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The roundtable seeks to provoke and catalyze urgently needed multisector community-engaged collaborative actions. The Community Power in Population Health Improvement workshop is premised on the belief that community leadership, voice, and power are essential drivers for successful population health efforts.
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What is new is the heightened and simultaneous attention that the community and its power are garnering from public and private sectors alike, which further spotlights the need for forums, roundtables, and additional spaces where discussions on power are held because collective power is built through relationships. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES The workshop was organized in six sessions held over 2 days in a virtual format, featuring invited presentations and discussion that focused on the following: • Understanding the underpinnings of community-led initiatives; • Exploring power -- its dynamics, manifestations, and narratives -- as it pertains to the agency needed for communities to articulate their health and well-being needs and to act to address them; • Exploring the approaches, elements, capacities, and ecosystems that support communities to lead their own efforts; • Exploring the evidence base that links community power with systems of transformation and health equity outcomes; • Listening and learning from examples of community-led popula tion health efforts in action; and • Communicating insights from entities supporting community-led efforts.
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Chapter 5, "From Vision to Action: Effective Ways to Support Grassroots Community Power Building," examines approaches to community power building across fields, including perspectives from funders, advocates, and coalition builders. Chapter 6, "Community-Led Transformational Narratives," presents a variety of place-based initiatives, emphasizing the value of incorporating culture, history, and community knowledge in collaborative power-building efforts.
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(Brown, Carrillo, Ferdinand, Fernandes, Garza, Healey, Heller, James, Martinez, Poo, Styles) • A body of knowledge, expertise, and proven practices around community power building exists, generated by an array of practitioners and organizations dedicated to these efforts, and health professionals need to connect more fully with it.
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"Community power is the ability of communities most impacted by structural inequi ties to develop, sustain, and grow an organized base of people who act together through democratic structures to set agendas, shift public discourse, influence decision makers, and cultivate ongoing relationships of mutual accountability to change systems and advance health equity." (Vaidya, quoting the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation definition) Power is a multidimensional construct involving an ecosystem of strategies, pro cesses, and partnerships.
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