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Transformational Community Engagement

We are committed to practicing transformational community engagement as an approach to co-creating a Boston where all residents live well and long.  

Transformational Community Engagement Policy

The Boston Public Health Commission’s Transformational Community Engagement Policy is the practice of sharing decision-making power with communities, ensuring they have a measurable influence on the policies and practices that affect their lives and that lead to sustained systems and structural change.

Our Transformational Community Engagement Policy guides all bureaus, centers, and offices, and partners to involve community members in at least one operational, funding, or policy decision-making process at least once each year.

We Asked, You Said, We Did, What Changed

Our We Asked, You Said, We Did, What Changed accountability structure is designed to hold us accountable to the communities we engage and the outcome of the engagement.  

Document with the Boston Public Health Commission logo at the top. There's space for project name, contact information, program/department, and date. The text reads, "We Asked, You Said, We Did, & What Changed" with a green checkmark. There's a section for each piece: We Ask, You Said, We Did, What Changed. In the "We Asked" section, there's checkboxes that read, "Level of engagement: inform, consult, collaborate, transfer decision-making, support community driven and led".

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