Get Involved
Help shape a more human-centered healthcare system.
For patients and families
If you’ve ever felt seen — or unseen — in healthcare, your voice matters here.
Every story shared, conversation started, and moment named helps shift how care is given — and how patients are heard.
Here are a few ways to help:
Share the message. Pass along a story, the video, or this site to someone who might recognize themselves in it.
Talk about it. Bring the idea of human-centered care into a conversation with a provider, family member, or friend.
Leave a leaflet. Print or request one and leave it at your local clinic or community space.
Share your own story. Your experience can help healthcare providers understand what truly makes a difference.
For care providers and healthcare leaders
If you work in healthcare, your openness to listen and reflect matters deeply.
These stories are not about blame.
They are about understanding what care feels like from the other side — and what helps people feel safe, respected, and human.
Reading, sharing, or simply sitting with these stories is one way to begin.
Alongside patient voices, care providers are also sharing their own stories of connection, learning, and moral tension — helping bridge the space between patients and the system.
For collaborators and partners
This movement is growing.
In time, we hope to collaborate with educators, researchers, designers, storytellers, and system leaders who share a commitment to more compassionate care.
If this work resonates with you, we’d love to connect.
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This project is built on a simple idea — that lived experience is a form of expertise.
The stories shared here can support:
education and training
reflective practice
research and inquiry
culture-change conversations within healthcare systems
Partnerships may look different depending on context — but they all begin with a shared respect for dignity, consent, and human connection.
Why this matters
Behind every healthcare outcome is a human story —
often one that was missed, misunderstood, or transformed by compassion.
These stories reveal how care feels, not just how it functions.
Healing depends on trust — for both patients and care providers.
When people do not feel seen, heard, or valued, that trust erodes.
By bringing these moments to light, the Human-Centered Healthcare Movement invites a culture of mutual compassion — where being heard is part of being cared for.
Support this work
To sustain and grow this project, we’re currently supported through small, values-aligned contributions that help cover essential startup and platform costs.
Every contribution helps make it possible for these stories to be shared — safely, thoughtfully, and with care.
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Make a financial contribution
Share the project with others
Explore partnership or collaboration
Help amplify the stories when one resonates with you
Sometimes the simplest act — passing a story along — makes the biggest difference.
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Initial funding helps cover:
secure story-submission tools
ethical review and anonymization
web hosting and technical development
legal review, user testing, and accessibility
project coordination and care-based moderation
These supports make it possible to build a platform where every story is treated with respect.
Our commitment to care and consent
This project follows a trauma-informed, privacy-protected process for every story shared.
Each submission is reviewed, anonymized, and published only with consent.
Contributors may request edits or removal at any time — because dignity, agency, and care are central to how these stories are held.
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Want to collaborate, support this work, or explore a partnership?
Reach out anytime, here — we’d love to connect.