PARTNERSHIPS
This “Umbrella of Relational Strategies” visual was community-designed with parent leaders and OK Turning Point Council to show critical infrastructure needed to address health disparities with interagency approaches that are mutually reinforcing. To operationalize this framework, Public Health Institute of Oklahoma (PHIO) can work with communities to “glue these puzzle pieces together” creating an umbrella of supports to address health disparities and advance trauma-informed interagency strategies.
Building upon the success of the 2020 partnership with the Oklahoma Shared Clinical & Translational Resources, PHIO deployed RADx-UP, a National Institutes of Health initiative, to understand the factors associated with disparities in COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. In 2022-2023, PHIO collaborated with the Oklahoma State Department of Health on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a 1-year COVID-19 health inequities and disparities planning grant to address continued infrastructure development and capacity building for communities/counties experiencing negative health and social impacts related to COVID-19.
The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice (CTIPP) is building a national movement that integrates community-led, trauma-informed, resilience-focused, and healing-centered prevention and intervention across all sectors and generations through coalition-building, advocacy and policy making. CTIPP’s PressOn initiative is a national coalition uniting local, cross-sector trauma-informed coalitions for networking, resource-sharing, and advocacy. Membership is free and open to local, state, and regional cross-sector coalitions.
CERTIFIED HEALTHY OKLAHOMA
The Certified Healthy Oklahoma program began in 2003 as a collaborative initiative with four founding partners — the Oklahoma Turning Point Council, the Oklahoma Academy for State Goals, the Oklahoma State Chamber, and the Oklahoma State Department of Health. Certified Healthy Oklahoma has grown tremendously since its inception and is changing the face of Oklahoma’s health. Whether you are a business, a school, a restaurant, a campus, or an Oklahoma community, you can help Shape Our Future by becoming certified as a healthy place to live, work and learn.
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE OF OKLAHOMA
The Public Health Institute of Oklahoma (PHIO) promotes dialogue among health care providers, the private sector, community colleges, universities, health and human service association, and state and local government. PHIO’s mission is to bridge government, academia and communities in order to facilitate health improvement. PHIO is an affiliate member of the National Network of Public Health Institutes and is a member of the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits. PHIO works in partnership with the Oklahoma Turning Point Council and serves as the fiduciary agent for council activities.
OUHSC HUDSON COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
The College of Public Health serves as the host for public health grand rounds on the OU Health Sciences Center, with co-sponsorship from a wide range of local and state health agencies, business leaders and related organizations, on a variety of prevention topics including obesity, tobacco cessation, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, health policies, work force development, end of life care, emerging infection disease and health disparities for underserved populations. The college’s public health grand rounds are free and open to the public. Grand rounds are held at Noon at the OUHSC campus in Oklahoma City and may be available via synchronous broadcast to the Tulsa Schusterman campus. A light lunch, available on a first-come, first served basis, is served prior to each event, beginning at 11:30 am. No advance registration is needed. For additional information, call 405-271-2232. OTPC is excited to serve as a co-sponsor for the COPH Grand Rounds!
TOBACCO STOPS WITH ME – 10th Anniversary: Targeting Tobacco Control Policies & Programs for a Tobacco Free Future Initiative
Tobacco Stops With Me is a statewide campaign, funded through TSET. This initiative targets tobacco control polices and program for a tobacco-free initiative to lower the adult smoking rate to 10 percent in the next decade. The initiative focuses on creating common sense solutions and modernizing policies to improve the health of all Oklahomans. OTPC is one of over 30 partners dedicated to reducing tobacco use. Policy recommendations include: prohibit smoking in cars with children present; 100% clean indoor air; raise the minimum legal age to buy tobacco products to 21; ban on all menthols and flavored tobacco; cigarette price increases over the next decade; strengthen enforcement against underage tobacco sales; and remove smokers as a protected class of employees.
