Equity in Action: How Communities can Drive Implementation of Declarations of Racism as a Public Health Crisis

Description

Join the Collaborative for Anti-Racism and Equity to hear from partners and discuss work to support and address racism as a public health crisis.

Webinar Objectives:

• Describe barriers to achieving racial equity
• Explain how governmental programs to achieve racial equity comply with the 14th Amendment and Title Vi of the Civil Rights Act of 196
• Assess community involvement in declarations of racism as a public health crisis and identify opportunities for community to be authentically centered in political processes
• Identify limitations and opportunities for narrative change in news coverage of policy efforts to declare racism a public health crisis
• Learn more about the history of declarations
• Understand their role in public health
• Learn more about APHA’s racism declarations tracking map