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Our communities and world are broken in many ways and their futures are endangered. 

“Thrive!” is the call for our joining together to build and sustain a thriving future.  

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Gary "Chris" Christopherson 

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viaFuture               logo - viaFuture

To create and sustain large, positive change. Strategy/tools framework for “Thrive!”.

Healthy                HealthePeople logo

To build healthy/thriving future, incl. high performance health systems. Includes “HealthePeople” strategy.

Vulnerable           logo - Vulnerable In America

To minimize vulnerability. Includes “Vulnerable In America and World (via)” strategy.

GChris Art          logo - GChris Art

GChris sculptures are driven by and support “Thrive!” mission. “Art as advocacy.”

    In the website's videos and images, the red flowing to green colors symbolize positive change and moving from vulnerable to thriving.

 

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About Thrive!

About Thrive!      

  Thrive!, founded by Gary Christopherson, is the call to action with a vision and a mission for those wanting to build and sustain a better and preferably thriving future.

   Supporting the Thrive! mission are "viaFuture", "HealthePeople" and "Vulnerable in America and World (via)".  He also founded them based on years of advocacy in and out of government.

  Supporting this endeavor, "via" strategies and models have been developed from 30+ years of experience at the local and national levels.  viaFuture and via have been used in inner city health systems, Department of Defense's Military Health System, Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health System and Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services, Congress and the White House.   (Bio)

Gary "Chris" Christopherson

Gary "Chris" Christopherson, Founder

   Over his career, he has worked on national issues on "person-centered", "community", "vulnerability", "health", and human service strategy, policy, systems, models, performance, reform and management.  (Bio)  

   For decades, he has been a strong advocate of causes that support the Thrive! vision. His strategic, policy, management, performance, and advocacy work spans his service both inside and outside of government.      

   His primary work to-date has been with creating and sustaining large scale, positive change, improving health and reducing vulnerability. 

   He is also a sculptor of abstract art.  GChris.com  

Past Public Service:  (Bio)

  • Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, DoD

  • Senior Advisor to Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, DHHS

  • Senior Fellow and Scholar-in-Residence, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences

  • Fellow, National Academy for Public Administration

  • Associate Director, Presidential Personnel, Executive Office of the President, White House

  • Chief Information Officer, Veterans Health Administration, VA

  • Senior Advisor to Under Secretary, Veterans Health Administration, VA

  • Director of Health Legislation, House Select Committee on Aging, U.S. House of Representatives

  • Deputy Director, Quality Improvement Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, DHHS

  • Senior Advisor to Assistant Secretaries of Defense for Health Affairs and for Reserve Affairs, DoD

  • Deputy Director, Municipal Health Services Program (funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and based at John Hopkins Medical Institutions)

  • Director of Special Projects, Director of Municipal Health Services Program, Director of Mother and Infant Care Project, and Director of Project Life, City of Milwaukee Health Department

  • States Coordinator, National High Blood Pressure Education Program