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🌧️ Embracing the cold and grey day by reflecting on self-care. Amidst the gloom, dedicating a moment to uplift ourselves can make a significant difference. I've received valuable responses to the survey on talking support therapies in Keighley, Worth & Aire Valley areas. 🗣️ The feedback highlights the challenges faced by local support groups, emphasising the need for trust and resources. 📊 Originally aimed at shaping a support group, the survey has evolved to foster connections with existing services and spread the message of opening up, even on the grayest days. Please spare a minute to complete the survey, contributing to a collective effort to enhance community well-being. Whether or not a new group emerges, I'm committed to collaborating with local services, building connections, and raising awareness. 🤝 🌐 Calling on local community support service providers/volunteers to connect and participate in the survey. Let's amplify the dialogue and support each other, no matter how grey it may seem. Thanks for your time! #CommunitySupport #MentalHealthMatters #GetTalking #SupportGroups #WellbeingInitiative #KeighleyCommunity #AireValley #ReflectAndConnect https://lnkd.in/e83MBX_P

Community engagement is critical to the success of interventions like PMC, to promote target behaviors, foster community ownership, and enable feedback between caregivers, community members, providers, and decision-makers at all levels of the health system. At the beginning of the project, human-centered design techniques were used to elevate the voices and experiences of key community stakeholders in each partner country.   More than one year into PMC implementation through Plus Project, uptake is high and effective strategies are in place to reach children lost to follow-up because of early community buy-in. To learn more, read about our approach to community engagement here: https://lnkd.in/dUYCRpHb

Want to give locally? Whether you’re doing some last-minute year-end giving, or looking to start 2024 on the right foot, consider tapping into the expertise of your local elected officials. Engaging with these officials and their teams can unlock a wealth of resources and local insights, fostering impactful projects that serve the community's most pressing needs. In a conversation with Lee Hutter from Curated Wealth Partners, I explain that by forging relationships with #CityCouncilMembers and #CountyBoards, you can bring resources to organizations and issues that are most urgent in your area. What’s more, when we bridge the gap between #publicgovernance and #privatephilanthropy, we build more comprehensive and effective approaches to addressing local challenges.

Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) are part strategic plan/part grounding rod, and provide a systematic process for determining health needs in a particular community or population and using results to spur community change. More and more organizations, funders, community collaboratives, and even local government agencies are looking for efficient, effective ways to do CHNA. At IP3, we believe that CHNA should catalyze community change, not just check a box. This post shares how IP3 ASSESS supports a holistic approach that includes robust community and stakeholder engagement, alignment across stakeholder groups, and moving collaboratively from community insight (exploring the data) to concerted community action. https://lnkd.in/gFTRyfm8

Addressing community issues in an impactful way requires collaboration across organizations and doing things a little differently. Unity in the Community is making an effort to do just that. 🤝 #communitybuilding #communityimpact #community

Thinking about starting a Coalition? 📚Learning from the best is key to success! When establishing Community Health Impact Coalition, we turned to"More than the Sum of Its Parts: Making MSIs Work" - a "Good to Great" for #CoalitionBuilding We highly recommend reading the full report. Here are our key takeaways: https://lnkd.in/e42Yq3qw === We have lots to share— and lots to learn! If you're running a #fieldcatalyst, let's chat!

"National Community Health Worker Awareness Week (NCHWAW) is the first-ever national campaign to celebrate the valuable, unique, capable CHW workforce! This week of collaboration and action unites CHWs across diverse identities and serves to increase decision-makers understanding of how center equity and CHW voices in real community partnerships." Check out this toolkit for resources to make an impact before, during, and beyond NCHWAW: https://lnkd.in/eHJZQPf4

In this "Ask and Answer" session, a health center wanted to know if they could use grant funding to purchase a van for health services and other community health outreach efforts. The vehicle would travel to hard-to-reach communities, such as areas that are very rural, more than 30 miles from the health center, and to districts with lower primary care use. Could they get a grant for this purpose? Find out our answer and next steps at https://lnkd.in/eNShNFCx. And then please let me know what you think in the comments

Behind every successful community initiative, there's a story of dedication and impact. Serving as Chairman for VISTE, I've witnessed how our targeted support significantly enhances the lives of seniors. #VISTE #CommunityEngagement #AllenandCompanyofFl #BlogSeries #HealthandWealth #TroyGarcia https://ow.ly/8ApJ50Qq4C9