Table 1 Collaboration team survey questions

1. Race/Ethnicity

Characteristics of an Effective Regional Collaboration Team

 1. Briefly, how do you define collaboration and community engagement in your role?

 2. What attributes affect collaboration and community engagement (pre-existing connections to community, lived experience, etc.)? How do these attributes facilitate or hinder your work?

 3. What does community power-sharing look like in your work? Please give concrete examples

 4. How do team-building activities impact your ability to do your work?

 5. How do team-building activities impact your well-being?

Community Engagement Impacts

 6. How does your work support frontline providers (i.e., CHWs, Patient Navigators, street-outreach teams, etc.)?

 7. What impact has the work of the Collaboration Team had on community organizations?

 8. What impact has the work of the Collaboration Team had on healthcare leaders?

 9. What impact has the work of the Collaboration Team had on policymakers?

Community Engagement Challenges/Facilitators

 10. What were the three main factors that helped you to do your work effectively?

 11. What three main factors made it difficult to do your work effectively?

Recommendations: For these questions, imagine another safety net system that plans to create its own Collaboration Team to engage more effectively with communities

 12. What advice would you give another health system on developing its own Collaboration Team?

 13. How can this role evolve further in the health system?

 14. How should health systems prepare to effectively engage with the communities they serve?

 15. What strategies should be put in place to help health systems become more responsive to input from the community?