Resources

Jodeme Goldhar joins The Connected Community to ask why good community programmes disappear when the funding does — and what it takes to connect health and social care so communities are not left stitching the system together themselves.

Recordings from the inaugural summit, including Jane Philpott on the Primary Care Action Plan and Jodeme Goldhar’s keynote on harnessing our collective potential.

Collective impact must emphasizes advancing equity through learning, aligning, and integrating actions to achieve population and systems-level change. There are five key strategies for centering equity in collective impact efforts: grounding work in data and context, focusing on systems change, shifting power within collaboratives, listening to and acting with communities, and building equity leadership and accountability.

Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is an approach to sustainable community-driven development. Beyond the mobilisation of a particular community, it is concerned with how to link micro-assets to the macro-environment. Its premise is that communities can drive the development process themselves by identifying and mobilizing existing, but often unrecognised assets. Thereby responding to challenges and creating local social improvement and economic development.

Transforming entire ecosystems requires more investment in social innovators who can build bridges across sectors and between disparate parts of a system to drive collective action and impact—all with a greater emphasis on equity, trust, and partnership. Article link: https://ssir.org/supplement/social-innovation-and-the-journey-to-transformation

Collective impact efforts must prioritize working together in more relational ways to find systemic solutions to social problems. ​ Learn more from the Collective Change Lab : How Systems Shift

Collaboration is not just one action, it's a spectrum. The Collaboration Spectrum, provides a comprehensive framework for understanding different levels of collaboration, from competition to full integration and offers insights into various aspects of collaborative efforts, including types, leadership, governance, and outcomes, aiming to support more purposeful and effective collaboration in community change initiatives.

Three Horizons is a simple and intuitive framework for thinking about the future. The framework maps a shift from the established patterns of the first horizon to the emergence of new patterns in the third, via the transition activity of the second. The outcome of Three Horizons work is a map of transformational potential which enables us to act with more skill, freedom and creativity in the present, both individually and together.

his Learnbook shares valuable learnings from real-world experiences and presents four key insights for systemic change initiatives, emphasizing the importance of learning forward in complex domains, adaptive collaboration across multiple sectors, distributed leadership, and the strategic use of human-centered data

Adam Kahane introduces a transformative approach to collaboration, offering a structured yet creative process for removing obstacles and bridging differences in complex situations. Through his concept of “transformative facilitation,” Kahane presents a dynamic method that cycles between vertical and horizontal approaches, enabling diverse groups to move forward together by addressing five key questions and removing barriers to equitable contribution and connection.

The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis. ​ Some of the key learnings over since its inception in 2000 have been that, while there are some common building blocks and elements, which are essential for integrated care, ultimately all frameworks and models need to be contextualized to local needs and resources.

A comprehensive framework for addressing complex health and social care challenges through collaborative, person-centered approaches. These pillars emphasize shared values, population health strategies, community empowerment, workforce development, innovative governance models, digital solutions, and holistic evaluation methods to create more effective, equitable, and sustainable health and care systems

A powerful compilation of Indigenous wisdom that offers a transformative perspective on our relationship with nature and each other. This book presents 28 excerpts from Indigenous leaders worldwide, accompanied by insightful analyses, to guide readers towards a more sustainable, interconnected future by contrasting the Kinship worldview with the dominant Eurocentric paradigm.

This report examines the transformative role of behavioural insights (BI) in EU policymaking, advocating for integrating BI early in the policy cycle to enhance policy effectiveness. It underscores the importance of BI in identifying synergies and conflicts between policies across different areas, thereby improving policy coherence. It advocates for the use of BI in combination with systems analysis to achieve systemic changes.

A shift from traditional transactional contracts to more flexible, collaborative agreements that foster long-term strategic partnerships. By focusing on shared goals, mutual benefits, and adaptability, companies can build stronger, more resilient business relationships that are better equipped to handle uncertainties and changes in the business environment.

Successful cultural transformation in organizations necessitates a grassroots movement rather than top-down directives. To effectively change company culture, leaders should focus on framing the issue in a way that stirs emotion, creating a sense of urgency, and mobilizing employees at all levels to drive and sustain the desired cultural shift.

A groundbreaking survey of 195 global leaders reveals the most crucial leadership competencies, focusing on soft skills and emotional intelligence. The study identifies five key themes that are essential for effective leadership: demonstrating strong ethics, empowering others, fostering connection, embracing new ideas, and nurturing growth.

Discussing key trends shaping workplace learning in 2025, Rosenfeldt emphasizes the importance of equitable access to training, personalized learning experiences, and building a “change muscle” for organizational agility and adaptability. Successful L&D programs must embrace multimodal strategies, experiential learning, and layered methodologies to create flexible, engaging, and impactful learning experiences that prepare employees to navigate an increasingly uncertain world.

Integrated Care Systems in England are making strides in improving population health outcomes through innovative community-driven initiatives. While these programs show promise in addressing social determinants of health and reducing inequalities, challenges remain in scaling and sustaining these efforts across the healthcare system. "The system needs to be targeting those with the poorest health, in their own homes, and moving away from a focus on hospitals as the first port of call. For this, services need to be more localised, created by, and connected with communities."

Otto Scharmer’s work, centered on Theory U and the concept of presencing, offers a transformative approach to leadership and social change by guiding individuals and organizations to connect with their highest future potential. Through his innovative U-shaped model, Scharmer introduces a powerful framework for personal and collective transformation, encouraging leaders to move beyond habitual thinking patterns and tap into a deeper source of knowing, ultimately fostering the emergence of innovative solutions to complex challenges.

This article emphasizes the importance of adopting an ecosystems perspective to address complex challenges effectively. It advocates for collaborative approaches that consider the interconnections within systems to drive meaningful and sustainable transformation.

A free, online, self-paced course designed for health and care staff at any level to build the confidence and community to unleash their inner change agent.

The Integrated Care Academy (ICA) aims to provide an understanding of both the theory and practice of integrated care through a range of educational courses and learning events. Using up-to-date research findings, and employing renowned experts in the field of integrated care, these learning programmes will examine how the successful adoption of integrated care strategies can lead to benefits in the health and wellbeing of people and to the creation of more financially sustainable care systems.

The Michael G. DeGroote Health Leadership Academy (HLA) transforms the national healthcare system by challenging leaders with the capacity to identify, support and scale new ways of thinking and doing.

A simple truth of systems is that they are made up of people. Once we recognise that simple truth, it becomes obvious that a system’s structures will continue to produce the same outcomes until we catalyze profound shifts in the ways of working and ways of relating among the people who make up that system

This booklet aims to provide an overview of systemic design and offer insights on how to embark on this journey

Polyvagal Theory emphasizes the role the autonomic nervous system - especially the vagus nerve - plays in regulating our health and behavior.

NACIC connects research, practice, and community to advance integrated care

Learn more about the global network for integrated care excellence, of which IFIC Canada is proud to be the North American hub.

Listen to global experts demystify emerging payment models for integrated care in this short podcast series.

Explore IFIC's collection of integrated care resources and research, organized by the nine pillars framework.

Read this editorial in IJIC "Integrated care is not about creating a multidisciplinary offer/supply, but it is about creating an integrative answer to the most important issues of people in need."

Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

This Health Evidence Network synthesis report 67, synthesises the global evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being, with a specific focus on the WHO European Region

This review synthesizes the work of this third wave of cultural sociology, demonstrating how insights from the study of cultural objects and their mechanisms of meaning-making deepen our theories of culture in action, culture and cognition, and the production and reception of culture.

This article proposes an expanded view of human memory as the transmission of information across time, outlining taxonomies that move beyond brain-based systems to include external (social and technological), bodily, genetic, immune, and collective forms of memory, and explores how these diverse systems interact.

A comprehensive overview and analysis of the various relations between material artifacts and the embodied mind and identification of some of the trends in the design and use of artifacts

Textbook that provides a systematic and up-to-date introduction to the different approaches to understanding leadership in the public sector.

Learn more about how integrated care is an emergent, non‑linear process in which diverse agents, relationships, feedback loops and context interact dynamically. In this chapter, Dr. Carroll argues that designing and leading integrated care requires working with complexity—supporting adaptation, learning and distributed leadership—rather than relying on linear, top‑down change model

Integrated Care Systems depend on collaborative leadership that prioritizes relationships and shared purpose across macro policy, meso organizational culture, and micro frontline practice in order to build resilient, sustainable health and social care collaborations.

In times of physical distancing, connectedness has been affected, but in many cases, communities have flourished. In this article, Cormac Russell reflects on what we might learn at work from ‘connectors’ in communities.

One of the frameworks we use a lot is the Three Horizons framework by Bill Sharpe and the International Futures Forum (2016). In the Good Space's publication Seeding Futures for Wellbeing, they reimagined it as creating different conditions for seeding futures.

This paper explores how three living Yolŋu metaphors from North East Arnhem Land (Australia) are shaping powerful “middle spaces” where Indigenous knowledge systems and Western frameworks meet to create shared understanding and right action in systems change.

Health Standards Organization (HSO) is developing a new edition of CAN/HSO 34015 Primary Health Care Services National Standard of Canada, and we are inviting you to share your feedback until April 29, 2026.

This big-picture piece examines the underlying dynamics at work and looks at how power is really shifting: who has it, how it is distributed, and where it is heading.