Understand emerging evidence around the reimbursement of caregiver training services and explore resources for building successful caregiver training programs.

Highlights the CCBHC model, it’s unique financing approach, and two CCBHC programs in New York City and Oklahoma.

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.

Explores how community paramedicine programs have been implemented across the country, what evidence supports the effectiveness of these models, and how state and federal policies are helping to support the sustainability of these services.

Michael Askew, Deputy Director of the Office of Recovery at the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, discusses the role of recovery community centers in the lives of people with substance use disorder and across the continuum of other addiction care services.

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

States and health plans focused on engaging and sustaining the community health worker (CHW) workforce can use this blog post to understand emerging evidence around CHW programs for older adults.

Features a conversation with José Figueroa, MD, MPH, that explores emerging evidence behind integrated care programs and what is known about the impact of these programs on the populations they serve.

Profiles the Household Model, which creates home-like environments for nursing home residents to offer greater dignity, autonomy, and infection control, as well as establishes closer, more family-type relationships between residents and staff.

Features a conversation with two Southcentral Foundation leaders to learn how their approach to patient engagement has evolved over the years and the role it plays in improving care and advancing equity across their system.

Describes a new federal rule released in November 2023 to increase transparency in nursing home operations.

Breaks down CMS’ new nursing staffing requirements, including how states will need to respond. And highlights research findings that are important for policymakers to understand related to nursing home staffing.

Explores how looking more deeply at the results of an underpowered randomized controlled trial using alternative analysis methods can uncover nuanced results or inform a program redesign.

Explores the challenges in data access and exchange in contracting between community-based organization networks and health care entities.

Stakeholders seeking to learn more about the evidence base and implementation tools for street medicine programs can explore the following Playbook resource summaries.

Explores intersectionality — the interaction of social identities and experiences — and its importance in addressing LGBTQ+ caregivers’ needs.

Examines how eliminating biased language in patient charts is a key step towards helping patients better engage in care and improve health equity.