Greater Upper Valley Integrated Services Team

GUVIST provides space for willing partners to learn an integration process using Collective Impact principles and incubate integration solutions, and provides technical assistance to cultivate service delivery networks, facilitate regional needs into action and help partners move beyond collaboration to integration of leadership, decision-making, operations, and responsibility. Integration of service delivery improves services and support for community members to be efficient, effective, responsive and appropriate to the desires of those in need, where and when they are needed. All health care & social service organizations serving any population in Orange, Windsor, Sullivan and southern Grafton counties are welcome to join our monthly virtual meeting.

To learn more about GUVIST or to join this work,
please contact the Integration Catalyst at GUVISTCatalyst@gmail.com

GUVIST is led by an Executive Council that represents the diverse populations, geography and sectors we serve, providing strategic leadership and support for GUVIST and Service Delivery Networks.
Current Executive Council (Name, Organization, Sector):

Cara Baskin, GUVIST, Public Health

Ashleen Buchanan, Little Rivers Healthcare, Health Care Delivery

Alice Ely, Public Health Council, Public Health

Rudy Fedrizzi, VT Department of Health, White River Junction District Office, Public Health

Ken Hammond, State of Vermont Human Services Agency, Public Health

Lindsy Mack, Health Care and Rehabilitation Services (HCRS), Mental Health

Peter Mason, Family Physician, Good Neighbor Health Clinic, Public Health, Substance Use Disorders

Susan Seidler, Stepping Stone & Next Step Peer Support Centers, Mental Health (Peer Support for Adults)

Martha Tecca, CommunityCare of Lyme, SHARe (Supporting and Helping Asylees and Refugees), NH Alliance for Healthy Aging, Tri-state Learning Collaborative on Aging, Public Health/Senior Services

Link to Executive Council Self Nomination Form

GUVIST AT A GLANCE:

Who

GUVIST is comprised of diverse health care & social service organizations who recognize the need for integration to improve service delivery for the community.

Where

In the bi-state Greater Upper Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont. We aim to serve portions of Orange, Windsor, Sullivan and southern Grafton counties.

What

GUVIST facilitates service integration to improve the experience of people who receive services from multiple organizations by helping service providers operate interdependently by design.

Why

For services and support for community members of all ages to be efficient, effective, responsive and appropriate to the desires of those in need, where and when they are needed.

How

GUVIST provides space to incubate solutions and cultivate service delivery networks which move beyond collaboration to integration of leadership, decision-making, operations, and responsibility.

What is GUVIST Working on? Have a problem that integration could solve? Get Involved!