The Virginia Community Care Innovation Collaborative

March 13 Webinar: Food is Medicine for a Healthier Virginia

Join us in the new Food is Medicine Learning Circle!

• Thanks to everyone who participated in our March 13 webinar introducing the Food is Medicine Learning Circle. 
• Click here to watch the webinar recording and view the webinar presentation slides.

 In this first follow-up message we also want to:

• 1. Recognize our guest presenters, Meaghan Butler from the Federation of Virginia Food Banks, and Allison Hallberg from Feed More.  These two organizations and their many community partners are changing lives and creating healthier communities every day, and we thank Allison and Meaghan for sharing their insights, ideas, and accomplishments in the realm of Food is Medicine.
• 2. Invite everyone to visit the Food is Medicine Learning Circle, where you can find bite-sized resources on Food is Medicine research, participants, partners, interventions, and resource pathways.
• 3. Encourage everyone to share your insights, ideas, and examples through the Better Together Survey. By sharing our collective knowledge and creativity, we can streamline and accelerate our work to sustain and spread Food is Medicine across Virginia. Click here to share.

We will be sharing additional insights, ideas, examples, and more in the coming days. 

Thanks again to everyone!

Join the Collaborative!

We welcome everyone to join the Community Care Innovation Collaborative, where we support development of community networks to connect people in need to health-related social supports. The Collaborative is supported by VAAACares®, Virginia's Community Care Hub. 

Take a video tour of what's inside (5 minutes), or read on for a quick outline.

Our Purpose

• We are at the front end of a wave of innovation for integrating health care and social supports. 
• The innovation trend is toward community care networks in which organizations work together to connect people in need to health-related social supports. 
• The purpose of this Collaborative is to support development of community care networks that connect people in need to health-related social supports. 
• Together we can help each other understand the possibilities, and innovate in ways that work best for people in need across Virginia.  

Members

We welcome members from all organizations and settings with an interest in connecting people in need to health-related social supports, including:

Learning for Action

We are continuously scanning the field to identify new insights and ideas.  

• Visit the Learning for Action menu to explore the possibilities.

Request & Share

Our greatest asset in the Collaborative is the opportunity to share with each other.  At any time you can:

• Request a resource to help you with your work
• Share a resource to help other Collaborative members 
• Schedule a strategy chat to explore the possibilities for your organization or community

Webinars

Through periodic webinars we bring people together to learn and share ideas for optimizing health care and social supports for Virginians in need.  

• Explore the webinar collection.

Strategy Guides

Explore our list of strategy guides for optimizing service delivery and network operations.

• Explore the strategy guide collection

Contact

Contact us at any time to learn more about the Collaborative and the VAAACares®  Community Care Hub. 

• Questions about the VAAACares® Community Care Hub? Contact Kathy Vesley at [email protected]
• Questions about the Collaborative resources? Contact Steve Horan at [email protected]

Learn more about the VAAACares® Community Care Hub