America’s Business Community Leads Pandemic Response and Preparedness
Despite its devastating impact on populations and businesses worldwide, COVID-19 is providing an opportunity to reassess, discover and strengthen the fabric of communities and states across the country to mitigate the brunt of future health crises. While we are “all in this together,” there is a need to take action and set the agenda for addressing the factors that affect the strength and resilience of individuals, businesses, policy makers and communities.
The Community Collaborative model developed by the Thought Leadership & Innovation Foundation is designed to bring together all relevant groups and stakeholders – especially those who have not traditionally been included -- to overcome the deep societal challenges related to health and well-being.
By working together through community collaboratives and taking action now, this tragic pandemic serves as a learning experience to move forward toward repair and effect positive change.
Critical Time to Work Together
Public health is a shared responsibility. Communities, businesses and individuals can and should take measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and follow recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how families, schools and businesses can plan for and respond to the virus.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pushing government leaders to quickly take several common sense steps to provide assistance and relief to businesses and workers alike, while urging Americans to not overreact in ways that hamper efforts to control the spread of the virus or cause unnecessary disruptions in daily life.
Understanding the Value of a Community Collaborative
Complex and severe community issues cannot be resolved by quick fixes. TLI’s approach incorporates visionary and practical strategies designed to have a positive, supportable impact on a wealth of projects needed to solve the staggering challenges that currently undermine our nation’s communities. This can be accomplished by eliciting the input of an extensive grouping of local business and healthcare leaders and serving as a depository for information and guidance needed in the event of a significant healthcare crisis.
By developing partnerships with these leaders in public and private businesses the outcome will be a community better prepared to deal head-on with a healthcare emergency without any hesitation or time lost due to a lack of preparation. It is in the best interest of business leaders to not only react to current and ongoing pandemic challenges, but to also prepare for future catastrophic events.
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