DELTA Curriculum and Projects
Program Overview
A cohort of 20-25 individuals will participate in educational sessions with local, state and national experts who specialize in health equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- receive intensive training, coaching, and tools for practical application of skills.
- engage in authentic conversations that deepen learning and growth.
- expand understanding of health inequities in throughout Oregon and collaborate on solutions.
- build relationships across the health sector to increase communication and partnership beyond the program.
- develop a project to address barriers by incorporating health equity policies and practices within their organizations or community and policy advocacy work.
During the DELTA program, some of the topics participants will explore include:
- Structural and Social Determinants of Health and Inequities
- Structural Racism, Power, and Privilege
- Historical Trauma, Healing, and Resilience
- Community Engagement: Centering Community
- Data Justice and using REALD and SOGI to Advance Health Equity
- Systematically Embedding CLAS Standards in Healthcare
- Access, Inclusion, Communications and Health Equity
- Workforce Development, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Health Equity and Systems Work
A critical component of DELTA is practical application through the development of a project.
- Participants identify a barrier to health equity within their organization, community, or policy advocacy that can be addressed through systems change.
- Projects are real initiatives to be implemented – not an academic exercise.
- Throughout the program participants share their projects with other cohort members for feedback, support, and collaboration.
- Projects should aim to integrate health equity strategies into planning, policies, operations, and resource distribution.
- Projects can be new concepts, or initiatives currently underway that can be advanced or improved though DELTA participation.
Projects can take many forms and span a wide variety of systems and policy changes. The following are just a few examples of past projects:
- Advancing accessibility through language access
- Equity and social justice centered strategies for collecting and working with data
- Organizational level strategic planning to address inequities
- Health Equity policy advocacy or development
- Workforce strategies for equitable recruitment, hiring, and retention
- Expanding access to health services, screenings, and education
- ADA & Civil Rights compliance policy implementation