Building Community Solutions: Owning the Narrative
Each year, HealthSpark brings community together for our annual Community of Practice - a powerful gathering where connection sparks collaboration and ideas turn into action. This is more than an event. It’s an intentional space designed to connect partners, foster learning, and shine a light on both the challenges and successes shaping our community.
In one room, you’ll find community partners, advocates, nonprofits, government representatives, business leaders, funders, and policymakers - united by a shared commitment in advancing healthy, equitable, and hopeful communities throughout Montgomery County.
Following our gatherings focused on Community Power and Community Leadership, we invite you to attend Building Community Solutions: Owning the Narrative, reflective of our third strategic goal.
Join us for a powerful day of insight as community leaders share perspectives and real-world experiences - from community safety in the wake of immigration enforcement to youth leadership to affordable housing. We’ll uplift the power of advocacy, honor lived experience, and celebrate the collective efforts shaping our community’s future.
Announcing Our Opening Plenary Panel
We’re honored to welcome Sheriff Ceisler and Sheriff Kilkenny, joined by partners and grantees Centro de Cultura, Arte, Trabajo y Educación (CCATE) and The Welcome Project, for our opening plenary panel conversation “Voices Protecting Our Communities.” This panel will explore how nonprofit organizations and government partners can work together to promote safety and wellbeing for residents, with a particular focus on immigrant communities.
Panelists will discuss practical strategies for strengthening community safety, dispel myths, and identify concrete actions that organizations and individuals can take to support inclusive and secure neighborhoods. The conversation will also create space to share the real-life impacts that immigration enforcement has on families, communities, and local institutions, helping ground policy discussions in lived experience.
