United Kingdom junior doctors increased their capacity as change agents after mobilizing and implementing the WHO surgical checklist. 

A group of volunteers, staff and physicians from St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, an acute care facility in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada engaged in a social movement to address environmental issues. This was due in part to the intrinsic motivation of these individuals and their collective energy for change. 

RNAO advocates for making harm reduction services available for people who use substances as a means of saving lives. To this end, individual and collective actions has resulted in continued access to supervised injection services. Read more in this case study. 

To create system level changes in health-care in the United Kingdom, momentum was fostered to achieve goals. Read more in this case study.  

An Indigenous diabetes prevention school project used a network to support community partner's capacity building and collaboration. Read more in this case study.    

Behavioural Supports Ontario (BSO) is a pre-designate Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) serving long-term care (LTC) homes in Hamilton, Haldimand-Norfolk, Brantford, Burlington and Niagara Regions.  Learn more about how they leveraged leadership to engage teams in person- and family-centred care in this case study. 

RNAO's Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) program has integrated a collective identity of knowledge champions to advance evidence uptake and sustainability.

Multiple communities mobilized to sustain a childhood obesity prevention program through targeted individual and collective action. Read more in this case study. 

As one of the preconditions of social movement action, this element focuses on strategies to root the change as meaningful and urgently needed. 

A key characteristic of the Social Movement Action Framework is "Collective identity" in which individuals engaged in a change initiative develop a shared identity that acts as a powerful driver or 'glue' for their continued commitment to the change and taking action.