Moving Beyond Storytelling Toward Meaningful Partnership
Many organizations recognize the importance of lived experience in quality improvement and systems change work — but need practical guidance for building sustainable, trauma-informed partnership models.
LEI-SUD was developed to help organizations strengthen patient partnership practices, reduce stigma, improve psychological safety, and integrate lived experience more meaningfully into systems improvement efforts.
Training Topics Include
- Meaningful partnership vs tokenism
- Trauma-informed engagement practices
- Psychological safety
- Sustainable lived experience integration
- Stigma reduction and respectful communication
- Shared decision-making and systems improvement
Who This Training Supports
LEI-SUD was designed for:
- hospitals and health systems
- Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
- quality improvement teams
- patient engagement leaders
- community organizations
- researchers and implementation teams
Upcoming Training Opportunities
Group 1
Patient-facing support resource designed to encourage discussion and individualized support planning.
Group 2
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