RFTS Coalition
The Right From The Start Coalition
The Right from the Start Coalition brings together partners and volunteers in child care, public health, research, government, healthcare, non-profit and advocacy to collaboratively identify and implement effective strategies for promoting healthy outcomes of African/African American / Black children in child care and early learning settings. The Right From The Start Coalition partners work together to provide a cohesion of services and resources that support Black childcare providers, Traditional Health Workers and early life professionals in the five roots of Right From The Start.
This Coalition is sustained by its ongoing commitment to working together to establish, advance, and maintain effective strategies that continuously improve the health and quality of life for African/African-American/Black children despite shifts in partners, funding and program priorities.
The Coalition is convened by the Right From The Start staff at the Oregon Public Health Institute (OPHI).
For effectiveness, sustainability and ownership of achievements all Coalition members are expected to actively participate in achieving the strategies of the Right From The Start.
Convening Organization (OPHI)
- Ensure coalition roles, processes and outcomes are being met
- Assist with recruiting members
- Orientation and training of members
- Logistics of meeting and note-taking
- Responsible for communication to members
- Is NOT primarily responsible for coalition tasks
Coalition Members
- ARE primarily responsible for coalition tasks
- Provide resources to achieve goals
- Propose methods for implementing strategies
- Carries out tasks that are matched with skills, interests, resources and organization capacity
- Support coalition objectives with convening organization and stakeholders
- Participate in leadership responsibilities
- Attend coalition meetings and other meetings that are relevant to assigned tasks
- Co-market coalition activities to broaden participation and awareness
- Assist in recruiting new members as needed
The Right From The Start Coalition Partners
The Black Parent Initiative
Mudbone Grown
African Family Holistic Health Organization
Black Mental Health Oregon
Health Share of Oregon
Oregon Community Health Workers Association
Ethiopian and Eritrean Community Resource and Cultural Center
Micro-Enterprise Services of Oregon
Raise The Village
Multnomah County Healthy Birth Initiative
Multnomah County Women, Infant and Children
Care Oregon
Our Funding Partners
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