Apply to bring a consumer from your organization to Putting Care at the Center 2018
Does your organization have consumers who are engaged in advocacy, outreach, or systems change? Are you a person with complex health and social needs who is interested in improving how care is delivered across the country?
Putting Care at the Center is the central event for the emerging field of complex care. Since our inaugural conference in 2016, the National Center has welcomed Consumer Scholars from organizations across the country to share their lived experiences and valuable insights on how to improve our broken system. This year’s conference will be in Chicago, IL, December 5-7.
We are looking for dyads of consumers or caregivers and accompanying staff members from nonprofit organizations engaged in patient care or advocacy for people with complex health and social needs. During the conference, Consumer Scholars and their accompanying staff members will have the opportunity to network with conference attendees, speakers, and each other.
Apply to be a 2018 Consumer Scholar
Hear from past Consumer Scholars
As part of our Consumer Scholar program, past Consumer Scholars have had the opportunity to attend subsequent conferences as Consumer Ambassadors, present as workshop and plenary speakers, join the National Center Advisory Committee, and help plan Putting Care at the Center conferences. Read (and watch) their stories below.
Lezrette Hutchinson
Ms. Hutchinson is a consumer advocate at the Medicare Rights Center Duals Coalition.
“I became an activist so I could let new people know it was going to be ok.”
Dennis Heaphy
Dennis is a healthcare advocate at the Disability Policy Consortium, and serves on the National Center Advisory Committee.
“Unless we’re at the table from the beginning, and there every step of the way, we’re not going to change the system in a meaningful way.”
Watch Dennis speak at Putting Care at the Center 2017’s Consumer Leadership plenary.
Troy Johnson
Troy serves on the Community Advisory Council of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, as well as the National Center Advisory Committee.
“If it wasn’t for the new way of healthcare, I wouldn’t be where I am now.”