Bridging Health & Community, Inc.
November 2016 – December 2018
A Seattle-based nonprofit through which I funnelled my US-based community health work as a way to grow the broader field of practice
Reports
Key members of the Creating Health Collaborative and I launched a nonprofit dedicated to ‘bridging the health sector and local communities through shared connection, capacity and opportunity’. Our three major achievements were our tool, our national symposium, and research into power building for health. Although we considered what to do next, we decided to close the nonprofit because we found that our customers became foundations, not the health sector or local communities.
Reports
Bringing Purpose to Community Engagement
Bridget B Kelly & Pritpal S Tamber
March 2018
Fostering Agency to Improve Health
Pritpal S Tamber & Bridget B Kelly
March 2017
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The New Version of Our Application Tool
By Pritpal S Tamber |
To help you understand, embrace and apply the lessons from over 100 community-oriented practitioners
Seeing the Challenges as They Are
By Pritpal S Tamber |
Three articles have reminded me that the core challenge to bridging health and community is healthcare-centricity
Community Power & Public Health
By Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post, we share the findings of our research into what it will take for public health to embrace community power building as a strategy
Community Power & Public Health: A Webinar
By Pritpal S Tamber |
Announcing our December 4th webinar at which we’ll share our findings into what it’ll take for public health to adopt strategies that strengthen a community’s collective ability to improve population health
What BH&C Will Do Next (Part 5 of 5)
By Pritpal S Tamber |
In part five of this five-part series, I share how we intend to keep learning from courageous practitioners while building a learning environment for those that want to follow
What Next: Getting Beyond A List (Part 4 of 5)
By Pritpal S Tamber |
In part four of this five-part series, I share how we tried to make the Principles into a product and find a market, and what we learned through the process
What Next: Control and Health (Part 3 of 5)
By Pritpal S Tamber |
In part three of this five-part series, I share how I learned that the 12 Principles are about control – a way to foster it amongst communities and enable health care to share it
What Next: The Search for A New Dialog (Part 2 of 5)
By Pritpal S Tamber |
In part two of this five-part series, I share how my search for a new dialog led to ‘discovering’ social capital and made me want to ‘de-fluff’ community-building work
What Next: Health Care’s Three Biases (Part 1 of 5)
By Pritpal S Tamber |
In part one of this five-part series, I share the three biases that I think health care has and how they prevent us from having a proper conversation about the future of health
A Webinar and an eBook
By Pritpal S Tamber |
Announcing our webinar hosted by the Root Cause Coalition on how to truly engage your community and the re-issue of our eBook, 'Communities Creating Health'
Our New Implementation Tool
By Pritpal S Tamber |
Announcing the second version of our implementation tool, including some photographs of the previous version in use and how that informed the new version
We’re Taking A Break
By Pritpal S Tamber |
Because we’re not a proper company, never want to be, and think we need to separate the needs of the work from the needs of an organization
Our New Report: Bringing Purpose to Community Engagement
By Pritpal S Tamber and Bridget B. Kelly |
Why we've positioned the 12 Principles as a framework for reconceiving health care's relationship with communities
The Inside Game
By Erin Hagan |
Erin Hagan offers some straight-talking feedback on how our May 2017 symposium did not quite hit the mark and how we need to shift our approach
Fostering Agency to Improve Health and Social Participation in Mexico
By Catalina A. Denman, Elsa Cornejo and Rodrigo Cornejo |
Catalina A. Denman, Elsa Cornejo and Rodrigo Cornejo describe how fostering agency has improved social participation and health, specifically in diabetes and through Wikipolítica
A Webinar on the Bronx Healthy Buildings Program
By Pritpal S Tamber |
Announcing a free webinar featuring an in-depth conversation about how lessons from the Bronx Healthy Buildings Program can be applied in other contexts
Fostering Agency Through Local Public Health
By Chris Aldridge, Peter L. Holtgrave and Andrea Grenadier |
Chris Aldridge, Peter Holtgrave and Andrea Grenadier explore how local public health can encourage people in communities to determine their own futures
Community Health. Healthy Community. Semantics?
By Dina Newman |
Dina Newman reflects on how organizing communities around a culture of health is years old, and how it’s not the same as being a ‘community health worker’
Healing Through Research
By Shannon Simpson |
Shannon Simpson reflects on how the idea of healing needs to be deeply ingrained in the methods of participatory action research, if not all forms of research
We Are Losing, So What Are We Protecting?
By Rebecca Brothers |
Rebecca Brothers asks what is behind health care’s reluctance to bring community to the table. Uncertainty? The loss power?
Webinar: How One Health Care System Applied the Principles to Practice
By Bridget B. Kelly |
Announcing a free webinar in which Jefferson Healthcare, WA, share how they used our tool to take stock of how they're working with communities
Reflections on Othering, Oppression, and Why Inclusion Matters
By Katherine Mella and Lawrence Barriner II |
Katherine Mella and Lawrence Barriner II of MIT CoLab share three reflections on BH&C’s symposium, each with a proposal for how to make improvements
Connecting the Dots
By Diane Wellman |
Diane Wellman draws out the biggest themes from her 215 pages of notes on our symposium, Community Agency & Health
Listening As A Radically Obvious Act
By Elizabeth Slade |
Elizabeth Slade reflects on how health care often focuses on the latest, shiniest technology, and doesn’t leave much space for the basic human needs of our stories being acknowledged
The Healing of Exploitation
By Carl Baty |
Carl Baty, a presenter at our May 2017 symposium, shares why he got emotional during his talk and explores whether he was being exploited
Our ‘View’ To Grantmakers In Health
By Pritpal S Tamber |
In GIH’s monthly bulletin, we make the case that it’s time for its members to place an explicit focus on agency, including examining their own governance structures and accountability frameworks
Mastering the Distractions
By Pritpal S Tamber |
Why they’re essential for moving from the what to the how. But, seriously, they’re so distracting...
The Cost of Learning
By Leigh Carroll |
Board Member, Leigh Carroll, reflects on our May 2017 symposium and whether we understood who was doing the learning
Collaborative Consulting Announces Our Partnership
By Lori Peterson and Pritpal S Tamber |
First published on Collaborative Consulting, in this post Lori Peterson and Pritpal S Tamber discuss why - and how - health care can go further to better serve their communities
Recruiting Five Organizations to put the Principles into Practice
By Pritpal S Tamber |
We want to coach local entities and learn what it really takes to make the shift
Announcing our Partnership with Collaborative Consulting
By Lori Peterson and Pritpal S Tamber |
A strategic relationship to bring the importance of ‘community agency’ within reach of health systems embracing new approaches to health
Announcing our Chief Learning Officer, Maggie Hawthorne
By Maggie Hawthorne and Pritpal S Tamber |
We intend to grow the field of practice through learning, which is why we've recruited Maggie, the former Director of Strategy and Innovation of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
Announcing Our Tool to Apply the 12 Principles
By Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post, Pritpal S Tamber shares our new tool to apply the 12 principles for fostering community agency to your community health work
Taking What We’ve Learned on the Road
By Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post, Pritpal S Tamber, shares the gatherings to which Bridging Health & Community has been invited to share what it has learned
Reflecting on our Symposium, Community Agency & Health
By Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post, our CEO & Co-Founder, Pritpal S Tamber, reflects on the recent symposium and shares some early thinking on what we’ll do next
The White Working Class
By Pritpal S Tamber |
Why I feel "emotionally responsible" to the white working class
Building Healthy Communities, South Kern
By Annalisa Robles and Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post, Annalisa Robles illustrates how policies can bias against rural communities and how the people of South Kern, CA, are organizing – often to achieve the basics
Practicing Agency: The ‘Art’ of the How (Symposium 2017)
By Nicole Bennett |
In this post, Nicolle Bennett looks at the role of the arts in fostering individual and community agency, and explains her role as a documentarian at the 2017 symposium
Navigating Power in Health and Community Partnerships
By Jeanne Ayers and Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post, Jeanne Ayers of the Minnesota Department of Health describes her journey from frustrated public health practitioner to establishing the Triple Aim of Health Equity
Symposium 2017: Announcing our 40 Presenters
By Bridget B. Kelly and Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post, we announce the 40 people who’ll be sharing their experiences and perspectives through two case examples and six breakouts
Symposium 2017: Facilitating Connections
By Bridget B. Kelly |
In this post, Bridget B Kelly, Co-Founder of Bridging Health & Community, describes how we’ll be helping symposium participants connect with each other
Think, Link and Do – Building Just Communities through Collaboration
By Katherine Mella, Alyssa Bryson and Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post, Alyssa Bryson and Katherine Mella of MIT CoLab describe how wellness-based development is a cornerstone of a just economy, and how it requires a ‘think, link and do’ approach
The Bronx Healthy Buildings Program
By Maggie Tishman and Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post, Maggie Tishman of the Bronx Healthy Buildings Program shares the sheer complexity of going ‘upstream’ as a taste of what we’ll hear at the May symposium
How One Foundation Hopes to Help Local Leaders Listen
By Tiffany Donelson and Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post, Tiffany Donelson of the Connecticut Health Foundation talks about state-level innovation, health equity and why they’re sending a delegation to our May symposium
New Report: Fostering Agency to Improve Health
By Pritpal S Tamber and Bridget B. Kelly |
Bringing together what we have learned over the last four years into 12 principles that describes an inclusive, participatory and responsive process key to the future of health
Symposium 2017: The ‘Setting the Stage’ Session
By Bridget B. Kelly |
In this post, Bridget Kelly, Co-Founder of Bridging Health & Community, describes the ‘setting the stage’ session at the forthcoming symposium, and how its themes will resonate through the two days
Symposium 2017: Who Are You, Really?
By Leigh Carroll |
In this post, Leigh Carroll, a member of the Planning Committee of the forthcoming symposium, describes some of the relationship-building activities that we’ll be weaving into the agenda, and why
How UnitedHealthcare is Connecting Federal to Local
By Michael B Roaldi and Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post, we hear from Michael B Roaldi of UnitedHealthcare Community and State on how they’re using Federal money for innovation to create new community collaborations
The California Endowment, Kaiser Permanente & RWJF: Announcing our Symposium Sponsors
By Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post we hear from Tony Iton of The California Endowment, Bechara N Choucair of Kaiser Permanente, and Alonzo Plough of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Symposium 2017: New Pricing Reflecting What We’ve Learned
By Pritpal S Tamber and Bridget B. Kelly |
Announcing a US$300 ticket for community-based organizations, community residents & students, a US$500 ticket for government, nonprofit & universities, and options for supporters
Symposium 2017: A Candid Conversation About Failure: Part II
By Carl Baty |
Carl Baty, Executive Director of Rounding The Bases, describes how healing is about being able to express yourself, about people listening, and about acknowledging that what happened to you was not right
Symposium 2017: A Candid Conversation About Failure: Part I
By S. Leonard Syme |
S Leonard Syme, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Community Health at the Berkeley School of Public Health, describes how his profession has failed to apply what it has learned about social risk factors
Using Participatory Research & Evaluation
By Mark L. Wieland and Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post we hear from Mark L Wieland of Mayo Clinic and Rochester Healthy Community Partnership about how they use community-based participatory research to inform interventions, build community capacity, and create authentic relationships with community residents
Creating Leadership Capacity for Long Term Change
By Risa Wilkerson and Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post we interview Risa Wilkerson of Active Living By Design about how they inspire community-led change, the link to health equity, and what they’ll present at our May symposium
Introducing Bridget B Kelly, our Co-Founder
By Bridget B. Kelly and Pritpal S Tamber |
In this post, our CEO, Pritpal S Tamber, introduces our Chief Delivery Officer (and Co-Founder), Bridget B Kelly. The process was not without pain
Introducing Bridging Health & Community, Inc.
By Pritpal S Tamber |
Our new organization dedicated to strengthening the field of practice that connects the health sector to local communities (and how it relates to the Creating Health Collaborative)
Symposium Speakers, Case Studies and Breakouts
By Pritpal S Tamber |
Registration for the symposium is now open so it’s time to announce the speakers, case studies and breakouts
How We’ve Designed the Symposium’s Agenda
By Pritpal S Tamber |
Penciled for May 15-16 in Oakland, CA, in this post I describe how the symposium’s Planning Committee has fashioned an agenda designed to create the conditions required for genuine collaboration
Our Inaugural Symposium: Bridging Health and Community
By Pritpal S Tamber |
In spring 2017 we’ll be holding our first symposium. Through this post we’re reaching out to place-based funders to help local ‘delegations’ to participate