ADVOCATE ADVISORS
Community Collaboration Specialists
WHO WE ARE
Specialists in Community Collaboration
Advocate Advisors was founded with a simple mission: expand the powerful potential of social collaboration networks, especially around social determinants of health (SDOH).
You may call them community information exchanges, referral networks, or even simply a resource directory, but they all point to the same vision: when community, municipal and healthcare organizations team up, they can achieve better outcomes, save money, and make peoples' lives better.
Our team has nationwide experience in the development of these cross-functional initiatives. Let us help you build yours.
WHAT IS COMMUNITY COLLABORATION?
It started with SDOH.
The world has known for some time that social determinants of health have a huge impact on peoples' lives. Some estimates suggest that 86% of the factors that determine health outcomes originate outside hospitals and doctors offices.
Some of those barriers - like racism and income inequality - are systemic and institutional, and very hard to change.
But others can be changed. When healthcare and social service organizations team up, they can assess, understand, mitigate, and sometimes even eliminate the social factors that negatively impact health and improve one's quality of life. It's practical, it's constructive, and it's being done right now.
That's community collaboration. And it's changing the world.
ABOUT MICHAEL SATTLER
Principal
Michael Sattler has spent twenty years assembling integrated technology solutions and served most recently as Vice President / Operations for Activate Care, one of the country's most respected social determinants of health platforms. With a B.A. from Princeton and an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Babson College, Michael has founded seven technology and social impact companies over his career and developed hundreds of products, features, and cross-functional solutions. Since 2018 he has been instrumental in designing and deploying SDOH programs around the country.
HOW WE CAN HELP
Advocate Advisors offers experienced, focused guidance on getting your community into the collaboration business
COMPLIMENTARY INTRODUCTORY CONSULTATION
Bring An Advocate Along
You started with a mission: better health outcomes for your community. But building a social collaboration network is complex: from mission alignment to legal questions to technology to funding, it takes effort. With our complimentary initial consultation, we can get to know your unique situation, requirements, and needs, and start making some suggestions about your next steps.
COMMUNITY COLLABORATION PLANNING
It Starts With A Plan
Advocate can help you pull together key stakeholders, review your needs, efforts, and plans to date, share best practices from across the country, and strategize on your options. The deliverable: a clear, coherent, step-by-step plan for establishing your social collaboration network.
PLATFORM ASSESSMENT AND SELECTION
Tech-Enabling Your Vision
Technology can be complex, and few solutions out there allow true social collaboration. Throw in the incredible value of third party data sources and the challenge rises. Advocate Advisors can review the current tools and systems your trusted partners are using or considering using, establish a clear list of requirements and needs, and lay out the next steps for evaluation and selection.