Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care. Health equity reduces and ultimately eliminates disparities in health and its determinants that adversely affect, exclude, or marginalize Black, Latino and Indigenous people of color (BLIPOC).

GenesisHOPE's  theory of change looks at Community Development through the lens of health. Our focus is on evidence-based interventions that address the root causes of our physical health such as diet and exercise. These behavioral factors account for thirty percent (30%) of our health. Plus GenesisHOPE's core mission, as a place-based community development organization, is to address social risk factors such as housing, and the physical environment, and help families fill socioeconomic gaps -- these social determinants of health are fifty percent (50%) of our health.