Sentinel Communities—Learning and Insights
What are Sentinel Communities?
Since 2016, we have monitored activities related to how a Culture of Health is developing in 30 diverse communities around the country. We have analyzed these communities’ efforts to promote health and wellbeing through the lens of our Action Framework.
Explore Our Sentinel Communities
What We Are Learning from Sentinel Communities?
Over time, we’ve gained insights about key themes around building a Culture of Health.
See how these themes and insights have emerged across many of our Sentinel Communities.
Health Equity Report
The Health Equity Report provides insight into how 11 communities conceptualize health equity and how those perspectives influence strategies and approaches to promote health equity.
Anchor Institutions Report
The Anchor Institutions report provides insight into how anchor institutions in 8 communities are having an impact on community narrative, investment, and measurement around health and well-being, as well as developing innovative solutions to address health equity.
Rural and Small Communities Report
The Rural and Small Communities report focuses on the unique experiences of these communities in addressing health and well-being issues, as well as communicating a narrative about health.
Grassroots Organizations and Community Power
This report describes the changing role of grassroots organizations in addressing community health and health equity; and barriers and facilitators to their engagement and influence locally.
Health Narratives in Communities
This report explains what frames and influences community narratives related to health, wellbeing, and health equity.
Housing Justice
This report discusses how communities are addressing specific housing challenges; and the role of federal and state dollars and policies in shaping housing justice
within Sentinel Communities.
Medicaid Expansion
This brief report describes the status of Medicaid expansion in the Sentinel Communities; some impacts of expansion; remaining gaps; and barriers and facilitators to implementing expansion.
Systems Change
This report provides a foundational analysis of what changes are happening in the systems that support health in a community and not simply change at the level of individual organization or within a particular sector.
