Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present

Harriet A. Washington

In the book Medical Apartheid, Washington writes about the history of medical experimentation on African-Americans from the era of slavery to present day. This book is the first full account of the abuse that black America suffered at the hands of the medical industry.

Method Cards

IDEO

IDEO Method Cards are a tool to showcase methods we use to inspire great design and keep people at the center of our design process. Each of the 51 cards describes one method and includes a brief story about how and when to use it.

Methods of data collection in qualitative research: interviews and focus groups

P. Gill, K. Stewart, E. Treasure, & B. Chadwick

This paper explores the most common methods of data collection used in qualitative research: interviews and focus groups. The paper examines each method in detail, focusing on how they work in practice, when their use is appropriate and what they can offer dentistry. Examples of empirical studies that have used interviews or focus groups are also provided.

metrics for Healthy Communities

Building Healthy Places Network

Designed with cross-sector collaboration in mind, metrics for Healthy Communities is a site to get you started in planning for and measuring the impact of initiatives funded and developed to improve community health and well-being. This site can help you evaluate community health improvement initiatives, especially cross-sector initiatives. You'll find tools to help define goals, identify appropriate measures to inform progress over time, and use available data. This site can serve as a resource for measuring the impacts of community development and health initiatives.

Michigan Community-Based Doula Safety Net Funding Brief

Black Mothers Breastfeeding Association

This research brief outlines the necessity of liberatory funding models in creating safety nets for community-based doula care. The brief provides information on what the funding models should look like and how financial safety nets impact the provision of doula care.

Middletown Works

Built from insights gathered from early community conversations and research, this website provides information on what Middletown has been doing and learning as they work towards a more just and equitable Middletown, with a focus on lifting up single parents living in poverty.

Midpoint Snapshots: The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

Campaign for Grade Level Reading

This report from the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading highlights the progress made in reaching the goal of increasing reading proficiency in low-income grade level students. While the campaign has made significant progress, they also advocate for more focus on systems alignment going forward.

Mindfulness in Early Childhood

Zero To Three

Published by Zero To Three, these mindfulness resources are lessons learned from research and the field and aim to increase understanding of how mindfulness can support early childhood development.

Mindset Shifts

Frameworks Insitute

This report explores the best practices and most effective strategies for moving mindsets by asking the questions: What are mindset shifts? Why do they matter? How do they happen?

Mind the Gap -A Call to Action - Postpartum Support International

Postpartum Support International

Mind the Gap is a National Initiative led by Postpartum Support International and a broad-based stakeholder coalition comprised of leading experts from national professional and advocacy organizations. Their aim is to ensure perinatal mental health as a national priority through increasing research, improving awareness and enhancing access to screening and treatment for perinatal mental health care.

Mission Partners

Mission Partners guides high-potential nonprofits, foundations and purpose-driven organizations in moving their missions forward. They help organizations build more equitable practices, increase their impact and amplify their good work.

Mobility Mentoring

EmPATH

The mobility mentoring program aims to snap the cycle of poverty by pairing low-income people with trained mentors. Mentors help their partner develop skills in focus, decision-making, and planing to help people achieve future oriented goals.

Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities

Health Federation of Philadelphia

MARC brings together 14 sites actively engaged in building the movement for a just, healthy and resilient world. These communities are all building a culture of health by translating the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences into practices and policies.

Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities through Policy and Advocacy

Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities

This toolkit aims to support network engagement initiatives among communities through policy and advocacy efforts.

Model Commitment Letter

The Society for Public Health Education

The Society for Public Health Education provides a sample letter to use with coalition partners that outlines the vision for collaborative work and the responsibilities and resources that each organization or individual intends to commit to the effort.

Moms Rising

MomsRising is a network of people just like you, united by the goal of building a more family-friendly America. The organization works to advocate for changes on issues that matter to women, mothers and families by educating the public and mobilizing massive grassroots action.

More Hopeful Futures (2017-2020)

Campaign for Grade Level Reading

This initiative of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading aims to increase reading proficiency in low-income families.The initiative includes screenings and supports designed to accelerate ongoing efforts to improve school readiness, summer learning, and school attendance.

MotherWoman: Cultural Humility Workshop

Committed lifelong learning and critical self-reflection. Realizing our own power, privilege and prejudices. Practicing humble inquiry and deep listening. Redressing imbalances for respectful partnerships. Transforming institutions by promoting accountability

Moving Medicaid Prevention Services Upstream

Nemours Children’s Health System, Center for Health Care Strategies

Highlighting work in Maryland, this brief outlines how a state Medicaid agency can maximize existing authority to delivery nutritional counseling in Head Start settings in an effort to prevent obesity.

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) By Dean Spade

Dean Spade

This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, how to foster a collective decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout.

My Grandmother's Hands

Resmaa Menakem

The first self-discovery book to examine white body surpremacy in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

My Plate

MyPlate is a USDA tool that can be used to develop healthy eating habits.

Narrative Change Strategy

Reclaiming Native Truth

Published by Reclaiming Native Truth, this living guidebook and reference is a source of inspiration to be improved and adapted over time, a dynamic roadmap for multiple pathways to narrative change.

Narrative Strategy for Racial Equity (Harmony Labs)

Melinda Weekes-Laidlow

Harmony Labs has been developing an audience-narrative to find “narrative strategies” and actual storytelling that would activate people in the U.S., especially healthcare professionals, to dismantle structural racism in America’s healthcare and public health systems. The foundation of this work was research on audiences and the health equity narrative landscapes they inhabit.

National Collaborative for Infants & Toddlers

The National Collaborative for Infants & Toddlers (NCIT) is committed to advancing the most promising policies and programs that ensure families have the supports they may need. Their website includes online tools for taking action, divining into data, and exploring frameworks related to early childhood development.

National Equity Atlas

PolicyLink, USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity

Robust data and research are essential to developing strategies to build an equitable economy. The National Equity Atlas offers a comprehensive data resource to track, measure, and make the case for inclusive growth. The Atlas provides deeply disaggregated, longitudinal data on demographic change, racial and economic inclusion, and the economic benefits of equity for the largest 100 cities, largest 150 regions, all 50 states, and the United States.

National Indigenous Women's Resource Center

NIWRC

The NIWRC is a Native nonprofit organization that was created specifically to serve as the National Indian Resource Center (NIRC) Addressing Domestic Violence and Safety for Indian Women.

National Network of Bail and Bond Funds

People Not Prisons

The website for the #PeopleNotPrisons campaign. Find out more information and get involved by exploring the site.

National Parent Leadership Institute

The National Parent Leadership Institute exists to coordinate and increase the civic skills and impact of diverse parents to improve child and community outcomes as they build caring communities. Through their Parent Leadership Training Institutes, NPLI works with organizations and communities to increase the civic skills of parents, so they can make improvements in their communities for their children, and also works with leaders to build their capacity to work with parents.

National Pediatric Practice Community on Adverse Childhood Experiences

Center for Youth Wellness

The NPPC member website strives to provide a full breadth of resources to help 
practices make the case for and implement ACEs screening.

National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families

National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families

This website includes interactive data tools pertaining to Hispanic families, early child care and education, and diversity.

National Survey of Early Care and Education: Center-Based Provider Questionnaire

University of Chicago

This questionnaire was designed by NORC at the University of Chicago to assist the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in better understanding and supporting childcare and early education resources needed in specific communities.

Native American Youth and Family Center

Support and prepare young children with opportunities to set them on paths of success through quality, innovative culturally specific early childhood programming.

Navigating the Health Care System

Nemours Children’s Health System, Center for Health Care Strategies

A four-unit health literacy curriculum designed by Nemours Children’s Health System for use with high-school-aged adolescents in classroom and community settings. It is designed to prepare students to be responsible for managing their own health care as they transition into adulthood.

Neighboring Food Co-op Association

NCFA

Learn about a regional group of food co-ops working towards a thriving regional economy, healthy, just, and sustainable food systems, and a vibrant community of cooperative enterprise.

NERD Boston

Brandeis University

The Boston edition of the National Equity Research Database, or “NERD Boston,” is a product of the Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy’s flagship research project, diversitydatakids.org. It is a database of 286 socio-economic indicators on a wide range of subjects, including demography, education, employment, health, housing, earnings and ancestry covering the Boston metropolitan area.

Network Building Resources

Interaction Institute for Social Change

Selected resources for individuals interested in exploring the connections between network theory and social change.

Network Weaver Handbook

Network Weaver

The Network Weaver Handbook is a practical guide for people interested in catalyzing a new network or enhancing an existing one.

New Jersey Child Welfare Data Hub

Rutgers

Website provides multiple data visualizations on child wellbeing: The Data Portal allows users to explore key indicators of child well-being through customizable visualization and query tools. The Data Map allows users to explore key child welfare and well-being measures, population characteristics, and socioeconomic variables at the state- and county-level.

NJ Community Based Organization Planning Needs Assessment -- Survey report

American Planning Association -- New Jersey Chapter

This report was designed with the intent of bridging the gap between community based organizations (CBO's) in New Jersey, and the states city and regional network of city planners to better support the success of neighborhoods and communities.

No Burnout Bingo

Center for Story Based Strategy

This three-page document includes two pages of No Burnout Bingo plus a third blank page for creating your own. Download it now and keep yourself and your friends sustainably involved in building movements for collective liberation.

Nontraditional-Hour Child Care in the District of Columbia:

Urban Institute

This study assesses the need for nontraditional-hour child care among District families.

NOW Innovation Forum Member FAQ

Vital Village Network

This resource provides an overview of Frequently Asked Questions about the NOW Innovation Forum, including: NOW's mission and history, benefits and features to signing up as a Member, and navigating the Forum.

Obesity and Energetics Offerings

UAB NORC / Office of Energetics

This resource provides a weekly synthesis email of current obesity research, ranging from behavior to epidemiology to physiology.

Obesity Stigma: Important Considerations for Public Health

Rebecca Puhl and Chelsea Heuer

This study reports on how obesity stigma threatens health, generates health disparities, and interferes with effective obesity prevention efforts. The study warns against using obesity stigma as a tool for motivation.

Obstacles on the Road to Opportunity: Finding a Way Forward for the Children and Families of Massachusetts

Nancy Wagman, Kids County Director, Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center

This set of slides outlines the current state of opportunity for children and families in Massachusetts and presents a pathway to removing obstacles and anticipating roadblocks.

Open Data - Food Systems

Metropolitan Area Planning Council

This resources provides accurate and timely data on issues like food systems, transportation, housing and economic development so leaders can make informed decisions.

Opportunity 360

Enterprise Community Investment, Inc.

This website includes opportunity mapping tools and data.

Opportunity International: Nicaragua

Opportunity international

Opportunity international is a non-profit working to end global poverty by creating and sustaining 20 million jobs by 2020. OI provides small business loans, savings, insurance, and trainings to global populations.

Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy And Practice

The Praxis Project

(The Praxis Project) This brief shares examples of initiatives and endeavors to illustrate the significance of the necessary and authentic engagement of community base building organizations that represent the desires of communities to promote health justice and equity

Organizational Assessment tools and Resources

Racial Equity tools

This section includes resources about the processes of organizational assessment, tools and examples of organizational assessments. that focus on integrating racial equity and addressing structural racism.

Organizational Capacity Building

Racial Equity tools

This section provides resources and tools to grow organizations that can sustain racial equity work, with attention to their internal processes as well as their capacities to work on equity. This section includes resources that may have some helpful information or tools to integrate structural racism analysis.

Organizational Change Process

Racial Equity tools

This section provides selected examples of how people in organizations have approached their racial equity work. Several describe current racial equity processes as well as resources that provide broad frameworks for thinking about organizational change more broadly.

Organizational Transormation Without Equity and Allyship is Meaningless

Lupe Poblano

What role should equity and allyship play in organizational change efforts? Project Director Lupe Poblano says they are the respective goal and means through which to achieve true change.

Our Future Together: A Framework for an Equitable Immigration System that Protects and Promotes the Well-Being of Families

Center for the Study of Social Policy

Developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy, this guide focuses on immigration and provides recommendations for discarding harmful policies, strategies to protect individuals from further harm and discusses promotion of well-being for families both at the border and those living in the United States.

Overview of CCDBG and CCDF

Child Care Aware of America

Child care resource and referral (CCR&Rs) agencies are uniquely positioned to influence their respective state’s child care preprint plan. Per the Office of Child Care (OCC), those preprint plans were due on August 31. Whether you are directly responsible for writing your state’s plan or desire to use your organization’s expertise and systems to influence and implement the plan, CCAOA is your go-to resource for all-things CCDBG.

Pack your Back

A college dorm room organization, founded by MSU students, that is committed to providing resources to students in need in the Flint, Michigan area. They utilize and engage youth to be activist and agents of change in their community.

Pandemic Response Education Platform for Immigrant Families

New York Immigration Coalition - NYIC

Created to raise awareness about the unique needs of immigrant families and their school aged children, this webpage provides a toolkit and policy recommendations for NYC government leaders.

Parent Engagement & Leadership Assessment Guide & toolkit

Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP)

This assessment tool is part of an ongoing, collaborative effort to redefine how families experience early childhood systems and the role parents can play to reshape these systems to be more equitable, responsive, and accountable to the families and communities they serve.

Parent Handouts: Understanding ACEs, Parenting to Prevent & Heal ACEs

Morgan Vien, ACEs Connection Staff

This is an updated version of the popular hand-out created and shared by the Community & Family Services Division at the Spokane (WA) Regional Health District. Available in English, Dari, and Spanish.

Parenting with ACEs -- toolkits and Guides

ACEs Connection

A collection of toolkits and guides addressing ACEs, from ACEs Connection.

Parenting with ACEs -- Virtual Community

ACEs Connection

A virtual community, hosted by ACEs Connection, to honor the lived and learned expertise around addressing childhood ACEs.

Participatory Learning and Action Methodology

Participatory Learning and Action is a family of approaches, methods, attitudes, behaviours and relationships, which enable and empower people to share, analyse and enhance their knowledge of their life and conditions, and to plan, act, monitor, evaluate and reflect.

Partner Finder

Build Healthy Places

A collection of directories to help you find the community development and health organizations nearest to you. Partner Finder helps you take the first steps to identify potential cross-sector partners in improving the health and well being of your community.

Pathways to Stable Homes: Promoting Caregiver and Child Health Through Housing Stability

Children's HealthWatch

This report is the result of the search to find ways to complement efforts to build more affordable homes in Massachusetts and ensure the state’s working families can avoid health damaging toxic trade-offs between rent and other basic necessities.

Pay for Prevention

Center for Evidence-based Policy

This organization uses data from various agencies along with statistical modeling in order to identify at-risk children in Oregon, better understand how to best apply resources, and deliver community-adapted, multigenerational support.

Philadelphia ACE Project

Health Federation of Philadelphia

Project provides both web-based and community resources around building resilience in children and families. The resources include a variety of medias (multimedia, presentations, reports, etc) on a range of topics (toxic stress, play, resilience, lifelong health, and more).

Place Matters

Community Health Endowment of Lincoln

The Place Matters Community Mapping Project aims to answer how where we work, place, and live affect our health by mapping factors such as poverty, obesity and access to health care. The resource also includes an interactive map so users can explores these questions on their own.

Planting Seeds in Fertile Ground: Steps Every Policymaker Should Take to Advance Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

Zero to Three

This webinar and policy brief, created by ZERO TO THREE and Manatt Health, highlight what states can and should be doing to advance infant and early childhood mental health.

Plucking the Roots of Systemic Violence

Nollie Jenkins Family Center

This webinar showcases a campaign built upon community-rooted conversations among youth and families to end corporal punishment and systemic violence in schools and foster dialogue on solution-based organizing and alternatives to violence.

Policing and the Harmful Impacts on Child Wellbeing

The Children's Partnership

The first brief of the Racism and Child Health series, published by The Children's Partnership, offers a look at how the systemic racism that permeates U.S. law enforcement harms the health of BIPOC children.

Policy and Advocacy Campaigns

Kids In Need of Defense (KIND)

Key advocacy and policy reports developed by KIND.

Policy Basics: State Earned Income Tax Credits by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Working families in the US are eligible to receive refundable tax credits on earned income (EITC) through their federal income tax as well as in twenty-six states that offer additional state level EITC with qualifying incomes. The credits allow families to meet basic needs such as housing and food for low-income earners. Organizations like Children's HealthWatch have advocated to increase EITC for families which research shows reverses declines in life expectancy among low-income people, improves educational outcomes for young children, helps families' purchasing power for more healthy foods, and increases economic activity and consumption. Massachusetts in 2015 increased the state's EITC by fifty percent for 400 thousand working individuals and families.

Policy Brief: Three Priorities for Babies at the Border

ZERO TO THREE

This policy brief, put together by ZERO TO THREE, is a compilation of decades of research explaining the impact of trauma on young children. ZERO TO THREE is committed to reiterate that young children held in detention at the border need our urgent attention and action and provide three critical recommendations for child-wellbeing.

Policy Learning Labs

Moving Health Care Upstream

Moving Health Care Upstream (MHCU) is based on the belief that health systems can address persistent and costly health inequities by moving “upstream”– beyond the walls of hospitals and clinics and into the communities, collaborating with community-based organizations to address the root causes of disease. he various areas of work within MHCU share a common focus- supporting hospitals and community stakeholders in testing and spreading strategies to move upstream, and sharing “what works” to inform the field and accelerate the upstream movement in the field as a whole. Policy Learning Labs are one example of MHCU’s work to spread knowledge and accelerate action in the field.

PolicyMap

PolicyMap

The greatest geographic coverage of national data available at the local level across the US. Routinely updated and standardized

Positive Deviance Approach

UNICEF Care initiative

The positive deviance approach differs from traditional "needs based" or problem-solving approaches in that it does not focus primarily on identification of needs and the external inputs necessary to meet those needs or solve problems. Instead it seeks to identify and optimise existing successful solutions or strategies within the community or organisation to solve problems that require behaviour and social change. Positive Deviance is based on the observation that in every community or organisation, there are a few individuals or groups who have overcome or prevented a pervading problem while using the same resources as their peers.

Positive Deviance in Child Nutrition

Marian Zeitlin, Hossein Ghassemi, and Mohamed Mansour, United Nations University

Complementary to the UNU-UNICEF Research on the Evaluation of Programmes of Nutrition and Primary Health Care at the Household Level, the research summarized in this volume was commissioned by the WHO-UNICEF Joint Nutrition Support Programmes financed by the Government of Italy. It examines the performance of mothers who were successful in maintaining their children's and family's nutrition and health under conditions of poverty in which most were failing to do so.

Positive Indicators of Child Well-Being

UNICEF

This paper highlights a number of frameworks for positive indicator development which examine the positive well-being of children. Based upon this review, it suggests a new comprehensive framework which identifies constructs for positive well-being as well as potential indicators and extant measures that fit with those constructs.

Powering Health Equity Action with Online Data tools: 10 Design Principles

Angel Ross, Policy Link & ecotrust

This report aims to strengthen community-driven efforts to achieve health equity by improving the online data tools that make health equity data readily available to them.

Practice Briefs

National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement

The National Center of Parenting, Family, and Community Engagement supports family well being, effective family and community engagement, , and children's school readiness. They provide training and technical assistance

Practice Brief: Using a “Road Test” to Improve Human Services Programs

Mathematica Policy Research

This practice brief on road tests (a component of the Improve stage of the larger Learn, Innovate, Improve process) is part of a series of products designed to help program stakeholders understand and use LI2 to improve human services programs. A separate overview brief serves as an orientation to the entire LI2 approach. Additional practice guides (similar to this one) for activities in the Learn and Innovate stages are forthcoming. Programs interested in using LI2 may consider partnering with a researcher who knows the process and has substantive expertise in the relevant program area.

Prevention Institute tools

Prevention Institute

Prevention Institute's tools guide practitioners, advocates, community groups, and policymakers in planning and implementing collaborative, effective prevention strategies to create safer, healthier, and more equitable communities.

Principles of Community Engagement

CDC -Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

This document is a helpful guide and to how to practically implement community engagement strategies. Chapter 1 offers a helpful guide on the ethics of community engaged research.

Proactive, Participatory, Passive, Public Parenting Education

David Dooley, Advancing Parenting

Parenting tips bumper stickers for tabletop and counter display. See examples on the Advancing Parenting website.

Program Sustainability Assessment tool

Washington University in St Louis

The Program Sustainability Assessment tool is a 40 question self-assessment. Both your program staff and stakeholders can take the assessment to evaluate the sustainability capacity of a program. Website also includes helpful resources for understanding program sustainability and best practices.

Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) is an interdisciplinary study of how families, schools, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development. It was designed to advance the understanding of the developmental pathways of both positive and negative human social behaviors. In particular, the Project examined the pathways to juvenile delinquency, adult crime, substance abuse, and violence. At the same time, the Project also provided a detailed look at the environments in which these social behaviors take place by collecting substantial amounts of data about urban Chicago, including its people, institutions, and resources.

Project South

To cultivate strong social movements in the South powerful enough to contend with some of the most pressing and complicated social, economic, and political problems faced today.

Promise Neighborhoods Institute

PolicyLink

This is a library of resources (webinars, publications, fact sheets and more) for neighborhood leaders looking to improve their community.

Promoting Health and Cost Control in States: How States Can Improve Community Health and Well-being Through Policy Change

Trust for America's Health

This report highlights evidence-based and -informed policies that can improve health and well-being on the state-level, and how these policies can control healthcare costs. This report looks beyond medical procedures and clinical services and focuses instead on opportunities to improve how people live, learn, work, and play.

Purpose Formulation, Coalition Building, and Evidence Use in Public–Academic Partnerships: Web-Based Survey Study

Christina D Kang-Yi, Amy Page

This exploratory study investigates public–academic partnerships aiming to enhance youth mental health outcomes. The findings suggest that aligned purpose formulation, mutual benefits, leadership representation, trust, and 'issue crystallization' contribute to sustained partnerships among public care agencies, emphasizing the significance of building trust and adapting partnership agendas.

Putting the Pieces Together for Infants and Toddlers: Comprehensive, Coordinated Systems

Zero to Three

This policy tool offers a model early childhood system with comprehensive, coordinated, well-funded systems of high-quality, prenatal-to-age-5 services that foster success in school and life.

QRIS Resource Library

QRIS

Thisn national and state resource library has tools on a variety of focus areas such as monitoring and evaluation, engagement and outreach, data collection, and advocacy and early childhood systems building.

Race Equity and Inclusion Action Guide

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

The purpose of this guide is to add to the resources already created by partners who have been working in this field by demonstrating how a race equity lens can be adopted by foundations or other organizations that work directly with systems, technical assistance providers and communities. Our aim is to provide key audiences with transferrable insights and tools that can help them understand what steps to take to make sure they are creating equitable opportunities for the populations they serve.

Race Equity Impact Assessment

Center for the Study of Social Policy

Discusses the racial inequities that exist across a number of societal domains, including health care, education and public safety, from a social policy lens.

Race for Results

AECF

A policy report that examines the significant barriers to success facing children of color and provides recommendations for improving their opportunities. The Casey Foundation has annually published the KIDS COUNT Data Book to inform state and national decision makers on issues related to the well-being of America’s children, including calling attention to the persistently troubling status of children of color and their families.

Race in America: History Matters with Erika Lee & Helen Zia

Washington Post Live

Hear about the history of Anti-Asian racism in America and how the past can inform understanding of what is happening today.

Race Talk: Engaging Young People in Conversation about Race and Racism

Anti-Defamation League

Created by the Anti-Defamation League, this article is a tool that provides key steps for educators to engage young people in conversations about race and racism.

Racial and Social Equity Assessment tool for Farm to School Programs and Policy

National Farm to School Network

This tool is designed to be an example of a national organization advancing racial and social equity by increasing their understanding of equity work in understanding structural, institutional, and interpersonal racism.

Racial Equity Action Plans: A How-to Manual

Government Alliance on Race and Equity

Racial Equity Action Plans can put a theory of change into action to achieve a collective vision of racial equity by driving institutional and structural change. This manual provides guidance for local governments to develop their own Racial Equity Action Plans after a period of research and information gathering, including guidance and tools to conduct this research.