Engage Communities
Real solutions start with real voices
CPPR partners with communities to elevate lived experience and build shared understanding through trust-based engagement. By creating space for dialogue, reflection, and shared learning, we help partners reframe challenges, surface new perspectives, and build the relationships necessary for meaningful change.
Community engagement efforts include sensemaking processes and lived-expert initiatives that help partners better understand real-world conditions and align around what change is needed.
What We Do
Elevate lived experience as critical knowledge
Facilitate dialogue across communities, practitioners, and system leaders
Support sensemaking that helps partners interpret data and experience together
Build trust and readiness for action across systems
Examples
Thriving Families
Co-designing systems of child well-being with parents and youth
MN StoryCollective
An initiative drawing on story collection and sensemaking to inform program and service improvement in Minnesota
Million Moments for Maternal Mortality Prevention
A conference planned in collaboration with lived experts, community members, and cross-sector partnerships with the shared goal of preventing maternal death
Kansas Care and Wellness Conferences
A new way for families to connect with mental health experts, providers, and each other
Douglas County Thrives
A sensemaking project to center lived experiences and community member stories at the heart of poverty reduction strategies
Family Strong Sensemaking
Engaging communities to meet families where they are and provide universal support
