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].