­Community Power Building: King County, Washington

Overview

Improving the social determinants of health, the conditions where people are born, live, work, and play is necessary to make progress towards health equity. Community power building can help pave the way to better health outcomes by targeting the underlying conditions that shape these outcomes. This policy brief discusses what community building is and focuses on local community power building opportunities, highlighting laws, local policies, organizations, and programs that may be leveraged by community groups in King County, Washington.