5 Strategic Issue Working Groups
BACH is currently using the MAPP process to solve 5 strategic issues in Boston at the neighborhood and city levels.
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Strategic Issue #1: How can we achieve racial and ethnic health equity?
- Goal: Public and private institutions will adapt, implement and enforce comprehensive policies and practices that achieve racial equity and justice
- Strategies:
- Develop a context and shared language
- Identify and build on models of effective engagement, organizing and accountability
- Develop an equitable collaborative
- Develop an equitable and collaborative infrastructure that will include residents, organizations, and institutions that develop policies
For more information, contact Strategic Issue 1 & 5 Working Group Chair, Vivien Morris at vmorris@bphc.org.
Strategic Issue #2: How can we improve coordination and integration of healthcare and community-based prevention services and activities?
- Goal: Improve population health by better integration of health care delivery system with community based prevention activities
- Strategies:
- Show the return on investment, both financially and quality of life and advocate for equitable funding mechanisms
- Advocate for an accessible shared data platform for medical providers, public health, community-based organizations and residents to identify problems and track improvements in health including social determinants
- Develop a system of mutual accountability and transparency for multi-sector commitments to achieve health equity
For more information, contact Strategic Issue 2 Working Group Chair, John Riordan at john.riordan@childrens.harvard.edu.
Strategic Issue #3: How can we build and increase resilience in communities impacted by trauma?
- Goal: Enhance and build collaborations that consider health in all policies and practices
- Strategies:
- Develop and communicate a shared language
- Develop new and more inclusive ways for getting participation of community members in decisions that impact health
- Establish a coordinating body that will support communication and implementation of health in all policies and practices
For more information, contact Strategic Issue 3 Working Group Chair, Kay Walsh at kaywalsh13@hotmail.com.
Strategic Issue #4: How can we improve health outcomes by focusing on education, employment, and transportation policies and practices?
- Goal: Enhance and build collaborations that consider health in all policies and practices to ensure optimal quality of life within and across all neighborhoods.
- Strategies:
- Enhance and build collaborations that consider health in all policies and practices to ensure optimal quality of life within and across all neighborhoods
- Develop and communicate a shared language about health in all policies and practices and its importance to decision-makers and community members
- Develop new and more inclusive ways for getting meaningful participation of community members in decisions that impact health
- Establish a coordinating body (e.g. committee) that will support communication and implementation of health in all policies and practices work
For more information, contact Strategic Issue 4 Working Group Chair, Margaret Noce at nocemnoce@aol.com.
Strategic Issue #5: How can we increase the number of immigrants, people of color, and other underrepresented populations in leadership roles and decision-making processes?
- Goal: To increase the number of immigrants, people of color, and other underrepresented residents in meaningful and effective leadership roles and decision-making processes
- Strategies:
- Build on existing capacity to develop and support these groups of people for sustained leadership roles through training, mentoring, and change.
- Support/link with work of strategic issues 1 and 4 to create conditions for balancing and equalizing power.
For more information, contact Strategic Issue 1 & 5 Working Group Chair, Vivien Morris at VMorris@bphc.org.