Roots of Health Inequity Course Series
The Facilitator’s Guide is Here!
The updated Roots of Health Inequity Facilitator’s Guide has finally arrived! This long-awaited resource helps users moderate unique discussions about public health transformation within their own cohorts and organizations.
The Facilitator’s Guide offers general and course-specific guidance for encouraging deep and meaningful of Roots content in live, in-person, virtual, or hybrid group settings. In it, you will find tips for facilitating social justice discussions, sample questions and resources related to the series content, and additional discussion prompts and activities to tailor your learning sessions to your organization’s needs.
The Facilitator’s Guide is FREE for download on myNACCHO now!
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After 13 years, the Health Equity and Social Justice team has updated NACCHO’s signature product, now titled the Roots of Health Inequity Course Series, to reflect the complexities of today. The revised course series equips participants with tools necessary to understand, identify and more directly act on the root causes of health inequity to implement equitable public health initiatives. Access the course here.
The Roots of Health Inequity Course Series challenges practitioners to take a closer look at public health inequities by focusing on the underlying history, narratives, and structures of power that drive them. Users will find that the course draws upon a mix of historical and recent events to discuss concepts that apply to current topics in public health practice. By understanding the root causes of health inequities, public health practitioners can effectively strategize and orient their organization’s programming to address the social or structural drivers of health inequities. Users are encouraged to critically reflect upon how they may address root causes in their own work. Initiatives thus become more creative, collaborative, and cohesive. The course series serves as a repository of health equity resources, and includes references, toolkits, and additional resources to better address each community’s unique needs.
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Course Structure: Each course is organized the same way, with a course overview, followed by three chapters, and then closed with a course wrap up. The overview contains the course purpose, learning objectives, key terms, and overview videos. Chapter 1 introduces the topic and provides historical context. Chapter 2 dives into contemporary manifestations to public health practices and details how the course topic generates health inequity. Chapter 3 discusses strategies to act against this specific root cause. We recommend using the “Course Navigation” sidebar to help you navigate through each page. Each course will also contain videos, interactives, discussion prompts, voices, activities, case studies, and worksheets.
Language: The course is also offered in Spanish. Just click the orange “Español” button in the top right side of the screen to switch languages.
Creating an Account: Navigate to the “Login” page and click “Create an Account,” and enter the desired information. This may include a short biography, your LinkedIn, your Professional Category, etc. If you are not part of an organization taking the course, you may join the “Independent Learners” group.
Creating a Group: If you are taking a course with other people from your organization, we recommend creating a group for your organization. To do so, click “Start a Group” on the home page and enter the desired information. Once your group is created, enter in the emails of everyone in your group. They will be sent an email prompting them to create an account. You can then assign your group members to a course or specific set of pages. This assignment will show up on all their dashboards. We highly recommend using this feature for group facilitation! You can manage your group on the “Dashboard” page.
Narration: Each course has a narration tool that can read each page for you. To engage in a narrated course, click “Listen to Audio Version” at the top of each page.
Accessibility: The course has been updated to meet modern day accessibility standards, including:
- Descriptive alternative text is assigned to every meaningful image on our website
- Our website is navigable without a mouse, by keyboard only
- We use a focus indicator to highlight interactive elements on our website
- We ensure that all text to background color contrast meets a 4.5:1 ratio
- We include a skip navigation link on all pages of our website
- We maintain a consistent and predictable layout throughout our website
Roots Facilitator’s Guide: The course includes a Facilitator’s Guide, which provides useful guidance, tips, questions, and activities to facilitate discussions in each of the 10 courses. We highly recommend taking this course in a facilitated group, so that you all can discuss and work through Roots content and activities together. You may download the Facilitator's Guide on MyNACCHO now for FREE.
Roots Virtual Community: NACCHO has launched a Virtual Community for Roots of Health Inequity. The Virtual Community is an online resource repository and discussion board for Roots users and health equity practitioners of all backgrounds to share information about current events, jobs, funding opportunities, and resources that build the collective capacity of the Roots of Health Inequity community. Join using this MyNACCHO link.
Roots of Health Inequity Monthly Newsletter: NACCHO has created a Roots of Health Inequity Course Series specific newsletter. The newsletter is released monthly with updates related to the course, resources, funding opportunities, relevant jobs and more! To join our newsletter mailing list, be sure to have a Roots of Health Inequity Course Series account and to click "Roots of Health Inequity Newsletter" using this MyNACCHO link.
To access the updated Facilitator’s Guide, Newsletter, and Virtual Community, you must create a myNACCHO account. Creating an account is free and easy:
- Visit the myNACCHO Sign-In page, or click “MYNACCHO LOGIN” in the upper-right corner of NACCHO’s homepage.
- Click “Create Account” under New Users.
- Enter your preferred E-mail address, First Name, and Last Name to verify if you have an existing myNACCHO account. If there are no matching results, click “Create New Account” and follow the instructions.
- If you do have a matching result, please keep those login credentials handy, as you will need them to access upcoming Roots resources.
Other Training Opportunities: Please make sure to check back here for other training opportunities and resources we may develop following launch.
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