Increasing community engagement in collective impact approaches to advance social change

O'Neill, Moira

doi:10.1080/15575330.2020.1714684

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“…This tended to be more common among sectors that had not traditionally been active in public health or other collective impact initiatives. Like O'Neill's (2020) [23] nding that organizational identity plays a critical role in shaping engagement and the CI approach, our ndings suggest that individual sector identities may in uence engagement and the CI approach. There may be particular opportunities for this and other CI initiatives to further leverage community organizing approaches [12], particularly to enhance practices in cross-sector collaboration.…”

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confidence: 65%

Advancing positive social determinants of health through collective impact

McCrae

Spain

2022

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Background Communities across the U.S. and globally confront the challenge of transforming negative social determinants of health (SDOH) into positive ones. To address this complex social problem, collective impact (CI) has promise but has been critiqued for insufficiently challenging structural inequities. Research applying CI to SDOH is limited. This mixed-methods study examined early adoption of CI in the 100% New Mexico initiative that aims to address SDOH population-wide in a state with strong cultural identity and assets but also persistent socio-economic inequality. | Methods. A web-based survey, interviews and focus groups were conducted with initiative participants in June and July 2021. Survey participants rated agreement with six items assessing CI foundation from the Collective Impact Community Assessment Scale. Interviews and focus groups centered on motivation to engage, progress in model components, CI core conditions, and contextual factors influencing experiences. Surveys were analyzed using descriptive means. Qualitative data were analyzed using thematic analysis, an inductive approach, stratified analyses, and co-interpretation. Results. Fifty-eight participants completed the survey, and 21 participated in interviews (n = 12) and focus groups (n = 9). Survey means were highest related to initiative commitment, and lower regarding shared ownership, having multiple perspectives and voices, and adequate resources. Qualitative results indicated the framework’s cross-sector emphasis helped motivate participation. Participants embraced the focus on leveraging community assets that characterizes CI and the current framework. Counties used unique engagement and visibility strategies including mural projects and book clubs. Participants reported communication challenges across sector teams which influenced feelings of accountability and ownership. Participants did not report challenges lacking relevant, available, and timely data or tension between funder-driven and community-driven desired outcomes, contrasting previous CI research. Conclusion. Multiple foundational conditions of CI were supported in 100% New Mexico, including evidence for support of the common agenda addressing SDOH, shared measurement framework, and mutually reinforcing activities. Results suggest that efforts to launch CI to address SDOH, which are by nature multi-sector, should include robust communication support for local teams. The use of community-administered surveys to identify gaps in SDOH resource access contributed to ownership and collective efficacy that may portend sustainability; however, relying on volunteers threatens sustainability.

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Advancing positive social determinants of health through collective impact

McCrae

Spain

2022

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“…Implementation of MH&W has highlighted the gulf between rhetoric and reality in achievement of collective action to effect sustainable change. This project, along with others worldwide [ 9 ], shows that authentic community engagement, co-design and respectful collaboration are the keys to achieving consensus on an agreed focus regarding the “problem(s)” to be targeted. They provide the foundations for mobilising collective action and designing programs that are likely to promote and sustain active community participation.…”

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confidence: 98%

Collective Impact Approaches to Promoting Community Health and Wellbeing in a Regional Township: Learnings for Integrated Care

Hayes¹,

Freestone²,

Day³

et al. 2021

International Journal of Integrated Care

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This Perspective Paper explores the challenges of implementing local initiatives guided by the tenets of the Collective Impact (CI) approach. As such, it draws implications of CI for integrated health and social care efforts to improve and sustain health and social outcomes within a community-wide context, based on our efforts to deploy a CI intervention in the regional town of Muswellbrook, New South Wales (NSW) Australia. A program of health and wellbeing activities providing mental health and wellness messages and activities was implemented in the township over 2 years by the Family Action Centre (FAC), University of Newcastle, Australia. A key takeaway was the importance of authentic community engagement and active involvement as opposed to mere consultation.

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“…Walking takes time, process time and in academic careers is often undertaken in the context of lack of time; furthermore, relational time is needed to do this kind of collaborative research - building relationships and trust as relational goods (see Mullaly et al, Horgan et al, Fathi, Amberson). Challenges of co-production and participatory methods include for example, tokenism – “invite, invoke, ignore” (O’Neill and Webster 2005) – as well as the dangers of making assumptions about walking as a normative bodily act (see Edwards and Maxwell). How do researchers reflexively guard against and address this, and how do we manage the ensuing power dynamics, ethically, imaginatively, purposefully?…”

Section: Walking Research - Interrelated Themesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to the Special Issue

O’Neill¹,

Edwards²,

Laoire³

et al. 2023

Irish Journal of Sociology

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This special issue advances and interrogates walking as a methodology and research method in the social sciences. Walking is something we do every day, as a lived experience, a source of knowledge, a means of dialogue and exchange with oneself, others, nature, the environment and as an aid to thinking, reflecting and memory. Social science is increasingly "on the move", underpinned by advances in digital methods, a focus on our mobile lives, and the growth of creative, sensory, arts-based multi-modal methods, used by sociologists, ethnographers, anthropologists, geographers, environmentalists, biographical researchers and arts based researchers.As an innovation in social research methods the turn to walking builds on and attaches to the previous "turns" in sociological research, such as the narrative, biographical, visual and sensory "turns" as well as the performative "turn". Walking also resonates with geographical traditions of embodied "field-work" and recognition of the social and spatial nature of knowledge production (Lorimer 2003;Dewsbury & Naylor 2002;Rose et al., 2022). There are important connections too, with walking, in the long history of social research that seeks to understand social inequalities, through, for example, the work of Engels, Mayhew and Orwell, the pioneering research by the Chicago School of Sociology with migrant and marginalised communities and gender politics in the writing of Virginia Woolf, the suffragette marches and gender based protest movements.As the papers in this special issue evidence, the act of walking engages all the senses, the importance of looking, hearing, feeling and we argue, the art of paying attention (Ingold this volume). Walking methodologies offer a powerful way of communicating about experiences and ways of knowing across cultural divides, time, and history. The walking body produces society and sociality is created in walking (

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Increasing community engagement in collective impact approaches to advance social change

Cited by 12 publications

References 34 publications

Advancing positive social determinants of health through collective impact

Advancing positive social determinants of health through collective impact

Collective Impact Approaches to Promoting Community Health and Wellbeing in a Regional Township: Learnings for Integrated Care

Introduction to the Special Issue

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