Life of Victory in Christ Ministries CDC
Health in the Streets
Greensboro
Building Wellness Together, Street by Street
Bringing Healing, Hope & Health Directly To Your NeighborhoodOur Mission
What Is Health in the Streets?
We believe health happens where people live — at the corner store, in the parks, in the neighborhoods where families gather. Health in the Streets (HITS) is a community-driven initiative that brings free health resources, neighborhood conversations, and connected partners directly to Greensboro's neighborhoods.
No barriers, no wrong door — residents lead the table and we design solutions together. See "The Approach" for the full methodology and "How It Works" for the practical steps. We work across 10 Dimensions of Health:
See "How It Works" for the full framework behind these 10 dimensions.
The Why
Why Health in the Streets — The Community Development Model
Five Levels of Community Health Investment
Beyond giving a fish — building a community that owns the pond.
Organizations show up, deliver services, and people receive them. Essential, valued, and necessary — but dependent on organizational funding cycles. When an org loses funding, the service disappears.
Residents learn to access, navigate, and advocate for services on their own. Workshops, trainings, soft skills, leadership development — people become self-sufficient navigators of their own health.
Residents become decision-makers about what happens in their community. They don't just receive — they help design what services look like, who delivers them, and when.
The infrastructure is built so community health continues regardless of which organizations have funding this year. Collective action teams, paid neighborhood consultants, policy advocacy rooted in resident data.
The gavel is passed. The mantle is distributed. The vision lives in the community itself — not in any single organization, leader, or funding cycle. This is the legacy model.
The Succession Spine
At every level, we are simultaneously asking: Who is next?
Community Progression Stages
Communities don't move in a straight line — they move across all dimensions simultaneously.
Note: A community can be Safe in housing but Unsafe in mental health. HITS works across all six stages, in all ten dimensions of health, simultaneously.
The SEF Framework
The internal progression every community member walks through.
A resident attends their first health screening. They learn what their blood pressure means. They make one appointment. They start to believe that their health is something they can act on.
A resident joins a working group. They learn to navigate systems, manage conflict, follow through on commitments, and sustain engagement over time even when it gets hard.
A resident becomes a Neighborhood Consultant. They design the next activation. They recruit the next partner. They write the policy recommendation. They hold the gavel.
The Approach
This Is Not An Event.
Health in the Streets is a community engagement methodology — a structured, iterative approach to building collective action in neighborhoods that have historically been underserved by systems designed elsewhere, for someone else.
The Reframe
What People See vs. What's Actually Happening
What People See
A community health event on a city street. Partners tabling. Live music. Free screenings. People gathering.
What's Actually Built
Months of canvassing, listening conversations, email outreach, coalition attendance, relationship visits, and partner coordination — made visible.
What Comes Next
Working groups. Neighborhood consultants. MOUs. A 4-year investment in community-led systems change that outlasts any single event.
The Method
The Community Lab Method
LISTEN
Canvassing, listening conversations, attending existing meetings. Learn who's already doing the work.
ACTIVATE
Community activation events in the open air. Make invisible infrastructure visible. Build public credibility.
EMBED
Neighborhood consultants paid to work in their own communities. Working groups on SDOH priorities.
TRANSFER
Self-governing community ecosystems. LVCM as connective tissue, not the center.
The Framework
Our Systems Change Framework
COORDINATION
Sharing information. Making sure the right people know what the right people know.
COOPERATION
Working alongside each other. Reducing duplication. Honoring what already exists.
COLLABORATION
Shared goals, shared resources, shared credit. Building something none of us could build alone.
INTEGRATION
Weaving organizations, people, and resources into a common infrastructure for community health.
SYSTEMS CHANGE
Shifting the mental models, structures, and policies that determine who gets access to what, and why.
The Commitment
Life of Victory in Christ Ministries CDC has made a four-year investment commitment to Greensboro and Guilford County. Not one event. Not one year. Four years of presence, relationship, and work — until the community has what it needs to sustain itself.
LVCM CDC · Greensboro — Guilford County
HEALTH IN THE STREETS
Full Strategy: From Neighborhood Activation to Systems Change
Cooperation • Coordination • Collaboration
Integrated EcoSystem of Systems Change | Greensboro–Guilford County 2026–2028
How It Works
How It Works
A place-based, asset-driven model that brings services to residents rather than asking residents to navigate fragmented systems.
"Health in the Streets closes these gaps by delivering a coordinated ecosystem of care, navigation, story collection, and resident co-design directly on the block."
The HITS Definition
The HITS Definition
The common language for partners, residents, funders, and civic leaders.
From Coordination to Community Ownership
From Coordination to Community Ownership
The movement grows through three partner behaviors and one community outcome.
Systems Change Starts Inside Organizations
Systems Change Starts Inside Organizations
HITS builds capacity inside partner organizations — not only at the event level.
"Community accountability + iterative learning"
The Ground Engagement Model
The Ground Engagement Model
Four Pillars of Community-Centered Activation
Partner Operating Model
Partner Operating Model
Every organization is more than a table: each partner becomes a connector in a shared ecosystem.
Community Innovation Lab
Community Innovation Lab
HITS is a living laboratory for sustainable systems change.
Data + Story = Policy Voice
Data + Story = Policy Voice
The tracking system should capture reach, referrals, needs, partner outcomes, and resident voice without creating barriers.
"Every voice becomes evidence for systems change, grant reporting, and advocacy."
The Systems Change Progression
From Coexistence to Lasting Systems Change
"Health in the Streets accelerates this movement — event by event, neighborhood by neighborhood, relationship by relationship."
2026 Greensboro Activation Series
2026 Greensboro Activation Series
Three launches, three learning cycles, one integrated ecosystem.
"Iterative: Listen → Activate → Debrief → Return"
Immediate Implementation Roadmap
Immediate Implementation Roadmap
From the first activation to sustained neighborhood working groups.
Funding & Research-Ready Framing
Funding & Research-Ready Framing
Position HITS as a testable, community-led intervention for systems change and health equity.
10 Dimensions of Community Health
10 Dimensions of Community Health
The Organizing Framework for Partner Engagement, SDOH Tracking & Systems Change
"We are not building an event. We are building the infrastructure that a neighborhood needs to own its own health future."
Our Progress
The Work So Far — In Numbers
Verified counts from LVCM CDC records. "+" denotes a conservative, documented floor.
Four-Year Timeline
The Journey So Far — And Where We're Going
YEAR 1 · 2025 — Listen & Learn
COMPLETED- Launched listening conversation program across Guilford County
- Began canvassing in Greensboro target neighborhoods
- Outreached to 200+ organizations by email and phone
- Built partner database and digital infrastructure
- Attended existing community meetings as learners
YEAR 2 · 2026 — Activate & Connect
IN PROGRESS- Launched Health in the Streets Greensboro series (Franklin Blvd, Doak St, Patio Pl)
- Launched Neighbor Up listening sessions before each activation
- Launched Community Alerts Portal (in-the-streets.org/community-alerts)
- Launched Healing Without Debt Guilford outreach
- Began Greensboro Housing Authority relationship building
- Neighborhood consultant pilot (8–10 hrs/week, paid community members)
- Launched Community Tools portal and Boots on Ground staff platform
YEAR 3 · 2027 — Embed & Deepen
UPCOMING- Neighborhood consultants in 3–5 Guilford communities (full launch)
- Standing working groups on SDOH priorities
- Formal MOUs with GCS, GHA, Cone Health, faith sector
- First annual Guilford County Community Health Report
- HITS Greensboro expansion to additional GHA communities
YEAR 4 · 2028 — Transfer & Sustain
FUTURE- 10–15 active neighborhood consultants across Guilford County
- Working groups self-governing with LVCM as convener
- First cohort of Community Fellows in Greensboro
- Community health data used for active policy advocacy
- Succession planning complete: community ecosystem runs itself
Diffusion Curve
Who's Coming With Us — And When
Early Adopters
nowOrganizations already engaged, faith leaders, active community groups
Early Majority
Year 2–3Organizations that join when they see results
Late Majority
Year 3–4Institutions that move slowly — hospital systems, school admin, major foundations
Laggards
laterSome will never join. That's okay. The work continues.
Every movement has early adopters, majority followers, and late arrivals. We're not waiting for everyone before we start. We're building something real, so that when people are ready, there's something worth joining.
Community Co-Design
What Are Neighbor Up Listening Conversations?
Health happens when residents lead. Neighbor Up is how we make that real. Small, intimate conversations in your neighborhood — 1–2 hours, free food, 12–20 people max. Your voice shapes what we bring.
Partnerships
Partners: Let's Transform Neighborhoods Together
Are you a healthcare provider, nonprofit, school, civic group, government agency, or faith community? Partner with HITS and reach residents where they live.
Get Involved
Help Us Bring Health to Your Neighborhood
Whether you have 2 hours or 20 — there is a role for you.
LVCM CDC activations qualify for community service hours. We document your hours and provide official verification.
For Faith Leaders
The Church Has Always Been Here.
Before the nonprofits. Before the city programs. Before the health systems discovered this neighborhood — the church was here. Health in the Streets is built on that truth. We are not asking the church to support our work. We are asking the church to lead it.
The Prophetic Case
Why This Is a Ministry Issue, Not Just a Social Issue
The social determinants of health — housing instability, food insecurity, economic exclusion, environmental harm, unequal access to healthcare — are not political issues. They are prophetic ones. They represent places where systems have failed people that the church is called to serve. LVCM CDC exists at the intersection of faith, health, and community transformation because we believe the Church cannot afford to leave systems change to systems alone.
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor... to set at liberty those who are oppressed."
— Luke 4:18
Participation
You Don't Have to Do It All. Just Show Up.
Send A Representative
You don't have to bring your whole congregation. Send one person to one event. Let them carry the relationship back.
Open Your Doors
Host a listening session. Host a Neighbor Up gathering. Your building is already a community asset.
Speak to What You Know
At Health in the Streets, every faith leader has a platform. 2 minutes. Your neighborhood. Your people. What do you see that others don't?
At The Table
Commit Your Congregation to Health in the Streets
Make a public commitment to walk with us. Your submission goes to Rev. Holly for review before it appears publicly.
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I Want to Connect — Start a Conversation
Talk with Rev. Kenneth Holly about how your congregation can lead this work in your neighborhood.
Or call Rev. Holly directly: (336) 925-4045
Ready to Be Part of the Movement?
Register, partner, volunteer — or just show up. Every neighbor makes HITS real.
Register Now — It's Free →Building Stronger Communities Through Faith, Health & Collective Impact
Rev. Kenneth Holly, President & CEO
📞 (336) 473-8859 | ✉️ kholly@lvcmcdc.org | 🌐 www.lvcmcdc.org
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