Our next collective impact initiative convening is February 11 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Preregistration is required and security measures are in place.

If you know of others who might be interested in working toward healthy systems change around sexual health, please pass this information on to them and invite them to the meeting.

Enhancing health, safety, and quality of life regarding relationships, sex, and sexuality

—Draft common goal for this Collective Impact Initiative

What to Expect

• Introductions

• Common Agenda overview: What are the various aspects of a common agenda?

  • Shared principles and values.

  • Definition of the common problem

  • Shared goal.

  • Framework for change

  • Plan for learning

• Breakout sessions:

  • Refining the common goal.

  • Defining principles and values for our work together.

What is Collective Impact?

Collective impact involves cross-sector cooperation as well as empowering individual participation from stakeholders who have information and perspectives to share. From nonprofit organizations to law enforcement, university departments to local businesses, health care and mental health professionals to government agencies, we are better when we work together.

According to the Collective Impact Forum, collective impact brings people together in a dynamic, structured way, to achieve systems change. It starts with a common agenda, coming together to define issues and create a shared vision for addressing them. It establishes shared measurements so the initiative can track its progress and improve on its work. It fosters mutually reinforcing activities to maximize end results. It requires continuous communication to build trust and coordinate efforts. And it has a strong backbone, an organization or team dedicated to orchestrating the work, as well as an active steering committee and shorter term working groups.