Our next collective impact initiative convening is March 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 systems change around emotional and sexual health, please pass this information on to them and invite them to the meeting.

There is a new tab for our Collective Impact Initiative on the RISE website. It includes information and notes from past meetings.

What to Expect

• Introductions

• Announcements

• Asking the Right Questions

A paradigm shift occurs when a question is asked inside a current paradigm that can only be answered from outside it.

—Marilee Goldberg, The Art of the Question

• Individual Work and Breakout sessions:

  • What data do we gather?

  • Which of these center our constituents in a trauma-informed way?

  • What data should we gather that we do not?

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.