidelines and revise language Review with BARHII staff to make sure revisions did not change the intent of questions APHA 20136

Participating States Green = Pilot States Yellow = Revision Stat4es ASTHO Affiliate Meeting 20117

Pilot Test Recruit states from NACDD membership Conditions for participation included: Implement all tools without making changes Gather feedback from staff and partners about questions that should be removed or reworded Participate in monthly TA calls Submit a final report with recommended changes to the tools and implementation processes APHA 20138

In Return $6,000 stipend for participation Monthly group and individual TA calls Ongoing assistance as needed during implementation Peer support from other pilot state team members Sharing tools developed during implementation APHA 20139

Toolkit Components 1 Staff Survey 2 External Partner Survey 3 Staff Focus Groups 4 Management Interviews 5 Internal Documents Review 10

What is in it for you? Visit the NACDD website for a link to the Toolkit and Guidance Contact me with questions and comments Consider participating in a web-based training on implementing the Toolkit APHA

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