Blurred background of report cover
Decorative geometric lilac circles

Resilience

OUR WORK

Logo for ELTRR consisting oc colorful rounded rectangles that match the colors of the Vital conditions for health and wellbeing

THE CHALLENGE

The US Department of Health and Human Services came to us when they wanted to boost interagency collaboration in order to serve the public with long-term recovery and resilience support.

We started with a big question.

We met this challenge with expert:

  • brand development

  • data visualization

  • print and digital design

We asked…

What if...

we enable 28 federal agencies to focus on not only responding to individual crises, but also building systems to help people thrive?

A group of people walking in an office hallway. A Black man and Asian Woman are in the foreground talking and laughing.
ELTRR Logo
Three people: A redhead woman, a Black woman, and a Black man talk in a workplace setting.

THE APPROACH

Over 70 federal agencies gathered to develop a whole-government approach to move away from a mindset of urgent response, and towards one of thriving.

Then, they had to communicate all that they had developed and how it fit together so it could lead to action. Banyan took on that challenge. We found the signal in the noise and developed a brand centered around the Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being.

Vital Conditions of Health and Wellbeing Wheel.
Image that shows how the Interagency Vital Conditions for Well-being connect to the Social Determinants of Health.
Three copies of the Plan
Graphic showing the way that the plan is the central and active oversight and action, which leads to federal government leaders and departments, then to regional, state, and local public systems, and then to Civil and cross-sector organizations
An open spread of one of the recommendations pages.
Blue icon for Basic needs featuring an onion and pepper
Dark blue icon featuring different kinds of disasters like floots, fires, storms, and tornados.
Green icon for meaningful work and wealth depicting an open sign.
Icon for human housing depicting decreased prices in rent.
icon for lifelong learning that shows a diploma
Orange icon for reliable transportation depicting a road with a location marker on it.
blue icon for basic needs depicting a bowl with a spoon in it.
Pink Icon for Belonging and Civic Muscle with three hands reaching into the center.
purple icon for thriving natural world depicting someone walking outdoors.
Select slides from the briefing deck.
A chord diagram showing how each federal agency connects to each Vital Condition for Health and Well-being.
A chord diagram showing how each federal agency connects to each subset of Belonging and Civic Muscle.
A chord diagram showing how each federal agency connects to each subset of Thriving Natural World
A chord diagram showing how each federal agency connects to each subset of Basic Needs.
A chord diagram showing how each federal agency connects to each subset of Humane Housing
A chord diagram showing how each federal agency connects to each subset of Lifelong Learning
A chord diagram showing how each federal agency connects to each subset of Meaningful Work and Wealth
A chord diagram showing how each federal agency connects to each subset of Reliable Transportation

THE RESULTS

We created big suite of materials, including a 200+ page report, multiple presentations, one-pagers, data visualizations, icons, and other key graphics. This final product provides federal agencies with 78 actionable recommendations.

Admiral Levine, 17th Assistant Secretary of Health at HHS, said it “Gives me hope.” 

Federal Plan for Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience for social, behavioral, and community health. sections of geometric parts of the vital conditions are shown on the cover. In the corner "All people and places thriving, no exceptions"