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- Webinars
Strengthening and Sustaining Public Health Partnerships
3.20.26 Are you trying to get more impact, capacity, or clarity from a partnership that isn’t quite delivering? Do you need more from a collaborative partner?
Leveraging the Live to the Beat Campaign
2.26.26 Million Hearts®’ Live to the Beat (LTTB) national campaign offers practical tools that help encourage communities to take small, achievable steps toward better heart health – including moving more, eating better, and quitting smoking.
Holiday Tea & Talk
12.18.25 The CA Hub Training Team reflects on what’s shaped public health based on what we’ve heard from our network this year, highlight bright spots, and share practical tools and solutions.
What’s Working: Cross-Sector Strategies to Improve Community Health
6.27.25 The Community Approaches Training and Technical Assistance Hub recently hosted a webinar series focused on community engagement and innovative cross-sector partnerships to address health disparities. A new handout makes it easy to catch up—offering quick links to on-demand recordings and presentation slides.
Untapped Resources: Community Development as a Pathway to Public Health
6.10.25 Unlock new pathways to community well-being! Watch an engaging webinar exploring the powerful intersections of public health and community development. Discover how to build strategic partnerships and leverage untapped resources to create thriving communities.
Partnerships for Sustained Impact: Get to Know Community Action Agencies
4.14.25 The Community Approaches Hub developed a webinar showcasing how Community Action Agencies (CAAs) can be valuable partners in enhancing the health and well-being of low-income populations.
Partnerships for Sustained Impact: Healthy Savannah
3.4.25 Healthy Savannah is a public/private partnership of more than 200 businesses, nonprofits, faith- and community-based organizations, schools, and healthcare and government agencies.
Building Healthier Communities: Planning for Health Equity
12.11.24 In this webinar, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) introduce and review two key tools for internal strategic planning and community health intervention. NACCHO’s Strategic Planning Guide is a step-by-step guide outlining how to prepare for the strategic planning process and implement a strategic plan.
Housing as a Social Determinant of Health (SDOH) Across the Cancer Continuum
8.19.24 This webinar explored how housing as a social determinant of health affects individuals across the cancer care continuum. Featured speakers from American Cancer Society and the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) discussed multi-disciplinary opportunities for interventions and relationship-building across sectors.
Emphasizing and Encouraging Relationships: The Collaboration Continuum
04.13.23 This workshop addresses the challenges of collaborations, highlight the different phases of collaborative relationships, and provide strategies for initiating, managing, maintaining, and moving collaborations along the continuum to enhance public health outcomes.
- Guidance Documents
Strengthening and Sustaining Public Health Partnerships
3.20.26 Are you trying to get more impact, capacity, or clarity from a partnership that isn’t quite delivering? Do you need more from a collaborative partner?
Medically underserved areas and health professional shortage areas
This guide helps states, organizations, and partners better understand medically underserved areas (MUAs) and health professional shortage areas.
Recap: “Leading Through Change” Panel Discussion & Peer Exchange”
The Community Approaches recently convened national, state, and local leaders and practitioners to share how they are navigating change in public health.
Integrating Health Equity into Strategic Plans
10.4.23 This 13-page document serves as a roadmap guiding state and local tobacco control programs through the process of crafting strategic plans that prioritize and integrate health equity considerations.
Removing Barriers to Accessing Tobacco Cessation Support
07.27.23 Medicaid programs provide tobacco cessation coverage for millions of low-income people, yet Medicaid coverage for up to 15 million Americans is at risk.
Recent Literature on Commercial Tobacco Use and COVID-19: Ongoing Implications for Tobacco Control Professionals
07.27.23 This 2-page guide presents research published in the past year investigating the relationship between commercial tobacco use and Covid-19 and offers guidance on post-pandemic implications for working with populations with low SES characteristics.
Consultative Selling Approach Handout
Consultative selling is a specific sales approach where a program representative recommends solutions to potential partners needs. This infographic outlines the 4 quadrants of consultative selling, and the dos and don’ts.
Consultative Selling: Practice the Connecting “Match” Meeting Worksheet
State and community partnerships are vital for reaching populations experiencing tobacco related disparities, yet tobacco is not always a top priority for partners.
Health Equity: Understanding Social Determinants of Health, Bias, and Cultural Humility to Improve Tobacco Related Outcomes
This handout discusses: what is health equity, its root causes, and how cultural humility can improve tobacco related outcomes.
Community Engagement & Collaboration Best Practices
These processes take on special importance when you are partnering with people facing health disparities, who may have had past experiences where their input was not valued, or they felt disempowered within a partnership.
- Online Courses
Self-Paced Course: Promoting Health Equity in Tobacco Cessation: Evidence Based Strategies
12.14.2023 This 30 minute introductory level course focuses on removing barriers to accessing proven tobacco cessation treatment methods with a focus on populations with low socioeconomic status (SES) characteristics. This course was developed using the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change as a guiding framework, underscoring best and promising practices in engaging and supporting populations most impacted by tobacco-related disparities. By integrating these components, this course equips state department of health employees and their community partners with the tools to support individuals in quitting tobacco, reduce tobacco-related disparities and healthcare costs.
Navigating Smoke Free Policies: Clean Air Where We Live Learn Work and Play
09.11.23 This 30-minute interactive course covers the benefits of smoke-free policies and how they can protect populations with low socioeconomic status (SES) characteristics, along with resources for policy implementation in a variety of settings.
The Public Health Approach: Tobacco Control Among Populations with Low Socioeconomic Characteristics
This course discusses the Public Health Approach, which considers population vs individual-level tobacco control interventions when reaching populations with low SES characteristics.
- Other Resources
- CDC: Health Equity in Tobacco and Prevention Control >
- Truth Initiative: Achieving health equity in tobacco control >
- CDC: Cigarette Smoking and Tobacco Use Among People of Low Socioeconomic Status >
- CDC: Unfair and Unjust Practices and Conditions Harm People with Low Socioeconomic Status and Drive Health Disparities >
- CDC: CDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication >
- ChangeLabSolutions: Equitable Enforcement to Achieve Health Equity >
- CDC: Health Equity vs. Equality >
- AltaMed Institute for Health Equity: Health Equity from the Frontlines: Embracing Cultural Humility with Dr. Christine Kho, MD Internal Medicine and Psychiatry on Apple Podcasts >
- The PublicHealthConsultant: Cultural Competence vs. Cultural Humility >
- Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas: Enhancing Cultural Competence >
- CDC: Engaging populations that Historically have been Underrepresented in Tobacco Control Surveillance and Evaluation Data >
- NIH: The Impact of Tobacco Use on COVID-19 Outcomes: A Systematic Review >
- CDC: COVID-19 People with Certain Medical Conditions >
- American Lung Assocation: COVID-19 and Tobacco >
- NIH: Disparities among smokers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Examination of COVID-19-related worries by sociodemographic factors in a U.S. Nationally representative survey >