Emerging
Practices that show potential to achieve desirable public health outcomes in a specific real-life setting and produce early results that are consistent with the objectives of the activities and thus indicate effectiveness.

Solano County Leverages Internal Champions and External Experts to Advance Equity

Human Impact Partners

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Case Study

Organizational Change/ Development
Policy Change/ Development
Neighborhood and Built Environment
Social and Community Context
Tools Included
Outside U.S.
Building

Infrastructure Support

The case study outlines how Solano Public Health used funding to create a Race Equity Team, which conducted trainings internally and built relationships with external partners to address policy changes focused on racial equity. The Solano Public Health Division used this grant funding to work with community partners and other government agencies to undertake projects focused in low-resourced neighborhoods, such as conducting healthy store makeovers, adopting and implementing policies to increase access to water in parks and schools, improving clinical prevention referrals, and introducing policies that address access and exposure to tobacco. Of note, much of this work has focused on racial equity in the realm of chronic disease prevention in low-resourced neighborhoods.

Resource Details

Outcomes of Interest

Advancing Racial Equity, Capacity Building, Improve Organizational Infrastructure, Partnership Building

Priority Population(s)

Setting(s) of Implementation

Community, Workplace

Geographic Area of Implementation

Implementation Period

2015-2018