Honestly / Laura Lang

Honestly serves as the backbone of a community wide collaboration. In this role, we continued to support partner organizations through collaborative convenings, shared measures, training, capacity building, education, referrals, and requested support. We continued quarterly convenings of the Collaboration and Advisory Council, In January through December 2022 honestly ran Project Equip, funded by the Arnall Community Fund at OCCF, and the McLaughlin Family Foundation, to provide training, education, and resources to youth-serving professionals, parents, and other caregivers involved in the foster care system. The program sought to build their capacity to have medically accurate and supportive conversations with youth about sexual health. Honestly staff developed four training modules based on a training needs assessment completed by several key foster care organizations. After each training attendees and key foster care staff were invited to participate in learning cohort; meeting to provide feedback on trainings as well as identify barriers and share real life application experiences of applications of training materials. Through Project Equip honestly trained 79 youth-serving professionals, parents, and caregivers. Honestly continued work with Health Alliance for the Uninsured to expand and improve person-centered family planning healthcare services provided to teens and young adults at central Oklahoma safety net clinics. Completed hosted training courses in July and August 2022, with all four trainings overall, reaching 68 participants representing 32 organizations. Honestly and HAU disseminated the Community Medical Survey to understand the contextual factors that may inhibit quality healthcare. The assessment looked at systemic barriers like insurance coverage, policy, and historical context as well as interpersonal factors such as lack of transportation, lack of childcare, or mistrust of providers. The survey provided 285 validated community member responses. The most cited barriers were related to cost. Finding recommended improvements clinics can make to increase accessibility includes expanded hours, more available and efficient appointments, and eliminating transportation issues. Honestly completed the 3rd year of Spark Innovation, a federal grant, which uses a human-centered design process to support the development of innovative approaches to teen pregnancy prevention and prevention of sexually transmitted infections. In year 3 of Spark honestly provided 6 training opportunities for cohort organizations, continued the Context Expert Advisory Committee (CEAC), and held an innovation showcase Spark Tank. 6 community organizations continued the human centered design process to implement innovation and gather feedback. 2 community organizations from innovation cohort 1 partnered with 2 new community-based organizations to replicate their innovation and gather data in a new setting. Honestly moved forward an innovation from cohort 1 that showed promise, Braving the Talk. Braving the Talk was replicated in 2 organizations and data gathered. In the end of year 3 Spark Innovation was able to report its impact as funding 18 organizations, creating 12 innovations, reaching 1,428 youth, reaching 2,618 caregivers, and reaching 7,273 community members.