Working with communities ... building on strengths
Engage • Connect • Innovate
Working with communities ... building on strengths
Engage • Connect • Innovate
Projects
Families Thrive
Generations Connect
Generations Connect
Families Thrive of Contra Costa County is actively marshaling resources and supporting partnerships to address the specific needs of children, youth, and families impacted by trauma and domestic violence.
Generations Connect
Generations Connect
Generations Connect
Young people are leading efforts to strengthen intergenerational relationships and build community connectedness in order to promote healthy relationships in families and communities.
Lifting Voices
Generations Connect
Co-Designing Health
This research was conducted for HelpAge USA and focused on the perspectives and experiences of Black and Hispanic older adults during the pandemic and as they considered the vaccination.
Co-Designing Health
Patient Journey Mapping
Co-Designing Health
In partnership with other generations, health workers, civil society and local leaders, older people in Uganda have come together to co-design solutions to improve health. Local solutions for health promotion developed by communities address constraints and engage strengths in the community to solve problems.
Patient Journey Mapping
Patient Journey Mapping
Patient Journey Mapping
Patient journey mapping is fundamentally a human-centered design approach with a focus on generating empathy and seeing patient’s worlds through their own eyes in order to develop more patient-centered solutions. Patient journey mapping can also be used to evaluate and tell the story of change.
Designing Research
Patient Journey Mapping
Patient Journey Mapping
Designing Research offers ways of 'being' in research that brings a sense of attentiveness, relationality and connection to research that is useful and productive as a daily practice.
Choppin' it Up
Collaborating for Health
Collaborating for Health
In communities struggling with violence, people often view youth as “the problem” and neglect to view young people in the context of their lived experiences and paths to creating powerful identities, meaning, and well-being. Choppin' it Up tapped into the transformative potential of youth as powerful social agents of positive change in their communities.
Collaborating for Health
Collaborating for Health
Collaborating for Health
Collaborating for Health is a human-centered approach that starts with an understanding of the challenges older people face and supports communities to co-design responses to prevent chronic disease and promote healthy aging.