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5 Building and Sustaining Equitable Community Partnerships
Pages 65-68

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From page 65...
... Individual workshop participants in the first group shared various ideas, including respect, human connection, and trust; welcoming diverse participants; designing inclusive logistics; acknowledging the history of racism and other -isms; acknowledging the power imbalance; having a good reason to partner; establishing balanced group dynamics; replenishing the commons to create a safe space; and building capacity for all partners. The second group discussed the question, How do you build the relationships and bridges that enable you to work with people who have different viewpoints and personal and institutional positions of power, particularly at moments of community pain and polarization?
From page 66...
... What has been most meaningful to you in doing this work? Individual workshop participants in this group shared various ideas, including changing a hospital's governance approach to include population and community engagement; getting city officials to put the Live Algoma logo on all city department letterheads, which changed the program from being an initiative to a movement; getting city officials to recognize the importance of the community's voice; the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passing a resolution on what it stands for; getting local officials to be willing to innovate, think differently about problem solving, and learn from outsiders; creating the menu of measures within Measure What Matters; getting state departments to think more creatively about how they can promote equity; and getting state departments outside of the health area to be health allies.
From page 67...
... The sixth group discussed the question, If you could go back to the beginning and start from scratch, is there anything that you would do differently? Individual workshop participants in this group shared various ideas, including building in a process that reviews what works and does not work with the community's involvement; learning from failure and from success; being transparent in every way with community members; and taking a healing approach to community engagement.
From page 68...
... The eighth group discussed the question, How can community health partnerships use communications and social media to advance health improvement agendas? Individual workshop participants in this group shared various ideas, including that the first step in communication is listening and trying to define who the audience is and what the issue is, followed by defining a shared vision to ensure that all communications are relevant to the intended audience and have a common language.


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