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Building Power for Health Justice 

Community Catalyst 2023 Annual Convening (Virtual)
Tuesday, October 17 – Thursday, October 19, 2023

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Convening Overview:  

In order to achieve race equity and health justice, local, tribal, state, and national organizations must work together to center the ideas, wants and needs of communities most impacted by an unjust health system.  

The 2023 Community Catalyst annual convening, Building Power for Health Justice, will be a thoughtful and inclusive space where local, tribal, state and national partners actively learn from and strategize with one another about the short and long-term changes we seek. Our focus on power is a recognition of the need for us to leverage and build power together to create a health system rooted in race equity and health justice, and a society where health is a right for all.  

The 2023 Building Power for Health Justice convening will focus on weaving together a range of ideas and strategies that undergird our movement and build power – from communications strategy and narrative change, to organizing models and tools, to community-driven policy development, to coalition building. We will focus on centering the experiences and ideas of those most harmed by our health system today so that, together, we are continuing to surface strategies for change that fuel health justice. We are excited to create a space where we can learn from one another, reflect with one another, and strategize together – as we believe in the power of us to change the health system. We look forward to seeing you in October!  

We have closed our request for proposals (RFP). You may still view the RFP here.

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Resources

Building Power for Health Justice: A Discussion with Fatima Goss Graves, National Women’s Law Center

Community Catalyst Executive Director Emily Stewart and President & CEO of the National Women’s Law Center Fatima Goss Graves, discuss the relationship between attacks on reproductive freedom and access to gender-affirming care and how, for many, this is being experienced as a crisis of democracy.

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Building Narrative Power to Drive Policy Change

Gena Madow, senior director of communications at Community Catalyst, welcomed four visionaries and movement leaders to the virtual stage to answer the key question: What does narrative power mean to you?

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Health as a Right for All: A Keynote Address from the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra

Drawing from his years of experience as an advocate for health equity, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra delivered a keynote address about the meaning of health justice and how the department is working towards an equitable health care system that allows all people to thrive.

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Nothing for US, Without US: Shifting Power by Centering People Most Impacted by Health Inequities

A powerful session featuring trailblazers at the forefront of health justice. Their lived experiences drive their work to center communities directly impacted by health inequity. These activists and organizers describe how to mobilize communities to create lasting change and how the “story of self” can transform policies and practices.

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Power Moves Throughout the Health Justice Landscape

Afua Atta-Mensah of Community Change leads a discussion with a group of panelists working on a diverse set of issues that probe the nature of power building, inside/outside strategies for change, the need for sustained narrative, organizing and livelihoods in the health justice movement, and more.

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Community Power: Collective Impact for Transformative Change

Community leaders working to mobilize and build power locally and across their state came together in this plenary focused on community-driven health justice strategies. The panelists discussed their work to build leadership, power and autonomy in communities without being extractive.

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