Organizing Communities to Create Health [Webinar]

Vast and ever-increasing sums of money are spent each year on health care, but not on what most people would like to see change to make their lives "healthier." The health care industry is locked into a model focused on our most passive states—viewing health as curing our diseases and preventing us from causing ourselves harm. To support us in actively creating health for ourselves and for our families, friends, and neighbours, the health care industry needs to broaden its view and share its decision-making power with the people it serves.

This webinar is for community leaders and organizers who wish to connect to the health and public health sectors, and the resources they have to offer. It is also for health care, public health, and social change leaders interested in how to better understand the complex needs of the communities they serve and what role health has among other aims.

Presented by the Creating Health Collaborative, this webinar will:

• Provide an overview of the role that communities can play in creating their own health, as they themselves define it
• Review guiding principles for how to foster that role
• Offer advice on how health care and sectors skilled at community building through shared decision-making can better understand how their priorities, and those of communities, relate to each other and how they can work hand-in-hand
• Offer resources and tools to help develop agreement on priorities among diverse perspectives
• Share examples from panellists with community outreach, research, and clinical experience

Learn more about this webinar and register here.

Thanks to the generosity of The California Endowment and Kaiser Permanente, this webinar is complimentary.