The Power of Networks
Curandi supports the development of local human and social service provider networks. Its ActivateCare technology also helps a self-organizing adaptive network model. This is vital because the most fundamental reality of social problems is their complex, adaptive nature.
Several successful examples come from county-based cross-sector care coordination under California's 5-year Whole Person Care pilot. These pilots delivered measurable and sustained improvement for the seventeen counties choosing this option.
Why it matters: Community is the soil of human productivity. The life-giving properties of both soil and community depend on complex networks of living systems.
Yet, repeatedly, we work to solve its dysfunction with rigid, complicated solutions designed and managed from far away by massive institutions -- the least likely to understand the fundamentals of each unique situation.
A better way of knowing our problems and each other sits in plain sight.
The power of networks has been driven home by social media. Its effects surprised many, although it shouldn't have. Relationships are primary to everything we can see or understand. All social media did was introduce an energy-injected accelerant into the most fundamental aspects of human existence. We have learned a lot about each other and the systems we live in. We need to use that knowledge better.
When we look at social networks, we see the focused power of self-organization and social recognition.
When we use network science, we find new types of data with better ways to understand the systemic behavior producing not only social conditions like poverty and housing insecurity but also medical conditions such as obesity that seem to grow through social connections (check out the animation in this research published by the New England Journal of Medicine or on the author's website).
A more systemic approach to these systemic problems will revolutionize and restore the community by providing the means to understand and intervene.
Curandi provides local social infrastructure for practical problem-solving through structured collaboration. Data standardization enables better communication and outcome validation.
The distributed network model is inherently cross-sector and transparent, helping us understand problems and the effects of intervention faster.
This is why Curandi is optimistic that by working together, we can improve the community and the social health of its people.