Engaging Communities to Achieve Common Goals -- June 12 St. Paul Breakfast

The Performance Excellence Network is pleased to welcome Janelle Shearer, RN, BSN, MA, CHPQ, Program Manager, Stratis Health to our June 12 St. Paul PEN breakfast discussion: “Community Capacity Approach: Engaging Communities to Achieve Common Goals.”

Community capacity building is about promoting the ‘capacity’ of local communities to develop, implement and sustain their own solutions to problems in a way that helps them shape and exercise control over their physical, social, economic and cultural environments.  Janelle will share common elements used in engaging communities in multiple quality improvement initiatives.  Examples will include rural palliative care, coordination of care, and a statewide, virtual community to increase home health acceptance.  While the discussion will center on improving health, the techniques could work in any community.

The discussion is at Metro State University in the Student Center (details provided at registration). Continental breakfast will be served from 7:30 to 8:00 with the presentation from 8:00 to 9:00 am. No cost for members; $30 for non-members.

The discussion will also be made available to view through Facebook livestream (free for all PEN members) and/or video-on-demand ($20 members, $40 non-members; free for Premium/Sponsoring members).