Accountable Health Community and Collective Impact
Established in 2013, NEK Prosper! is a network of community partners working together via Collective Impact and Results-Based Accountability and Leadership to ensure the vitality, prosperity, and well-being of Caledonia and Southern Essex Counties so that its residents are:
Collective Impact brings people together, in a structured way, to achieve social change.
Northern Counties Health Care, along with the other founding partners of the network who form the Leadership Team, is committed to providing strategic direction for NEK Prosper!
- Green Mountain United Way
- Northeast Kingdom Community Action
- Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging
- Northeast Kingdom Human Services
- Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital
- Rural Edge
- Umbrella
- Vermont Agency of Human Services – St. Johnsbury
- Vermont Department of Health – St. Johnsbury
- Vermont Foodbank
In addition to our Leadership Partners, our Community Partners and Friends, Neighbors and Citizens, help choose and implement strategies, engage more community members, and guide working groups.
With a common agenda and shared tools for tracking progress, we coordinate our collective efforts, based on relationships of trust among participants. We work together for systemic change.
