What has grown from the model
Thirty years of programs, research, teaching, and evaluation, all built on assets that already existed in a community or an institution. Start anywhere.
Programs running now
HPAC
The Health Professions Affinity Community. Student teams find a health challenge in their own community, research it, and act, since 2011.
About HPACThe High Tech wall
What 104 Tri-C High Tech Academy students in 22 teams are doing right now, open for everyone to see, through Scholars Day on April 16, 2027.
See the wallCHW Academy
Community health worker training built to Ohio's standard, with a Junior CHW pathway for high school students that runs through HPAC.
The AcademyThe Innovation Incubator
For people who have their 501(c)(3), or are planning to, and need to design the organization: mission, plan, programs, communities, funding.
The IncubatorCommunity Journal
A multimedia, academic journal for people who usually cannot publish: articles, webinars, podcasts, courses, and lessons learned.
The JournalStart an HPAC
Professional development for teachers, church groups, youth groups, and YMCA leaders clubs, and a network of youth designing their own projects.
The courseEvaluation services
Hire us to design or run your program evaluation, social return on investment, or data system.
EvaluationPredictive analytics
Where and when risk rises, read by the people who know the streets. The principles, the course, and live examples.
AnalyticsClients and past work
Health systems, universities, schools, foundations, and community organizations, and what we built with each.
ClientsCommunity Citizenship Store
Books, toolkits, training, and licenses that support the work.
The storeWhy conditions exist, who decided, and how communities change them
Our research asks why conditions exist in a neighborhood, who decided, and how communities use what they already have to change them. Four pillars: education innovation, community and neighborhood, community safety and healing, and measuring what matters.
Research underway
HPAC twelve years on, student voices, rural assets, catalytic capital, time and place, and bias and infant mortality. Plus Hope as Infrastructure and recent evaluations.
ResearchEvery community has a story
Time, space, and story. How context guides the political determinants of health, with the Asset-Based Paradigm diagram and the poster archive.
StoriesThe Citizenship Health model
The Asset-Based Paradigm, four pillars, the ecosystem frame, reading the rings from the outside in, and IDEAS.
The modelBias and infant mortality in Cleveland
Research, training, and videos on how health care professionals' unconscious bias affects infant mortality in Cleveland, and what recognizing that bias changes. The training taught practicing physicians to recognize their own bias and its impact.
The research
How unconscious bias in health care shows up in birth outcomes, and what the data in Cleveland show. Research underway; the full write-up is in preparation.
On the Research pageThe training
Recognizing bias and its impact, built for physicians and health teams. Offered through the Incubator's training menu.
TrainingThe videos
Three videos: HPAC students asking how structural racism affects infant mortality at the Family Medicine Education Consortium in 2018, and community members in Save Our Babies.
Watch belowWatch
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Courses and classrooms
We have taught urban studies, public health, biostatistics, grant writing, and nonprofit advocacy, taught future physicians how the social determinants of health shape the lives of the patients they will treat, and trained practicing physicians to recognize bias. Some of that teaching now lives online.
Citizenship Health Academy
The learning management system we built: courses, dashboards, and progress for learners and facilitators.
Open the AcademyCHW Academy lessons
Fifty-five online lessons with videos, study sheets, situations, and post-tests across the CHW core and the pathways.
The lessonsGrants course
Finding and reading foundations, writing, managing the money, understanding your community, and why AI cannot write it for you (and how it can help).
The outlineDr. Weisblat on video
A conference session at the Family Medicine Education Consortium and a webinar on self-organized learning environments.
HPAC on video
A three-minute overview of HPAC is below. The full collection, nearly fifty videos from 2016 to 2019, is on the HPAC page.
Eighteen cases, one method
From HPAC and a community health worker model at a health system to Teens Networking Together, the Ohio public health ecosystem, and this year's partners. Each case shows the challenge, the assets, the outcome, and the value created.