At the heart of every successful health justice partnership lies effective communication. So we’ve created a series of conversation guides designed to help you and your partner with communication in health justice partnership, so you can build and maintain effective HJPs. Like many other partnership skills, it can solve immediate problems – but it can also be undertaken with a deeper purpose in order to strengthen your HJP. You can use communication to not only convey a message, but also in building trusting relationships to achieve your HJP goals.
In these articles, we share practical tips to foster collaboration and build trusting relationships in your health justice partnership. Each article offers prompts you can use when meeting, emailing or talking with your partner. Whichever way you go about it, we encourage you to find a balance between sharing your own perspectives and seeking out and listening carefully to your partner’s.
Tip #1: Conversation starters: Getting to know each other in a health justice partnership
Tip #2: 7 questions to help you put your health justice partnership on common ground
Tip #3: Understanding what you can achieve together: 5 prompts to get you started
Tip #4: 10 practical questions to help determine how you’ll work together
Tip #5: Talk about what you’ll do together in partnership
Tip #6: How to talk to your partner about monitoring, evaluation and learning
