Membership Meeting: From Awareness to Action

How do we move beyond recognizing inequities to actually changing the systems that create them?

Join us for an interactive HEDR Learning Lab exploring the connections between policy, advocacy and systems change. Together, we will examine how policies, institutional practices and decision-making structures shape the experiences of the communities we serve, and how nonprofit organizations can play a role in influencing meaningful change.

Through practical facilitation, real-world examples and a collaborative hands-on activity, participants will learn how to identify systemic barriers, understand who holds the power to make change, develop evidence-informed recommendations and build an advocacy pathway.

During the interactive lab, participants will take a community issue and work through a practical framework to move from identifying a problem to proposing a policy solution and determining the steps needed to influence change.

You will leave with:

• A better understanding of how individual challenges connect to systemic barriers.