The 2024-2025 EGL Fellow Program Cohort began their journey in September 2024. Throughout their 11-month program, the Cohort will explore how to collectively influence others to create communities rooted in resilience and healing. The Cohort concludes in August 2025.
The 2024-2025 Cohort is composed of 10 behavioral health leaders. They are leaders with backgrounds including child welfare, crisis services, peer support, veterans services, and more.
The Shared Vision
The 2024-2025 Cohort developed a shared vision for their time together:
“Envisioning a world where every individual, regardless of background, lives a holistically balanced life with access to equitable behavioral health outcomes. We strive for a collective and intersectional movement that fosters inclusive, conscious, and committed action towards systemic change. By addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) and unmet needs, we work to ensure that no preventable harm leads to loss of life, and that every person feels seen, heard, and valued. Guided by the principle of ‘nothing about us without us,’ we empower families to navigate and understand systems, promoting proactive measures, civic engagement, and a culture of self-direction within organizations and communities.”
Experiential Projects
One of the most impactful components of the Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program is creating and implementing experiential projects to improve equity in behavioral health systems and services in Fellows’ organizations, communities, and/or regions. Fellows are working to design and implement these projects with the support of project advisors and the evaluation team.
Additional information about each project will become available as Fellows continue their development and implementation of their experiential projects.
