JSPHI helps people, partners, and public systems find each other when healthcare becomes hard to reach, understand, afford, or continue.
JSPHI is not a clinic, and we are not a competitor to the partners doing the work. We are the connection function the public health ecosystem already needs, made institutional. Four moves, repeated in every place we serve.
Map who already serves whom. Make the warm handoffs that keep people from disappearing between systems.
Community knowledge belongs at the same table as institutional knowledge. We make sure it shows up there.
Community to clinic. Clinic to policy. Policy back to community. Translation is craft, not paraphrase.
Quarterly cross-sector tables where decisions move and community sits as a full participant, not an audience.
Insurance does not always lead to care. Care does not always lead to outcomes. The hardest part of the public health system is not the parts. It is the seams between them. Communities tell the other half of the story.
In the initial JSPHI sample, one in five employer-insured adults said they could not get the healthcare they needed in the past year.
See the full studyA Community of Care is a network of trusted people, providers, organizations, and systems that know how to find each other when someone needs help. JSPHI helps build and strengthen that network.
The goal is not to replace existing care. The goal is to make care easier to find, understand, and continue.
JSPHI began as a long-running conversation between Brittney and Shamea, two best friends who met at Delaware State University. It became JSPHI during Brittney’s cancer treatment.
An organizational architect who became a patient. A registered nurse who has served patients for over a decade. One who navigated the system from the patient’s side. One who held it together from the clinician’s side. The gap stayed open. They built JSPHI to close it from the inside.
Help JSPHI build the connective tissue between people, partners, and systems. We are looking for board members, founding funders, and community storytellers willing to share what they are seeing in their own state, county, or ZIP.
We are building the founding board. Two-year initial term, four meetings a year, one annual retreat.
Apply to the board →Founding philanthropic partners across twelve, twenty-four, and sixty-month horizons.
Request the prospectus →If you have run into the seam, tell us where. Three sentences. Anonymous if you want.
Share your story →