Organizations serving in the Backbone Role
The Vital Village Network strives to enhance existing efforts to promote child, family, and community wellbeing. Our Network is working to build capacity and develop leadership with existing resident-led community groups. In this effort we have helped bridge policy, research, and practice. We have also identified common challenges for resident-led groups and our support includes: conflict-resolution, collaborative leadership, facilitation, meaningful use of data, quality improvement, evaluation, coaching, and using the network to support resource connections. We also served as a liaison for programs at Boston Medical Center that desired to be based in the community, collaborate with community-based organizations, or engage community residents in co-designing healthcare services and health systems.