Empowering Residents to Lead Their Peers in Improving Upward Mobility for Better Financial and Health Outcomes: Building Uplifted Families

This story highlights how Charlotte, North Carolina, formed a cross-sector and community-driven collaborative that aimed to drive sustainable improvements in health, with a focus on empowering residents to lead their peers in improving upward mobility for better financial and health outcomes, by applying bold, upstream, integrated, local, and data-driven approaches.

This story is part of a broader series of 19 stories that provides a look at what is possible when community based organizations, hospitals and health systems, public health departments, and residents work together for better health. Each one documents the progress made, challenges met, and lives changed in these communities with practical takeaways that any practitioner can not only relate to, but also benefit from.