2019 Impact Summit

Considering Health:
a) What's Health Got to Do With It? (Emma Connell, Paul Mattessich) In this session, we will primarily discuss our process of identifying, compiling, and analyzing health and economic indicators for a study of how health impacts a community’s economic vitality. We will also discuss implications and opportunities for other organizations interested in doing similar work.
b) A Colorado Health Equity Data and Storytelling Platform: Harnessing the Power of Communities (Jennifer Newcomer)  The Colorado Trust believes that everyone deserves the chance to grow up healthy and thrive. Yet, this is not the reality for many of Colorado’s residents, largely due to where they happen to live, or the color of their skin. Over the past several years, The Colorado Trust has been working with Shift Research Lab to develop an approach to engage communities across Colorado for the development of an innovative online platform that will share compelling data and stories in ways that help promote health equity. Pilot implementation is beginning this year. This platform will share Colorado-focused, community-level data on health inequities and the underlying systemic factors that create inequities. By elevating information that is responsive and appropriate for each community, including the integration of stories depicting life experiences of residence in communities, data-driven decisions can be made that are crucial for realizing the vision of fair and equal opportunity for all residents to achieve good health. This session will focus on sharing the current process to engage a larger end-user base to inform the project, connecting existing efforts, including build the base of stewardship across the state that will be a necessary component for impact, as well as sharing Shift’s role as the data and research-backbone for the platform.