Elevate community perspectives
Help ensure the experiences and priorities of people closest to challenges are heard in conversations about solutions.
Share a perspective ↗A — ADVOCATE
Advocacy & Systems Change
Removing barriers. Creating opportunity.
Lasting well-being takes more than individual effort. It also depends on the policies, practices, and resources surrounding us.
WHAT THIS PILLAR MAKES POSSIBLE
What if the systems around people worked better for them?
We believe upstream work also means listening, challenging barriers, and collaborating to change the conditions that hold people back.
What this work includes
- Elevating lived experiences and community voices
- Building collaborative partnerships
- Identifying barriers to access and opportunity
- Supporting improvements in policies, practices, and systems
Who we work with
Community members, coalitions, advocates, public agencies, and nonprofit partners.
FROM AWARENESS TO SYSTEMS
The conditions around people matter.
Advocacy is how we bring what we learn through housing, training, workplaces, and community connection into conversations about better practices and more equitable access.
Build cross-sector partnerships
Connect nonprofit, business, public-sector, and community partners around practical barriers and opportunities.
Discuss collaboration ↗Improve access & practices
Advocate for clearer resources, responsive programs, inclusive systems, and stronger paths to stability and well-being.
Explore the approach ↗This pillar describes the direction of All Heart’s systems work. Specific campaigns and policy priorities will be developed with community and partner input.
OUR PRACTICAL APPROACH
Our approach to systems change
Listen first
Center lived experience and what communities say they need.
Find the barriers
Identify policy, process, and access challenges that affect well-being.
Work with partners
Help move promising solutions from conversation into practice.