WHAT ARE COMMUNITY CIRCLES?

Community Cirles are in-person, trust-centered gatherings held in familiar community settings. They are structured, facilitated spaces where participants share lived experience, identify barriers, map trusted resources, strengthen referral pathways, and help turn learning into partner action.

A Community Circle is not a panel, lecture, town hall, one-way outreach campaign, or survey-only project. It is a relationship-centered space where trusted voices help turn community insight into shared learning and action.

WHY IT MATTERS?

Community Circles move engagement beyond a single event. Each Circle combines guided dialogue, participant reflection, resource mapping, partner learning, and follow-up so community insight can shape programs, improve referrals, and support long-term community health.

The goal is not only to collect feedback. The goal is to return insight to the people and organizations who can act on it, strengthen referral pathways, and make healthcare innovation easier to understand and use.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

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COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS

Community Champions are trusted leaders who extend the reach of Community Circles beyond a single gathering. Champions may be community organization staff, faith leaders, advocates, caregivers, service providers, or neighbors who are already connected to the people and places where health information travels.

GET INVOLVED

Community Circles grow through trusted relationships. People can learn more, join a future Circle, partner with CHI, nominate a champion, share a story, or suggest a trusted place where a future Circle could be hosted.