What kind of world do we want to leave the children in our lives and communities? Help your faith community explore this by using the Prayer Tent for Children’s Health Care. The resource includes a six-sided prayer tent as well as six accompanying inserts in both English and Spanish. The tent is also available in Vietnamese.

You can use this over six weeks or as a focused reflection for a week. Created in 2006, faith communities continue to find this resource useful.

| Prayer Tent and Inserts (English): PDF |

| Prayer Tent and Inserts (Spanish): PDF |

| Prayer Tent (Vietnamese): PDF |

“We need to build institutions for which our children and grandchildren will thank us.”    – E. J. Dionne

Think about the children who are important to you:

What kind of U.S. health care system do you want to leave them? Write out your vision. Post it in a visible area-your work space, refrigerator, the bathroom mirror.

| Download a Vision Post Card: PDF |

Take another step:

Invite others to write and share their vision-around the dinner table, with people at work or your faith community, or with a friend at lunch.

Take two steps:

Create a vision wall by displaying vision cards in a common area. Invite others to add their vision. Host a quick party, invite folks to read the “vision wall,” enjoy refreshments, and engage in conversation.

If you do this with a group, distribute the cards with directions printed on the back. Sample text is included below. (We gave these out with a box of raisins. Hence the title: “Raisin’ consciousness for reform!”)

| Download Sample Directions for Back of Cards: Word |

Below are photos of a “What’s Your Vision?” initiative at St. Joseph Health System, which closed with a meeting where people looked at the visions and then mailed the cards to the White House Office of Health Reform.

Having identified your groups’ priorities for the future of U.S. health care, then what? This module offers guidance in translating those priorities into a shared vision for the future. Development of such a vision can be useful in helping assess healthcare proposals, the subject of Module 3.

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Supporting Files:

| Download Individual Rating Grid: Word |

| Download Group Rating Grid: Word |

| Download Scoring Sheet: Excel |

| Download Score to Graph Tool: Excel |

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With a shared set of priorities expressed in a Vision statement, a community can then use this Vision to assess healthcare proposals, noting where policy moves toward the Vision and where it moves away from the Vision. Such analysis can help groups fine-tune their analysis and communicate more effectively with others, including lawmakers.

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Supporting Files:

| Download Individual Assessment Worksheet: Word |

| Download Group Assessment Worksheets: Word |

The above files can be modified for use with vision documents other than the St. Joseph Health System Vision, which is used here as an example.

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What kind of health care system do we want to leave the next generation? This packet offers a step-by-step process for helping an organization, community or other collection of people to get clear on what is most important to them when it comes to health care. Two modules follow this one: #2 offers guidance in using the priority data to write a shared vision for the future of U.S. health care. #3 offers direction in using this vision to assess proposals.

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U.S. Health Care as Chronic Social Sin

Author: Jack W. Glaser, STD

Jack Glaser posits that U.S. health care is an instance of chronic social sin–how child labor was in 1850–an inherited moral pathology, deeply anchored in societies and individuals, needing radical, systemic transformation, but so colossal that it intimidates rather than animates energy for reform.

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“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”

The Center sees the consensual development of a vision for U.S. health care–by groups, communities, the nation–as an essential step for reform. In seeking to practice what we teach, we spent two years working with leaders in our health system to develop a vision for the future of health care.

Here we share a color poster of our vision that you can print or view on your computer.

| Download Poster Size, 22″ x 28″ version: PDF |

| Download 8.5″ x 11″ version: PDF |

What is the role of faith communities in helping create the future of U.S. health care? Here Center founder and theologian Jack Glaser introduces “public conscience work” by faith communities.

The video is part of the series Vision & Voice: Faithful Citizens and Health Care. To watch the video you will be taken to a new window. Watch now.

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Author: Jack. W. Glaser, STD

The author maintains that reforming our health care system is a huge challenge, as great in magnitude and as difficult to achieve as abolishing slavery or winning women the right to vote. He argues that we need to begin by stepping back to question what values underpin our nation’s health care system.

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