Yes we can! is a community-building initiative funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation that aims to improve educational and economic outcomes in Battle Creek, Michigan by mobilizing low-income communities and resident leaders and building their capacity to influence the decisions and policies that impact their lives. This paper describes the strategies pursued during the first phase of this initiative to foster resident mobilization by building small wins within the neighborhood. Primarily through a neighborhood-based mini-grant program and staff supports to encourage collective action, Yes we can! has started to increase levels of resident mobilization within the seven economically distressed neighborhoods that initially partnered with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation on this effort. The specific programming components and how they were implemented as well as the initial successes experienced are described. Lessons learned are discussed.
The Health Leadership Academy (HLA) is a joint venture between McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business and Faculty of Health Sciences. As part of a landmark gift from Michael G. DeGroote, the HLA strives to have a transformative impact on global healthcare by nurturing a community of future leaders through interdisciplinary and forwardthinking approaches to education, public events and research.
Operating out of the Ron Joyce Centre in Burlington Ontario, the HLA creates transformative impact by developing tomorrow’s health leaders at all levels of the health system with new ways to think and do within a rapidly evolving health environment. The Emerging Health Leaders (EHL) program is one of the Academy’s key educational programs. A two-week intensive, residential leadership program for students and young professionals, EHL bolsters the skills of individuals seeking to make a difference in the health landscape.
This session will provide an orientation to the bigger picture trends in outpatient services, examples of innovation, and emerging health system enablers and constraints. The shared advice and learning from the IPAL-OP Advisory Board (10 palliative care leaders from leading programs) will be used to introduce participants to the purpose and recommended use of the new suite of tools. Participants will have time in small groups to discuss their own outpatient challenges or aspirations and to develop priorities for using the tools to support their own program development.
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