From Coverage to Care is an initiative to help people with new health care coverage understand their benefits and connect to primary care and the preventive services that are right for them, so they can live a long and healthy life. We encourage you to share these resources with consumers, and help them on their journey from coverage to care. We also hope you share information about local resources during your conversations, to help individuals know where and how to access care in your community.
The Family Healthcare Foundation provides financial, educational and other community support to help develop a community network of partners dedicated to minimizing economic, social and geographic barriers to affordable health care.
A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity is a resource for public health practitioners working to advance health equity through community health interventions. It provides lessons learned and practices from the field, as well as from the existing evidence-base. While health disparities can be addressed at multiple levels, this guide focuses on policy, systems, and environmental improvements designed to improve the places where people live, learn, work, and play.
This resource offers ideas on how to maximize the effects of several policy, systems, and environmental improvement strategies with a goal to reduce health inequities and advance health equity. Additionally, the resource will help communities incorporate the concept of health equity into core components of public health practice such as organizational capacity, partnerships, community engagement, identifying health inequities, and evaluation.
Click here to view the Practitioner’s Guide or click here to download sections of the complete guide.
Listed below is a guide to help you understand your options and your responsibilities as it pertains to the new health care law. In this guide you will also find exact steps you can take and when and where to take them.
Health Reform Guide
Learn more about human trafficking and its impact on our community.
The Reality of Human Trafficking – a PowerPoint presentation created by SPC student Jason Schreiber sharing a global, national and local perspective of human trafficking.
HealthyTampaBay.com is a web-based source of population data and community health information. The site is provided by ONE BAY: Healthy Communities, an initiative focused on uniting our eight-county Tampa Bay region around a culture of health.
Following is a list of resources which provide Cultural Compentency self-assessment tools.
• BAHRII Local Health Department Organizational Self-Assessment for Addressing Health Inequities Toolkit: http://www.barhii.org/resources/downloads/self_assessment_toolkit.pdf
• Conducting a Cultural Competence Self-Assessment: http://erc.msh.org/provider/andrulis.pdf
• Cultural Competence Checklist − Personal Reflection: http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/Cultural-Competence-Checklist-Personal-Reflection.pdf
• Cultural Competence Checklist – Policies & Procedures: http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/Cultural-Competence-Checklist-Policies-Procedures.pdf
• Cultural Competence Checklist – Service Delivery: http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/Cultural-Competence-Checklist-Service-Delivery.pdf
• Cultural Competence Self-Test: http://www.healthystartpinellas.org/pdf/Self_Assess_5.pdf (unable to determine original source)
• Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Questionnaire: http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mason.pdf
• Indicators of Cultural Competence in Health Care Delivery Organizations: http://www.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/healthdlvr.pdf
• National Center for Cultural Competence Self-Assessments and Checklists: http://nccc.georgetown.edu/resources/assessments.html
• NYSPI-CECC Cultural Competence Assessment Directory: http://www.nyspi.org/culturalcompetence/what/pdf/NYSPI-CECC_CulturalCompetenceAssessment.pdf
• A Listing of Cultural Competence Assessment Tools: Word Document
The Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council is an association of local governments and gubernatorial representatives whose mission is to serve our citizens and member governments by providing a forum to foster communication, coordination, and collaboration in identifying and addressing issues and needs regionally. Check out hurricane guides and other resources.
The Florida Emergency Preparedness Association (FEPA) was created in 1957 to help professional Emergency Managers work to protect the people of Florida. Now completing its 53rd year of service, the organization has established a goal of re-discovering its past.
The mission of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.