HEALING BC HEALTH SYSTEMS

I facilitated the province-wide consultations, co-wrote the infrastructure model, and moderated Summit panel dialogues with health innovation leaders to build collaboration consensus. I worked with appreciative inquiry, story mapping, innovation tools and circle process to mobilize knowledge across 6 regions and 82 organizations, and opened doors to formerly unheard of partnerships.

In Raising the Profile, we innovated a new infrastructure of adaptive, highly accountable and relationship-based health care in BC, now being implemented by the United Way.

The Raising the Profile Project launched a new era of health systems development in BC.

How to shift to integrated, community-accessible health services has perplexed institutional health planners for some time.

The Raising the Profile Project, led by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives lead Marcy Cohen, created a new infrastructure for integrated health care in BC, with cross-sector partnerships, collaboration structure, and a capacity growth model that’s being scaled across Canada.

“Christine’s facilitation brought clarity to our diverse participants’ needs, and our task to create collaboration for community health systems. She tapped into the energy for new kinds of relationships, solid consensus and readiness for action across BC.“

Marcy Cohen, lead, Raising the Profile Project

The seniors’ care sector grapples with social health questions that daylight how our entire health system is and isn’t working. Key questions for all stakeholders came to: “How can we shape community wellness to end isolation?” and “How do we collaborate across protocols, mandates, and expertise of our institutions?”

The project launched systemic collaboration with civic & provincial governments, regional health authorities and elders’ community support organizations, enabled with cross-sector collaborative innovations. The project set up infrastructure that integrates real-life complexity with the social determinants of health, and lowers health care costs.

The Infrastructure Elements:

Develop a common language through collaborative, developmental evaluation;
Facilitate cross-sector mentorships;
Build a knowledge & practice mobilization network that’s adaptive and learning;
Recognise leadership in community-based health innovation.

“VIVE LA REVOLUTION!” was the rallying cry from participants during my closing comments at the launch Summit, Vancouver, November 2017.