Colorado Clinics Advancing Health Equity: A Team Approach

Tracy Tang
tracy@thinkequity.solutions

Julie Golingan Roberts
julie@thinkequity.solutions

The Colorado Health Foundation and partners is offering training and technical assistance for primary care safety net clinics in Colorado to help build capacity to engage in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) work to advance health equity through the lens of racial equity.

Participants will:

• Have an initial assessment to determine the understanding of health and racial equity
• Receive training to analyze policies and procedures and develop a roadmap to measure progress
• Receive in-person and virtual coaching to implement the roadmap
• Participate in virtual and in-person learning forums to share best practices

Training webinar topics will include:

• Organizational culture
• Organization commitment
• Leadership
• Sustainability

Frequently asked questions

Eligibility criteria:

• Alignment with the Foundation's Cornerstones that advance efforts to bring health in reach for all Coloradans
• At least 40% of patients served have low-income, and for rural clinics, it is at least 30%
• Demonstrate clinic leadership commitment in executing the National CLAS Standards and that leadership and board are aware of and committed to DEI over the long-term
• Be able to articulate how deepening DEI will influence the clinic's internal and external work, including practices, policies, programs, and culture
• Agree to develop a plan for how the clinic will continue to support DEI after participation in the program
• Must be a nonprofit clinic or public agency that provides comprehensive primary care services to a significant population of patients who are living on low-income
• Provides integrated healthcare services through teams composed of behavioral, physical, and/or oral healthcare providers

Eligible organizations:

• Federally Qualified Health Centers
• Rural health clinics (includes those connected to critical access hospitals)
• Community safety net clinics
• School-based health centers
• Community Mental Health Centers with integrated primary care services
• Indian Health Service and tribal clinics

The program will be provided at no cost to participants.

Complete the online application.