Stewardship Coordination and Alignment

BeWellPBC brings together residents and system leaders to create a unified vision for building a culture of health and wellness and to co-design solutions grounded in equity, access, community healing, and behavioral health awareness.

SIMPLE RULES IN ACTION: CONNECT

We are paving the way for the Stewardship Council to evolve, becoming a more resilient community strengthened by our support of one another. We listen and challenge one another in our commitment to dismantling racism. Innovate how we tackle sticky issues together and remove bureaucracy. And reach out to others to continuously deepen belonging.

PBC Culture of Wellness Team: The Foundation for Generational Change

BeWellPBC’s Phase I Portfolio Design for Healthier Regions project work with ReThink Health and partners Palm Health Foundation, Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County, and Palm Beach County's Youth Services and Community Services Departments was the start of a mindset change that led to the Simple Rules.

Phase II of the ReThink Health project kicked off in May 2022. We expanded to a “PBC Culture of Wellness Team,” answering the call of Dr. David Shern and Dr. Mary Armstrong in their exploratory study of the children’s system of care in Palm Beach County, “Achieving Greater Impact from the System of Care,” to broaden the work of the original ReThink Health project team to include a full range of stakeholders. During summer months, 60 community and systems leaders (from resident groups, grassroots initiatives, peer organizations, behavioral health providers, government agencies, the School District and more) participated in a two-part series of simulation activities that challenged participants to identify system challenges locally and plan forward for a thriving community.

A smaller group of community and systems stakeholders (15-20 of the 60 attendees) were invited to participate together in our Stewardship Investor Learning Lab: “Shifting Investment Priorities and Commitments,” bimonthly learning labs from September through December 2022, with ongoing support from ReThink Health. The relationships created during the lab among residents and grassroots and system leaders has been so profound that BeWellPBC has invited all participants to join our Stewardship Council.

Modeling Change

We continue to be featured across the nation at conferences to share our insights, successes, and challenges.

• Lauren Zuchman with BeWellPBC presented at American Public Health Association with Dr. Shern, Patrick McNamara of Palm Health Foundation, Anna Creegan with ReThink Health, and Emanuel Dupree Jackson with EJS Project. We shared how we are “ReThinking Population Health in Palm Beach County, FL: A Shared Stewardship Approach.”

• Lauren Zuchman along with Emanuel Dupree Jackson and Anna Creegan got together again to introduce "Distributing Leadership for Community-Led Solutions: A Shared Stewardship Approach" at the national Collective Impact Action Summit hosted by FSG.

• At the Community Change Experience, Lauren Zuchman presented "Co-Designing Local Solutions for System-Wide Change" with Lisa McMiller, Golden Parents Inc., and Michelle Gross, Children's Services Council.