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Community Health Commons

Where caregivers and communities govern their own health infrastructure.

The Community Health Commons builds community-governed systems for the full range of resources that determine health: caregiving relationships, health data, social service coordination, and aging-in-place infrastructure.

CHC is model agnostic. It selects and adapts the best available tools and methodologies for each community context, from village-style mutual aid to participatory design to structured community organizing frameworks.

Objectives

Core objectives

Objective 1

Equip caregivers and communities with structured methodologies for building and governing mutual support networks

Objective 2

Extend the Village model's proven self-governance logic into communities of color and beyond aging in place

Objective 3

Develop train-the-trainer certification enabling institutional partners to deliver community governance programming at scale

Objective 4

Build community-governed data systems that put neighborhoods in the decision-making seat for how health data is collected, shared, and used

Objective 5

Produce open playbooks documenting every deployment for replication in additional cities

Tracks

Three program tracks

Village Builder Cohorts

Caregivers and community members come together for structured programs producing completed care audits, village maps, and resource directories. Eight to twelve participants per cohort, twelve weeks, delivered in partnership with a community anchor.

Cohorts Governance

Train-the-Trainer Certification

Institutional partners (Area Agencies on Aging, health systems, faith communities, AARP chapters) are prepared to deliver community governance programming in their own contexts. The replication and sustainability mechanism.

Certification Scale

Community Health Data Governance

Community-governed entities hold governance authority over how neighborhood health data is collected, shared, and used. Built on top of existing health information infrastructure using open-source governance tooling.

Data Governance

Partnership

Relationship to GSC and CSL

The Community Health Commons is the health governance companion to the Government Service Corps. Where GSC builds civic knowledge infrastructure in city agencies, CHC builds community health governance infrastructure in neighborhoods. Both share the same city, the same GKI methodology, and the same commitment to governance that outlasts any single grant or champion. The Civic Story Lab provides the storytelling and public engagement layer that connects both to the broader community.

Learn more about the Government Service Corps → Learn more about the Civic Story Lab →

Connect

Get involved

Reach the team at ac@adloris.org