What does it mean to lead HMG at the state-level?
What is the role about?
What does it look like in action?
How can we apply this knowledge to improve and
expand Help Me Grow efforts going forward? 

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This report from the HMG National Center aims to illuminate approaches to HMG leadership at the state-level, explore existing functions and strategies, and bring clarity so we may learn from this unsung role.

Through a series of key stakeholder interviews on the current landscape of state-level HMG leadership, the report offers insights directly from HMG state leads, in their own words:

    • Showcasing the ways in which HMG state leadership is currently carried out across the nation
    • Highlighting the existing aims, functions, and challenges of state leadership
    • Offering a framework around five strategic areas for HMG state leadership
    • Exploring state funding strategies, budgets, and directions for ongoing conversations around funding
    • Diving into HMG’s strategic priority of advancing equity and the unique role state leads play

Read the Report

The State Lead Building Connections Series is designed to create a space for those leading HMG a the state-level to come together, strategize, and learn from one another. 

State Lead Network objectives

1. Facilitate connections between HMG leads at the state-level
2. Create opportunity for structured and unstructured discussion around topics designed and prioritized by the state-lead group itself
3. Identify, document, and disseminate promising practices in HMG state-level leadership
4. Troubleshoot challenges and/or needs state-leads are currently experiencing
5. Create a process for HMG state-leads to receive ideas and strategies from others
6. Identify ways in which the HMG National Center can build out its system building, measurement, or community change efforts to help meet identified state leadership needs

Upcoming Sessions 

More information coming soon!

Past sessions

Using Private Philanthropic Funding to Support Help Me Grow • March 1, 2023
The session featured HMG Washington and HMG Utah and their private funding partners, who shared their experience in soliciting, acquiring, and maintaining support from philanthropy as well as the perspective of the funders themselves. Participants were able to converse directly with presenters, as well as connect with other HMG state leads to help build relationships and share resources around the topic of funding more broadly.
    – Main session recording – including presentations by HMG Washington and Utah and panel discussion
    – Slide deck
    – Breakout discussion for single-system affiliate
    – Breakout discussion on state funding for HMG (jump to 17:35)
    – Breakout discussion for multi-system affiliate states
    – Breakout discussion on private funding for HMG (jump to 16:27)

HMG State Lead Roundtable • September 7, 2022
Celebrating, providing feedback, and setting next steps for the forthcoming state lead report: Leading Help Me Grow at the State-Level: An Exploration of Roles, Responsibilities, Strategies, and Approaches.
We also asked the critical question: What does it mean or look like to advance equity through HMG and what can state-level Organizing Entities and state-leads do to advance those goals?
Recording
Slides

HMG State Lead Network Kickoff • September 19, 2022
The Help Me Grow State Lead Network kicked off on September 19, 2022 to collectively begin setting some “north stars” for the meeting series. We asked the questions: 

• What about the HMG State Lead Network excites you?
• How will meeting with your peer group support you in achieving your goals?
• Imagine yourself a year from now and imagine yourself saying, “I feel much more equipped and confident in my role.” How have you grown? What do you have now that you didn’t before we met? How has your HMG changed?
Recording
Slides

HMG Affiliate Network – State-Level Organizing Entity Name and Type, as of 2021