More Than Health Care: A Community Health Conversation

Be inspired by Victor Murry and Carter Wilson from the Camden Coalition. What happens if you connect community partners around high-needs individuals? The answer: Better health outcomes. Listen for ideas on how to start connecting dots to provide complex care in your community.

Be inspired by Professor Dominic Mac of the Morehouse School of Medicine as he describes the National COVID-19 Resiliency Network’s purpose and the power that partnerships have in the fight for health equity amid the pandemic.

Be inspired by measurable change. Hear how Better Futures Minnesota achieved a 4-6% recidivism rate, or the rate in which individuals return to incarceration, with their clients vs. their county’s recidivism rate of 68%.

In this episode, host Jill Huynh recalls her most memorable episodes from 2020—a year she says was, “like no other.” These episodes resonated with her because of how they coincided with her work or personal life and others because of the compelling work being done.

Be inspired by a model that puts customers first with a highly collaborative partnership approach.

How Do You Measure Child Well-Being?

Be inspired to partner with academics and mathematicians to prove the work you do matters.

Be inspired by how having an entrepreneurial spirit allows a 140-year-old organization to continue to evolve in order to serve. ‘We will not move the needle on these stubborn disparities in our community by only partnering with the nonprofit down the street. It is going to take a cross-sector partnership.’ https://pillsburyunited.org/

Be inspired by collaborations happening across the country. Hear from Sophia Raday of the Nonprofit Finance Fund on what happens when organizations are open to sharing data, trust and back offices. https://nff.org/

Be inspired by Hector Colon, president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, and the innovative steps he took to turn around a struggling organization. They went from being in the red—losing more than $10 million—to a thriving organization in the black.

Be inspired by your own power. Be encouraged by Vu Le to stop the B.S. and see the power of the nonprofit sector. Get concrete examples of changes you can do today to even the playing field.  https://nonprofitaf.com/

Be inspired by Hawaii. When you are literally on an island, innovation and actively listening to partners must be a part of your strategy. [Themes: Healthy Thriving Futures approach: Help Hawaii’s families to address serious life challenges such as poverty, abuse, and neglect. Child & Family Service has adapted proven practice and intervention models to meet the needs of Hawaii’s multicultural communities.]

Be inspired by all the social factors, conversations, data, and logistics that go into an innovative public transit provider with Lauren Day of IndyGo.

Be inspired to honor differences. Listen to the learnings from a social service organization and hospital that formally merged. Hint: You cannot hold a 30-minute meeting in the ER. [Themes: Opportunities through partnership with hospital systems to do more work in prevention with families and patients. Strategies for bridging health care and social service cultures.]

Be inspired by Dr. Bob Shapiro, director of the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and how his team has quickly innovated to create tools and guides for community members, such as schools and daycares, to help keep kids safe in their homes. In the wake of COVID-19, his team is showing ‘how barriers really don't need to be barriers.

Starting with the aim to tackle root causes of chronic disease in communities, BUILD Health Challenge launched their first cohort in 2015. Today, they are supporting work in 37 communities within 21 different states including the Washington D.C. Celebrating innovation and creativity, cohort members are tacking complex health issues in unique ways that are accomplishing solid results. Join us as we talk with Emily about her company’s continued journey to learn alongside the community.

We are under-invested within the social services sector and have been for a very long time. Since the health/medical sector is well supported financially, decision making power often lies with them.  Angela challenges us to get innovative and creative and do things differently to create a new future for our sector and better outcomes for those we serve.  You will be inspired and motivated to move mountains after listening to this!

Be inspired by what can happen when you embed a mental health team inside the school. Hear Marisa Perez-Martin’s 18 year journey uncovering authentic partnerships and building a school-based model that is demonstrating outcomes for students.

Be inspired to reframe what a senior center can look like. Hear how Jane Bavineau, vice president of health and wellness at BakerRipley, is listening to ‘modern elders’ and their caregivers in Hoursont to reimagine senior centers, including their own version of NPR Story Corps and a community garden.

Be inspired by the opportunities all around you. Hear Terri Howard, director of business development at FEI Behavioral Health, talk about what the FBI is doing to encourage both physically and mentally healthy employees.