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Our Principles, Our Collective Action
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The CalFresh Healthy Living Community Impact Framework
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Health equity refers to efforts to ensure that all people have full and equal access to opportunities that enable them to lead healthy lives.
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CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) is committed to advancing health equity throughout California by embedding equity-focused principles into all its programming.
The first defined priority of CFHL is to “[a]ddress racial and health equity through the promotion and maintenance of an equitable program practice that is inclusive of those with lived experience in design, implementation, and evaluation.”
This framework serves as a guide for integrating an equity perspective across CFHL’s work.
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Who is this Framework for?
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Local implementers, including sub-contractors
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State agency staff
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Non-funded partners interested in aligning work with CFHL efforts
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Who created this Framework?
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- The CalFresh Healthy Living Community Impact Framework Local Advisory Council coordinated the development, with Leah’s Pantry providing backbone support.
- Local and state staff, including subcontractors, provided feedback throughout the process.
- The framework was approved by CDSS and State Implementing Agency leadership in October 2024.
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What's included in this Framework?
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Three transformational goals
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Sub-goals and strategies for building capacity, centering community, and delivering programming for maximum community health impact.
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A flexible approach to strategy implementation, inclusive of various CFHL roles and starting points in the program cycle
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Familiarize Yourself with the CalFresh Healthy Living Mission and Vision
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Mission: CalFresh Healthy Living supports healthy, active, and nourished lifestyles by teaching Californians about good nutrition and how to stretch their food dollars, while also building partnerships in communities to make the healthy choice, the easy choice.
Vision: A California where everyone is healthy, active, and nourished.
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Prepare by asking yourself Orienting Questions
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Reflect on these questions as you prepare to review the framework's goals and strategies and apply it to your work.
- What actions am I already taking that enhance community health impact in my CalFresh Healthy Living work?
- How can I collaborate with colleagues to address the root causes of disparate health outcomes in my community?
- What assets—such as skills, competencies, and lived experiences—do I acknowledge in myself and others that can help create impactful change?
- How can we build strong, community-driven relationships to guide program decisions and empower those most affected?
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Review the Process for Defining Decision-Making within CFHL
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The outer circle represents the program stages where decisions are made. Inside, the multi-colored flower symbolizes key decision-making points, depicted as petals. When considering actions to achieve the framework's goals and strategies, identify who should be involved in each decision and at which stage of the program cycle it occurs.
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Transformative Goals
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These transformative goals and sub-goals were developed collaboratively by a diverse group of local implementers. Supporting strategies are detailed on the following pages. As you navigate through this document ask yourself:
- Are these goals and strategies already embedded in my work and the work of my organization?
- How can I use these goals and strategies to continue to build equity into my work?
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Community Sub-Goals
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1.1 Develop authentic relationships with community members and partners to effectively support community-driven programs.
1.2 Integrate participatory processes throughout the entire program cycle.
1.3 Involve community members in PSEs, with a focus on community-level initiatives.
1.4 Incorporate participatory budgeting into CFHL resourcing policies and processes.
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Capacity Sub-Goals
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2.1 Implement and maintain the Community Impact Framework to coordinate and align efforts throughout the network.
2.2 Use specific language for community engagement efforts, informed by The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership.
2.3 Incorporate asset-framing and ethical storytelling into CFHL processes using ASNNA's toolkit.
2.4 Integrate community-specific historical and contextual factors and the needs of various population groups into programming.
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Program Sub-Goals
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3.1 Deliver CalFresh Healthy Living programming in neighborhoods and sites with the greatest potential for health impact.
3.2 Consider the diverse characteristics of the target population when delivering direct education.
3.3 Align PSEs with evidence-based research on nutrition education and physical activity for target populations.
3.4 Integrate CalFresh Healthy Living into broader multi-sector efforts to support nutrition education and physical activity opportunities.
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Equity Strategies Toolbox
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Find resources and toolkits associated with each Transformative Goal and their associated sub goals.
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1.1 Develop authentic relationships with community members and partners to effectively support community-driven programs.
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1.2 Integrate participatory processes throughout the entire program cycle.
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1.3 Involve community members in PSEs, with a focus on community-level initiatives.
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1.4 Incorporate participatory budgeting into CFHL resourcing policies and processes.
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2.1 Implement and maintain the CFHL Equity Framework to coordinate and align efforts throughout the network.
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2.2 Use specific language for community engagement efforts, informed by The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership.
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2.3 Incorporate asset-framing and ethical storytelling into CFHL processes using ASNNA's toolkit.
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2.4 Integrate community-specific historical and contextual factors and the needs of diverse population groups into CFHL programs.
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3.1 Deliver CFHL programs in neighborhoods and sites with the greatest potential for health equity impact
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3.2 Deliver culturally responsive direct education programs.
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3.3 Align PSEs with the Getting to Equity Framework components to maximize the health equity impacts of PSE interventions.
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3.4 Integrate CFHL into broader multi-sector efforts to support nutrition security and physical activity opportunities
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