Community Health Needs Assessment Consent Form
Community Vision Setting Sessions
What Would You Like to Be True?
Join a facilitated community vision setting session in Wards 7 and 8 to share your ideas, identify community strengths, and help shape future community health planning.
These sessions center the voices, experiences, and knowledge of community members and are a core part of our Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) process.
At the heart of this work is one guiding question:
“What would you like to be true for your community?”
Individuals who participate in a vision setting session will receive a $40 gift card for the 90-minute activity. Child care support is also available for select dates.
What to Expect
Community members will participate in a 90-minute, facilitated group sessions designed to create space for reflection, shared learning, and collective visioning. Participants will work in groups to:
- Develop vision statements that describe what thriving, health, and wellbeing could look like in their community
- Share ideas with the larger group and work together to refine and prioritize common themes
- Identify community assets—including people, programs, relationships, and resources—that already exist and could help make these visions a reality
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- What are the Community Vision Setting Sessions?
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The Community Vision Setting Sessions are facilitated group conversations where community members come together to share their ideas about what they would like to be true for the health and wellbeing of their community. These sessions are a key part of our Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and help ensure that community priorities guide future planning and decision-making.
- Who can participate?
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Adults who live, work, worship, organize, or provide services in Wards 7 and 8 are invited to participate. We welcome people with many different perspectives and experiences—no prior healthcare or research experience is needed.
- What will we do during a session?
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Each session lasts about 90 minutes and includes both small-group and large-group discussion. Participants will:
- Share ideas about what a healthy and thriving community could look like
- Work together to develop and prioritize vision statements
- Identify existing community assets, resources, and strengths
- Take part in a group reflection at the end of the session
Sessions are facilitated to encourage respectful dialogue and shared learning.
- Share ideas about what a healthy and thriving community could look like
- What kinds of topics might come up?
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Vision statements may touch on a wide range of topics, such as access to care, maternal and child health, safe housing, economic stability, or other issues participants feel are important. The focus is on what participants want to see be true—not just current challenges.
- Will participants be compensated?
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Yes. Individuals who participate in a vision setting session will receive $40 giftcards for the 90-minute activity. Child care and transportation support will also be available.
- Why This Matters
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These vision setting sessions are designed to ensure that community-defined priorities guide health planning efforts, rather than being added after decisions are made. By starting with what residents say they want to be true—and recognizing the strengths that already exist—we aim to support more responsive, grounded, and community-informed action.
Your voice helps shape what comes next.
- How will my input be used?
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The ideas shared during these sessions will directly shape the CHNA process. The research team will review notes and recordings to accurately capture key themes and vision statements. These themes will be shared with community and institutional partners to help guide priorities, planning, and future decision-making.
- Will sessions be recorded?
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Sessions may be audio recorded to ensure the discussion is accurately captured. Recordings will not be attributed to individual participants and are used only for research purposes, such as transcription and theme identification, and are reviewed carefully by the research team.
- What happens after the vision setting sessions?
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After the sessions, the research team will bring together the vision statements and themes shared across all the groups. These findings will not sit on a shelf. They will directly guide the community health improvement plan and help shape how hospitals and partners invest in programs, research, and care that reflect what the community says matters most.
- Do I need to prepare anything in advance?
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No preparation is required. Participants are encouraged to come as they are and share from their own experiences, observations, and hopes for their community.