Building Community Capacity by Sharing Power, Storytelling, & Systems Change
On April 21, 2021, All In showcased the work of Dr. Meredith Shockley-Smith, Director of Equity and Community Strategies at Cradle Cincinnati, Queens Village and Brittney Mosley, Community Health Director at the Mississippi State Department of Health who shared how building community capacity leads to racial health equity.
Speakers highlighted how they work in their respective communities to strengthen engagement and shift power to Black women, leverage data to present urgency to the issue and hold institutions accountable, and use storytelling to drive policy change, in an effort to reduce racial disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes.
Participants learned ideas to:
Collaborate with others to form lasting partnerships and sustainable networks
Show vulnerability and trust through storytelling
Share power and allow members of the community to drive the decision-making process
Leverage multi-sector data to drive policy and systems change
Ninma Fearon, Senior Associate with the Health Impact Project at The Pew Charitable Trusts, an All In partner moderated the conversation.