How can collaboratives use participatory facilitation and partnership to co-create equity-centered policy and advocacy frameworks? This session shares tools and lessons from developing the CalFresh Healthy Living Community Impact Frameworks - a statewide effort that engaged hundreds of stakeholders to define shared goals for advancing health equity. Through landscape analysis, advisory councils, and human-centered design workshops, the process modeled how to align partners, center lived experience, and embed equity in decision-making. The session will highlight how Leah's Pantry navigated common tensions, such as balancing efficiency with emergence and community ownership with expert structure.

Participants will explore facilitation techniques including participatory budgeting, asset-framing, and collaborative data interpretation, and apply them to their own contexts. The session will highlight successes and challenges of building a large-scale framework, and how these approaches can strengthen advocacy. Attendees will leave with tools for facilitating inclusive processes that translate into actionable policy frameworks across programs and systems.

Learning Question:  What facilitation tools and participatory methods help strengthen collaboration and build strategic, equity-centered advocacy frameworks?