Happy New Year, Reader!

Are you a New Years Resolution person? I've never been much of one, but something about 2024, I've got an overflowing list of goals for the year (I'll be trimming down and prioritizing this month, not to worry!).

But there's one thing I know will make the cut: As we launch into the new year, we here at PoP Health are excited to announce our Community Threads 2024 Newsletter Series!

As I've said before, one of the greatest joys of my work these days is partnering with community coalitions.

As PoP Health dives more deeply each year into our work with coalitions, we've learned a few things. And in 2024, our foremost goal is to share what we've learned with others, especially those who are leading, participating in, and working with community coalitions trying to transform health in their communities through policy and systems change.

Our 2024 newsletter series will officially launch in February and take us into the summer with biweekly emails that put frameworks, tools and strategies that coalitions can put into action directly into your inbox.

I'm going to share a preview of what's to come in the series below, but before I do that, I have one heartfelt request to you, Reader - could you please forward this email to at least three colleagues/friends who might be interested in this newsletter series and encourage them to subscribe to Community Threads? Thank you so much for helping us with our goal of sharing more widely what we've learned alongside the coalitions we work with!

With that said, what's to come in this series?

We're going to be introducing PoP Health's C.A.P.E. process, with each month focused on a different phase in the process:

These four phases - Community collaboration (which we'll discuss over two months, the first focused on collaboration with community members and the second focused on collaboration across coalition members), Action planning, Participatory evaluation, and Effective storytelling - are not sequential. They are overlapping, often parallel, and always iterative. But we find that separating our thinking into these phases is helpful as coalitions wrap their arms around their work and how best to move it forward.

In the first issue of a month, we’ll introduce the phase, associated frameworks, and key questions to consider. In the second issue of a month, we’ll introduce a few key strategies and resources relevant to the phase.

Please join us on this journey, and again, please pass on the word to at least three of your colleagues/friends. Through this newsletter series sharing our learnings, we hope we can play a small role in helping you achieve some of your 2024 goals!

Until next time,

Vinu

PS Learn something in this newsletter? Spread the word! Forward this email to a friend or colleague who might want to weave their own community threads.

PPS Want to learn more about PoP Health and how we partner with community coalitions and collaboratives to transform health in communities through policy and systems change? Check out our website!