In response to our PFAnetwork members, starting in March 2024, we will begin to host the Coffee Chats on the 3rd Friday of the ODD months at 9 AM PT and on the 3rd Wednesday of EVEN months at 12 PM PT.

• For New Jersey Residents

• Virtual Meeting Format

• Stipend Available

• 2 Hour Time Commitment

We’d like to invite PFAnetwork members living in New Jersey to share their experiences with how the health system did or did not address your unique social needs. PLEASE SUBMIT INTEREST BY NOVEMBER 15.

The Quality Improvement Program in New Jersey is hosting a Social Drivers of Health Learning Collaborative for hospitals. Social drivers of health (SDOH) are the conditions in which people live, work, learn, and play, such as access to housing, food, healthcare, and transportation, that affect well-being.

We invite patients and family caregivers who have experience being screened for or accessing resources related to SDOH to participate in a listening session. In December, hospitals will have the opportunity to listen to your firsthand experiences and insights. If you are interested in sharing your experience with hospital staff to help improve the process of screening and addressing SDOH for others, please complete this brief form, and we'll be in touch.

Complete the interest form here: Quality Improvement Program - New Jersey Social Drivers Of Health Listening Session Interest Form

In response to our PFAnetwork members, starting in March 2024, we will begin to host the Coffee Chats on the 3rd Friday of the ODD months at 9 AM PT and on the 3rd Wednesday of EVEN months at 12 PM PT.

Join us for our upcoming Quality Improvement (QI) Basics for Patient Family Partners!

Part 1: November 6th

Part 2: November 13th

10-11am PT / 1-2pm ET.

Quality improvement (QI) is a framework used by health systems to systematically advance practices for safe, timely, effective, equitable, and person-centered care. And these quality improvement projects are significantly more impactful when they partner directly with patients, family caregivers, and other people with key lived experiences. We have essential insights they may otherwise be missing.

Join us November 6 and 13 for Quality Improvement Basics for Patient Family Partners to develop a practical understanding of the QI framework. These sessions are designed for you to engage with confidence and expanded impact in your next partnership. Register for the QI Basics course here.

These sessions will be held virtually in Zoom.

Join us for our upcoming Quality Improvement (QI) Basics for Patient Family Partners!

Part 1: November 6th

Part 2: November 13th

10-11am PT / 1-2pm ET.

Quality improvement (QI) is a framework used by health systems to systematically advance practices for safe, timely, effective, equitable, and person-centered care. And these quality improvement projects are significantly more impactful when they partner directly with patients, family caregivers, and other people with key lived experiences. We have essential insights they may otherwise be missing.

Join us November 6 and 13 for Quality Improvement Basics for Patient Family Partners to develop a practical understanding of the QI framework. These sessions are designed for you to engage with confidence and expanded impact in your next partnership. Register for the QI Basics course here.

These sessions will be held virtually in Zoom.

In response to our PFAnetwork members, starting in March 2024, we will begin to host the Coffee Chats on the 3rd Friday of the ODD months at 9 AM PT and on the 3rd Wednesday of EVEN months at 12 PM PT.

Join us for a meaningful new series and opportunity to connect! The purpose of the Building Bridges series is to create a sense of belonging within the PFAnetwork community. This session will elevate PFAnetwork members to share lived experiences navigating the healthcare system representing people with disabilities. We are looking forward to having these candid conversations together!

In response to our PFAnetwork members, starting in March 2024, we will begin to host the Coffee Chats on the 3rd Friday of the ODD months at 9 AM PT and on the 3rd Wednesday of EVEN months at 12 PM PT.

In response to our PFAnetwork members, starting in March 2024, we will begin to host the Coffee Chats on the 3rd Friday of the ODD months at 9 AM PT and on the 3rd Wednesday of EVEN months at 12 PM PT.

In response to our PFAnetwork members, starting in March 2024, we will begin to host the Coffee Chats on the 3rd Friday of the ODD months at 9 AM PT and on the 3rd Wednesday of EVEN months at 12 PM PT.

In response to our PFAnetwork members, starting in March 2024, we will begin to host the Coffee Chats on the 3rd Friday of the ODD months at 9 AM PT and on the 3rd Wednesday of EVEN months at 12 PM PT.

INSPIRE Peer Connection Summit

Sunday, April 28, 3-4pm PT (6-7pm ET)

The INSPIRE Peer Connection Summit is all about bringing people with lived experience together. Creating a safe space for everyone's unique story is heard, respected, and valued. This is a chance to build relationships around our shared passion for partnering to improve healthcare. To bring yourself, and offer others strength and support.

This is a special gathering for people who are living with complex medical and social challenges navigating various health care systems to get help. It's a time for making connections and celebrating the nationwide community of people with lived-experiences.

For a comprehensive look at the INSPIRE project, consider attending the PFCCpartners Community of Practice Workshop on April 26. Read on for more information.

We look forward to you joining us.

Building the Table Together: Lessons on Authentic Community Engagement from INSPIRE

Friday, April 26, 12-1pm PST (3-4pm EST)

Presented by:

Evelyne Kane, MPH
Associate Director, Community Engagement & Capacity Building
Camden Coalition

Savy Makalena
CEO & Founder
Gimme A Break

Community engagement is a powerful tool for organizations and communities that want to create lasting and positive change. When done well, community engagement builds trust, advances health equity, creates cost-savings and efficiencies for healthcare organizations, and leads to healthy and thriving communities. Unfortunately, too often, well-intentioned community engagement initiatives are limited in diversity, fail to achieve meaningful outcomes, and fall short of authentic power-sharing.

INSPIRE (Initiating National Strategies for Partnership, Inclusion, and Real Engagement) is a national partnership project that brings together the Camden Coalition, Community Catalyst, the Center to Advance Consumer Partnership, PFCCpartners, the Institute for Patient-and Family-Centered Care, alongside a team of experts with lived experience. Together we are working to co-design a national strategy to advance meaningful partnerships between healthcare organizations and community members.

During this session, members of the INSPIRE team will share major finding from our research drawing from experiences of over 300 healthcare stakeholders and community members from across the country and will offer principles and actionable steps that healthcare organizations and people with lived experience can take to advance meaningful partnerships-together.

This event will be recorded and made available on the PFCCpartners YouTube Channel.

In response to our PFAnetwork members, starting in March 2024, we will begin to host the Coffee Chats on the 3rd Friday of the ODD months at 9 AM PT and on the 3rd Wednesday of EVEN months at 12 PM PT.