OHEA Membership Form FY23
The Oregon Health Equity Alliance (OHEA) is a POC-led collaborative, organized to center and uplift the wisdom of our communities of color through racial justice informed health equity policies and practices as part of the movement to dismantle white supremacy and shift the imbalance of power.
OHEA believes health equity is rooted in dismantling and shifting oppressive structural and systemic practices that affect individuals and communities’ ability to thrive. Health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity, resources, power and autonomy to attain their full health potential. In order to achieve health equity, systems that sustain beliefs and behaviors rooted in the oppression of our communities based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, religion, immigration status, and other characteristics, must be dismantled.
OHEA offers a dues based membership for organizations wanting to deepen their health equity practices and organizational cultures. As a Regional Health Equity Coalition, we work with Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties to advocate, convene, and build our knowledge center as a resource for our community partners. Membership includes access to trainings, research, policy and advocacy, and opportunity to connect with other organizations working to strengthen their racial justice centered, health equity analyses.
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OHEA Membership Guidelines
OHEA membership entails the following:
Commitment to Racial Justice Health Equity Advocacy
Organizations interested in being members of OHEA must have an active commitment to furthering your racial justice, health equity advocacy work through education, community engagement and outreach, policy and advocacy work, with impacts and progress of communities most impacted centered.
Participation
Attend all membership meetings, held quarterly, as well as trainings and community events we offer, to grow a racial justice analysis and practice in health equity advocacy.
Membership Dues
We ask all members to pay dues based on your organization's annual operating budget. Exempt organizations include OHEA's Steering Committee organizations, culturally specific community based organizations, and organizations whose membership is over 51% people of color, LGBTQIA+, and/or disabled community members. Dues sliding scale outlined on the next page.
Organization Information
Is this a new application or renewal?
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New (was not a member before FY23)
Renewal
Organization Name
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Contact Name
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First Name
Last Name
Contact Email
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example@example.com
Contact Phone Number
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Please enter a valid phone number.
Organization Address
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Street Address
Street Address Line 2
City
State / Province
Postal / Zip Code
What kind of organization do you represent? (select all that apply)
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Community Based Non-Profit
Culturally Specific Organization
Social Justice Campaign
State
County
Local Public Health
Faith Organization
Emerging Initiative
Health System
School or Educational Institution
Coordinated Care Organization
Hospital or Clinic
Other
If other is marked, please specify below:
Describe the communities served by your organization or body of work:
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Is your organization at least 51% BIPOC, both led and staffed?
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Yes
No
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Commitment to Racial Justice Centered Health Equity
Please review OHEA's theory of change and acknowledge below. Will your organization support the key elements of OHEA's Theory of Change? (check all that apply)
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We seek to remove barriers to health equity through public policy.
The balance of power needs to be shifted by more directly lifting up community voice.
We believe that the developmental origins of health and disease impact our work.
Generating change requires that we build capacity in our communities.
Our approach to health is holistic and relates to social determinants.
We believe that community cohesiveness is key to fostering health.
There is great importance in supporting and organizing those actually experience disparities.
Have you read through OHEA's goals?
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Transformative change toward equity and empowerment.
OHEA leads with race, with the recognition that the creation and perpetuation of racial inequities is and has been deeply rooted in Oregon’s history and that racial inequities are deep and pervasive.
Changing/shifting the narrative by integrating community voice at all levels of decision making.
Advocating for state and local community led policy change that centers people of color while creating authentic and meaningful opportunities for community engagement.
Building capacity in member organizations in order to advance community led and driven health equity initiatives, policies and programming, that center those most impacted by health inequities.
Membership Dues Sliding Scale. What range does your organization budget fall under?
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Less than $50,000 --- $50
$50,001 - $100,000 --- $100
$100,001 - $250,000 --- $250
$250,001 - $500,000 --- $500
$500,001 - $1,000,000 --- $1,000
$1,000,001 - $2,500,000 --- $2,500
$2,500,001 - $5,000,000 --- $5,000
Over $5,000,000 --- $7,500
Based on the scale above, will you be able to commit to paying the membership dues?
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Yes
No
My organization fits exemption criteria
Tentative, please contact us as we need clarification and/or have questions
Who should OHEA send its invoice to? (Name and email)
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2022-2023 Membership Program Survey
How has your relationship with OHEA been in support of the work your organization does to uplift racial justice health equity over the past two years?
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What excited you the most about OHEA's work in the past two years? What were you least interested in?
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What kind of support do you need over the next year that you think OHEA could uniquely or best provide? This can look like trainings, event collaboration, policy support etc.
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What, if anything, would you change about being a part of OHEA’s membership?
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How would you describe your current capacity to engage? Scale of 1 (low) to 5 (high)
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1 - Low
2 - Moderately low
3 - Moderate
4 - Moderately high
5 - High
How frequently would you like to meet?
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Monthly
Bi-Monthly
Quarterly
Other
If you chose "Other", what would that be?
What would you like to get out of OHEA’s membership meetings (select all that apply):
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Organizational updates from OHEA and its members.
Relationship building time / Time to connect with other organizations.
Time to collaborate on projects with other members.
Training and external presentations.
Other
If you chose "Other", please specify below:
What topics most interest you? (Select all that apply)
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COVID-19 Advocacy
Reproductive Justice
Disability Justice
Racial Justice
Community Engagement Principles and Practices
Data Literacy and Justice
Mental and Behavioral Health
OHEA is thinking of creating smaller sub-committees to carry out different projects related to racial justice health equity. Which would you be most interested in? (select all that apply)
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Policy Committee (currently active)
COVID-19 Committee
Reproductive Justice Committee
Do not have capacity to join a committee but would like updates
I have an idea!
If a sub-committee focus you're interested in isn't listed above, please share below:
OHEA is currently convening a leadership program for youth of color from the tri-counties to learn more about health equity. We would like to host informal, virtual networking events between the cohort and membership so young folks can build relationships beyond OHEA's staff and learn about what health equity looks like in our region. Would you be interested in attending these events?
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Yes
No
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Thank you for completing OHEA's FY23 Membership form! Once received OHEA will be in contact with next steps. If you have any questions, please contact info@oregonhealthequity.org
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