Georgia Thrives Together Playbook
From Ideas to Action Across Georgia
The materials below provide an early look at recommendations emerging from the Georgia Thrives Together Community of Practice’s Special Interest Groups focused on Basic Needs for Health and Safety, Belonging and Civic Muscle, and Humane Housing. Created using content and recommendations generated through the Special Interest Group process and first launched at the “Step Into the Playbook” Preview Event, the Action Boards and Action One-Pagers offer a preview of recommendations and opportunities for action that will be featured in the Georgia Thrives Together Playbook, Volume 1.
Coming Fall 2026: Georgia Thrives Together Playbook, Volume 1
Explore the Playbook Preview Materials
The Action Boards and Action One-Pagers were created to make the emerging recommendations accessible for exploration and discussion. Both draw form content generated through the Special Interest Group process and provide different ways to engage with the recommended actions across the three focus areas.
Action Boards
The Action Boards provide a visual introduction to the recommended actions. Originally displayed at the “Step Into the Playbook” Preview Event, they were designed to help participants explore the actions, consider why they matter, and identify where their experience, influence, skills, or resources might contribute.
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Basic Needs for Health and Safety Action Boards
Belonging and Civic Muscle Action Boards
Humane Housing Action Boards
Action One-Pagers
The Action One-Pagers provide a concise overview of each recommended action, including the action’s purpose and key information drawn from the Special Interest Group content. They offer readers an opportunity to examine individual actions more closely while the full Playbook is being finalized.
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Basic Needs for Health and Safety One-Pagers
Belonging and Civic Muscle One-Pagers
Humane Housing One-Pagers
Explore the Focus Areas
The Georgia Thrives Together Playbook, Volume 1, focuses on three interconnected Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being that influence whether people and communities across Georgia can thrives. The definitions below reflect how each focus area was understood and described through the Special Interest Group process.
Basic Needs for Health and Safety
Basic Needs for Health and Safety are the conditions that allow people in Georgia to survive, stabilize, and thrive, including access to food, water, safe environments, and preventive and responsive health care. This Vital Condition recognizes the interconnected roles of health care access, safety, and upstream conditions in shaping health outcomes and emphasizes early identification of risk, coordinated care, and community-informed supports.
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Belonging and Civic Muscle
Belonging and Civic Muscle is defined as “the special capacities of people and organizations that convey to all a sense of being part of a community (belonging) and having power (civic muscle) to shape our common world.”
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Humane Housing
Humane Housing is housing that is affordable across multiple income levels and contributes to the overall well-being of its residents. It is designed to be widely accessible to all Georgians, with low barriers to entry that support autonomy. It offers safety, adequate space (for its occupants), and stability, and is located in areas that foster community connection and proximity to work, schools, food, health care, other essential services, nature and recreational outlets.
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Event Highlights from “Step Into the Playbook: An Interactive Preview of Action Across Georgia”
During the Georgia Thrives Together Community of Practice Annual In-Person Meeting in July 2026, Special Interest Group members and Action Champions welcomed attendees to “Step Into the Playbook: An Interactive Preview of Action Across Georgia.” The event gave attendees their first opportunity to explore actions developed through the Special Interest Group process for the Georgia Thrives Together Playbook.
With support from the Action Champions, participants engaged with the Action Boards and Action One-Pagers across Basic Needs for Health and Safety, Belonging and Civic Muscle, and Humane Housing. The experience invited them to consider where their experience, influence, skills, or resources could contribute and identify opportunities to help move the work forward.
The Preview Event offered an opportunity to engage with emerging Playbook content before the release of the full Georgia Thrives Together Playbook, Volume 1. The photos below capture participants exploring the materials and connecting around opportunities for action across Georgia.
Coming Fall 2026
Georgia Thrives Together Playbook, Volume 1
The Action Boards and Action One-Pagers offer an early look at the recommended actions. The full Georgia Thrives Together Playbook, Volume 1, will bring these recommendations together within a more complete and consolidated resource designed to help organizations, communities, coalitions, policymakers, funders, and other partners advance health and well-being across Georgia.
Volume 1 will include:
- Background and Georgia-specific context for each focus area
- Recommended actions developed through the Special Interest Group process
- Potential benefits and considerations for implementation
- Related Resources to support continued learning and action
- Opportunities to connect with others and support ongoing collaboration
The Playbook is intended to serve as a starting point rather than a prescribed implementation plan. Readers will be invited to identify actions that connect with their roles, priorities, or current work and consider practical next steps that can be adapted to their local context.
Georgia Thrives Together Playbook, Volume 1, is expected to be released in Fall 2026.
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