Coalition Building
Uniting public health, education, government, and community voices to drive policy change, advance equity, and build shared accountability.
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Use Cases of Coalition Building
The coalitions that last are the ones that invested early in how they'd work together. We help groups build practices for collaboration, structures that distribute influence intentionally, and decision-making processes that keep every voice in the room genuinely influential.
NYS Oral Health Coalition
New York’s oral health system faces barriers in access, workforce capacity, and care coordination. The coalition had already developed the Barriers to Bridges Report, and the next step required moving from recommendations into collaborative action. The goal of this convening was to begin implementation by creating alignment and prioritizing the most impactful opportunities.
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We designed and facilitated a half-day virtual convening that brought together leaders across public health, dental and medical care, education, disability services, and community advocacy. The session focused on building shared understanding, strengthening collaboration, and establishing clear ownership for next steps.
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Outcomes
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Five active workgroups formed for priority workforce strategies:
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Consensus on 2025 implementation priorities
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Identified resource needs and partnership opportunities
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Shared language and motivation captured through participant-authored reflections
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You go above and beyond in terms of your ability, your willingness to work with us, the time that you put into it, the training you give us, the help that you give me anyway, in terms of how to think about organization. I felt that way everytime I worked with you.
-Bridget Walsh
Erica has spent the last two decades at the intersection of applied improv and systems-change work.
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She's worked in public health coalitions, education reform efforts, and cross-sector collaboratives where the official goal was alignment and the real challenge was that some valuble in the room had been ignored for years. The gap between what a coalition says it values and how it actually functions is where her work lives.
