Aligning Systems for Health 2.0
In 2022 IWES kicked off a partnership with the Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) to participate in the second phase of their Aligning Systems for Health (AS4H) program. Building upon lessons from the first phase, over a three year period this partnership will share lessons learned about aligning health care, public health, and social service systems and promote community leadership to advance racially equitable health and healthcare systems. Through guidance from a community leadership committee, GHPC and IWES will accompany and learn from four community sites to gather information and evidence to develop and promote resources and strategies that support community voice and community leadership that can identify and disrupt structural racism and provide accountability to those most affected by inequitable health and healthcare systems. Aligning Systems 2.0 is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
“Learnings from Aligning Systems for Health indicate that cross-sectoral, community-led partnerships are best positioned to advance equity. We are thrilled to be partnering with IWES in this next phase of work to test the effectiveness of these assumptions for advancing racial and health equity in real-world settings.”
THE PROGRAM
Aligning Systems for Health (AS4H) 2.0 will incorporate community leadership, combining insights from existing research and learnings from practice-oriented activities to:
Build capacity among health care, public health, and social services organizations to elevate and leverage community leadership in order to identify and disrupt structural racism
Draw national attention to community-led systems change and equity-centered aligning processes
Build and disseminate knowledge, create resources, and support sustainability by increasing field-wide capacity to innovatively use resources in the system including, new federal funding, and innovations in financing to support community-led systems change
“IWES firmly believes in the power of community to contribute to its health, healing and wellbeing.
We believe that true change happens when community becomes the mechanism of change, and we work respectfully and humbly together to ignite such change.”
– Denese Shervington, MD, MPH, IWES President & CEO
PARTNER QUOTES
“The bedrock of this partnership is the belief that more equitable outcomes are achieved when community members drive efforts to align systems. This project will focus on working with community members to shape solutions for better health and healthcare systems that are ultimately capable of disrupting racialized health outcomes.”