Cisily
Brown
Consumer Advisory Council, Consumer Scholar, COVID Ambassador, and Amplify Member
Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
Areas of expertise: Educating youth, teenage family planning, childhood trauma and abuse, equal opportunities for minorities and racism
Cisily Brown is a mother of four children, advocate, motivational speaker, member of several self help groups, and a lover of music. Cisily is passionate about helping communities have better access to the family supports, education, resources, and leadership that they need to thrive. Cisily is a proud 2019-2020 participant of the National Consumer Scholars program. She has shared her lived experiences at several venues, including the 2019 Putting Care at the Center Conference – with the hope of bringing awareness to issues including childhood sexual abuse.
Experience:
- Camden Coalition Community Advisory Board Member, 2018-present
- National Consumer Scholars, 2019-2020
- Take Back Our Health: Stories of Healing story sharing event in Camden, NJ, 2019
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Facilitator: Shelley Cohen Konrad, PhD, LCSW, FNAP
Director, Center for Excellence in Collaborative Education, University of New England
How do we, as members of the healthcare community, focus on what matters most to those we serve? The individuals, families, communities and populations we serve often posit that it begins with including them in designing how care and learning are delivered so their interests, beliefs and priorities can be reflected.
In this plenary, dyads of health professionals and expert patients from three ground-breaking programs will share real-world…