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SDOH Screening Tools: 5 Key Factors to Consider
The importance of the social determinants of health is becoming more and more well-known among healthcare providers and practitioners. By helping patients meet their social needs like housing, transportation, food…
PARTNER Trust and Value Metrics: A Brief
As the old saying goes, ‘garbage in, garbage out.’ If you aren’t asking the right questions during a social network analysis, you aren’t going to have reliable data to analyze…
Webinar: Ecosystem Mapping and Tracking with PARTNER
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…
7 Things Social Network Analysis Can Teach You About Your Collaborative
Social network analysis has been around for many decades in academic circles, but it has only recently become a popular learning tool for networks and other collaboratives. For many decades…
PARTNERme Pilots Are Making an Impact for Colorado Patients & Providers
The past year of the pandemic and social distancing has clearly deemonstratted the importance of social connectedness in determining health and well-being outcomes. At VNL, our years of systems mapping…
PARTNER Method for Network Strategy: A Brief
Once you make the decision to take a network approach to solving a problem, you need to design a specific strategy – the way you will build, manage and evaluate…
Organizational Network Structures: 6 Common Examples
There are many different ways to structure a network… for example, in a decentralized structure, everyone in a network can be connected to everyone else, while in a centralized structure,…
Systems Thinking Quotes | 23 Favorite Thought-Provoking Sayings
Systems thinking is an important perspective for all network leaders! A network is fundamentally a system, experiencing many of the same dynamics that other systems go through, including emergence, feedback…
Meet our New Research & Data Technologist, Bria Thomas
We’re excited to share that we’re growing out staff again at VNL. Bria Thomas, our new Research & Data Technologist, brings a wealth of experience from the public health field,…
What is a Network Strategy? Why Is Having One So Important?
For those working in the field of social impact, building networks is part of the new normal. Creating partnerships with other organizations lets us share resources and knowledge, coordinate our…
Webinar: Virtual Facilitation in the Age of COVID-19
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…
More Than Social Isolation: 3 Different Types of Adverse Social Connectedness
After the past year of social distancing and isolation, the importance of social connections have never been so vividly clear to so many. With loved ones unable to meet face-to-face,…
Meet our New Director of Customer Experience, Kelly Sprong
We’re excited to start off 2021 by expanding our capacity to serve our partners, clients and customers with another great addition to our team. Kelly Sprong joins us as our…
VNL Recognized by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune for our COVID-19 Research
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Denver, CO (February 11, 2020) – Visible Network Labs was highlighted by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune twice for our new study exploring clinical-to-community referrals during the COVID-19 Pandemic.…
Closed Vs Open Networks: When is Each Most Effective?
In network theory, a major focus of study is on the relative ‘openness’ of a network, and its relationship with network effectiveness. Specifically, people wonder whether the ideal is closed…
Meet our New Full Stack Developer, Josh Albert!
The Development Team that brought you PARTNER continues to expand its size and capacity as we bring on another Full stack Engineer to our team. Josh Albert has several decades…
Network Purpose: What Can You Accomplish Collectively?
People build networks for a reason, what we call their “network purpose.” Some networks or alliances are extremely focused in what they address, while others take a more fluid approach…
Types of Organizational Networks: 6 Ways to Organize a Network
Organizational networks bring together numerous different organizations to work together and collaborate around a common purpose. However there are many different types of organizational networks, each oriented towards different goals…
Meet our New Research & Evaluation Manager, Kaley Feenstra!
Our Research and Data Science Team is growing quickly with the addition of several new staff members. This week, we’re excited to introduce you to Kaley Feenstra, our new Research…
Meet our New Data Scientist, Dr. Rose Hardy!
VNL is growing and excited to welcome a new Data Scientist to our team, Dr. Rose Hardy. As a member of our Research and Data Science Team, Dr. Hardy will…
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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.
Nearly a decade ago, our founder Dr. Danielle Varda accompanied her mother to a check-in appointment with oncologist. Her mom had been fighting breast cancer for nearly a year and was beginning to struggle to take care of herself all by herself. 
