Creating Violence-Free and Resilient Communities: Discussion

September 29, 2015Presentation to the Office of Health Equity Advisory Committee

Karen Ben-Moshe, MPH, MPP & Kelsey LylesPublic Health Institute, in partnership with

California Department of Public Health

California Health in All Policies Task Force

Purpose• Promote health, equity, and sustainability

Structure• Governor’s Executive Order (2010) and Senate Concurrent Resolution

47 (2012)• Convenes 22 State agencies, departments, offices• Reports to the Strategic Growth Council• Funding from CDPH, The California Endowment and Kaiser Permanente

Community Benefit

Process• Consensus decision-making• Focus on co-benefits

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HiAP Task Force: The State’s Role

• Coordinate across sectors• Improve data collection/dissemination• Support evidence-based practices• Provide guidance, resources, tools• Regulations

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How can State government help? What should the State do differently?

What unique role can the State play, that no-one else can?How can the State support healthy local decision-making?

Stakeholder Input to Date

State Agencies

• Task Force Meetings• Task Force Small Group Meetings (BSCC, CDCR, DOJ, CDE, DSS, CSD)

• 1:1 meetings (BSCC, CDE, DOJ, DSS, CDCR, CAL FIRE, CDFA)

CDPH Stakeholders

• Center for Family Health• OHE, CDEU• OHE, HRSU• SACB• CHSI• Let’s Get Healthy California

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Stakeholder Input to Date

External Stakeholders

• Association for State and Territorial Health Officers • California Adolescent Health Collaborative• California Center for Research on Women and Families• California Coalition Against Sexual Assault• CA Partnership to End Domestic Violence• Children Now• Coalition for Juvenile Justice• Fight in Crime: Invest in Kids• Housing California • Office of Health Equity, Advisory Committee • PolicyLink• Prevention Institute• UCSF Equity Institute • US Health and Human Services, Region IX

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Key Themes from Stakeholder Meetings

• Data gaps and need for data sharing• Service integration and access• Housing• Equity framework

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Action Plan Goal and Purpose- DRAFT

• Health in All Policies Task Force Aspirational Goal: Every California resident is able to live and be active in their communities without fear of violence or crime.

• Action Plan Purpose: With a focus on cross-sector action, build State agency capacity and infrastructure to effectively eliminate poverty and structural violence and create violence-free and resilient communities.

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Short-Term Objectives and Actions - DRAFT

1. Improve coordination between existing state initiatives to

increase efficiency and limit duplication of efforts.

2. Support efforts to alleviate poverty, by improving access to

and enrollment in voluntary social services through

increased efficiency and coordination of State referral

systems.

3. Create sustainable mechanisms and infrastructure for

improving and promoting policy analysis and data

sharing/coordination within and between state agencies, to

promote work to reduce violence, with a focus on populations

disproportionately impacted by violence.

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Short-Term Objectives and Actions - DRAFT

4. Support neighborhood safety by promoting the incorporation

of violence prevention practices into built environment

related policies and programs.

5. Build government infrastructure to address violence, by

creating a learning community of state agencies,

departments, and offices to build capacity and increase

understanding of the influence of violence on California’s

communities and assess and identify opportunities for cross

sector intervention.

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Engaging the OHE Advisory Committee

• Do you have initial thoughts on the goals and

objectives?• What are key messages we should address in

our narrative? • Stakeholder engagement in the plan?

– What types of state processes have you been a part

of? – What has worked well? What could have been

improved?

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Engagement Opportunities

• Email or meet with staff

• Attend Strategic Growth Council meetings

• Future OHE Advisory Committee meetings

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Reflections and Question

Contact Information

Karen Ben-MosheKelsey Lyleskaren.ben-moshe@cdph.ca.gov kelsey.lyles@cdph.ca.gov

Health in All Policies Task Force:http://sgc.ca.gov/s_hiap.php

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