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Community Approaches to System Change: A Compendium of Practices, Reflections, and Findings
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Community Approaches to System Change: A Compendium of Practices, Reflections, and Findings

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This report captures and assesses results from 19 communities across the country working over the last two years with the goal of fostering sustainable improvements in health.

Interviewing the teams that made these changes happen, Community Approaches to Systems Change dives into how the changes happened, what was required for the changes to occur, and what the lessons learned are that other communities and leaders can use and/or apply themselves.

This Compendium contains four sections:

  • Systems Change Brief
  • Spotlight on Health Equity
  • Spotlight on Partnership Health
  • Spotlight on Community Engagement

This Compendium shares with the field what has been learned about community-level progress from four years of implementing, testing, and observing the BUILD principles in action in communities across the US.

Publication

Ensuring That Money Intended for Health Equity is Well Spent

publication highlights how a national framework to measure equity can help state and local jurisdictions employ American Rescue Plan Act funds as intended — and hold city, county and state leaders accountable for focusing on equity in their decision-making and programmatic choices.

Brief

The Process of Partnering with Community Members: Preliminary Findings

This brief presents lessons learned about the community partnership process from a series of interviews and a focus group with community members engaging in cross-sector collaboratives.

Brief

Community Member Experiences with Collaboratives: Preliminary Findings

This brief presents findings from interviews and a focus group with 15 community members who have participated in, and in some cases been affected by, cross-sector collaboratives in their communities.