Thriving Together: Measurement
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"To drive collaborative improvement in population health and well-being, measures must cross sectors; address economic and social determinants of health, well-being, and equity; and improve the health and well-being of people and of places."
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Thriving Together: Measurement
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In addition to the seven vital conditions, Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery & Resilience in Communities Across America explores four selected topics that also shape our community well-being: place; faith; investment; and measurement, learning, and evaluation. This issue of the WIN Digest highlights that final topic: measurement, learning and evaluation.
The rapid spread and high mortality of COVID-19 among populations with high levels of social vulnerability have shined a spotlight on the inequities of our current system and the way in which our response is redrawing the redlining maps of the past. As we prepare to emerge from the initial peak of the pandemic, it is paramount that we set up systems to promote better and more equitable outcomes in health and wellbeing.
We must develop a comprehensive measurement strategy to drive collaborative improvement in population health and well-being by:
- Recognizing the ways in which multiple factors and sectors interact
- Implementing a balance of measures that relate to thriving people, thriving communities, and the systems that create racial and other inequities
- Evaluating measures using an equity lens that includes race/ethnicity, place, age, gender, sexual identity, language spoken at home, and wealth
- Employing community-oriented tools that can assess deeper system transformation.
We have been learning at an unparalleled pace in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis has led to massive shifts in public health, health care, the economy, modes of social connection, and mental health. To support resilience, communities and organizations need to develop an equitable measurement process and data infrastructure—and consider specific measures for thriving, struggling, and suffering. In this chapter, we recommend common and balanced measures, an equitable identification and assessment process, and supportive, flexible and actionable data infrastructure.
This chapter of the Springboard outlines the key criteria of what such a measurement system could look like, informed by national organizations, communities, and people with lived experience of inequities. It draws its measures from both community improvement efforts that equitably addressed community transformation, such as the 100 Million Healthier Lives SCALE initiative, and from several national measurement efforts that align efforts across sectors and chart a path toward an equitable learning measurement system to support a learning health system over the next decade, including the Well Being In the Nation measures and Healthy People 2030. Finally, the authors offer a vision for what an equitable and connected data and measurement infrastructure could look like that allows community residents experiencing inequities, system change stewards, and policymakers to learn and create change together. A few building blocks for these are detailed below.
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"Nothing Stays the Same"
The earth spins like a rolling ball.
Stars shine bright then fade away.
Darkness melts and turns to light.
The sunrise starts another day.
The sun dips slowly into the sea.
The moon will wax and wane.
The sea will rise and falls with tides.
And you will love again.
Nothing ever stays the same.
Mountains change with time.
Rivers flow and lakes run dry.
Salty tears will flood the eye.
Healing follows after pain.
A crush of grape becomes fine wine.
And you will love again.
Yes! You will love again.
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THRIVING TOGETHER: CHANGING COURSE
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Changing Course summaries feature working definitions, recent facts, key issues, and a short list of pivotal moves that stand out as high priorities for quick action.
Deep Dives are the full source documents contributed by colleagues on the various topics selected in the Changing Course summaries.
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Data Across Sectors for Health Listening Sessions
COVID’s disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations, putting other disparities into focus through data. On Friday, May 29, 2020, All In hosted a second Listening Session titled “Using Data Systems to Prioritize Equity in a Time of Crisis” to share lessons and experiences related to COVID-19. The Listening Session provided a virtual space for 62 attendees where participants learned from one another about what is working in response to COVID.
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Community Commons: Maps and Data
When you think about Community Commons, maps and data might be the first things that pop into your mind. Over the years, we've had the privilege of creating a network of partners who have developed and made publicly-available a variety of data and mapping tools.
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Balancing Privacy with Data Sharing for the Public Good
by David Deming
Socially valuable data can be combined with standards that safeguard individual privacy, an economist says.
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Curator Says It’s Time to Tackle the Art World’s Racist Culture
by Amy Costello and Frederica Boswell
The Indianapolis Museum of Art Galleries (IMA) at Newfields is in the midst of a public reckoning about race. The IMA posted an insensitive job listing seeking a director who would work to attract a more diverse audience but also maintain its “traditional, core, white art audience.”
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“Dr. Kelli Morgan.” © Tyrone Myrick Photography.
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Rethinking Common Backbone Functions as Capacities
Today, backbone organizations and partners are still well-positioned to assess and respond to community needs—particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic, racial justice movements, and economic hardships. But shifting systems requires repurposing certain functions from the backbone and devolving some of them to partners for stronger community ownership. In this resource, Mathematica and Equal Measure grouped backbone functions into four categories and identified some of the key capacities to perform these functions effectively to achieve collective goals throughout a community.
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Change Lab Solutions
Apply for the Housing Solutions Collaborative!
Join a peer learning collective to advance your city's housing solutions
ChangeLab Solutions is accepting applications for the Housing Solutions Collaborative ― a learning collective for cross-sector community teams that will offer peer support, technical assistance, and a stipend to help teams in eight cities advance legal and policy solutions to the growing housing crisis.
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Aspen Ideas Health
In April 2021, Aspen Ideas: Health will come to you in an all-new digital format to explore the big ideas and bold approaches shaping the future of health. Sign-up for updates!
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#WEGOVERN
Our systems are failing all of us. Indeed, they were never built to serve many of us, especially Black, Indigenous, queer, and trans people, immigrants and refugees, those with disabilities, elders, and young people who are saying--and have been saying for generations--that we all deserve better.
The world we envision is only possible if we operate from mutual care, based on the beliefs that:
- The well-being, dignity, respect, and agency of the most vulnerable are indicators of the success of a community and its governance.
- Each generation shares in the responsibility for the care and well-being of generations before and after, our elders and our children.
- All beings are connected, including Mother Earth.
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Moving Mindsets: How to Shape a Strategy
Watch this first webinar from the three-part Moving Mindsets series to hear practical advice and lessons from real-world efforts that can guide your own work to shift mindsets.
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Healthy People 2030 LHI Webinar with ODPHP and NACCHO
View this webinar for a discussion of Healthy People 2030, the newly released Leading Health Indicators (LHIs), and the importance of implementing Healthy People 2030 at the local level!
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Advancing Health: A podcast from the American Hospital Association
In this episode, Podcast host Peter Eckart is joined by 2-1-1 San Diego’s Vice President of Health and Community Impact, Karis Grounds, and Chief Business and Development Officer, Camey Christenson to discuss how they’ve leveraged their CIE and partner relationships for a comprehensive COVID response that meets their community’s present needs. Camey and Karis share their insight on how other communities can leverage the community data and information systems and partnerships already present in their communities.
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Commons Good: Aaron Burnett, Mason City, Iowa
The All-America City awards celebrates and recognizes neighborhoods, villages, towns, cities, counties, tribes and regions that engage residents in innovative, inclusive and effective efforts to tackle critical challenges. Mason City, Iowa is all All-America City 2020 finalist.
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WIN With Business - Health and Wealth in the Context of COVID
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WIN with Business explores the role of business in promoting a world in where business is an active promoter of wellbeing. We will gather to share updates, events, and learnings. This meeting is open to all.
Join us for
"The Role of Business in Advancing Mental Health in the Time of Corona"
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Between April 23rd-30th, 2021, the WIN Network invites you to come together, across generations, for a week of gatherings dedicated to “Renewal”
We will take time to renew ourselves and our communities, our economy, and our earth.
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A Preview of WIN Week Events
- WIN with Business: The Role of Business in Promoting a Thriving Natural World
- Youth of Solutions Summit
- WIN Partners Meeting
- Thriving Together Workshop with Children & Nature Network
- WIN Council on Racial Justice and Intergenerational Well-being Measurement Meeting
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WE WIN TOGETHER RACIAL JUSTICE COMMUNITY
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OUR SPRING SEMESTER HAS STARTED!
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The WE WIN Racial Justice Community provides space for individuals, communities, organizations, and coalitions to learn from one another as part of our racial justice journey.
Together, we reflect and gather insight for addressing racism in workplaces and throughout life.
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Can't make it to every meeting? Sign up for a special event!
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All In Publication: The Digital Edition
A Compilation of What We Have Learned From the First Wave of COVID-19
Welcome to the Digital Edition of “What We Have Learned From the First Wave of COVID-19” updated with additional stories, more multimedia content, and examples showcasing how data can be used in times of crisis to provide equitable health solutions.
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Americans Agree On More Than You Think
by Isabella Breda
Across race, gender, income, education, generational cohorts, and the 2020 presidential election, there is stunning agreement on the long-term national values and priorities that Americans believe should characterize the country moving forward.
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TOOLS TO BUILD WELL BEING
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Data Sectors for Health COVID-19 Response
DASH is working across sectors and throughout communities nationwide to gather the latest on what is working, what isn’t, and what more needs to be figured out in response to the coronavirus pandemic. We are collecting stories, identifying solutions, and connecting dots to help our communities and awardees learn from one another. Dramatic changes happening fast and it can be hard to keep up, but we’ll be updating content weekly on this site and will timestamp accordingly.
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All In Data COVID-19 Response
All In: Data for Community Health, a learning network of over 150 communities, responded to the COVID-19 outbreak early on. While many of our organizations were not on the frontlines themselves—they supported agencies dealing with crisis directly or the economic fall out that accompanied it—from overwhelmed hospital emergency rooms and overburdened public health departments to homelessness shelter, food pantries, housing resources, and more.
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Well-being in the Nation (WIN) Measurement Framework
The Well-Being In the Nation (WIN) Measurement Framework offers a set of common measures to assess and improve population and community health and well-being across sectors. The framework is divided into three elements: core measures, leading indicators, and a full flexible set of measures.
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Frameworks Institute
3/19 at 1:00 PM ET
The latest report from Frameworks Institute, Mindset Shifts: "What Are They? Why Do They Matter? How Do They Happen?" provides a roadmap for advocates, activists, and funders.
Join the Frameworks Institute for the second webinar in a three-part series to hear practical advice and lessons from real-world efforts that can guide your own work to shift mindsets.
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Jay Pitter and York University
3/22 at 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM ET
Created by Jay Pitter in collaboration with students and scholars in York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, this publication highlights engagement practice and policy approaches for addressing spatialized anti-Blackness in cities across North America.
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Building Movement Project
3/24 at 1:00 PM ET
As we mark the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 shutdowns in the US this March, we welcome you to join us for a conversation with four nonprofit leaders of color on how to ensure a just and equitable recovery and rebuild. We will reflect on the crises and challenges of the past year and learn how leaders are charting future paths for systemic change, solidarity, and sustainability.
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Building Healthy Places Network
3/25 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 pm ET
BHPN will introduce the Healthy Neighborhood Investments: A Policy Scan & Strategy Map and Thriving Together Springboard
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Change Lab Solutions
3/30 at 10:30 AM PT
Policy Solutions for Equitable Enforcement of Employment Laws is the second episode in ChangeLab Solutions’ six-part virtual discussion series, Uprooting the Structural Drivers of Health Inequity.
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Full Frame Initiative
Three-part workshop series
April 7th, 14th & 21st, 2021
As adaptive leaders who are reimagining their work to help individuals and communities recover from COVID-19 and the economic fallout, understanding and addressing tradeoffs is key to making change last and to building a more equitable society.
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ASTHO
Join ASTHO, CDC's Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the Prioritizing Equity in Public Health Leadership Summit, a series designed to inspire state and territorial public health leaders, partners, and stakeholders to create innovative policy and practice solutions to reduce structural racism and eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.
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