Lessons and Findings from a Community of Practice of California Health Systems
The California Health Care Safety Net Institute’s (SNI’s) Racial Equity Community of Practice (CoP) brought together participants from twelve public health care systems across California to develop and strengthen racial equity strategies and embed equity in all aspects of the organization. SNI partnered with the National Equity Project (NEP) to co-design and facilitate the 18-month CoP, which ran from January 2022 through June 2023.
This evaluation report shares outcomes of the CoP, followed by lessons to inform the work. The report shares outcomes of the CoP at the individual, health system, and CoP levels, including how participants built on their understanding of racial equity, engaged with one another and their health systems, and prototyped and tested new solutions. SNI and NEP also used the evaluation data to inform CoP planning, including a second phase of the CoP through 2025.
