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Bridging Trust and Community
Webinar

Bridging Trust and Community in Cross-Sector Alignment

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In July and August, Aligning Systems for Health at the Georgia Health Policy Center, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, reviewed and synthesized learnings about aligning across sectors from the past year, leading to a new design for the visualization of the Cross-Sector Alignment Framework.

This evaluation highlighted the importance of four adaptive factors, including power dynamics, community voices, trust, and equity.

As part of a virtual event series on these adaptive factors, the second event focused on bridging trust and community in cross-sector alignment. This event on Thursday, December 17, featured Liz Weaver,  featured Liz Weaver, co-CEO at the Tamarack Institute. 

Keynote: Bridging Trust and Community

What can individuals and institutions do to build trust as a foundation for creating community connections and engaging citizens? In disruptive and chaotic times, intentionally focusing on trust is critical to maintaining connections, building community, and leveraging success. Building trust also relies upon the essential role of self. Trust isn’t just a word, it is a series of intentional actions, which, when woven together create the bridge from today into the future.

Case Study

Aligning in Action: Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement

This case study examines how the Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement uses a collective impact approach to implement its 28-year strategy to reduce health disparities and create place-based systems change.

Brief

Making Aligning Work Series

This series mines the experience of catalysts, researchers, and funders who have been involved with efforts to align the three sectors—health care, public health, and social services—through quarterly interviews (fall 2019 through spring 2021).

Webinar

Power and Privilege in Cross-Sector Alignment

What role does power and privilege play when designing for the social sector? How does that impact what good design looks like? This webinar and workshop on November 13 served as a wake-up call for designers working to make social change where the risk of doing harm is as likely as the promise of doing good.