Community Advisory Committee
Camden residents guiding our strategic direction
Community & consumer engagement
The Camden Coalition works to build authentic, impactful, and mutually beneficial partnerships with people with lived experiences and support our partners in the field to do the same. Our community engagement initiatives span our local, regional, and national work.
My experience as a Consumer Scholar has been a catalyst in growing confident, feeling capable, and feeling like an asset to the healthcare community and those it serves.Alyce Luna, National Consumer Scholar
Our work in community & consumer engagement
Community Ambassadors
Trusted messengers bridging residents and public health leaders
National Consumer Scholars
Leadership development for advocates with lived experience of complex care needs
Amplify: A consumer voices bureau
Connecting complex care organizations to leaders with lived experience.
Regional Health Hub
Improving care for Medicaid beneficiaries in South Jersey
Youth Ambassadors
Outreach in Salem and Cumberland Counties
Engaging rural South Jersey communities
Camden Food Security Collective
Addressing the systemic factors that drive food insecurity in Camden
Camden Care Management Meetings
A monthly forum for Camden-area providers and residents
The need in the city of Camden is great. We can help because we’re boots on the ground. A lot of times organizations don’t see what we see.Miguel Rodriguez, Community Advisory Committee member, National Consumer Scholar, and Community Ambassador
We believe it is vital that the experiences of people with complex health and social needs inform our work and the direction of the complex care field. To ensure that health and social care programs understand, respond to, and meet the needs of consumers and their communities, people with lived experiences must be equal partners in the work.
In Camden, both graduates of our care management programs and community residents sit on our Community Advisory Committee and Board of Trustees. Many also serve as compensated Community Ambassadors. We also engage consumer leaders from across the country through our National Consumer Scholars program, and connect organizations with leaders with lived expertise through Amplify, our consumer voices bureau.
Related resources
Addressing the benefits cliff to enable equitable compensation for consumers
Community & consumer engagement Policy & advocacy Public benefits
Exploring consumer engagement experiences: A research project co-led by the National Consumer Scholars
Related blog posts
Community Advisory Committee 2.0: Cultivating leadership and a sense of belonging
Redetermination: The fight to keep our community members enrolled in Medicaid
Community & consumer engagement Strengthening ecosystems of care
Understanding preferred language for ‘people with lived experience’
Expanding our ecosystem: Building relationships in rural South Jersey
Community & consumer engagement in the Press
Creating authentic community engagement partnerships
One year later – INSPIRE 2.0
Camden Coalition, South Jersey community organizations, State, County, City officials launch initiative to “Cover All Kids”
Community & consumer engagement Strengthening ecosystems of care