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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.

Brief

Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.

Publication

“More Than Just Giving Them a Piece of Paper”: Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations

This publication characterizes referrals to community-based organizations by primary care practices, which are increasingly being used by healthcare organizations to invest in social care.

Publication

Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022

This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs