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INSPIRE
Working toward a national strategy to advance partnerships between healthcare organizations and people with lived experience
Community & consumer engagement Strengthening ecosystems of care Quality improvement SDOH & health equity
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We’ve been heartened to see growing excitement and buy-in around community engagement from the healthcare sector. Healthcare stakeholders believe engaging community members and people with lived experience is the right thing to do — but they often don’t know how to do it.
INSPIRE (Initiating National Strategies for Partnership, Inclusion, and Real Engagement) seeks to fill that gap. We are is a collaborative and coordinated team of organizations and people with lived experience committed to advancing the practice of authentic community engagement in the U.S. healthcare system.
A new roadmap for effective community engagement in healthcare
Phase 1 of INSPIRE consisted of a year-long research process to:
- Determine the current state of community engagement in the US healthcare system
- Identify a set of recommendations for what healthcare organizations, funders, policymakers, and people with lived experience can do to implement more and better community engagement
These insights and recommendations were published in the INSPIRE phase 1 report, A roadmap for effective community engagement in healthcare.
Our goal is for the roadmap and recommendations in the report to be implemented across the country. Use our toolkit to share the report with your colleagues, organizational leadership, partners, and network.
What’s next?
During phase 2 of the INSPIRE project, core team members are focusing on implementing the recommendations in the phase 1 report. We are working together to directly implement the recommendations and to produce and publish additional resources and tools to support other organizations and communities in turning the recommendations into action.
Stay tuned for more! If you are interested in discussing this work, please reach out to Taylor Brown at [email protected].
Core team — Individuals with lived experience
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Carlos Benavides
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LaRae Cantley
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Rebecca Esparza
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Savina Makalena
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Stephanie Burdick
Funders
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Related blog posts
Are we speaking the same language? Defining what we mean by “community engagement”
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You can’t advance health equity without effective community engagement
Building the complex care field Community & consumer engagement
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A roadmap for effective community engagement in healthcare: Final report from INSPIRE Phase 1
Community & consumer engagement Strengthening ecosystems of care
The nine dimensions of authentic community engagement
Community & consumer engagement Quality improvement SDOH & health equity
INSPIRE: A national strategy to advance community partnerships in healthcare
Building the complex care field Community & consumer engagement Strengthening ecosystems of care