Trailhead Institute is a strategic partner in building coordinated, community-informed solutions to public health needs in Colorado. Leveraging its knowledge and relationships across the public health system, Trailhead helps ensure that individuals and organizations that represent and serve directly impacted communities have the resources, autonomy, and capacity to lead effective, sustainable programs.
For more than 30 years, Trailhead has built trusted relationships across sectors that influence public health. Trailhead collaborates with individuals, community-based organizations, government agencies, local public health departments, academic institutions, and philanthropic leaders. Trailhead brings these stakeholders together to help ensure broad support for community-driven solutions to local health priorities in Colorado.
This Trailhead report details practices, procedures, and insights for public health organizations aiming to improve inclusion, belonging, and equity in the workplace. The report introduces the concept of administrative equity with the goal of assisting local and state public health agencies in identifying areas for improvement. This includes addressing barriers in finance, contracts and procurements, and human resources.
Trailhead’s goal is to build strong, widespread support for community-driven solutions in public health. To achieve this, Trailhead fosters collaboration between large institutions—such as academia, government, and philanthropy—and organizations that represent and serve directly impacted communities, focusing on three key strategies:
Trailhead specializes in fiscal sponsorship and strategic public health programs. Its current programs focus on expanding access to comprehensive sexual health education, developing the public health workforce, strengthening clinic-community connections statewide, and improving the lives of those affected by cancer in Colorado.
