# 5.3	Expressly engage across sectors and with community leaders to make the transformation.

For too long, systems have at best worked to coordinate services and supports, instead of using their position and access to illuminate how the policies of one system creates deep barriers in other systems. We cannot be successful if the price of short-term success in one program or system is deeper poverty or challenges for a family. Systems leaders must push for change within their own systems and across systems. At the same time, recognizing that the problems in our systems as experienced by communities that interact with them are also often experienced by the staff within the institution or system.

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