Explores evidence on the effectiveness of medical respite care and the impacts this approach has on patient outcomes, hospital visits, and costs.

Sharon Bean and Ernest Egu, MD, discuss their corrections-health partnership that has reduced the risk of overdose among people leaving jail by offering medication for addiction treatment.

Kathryn Jantz from HealthBegins, discusses how health care organizations and community-based organizations can use an return on investment calculator to support partnerships that address patients’ health-related social needs.

Profiles the Program to Encourage Active, Rewarding Lives (PEARLS), an evidence-based treatment program for older adults experiencing late-life depression, and how the program is decreasing access barriers to behavioral health services for older adults.

Laura Gottlieb, founding co-director of the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network, discusses emerging evidence on social care interventions and identifies pathways through which social care programs likely impact health.

Connecticut Community of Addiction Recovery helps people with substance use disorder achieve and sustain recovery through community-based non-clinical social support programs, volunteer opportunities, and referrals to detox, treatment, housing, employment, among other resources.

Explores how the Fountain House implemented the clubhouse model, a unique approach that empowers people with serious mental illness to form meaningful relationships, build resilience, improve self-management of their mental health, and pursue employment, education, and housing.

This essay from Lawrence Lincoln, a former unhoused person in California, documents his journey of recovery and subsequent work with a care community.