HEAL Board

We are an inclusive group of multicultural leaders who partner with the community to advocate for quality care and equitable health outcomes for All.

 

Somos un grupo inclusivo de líderes multiculturales que se asocian con la comunidad para abogar por una atención de calidad y resultados de salud equitativos para todos.

HEAL Board Timeline

“Knowledge is not power if I don’t share it with anybody”

-Sharon Hampton

2019 - 2022
BUILD Trust, BUILD Health

The workgroup mapped the systems that affect the health of the Hispanic/Latinx community members living along the White Horse Road (WHR), in Greenville, South Carolina. This team of agency leaders identified areas for further exploration: building access to healthy eating and active living opportunities and building community trust.

2021
FEAB

When COVID hit, LiveWell developed the inaugural cohort, the Food Equity Action Board (Fall 2021), which was tasked with identifying policy solutions to build a more just and equitable food system in Greenville County, SC. This approach to community engagement was the perfect model to use for our continued path to healing in the WHR community.

2023 - 2025
Iteration of the HEAL Board

LiveWell and its partners have made the HEAL Board a permanent fixture in the
organization's structure. This ensures that the work of LiveWell's coalitions for food security, active living, and community engagement continues to be grounded in community members’ life experiences.

2025 and beyond
Community-Driven Research Approaches

In June 2024, Furman’s Institute for the Advancement of Community Health and LiveWell Greenville were selected as one of only three hubs in the nation — alongside Yale University and the University of California San Diego — to lead a project focused on understanding community power in the context of local government across the Upstate of South Carolina. Through community-based approaches, we aim to build trust and capacity for more effective and ethical research partnerships with local residents.

Goals of the initiative

BUILD TRUST

Increase community members’ trust in the community change process by building safe spaces to address needed policy changes, and community opportunities and breaking down systemic barriers.

Strengthen HEAL Board members’ understanding of and involvement in policy, systems, and environmental change.

Increase community engagement in LiveWell Coalitions and ensure that their priorities, policy agenda and action plans are grounded in the HEAL Board members’ experience.