Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the critical intersecting roles that health systems and community development play in creating healthier communities. As the healthcare sector puts increased focus on meeting health-related social needs, it’s increasingly important to understand how community-based organizations are positioned to create win-win opportunities for your institution, your patients, and the community as a whole. This class helps you build a strong foundational understanding of the shared priorities between these systems, with a focus on bridging the language divide between clinical care, public health, and community & economic development with specific examples of where and why these overlapping priorities occur. We’ll look into how community-based projects move from ideation to reality and why these projects are more complex than other forms of development. You’ll walk away with a better understanding of how to learn the community’s development priorities that impact your patients’ health and find resource providers that are already trusted by the communities they serve.
Lesson Goals:
– Highlight the overlap in the focus of comprehensive community development and the SDoH/Health-Related Social Needs.
– Bridge the language gap between community development and healthcare practitioners.
– Introduction to primary areas of work in community development (affordable housing, workforce development, etc)
– Introduction to Community Vision Plans, Prospectuses, or CompPlans.
Top Takeaways:
– Ability to identify the parts of the Comprehensive Community Development Framework that overlap with Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN/SDoH);
– Ability to identify the types of community-based organizations that serve different HRSNs and their capacity constraints (especially housing);
– Understand how community planning is traditionally done and why authentic community engagement is time-consuming and requires commitment to presence with the community.