Community Partnerships & Engagements
Establishing strong partnerships to connect patients to essential resources and engage communities in setting shared health aims
Progress through Collaboration
The Health Leads Network was created to bring action-oriented practitioners together to collaborate, share and learn from each other. Together, we’ll translate critical front-line experience into tangible tools, guidance and learning opportunities — all designed to support you in advancing the integration of essential needs into community-led health initiatives. Read our welcome message and check out the Network Overview to learn more about how we work and learn together.
Strength in Community
The Health Leads Network is a community of healthcare practitioners and caregivers who are taking action to address essential needs within our organizations. We work in a wide range of health system roles and settings — but we share a commitment both to drive improvement initiatives on the ground, and to advance health equity in our communities.
Each of us is involved at the level that best fits the needs of our program or practice — whether engaged in collaborative learning and insight development as a full member of the Network, or by taking a more self-driven approach to exploring available tools and resources through the Network Newsletter. Choose the path that’s right for you and join us today.
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Our North Star: Health Equity
The Network offers the kind of tangible resources, learning and community that healthcare practitioners need to turn community health goals into action. Our efforts tackle several of the key barriers front-line practitioners and caregivers face in pursuing health equity.
Workforce & Authentic Relationships
Fostering policies, processes and support to sustain a workforce that develops authentic relationships and meets patients where they are
Finance, Payment & Policy
Developing sustainable finance, payment and policy models to support the work
Harnessing Data
Capturing and applying on-the-ground data on community needs, resources and impact to improve care delivery and population health
Featured Resources
Health Leads Network Content Business Case Brief: Beyond Screening & Referral Pilots
Making a strong business case among key stakeholders is critical to turning challenges into opportunities—and acquire the sustainable funding needed to spread essential resource efforts beyond isolated screening and referral pilots. Here we share six interdependent elements of successful business case strategies.
Health Leads Network Content Funding Whole-Person Health: Opportunities to Make Essential Needs Initiatives More Sustainable
Our Funding Whole-Person Health Guide and supporting Essential Needs Funding Table are intended to help healthcare practices identify the range of potential funding opportunities available — and understand how these initiatives may or may not align with their desired care delivery model. We offer a high-level summary of primary care payment reform efforts and funding opportunities that can support providers in developing value-based, community-centered care models.
Health Leads Network Content Strategies to Support Community Health Worker Sustainability
To gain a deeper understanding of the barriers to sustaining CHW roles in clinical settings, Health Leads interviewed leaders from three organizations that have taken a creative approach to their community-facing workforce. Though their initiatives varied in scope, placement and population served, we uncovered five common CHW sustainability strategies across all three health systems.
Our library of resources grows each week with the addition of new tools, research and best practices — covering these key barriers and a number of other important topics. Take a look at all we offer.
Have questions on how the Network can support your work? Want additional information on opportunities for collaboration or learning? Don’t hesitate to reach out directly. We’d love to hear from you!