In the first year following the release of the Regional Equity Atlas 2.0, CLF shared the mapping tool and findings with more than 3,000 partners and stakeholders across the region, with over 75 workshops and trainings for government agencies, advocacy groups, non-profits, health systems, and community-based organizations. The following examples illustrate the range of ways that CLF engaged with these groups.
- Metro Regional Government: Metro sponsored a series of technical trainings for staff at Metro and local city and county governments to encourage them to use the mapping tool to inform their planning and decision-making. The trainings provided staff with an introduction to the Equity Atlas 2.0 mapping tool and an in-depth, hands-on orientation to its capabilities.
- Oregon’s Health CO-OP: CLF conducted a training for new customer service staff at Oregon’s Health CO-OP, a member-driven nonprofit health insurance plan, to raise awareness of the impact of the social determinants of health on their members’ health status and to help inform the development of more holistic strategies to improve members' health.
- Multnomah County Department of County Human Services: CLF held a three-hour workshop during a day-long staff retreat for Multnomah County’s Department of County Human Services (DCHS). The workshop focused on equity topics related to DCHS programs (e.g. poverty, affordable housing, education, access to human services). The workshop included discussion questions that staff used to generate ideas about how to incorporate equity considerations into their planning and delivery of services.
- Verde: CLF held a workshop to help Verde, a community-based nonprofit, to use the Equity Atlas 2.0 maps to develop messaging for an advocacy campaign pushing for the development of a new city park in a low-income Portland neighborhood. The workshop helped Verde make the case that the proposed park would allow the residents of the neighborhood to have levels of park access comparable to surrounding neighborhoods.
- Portland Bureau of Transportation: CLF provided a training for Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) staff to assist the bureau in incorporating equity considerations into its planning and investment priorities. PBOT is using the Equity Atlas 2.0 to better understand which communities should be prioritized in sequencing street lighting upgrades.
- Planned Parenthood Columbia-Willamette: Planned Parenthood hosted a hands-on technical training for their education staff to enable them to use the Equity Atlas 2.0 to inform their decisions about where to expand their youth education programs.