THRIVE
THRIVE is the Accountable Community for Health (ACH) for Washington and northern Orange counties, Vermont. Formed in 2018, THRIVE is the merger of the Community Alliance or Health Excellence and Washington County Regional Partnership committees.
Who We Are
We are health care, public health, social services, municipalities, nonprofits, community members and other local partners.
- Mission: THRIVE’s mission is to optimize the health and wellbeing of our community through informed, collaborative and innovative solutions to achieve its vision to build thriving communities.
- Structure: THRIVE is led by a Board of Directors with Central Vermont Medical Center serving as the convener and fiscal sponsor.
- Purpose: THRIVE exists to convene multi-sector partners who collaborate to improve health outcomes and contain costs by identifying and addressing social drivers of health.
- Joan Marie Misek, Chair, Vermont Department of Health
- Tawnya Kristen, Vice-Chair, Green Mountain United Way
- Anna Noonan, Ex-Officio, Central Vermont Medical Center
- Claire Kendall, Washington County Family Center
- Chris Meehan, Vermont Food Bank
- Sandy Rousse, Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice
- Kim Patnaude, Treasurer, Central Vermont Medical Center
- Eleanor Perreault, Secretary, Central Vermont Medical Center
- Eva Zaret, Central Vermont Medical Center, Central Vermont Prevention Coalition
Connie Gavin, the Blueprint Program Manager for the Barre Health Services Area and UVM Health’s Population Health Services Organization, supports the work of THRIVE. For more information about THRIVE e-mail constance.gavin@uvmhealth.org.
- Agency of Human Services- Field Director
- Capstone Community Action
- Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice
- Central Vermont Medical Center
- Central Vermont Prevention Coalition
- Central Vermont Regional Planning Commission
- Downstreet Housing
- Family Center of Washington County
- Green Mountain United Way
- Good Samaritan Haven
- People’s Health and Wellness
- Blueprint for Health
- Vermont Department of Health - local office - Barre
- Vermont Food Bank
- Washington County Mental Health
What We Do
THRIVE convenes, connects and amplifies. THRIVE leverages a population health approach to addressing social determinants of health, guided by the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP).
Demonstrated successes of THRIVE's cross sector collaboration of identifying and mobilizing response to community needs include:
How We Work
- THRIVE Board meets quarterly to drive focus, strategy and governance.
- THRIVE Leadership Partners convene monthly to monitor the community ecosystem and drive forward THRIVE’s core initiatives as prioritized by the Community Health Improvement Plan.
- Collaborative Action Networks (CANs) are established and function as cross-sector working groups that design and implement strategies, share data and best practices and coordinate interventions to improve outcomes at a population health level.
FAQs
An accountable community for health is an aspirational, structured, cross-sectoral alliance of health care, public health and other organizations that plan and implement strategies to improve population health and health equity for all residents in a geographic area.
It takes into account the multiple factors involved in an individual’s and population’s health:
- Medical care
- Public health
- Genetics
- Behaviors
- Social factors
- Economic circumstances
- Environmental factors
Reference: Accountable Communities for Health | Blueprint for Health
Collective impact is a network of community members, organizations and institutions who advance equity by learning together, aligning and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems level change.
Reference: What Is Collective Impact - Collective Impact Forum
SDOH are non-medical factors that affect health outcomes. They include the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live and age. SDOH also includes the broader forces and systems that shape everyday life conditions.
These forces and systems encompass economic policies, development agendas, social norms, social policies, racism, climate change and political structures.
Reference: Social Determinants of Health | Public Health Gateway | CDC