1. The way to wellville Investing in health Esther Dyson WELLVILLE
Melissa Wikman
MUSKEGON YMCA
November 2, 2018

2. wellville history We set out to answer a question:
If investing $100 on cultivating health yields $200 in lowered costs and improved outcomes, shouldn’t individuals and communities act based on this knowledge?

3. The wellville five Clatsop County, OR N. Hartford, CT Muskegon, MI
Lake County, CA
Spartanburg, SC

4. wellville approach
For 10 years work with select communities to create the conditions that cultivate health
Demonstrate what happens with investment in the things that make us healthy, resilient, happy and productive
Wellville supports its communities the way a business accelerator helps startups

5. MUSKEGON, mi
How do we change Muskegon’s health future …..and leverage the expertise from Wellville?

6. Create, test, evaluate, modify, test again…

7. $$ Community challenges Increasing complexity of health Turf issues
Funding scarcity
Broken systems

8. Rising rates of chronic disease Social determinants of health
Community challenges
Increasing complexity of health
Rising rates of chronic disease
Social determinants of health

9. Organizational approach Lack of mission alignment
Community challenges
Turf issues
Organizational approach
Lack of mission alignment

10. Duplication of services
Community challenges
Limited investment
Duplication of services $$
Funding scarcity

11. System incentives driving the wrong outcomes
Community challenges
System incentives driving the wrong outcomes
Food system
Medical incentives
Broken systems

12. Collective impact

13. Collective Impact Identify an element of health
Use multi sector approach to transcend organizational lines
Organize around the data and put the end-user at the center of everything
Do this not on just any issue but on the issues most critical for your specific community.
All Wellville communities are different.

14. YMCA Diabetes prevention program
Collective Impact

15. Collective Impact Prediabetes = 39% Identify an element of health
Do this not on just any issue but on the issues most critical for your specific community.
All Wellville communities are different.

16. Expanding Boundaries to address complexity

17. Expanding Boundaries to address complexity

18. Collective Impact Identify an element of health
Use multi sector approach to transcend organizational lines
AMA
Public Health
Municipal
Employers
MAISD
Faith Community
Area Agency on Aging

19. Collective Impact Identify an element of health
Use multi sector approach to transcend organizational lines
Organize around the data and put the end-user at the center of everything
AMA
Public Health
Municipal
Employers
MAISD
Do this not on just any issue but on the issues most critical for your specific community.
All Wellville communities are different.
Faith Community
Area Agency on Aging

20. $$ Community challenges Increasing complexity of health Turf issues
Funding scarcity
Broken systems

21. Lessons learned There is no single magic bullet
Collaboratives with shared goals, decision making and accountability are critical
Let the needs of people and the data guide you
Starting small but thinking big will lead to real change

22. Thank You ESTHER DYSON edyson@edventure.com Wellville.net
MELISSA WIKMAN
Muskegonymca.org