Social connectedness is a major factor in a young person’s development and growth. From the moment we are first born, we are dependent on a network of social support, including parents, siblings, neighbors, family, and friends. These individuals and organizations serve as mentors and peers,
Social connectedness is a major factor in a young person’s development and growth. From the moment we are first born, we are dependent on a network of social support, including parents, siblings, neighbors, family, and friends. These individuals and organizations serve as mentors and peers,
We have a social connectedness crisis in America among older adults. Studies and surveys show that 1 in 4 people over the age of 50 feel lonely a significant amount of the time, and 1 in 3 are socially isolated. These problems have real, significant
What is social connectedness, and how is it different from social isolation and loneliness? How does connectedness impact our health, and why is it so critically important? As we continue to work our way through the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are asking these questions about
https://youtu.be/f2BJTJBxVsI Over the past year, we have tested PARTNERme, our social connectedness screening tool, in a number of unique pilot projects with community partners in health care, education, and mental health sectors. We learned a great deal about measuring social connectedness in a variety of
https://youtu.be/plXJcRT2ouM Network mapping and social network analysis is a powerful method for visualizing the quality and quantity of connections in a network of partners. It allows you to see who works with who, what resources are exchanged, how partners trust and value one another, and
The past year has created pressing new demands on social service providers, including food banks, nonprofits, and other food-related organizations. While the food systems sector was already a hub for collaborative innovation, COVID-19 further accelerated the importance of network leadership skills and strategy for those
How Can Networks Help Us Understand & Solve Health Inequity? In this VNL Network Leader webinar, Bria Thomas re-introduces the concept of health equity and then demonstrates how network and systems mapping can be used to demonstrate linkages in the causes of inequity. We follow
https://youtu.be/1EpAPAqmjSQ Ecosystem Mapping and Tracking Can Teach You a LOT. An ecosystem consists of all the organizations, individuals, programs, and other entities that interact and interconnect to affect the outcomes of your work. For example, the healthcare ecosystem includes organizations like hospitals, clinics, public health
https://youtu.be/phi5IWIBdiM Virtual Facilitation Doesn’t Have to Be Difficult… Our Webinar Can Help! COVID-19 has changed the way network leaders meet and engage with each other. Given the very real need to avoid face-to-face interactions and socially distance, many are turning to virtual facilitation to fill
This presentation was our final pitch to judges during the 2020 Prime Health Innovation Challenge, which VNL won with our innovative screener PARTNERme, A Person-centered Network Tool.
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Colorado’s Early Childhood Councils play an important role in improving health, education and other social outcomes for kids. They do this by connecting and coordinating work between stakeholders in the early childhood ecosystem. This includes nonprofits, government agencies, healthcare providers, educators, and other community organizations.
As the Councils have continued to grow and add new members to their network, they struggled to understand, track and measure their network quality and impact. Without concrete data and evidence to guide their work, they lacked a clear strategy for their network’s future and were concerned about losing their competitive advantage.
Most organizational networks are in a similar situation: Focusing on fostering more connections, more meetings, and more coordination and integration, without clear data to guide their effort. Dr. Varda realized that networks need visibility into their process outcomes like structure, quality, agreement and attribution to guide their strategy.
With this insight in mind, we worked to create PARTNER, our platform for tracking and visualizing networks, systems and ecosystems. It provided the Early Childhood Councils visibility into their partnerships with metrics like trust and value, so they could identify what was working and where to focus their strategy for the future.
Today the Councils have used their PARTNER data to reassess their strategy, demonstrate the impact of their work, and advance their mission in the future. Learn more about PARTNER below.
During the appointment, the doctor asked Mrs. Varda if she had help at home with things like picking up prescriptions and preparing meals. Her mom responded that she had several daughters in the area to help, so the provider moved on to the next question with little more thought.
However, the doctor didn’t know the whole story: for various reasons, Mrs. Varda could not depend entirely on her family for care and support. She tried to make do on her own as much as she could, making decisions that likely reduced her quality of life and reduced her chances of recovery.
Dr. Varda realized that our support networks are a significant factor in our health and well-being, especially for those undergoing care and treatment. While most providers realize this link exists, they lack the data and visibility needed to measure and improve their patient connectedness. She set out to build a tool that met this pressing need.
This year we introduced our solution to the world: PARTNERme, A Person-Centered Network Tool. It’s an easy-to-use patient screener that allows then to share both their social needs and social support network with their provider, so they can ask the right questions and connect them to resources to improve health and well-being. Learn more about PARTNERme here.
Strengthening Social Connectedness Among Young Adults: A Webinar on April 27th. Click here to learn more.
VNL won the Prime Health Innovation Challenge for PARTNERme! Watch our award-winning Pitch.
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A CPRM is a Community Partner Relationship Management system. Basically it’s like a CRM for organizational ecosystems. While a standard CRM simply tracks interactions with direct contacts like customers, a CPRM is designed to track an entire ecosystem—not just how an organization interacts with its own partners, but how all of them interact with each other.
Equal parts strategy and technology, PARTNER uses network science and data to track these ecosystems over time. This helps organizations understand and evolve their collaborative strategies, and ultimately increase the impact of their work.