Understand emerging evidence and best practices for implementing community engagement interventions to better meet community needs and improve health equity.
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This webinar will feature a panel on cross-sector collaboration efforts in California to improve services for people who are unhoused, as well as practical strategies for sustaining these partnerships.
Webinar
Budget Impact Tool for Implementing Contingency Management for Co-Occurring Alcohol Use Disorders and Serious Mental Illness
Data from an ongoing clinical trial is used to estimate the cost of implementing a contingency management program and develop a customizable budget impact tool.
Peer-Reviewed Article
How the Camden Coalition is Applying Research Lessons to Improve Care Delivery
This webinar described how the Camden Coalition has refined and expanded programs in recent years to more effectively care for adults with complex health and social needs and integrate lessons from this evidence.
Webinar
Adopting Trauma-Informed Care in Rural Areas: Lessons from a Community Behavioral Health Partnership in Pennsylvania
This webinar featured a rural Pennsylvania partnership and its experience implementing trauma-informed care across a network of providers.
Webinar
Pilot Implementation of a Nutrition-Focused Community Health Worker Intervention Among Formerly Chronically Homeless Adults in Permanent Supportive Housing
A community health worker-led program for formerly homelessness individuals living in permanent supportive housing increased food security and social connectedness.
Case Example
Community Member Engagement Resource Center
This resource center offers guidance to help Medicaid stakeholders engage community members in policy and program design development, especially as a means of increasing health equity.
Website/Resource Center
Community-Based Organization Services Evidence Bank
Curated collection of research studies highlights the efficacy of services provided by community-based organizations, with a focus on outcomes relevant to health care partners.
Website/Resource Center
Assessment of the Massachusetts Flexible Services Program to Address Food and Housing Insecurity in a Medicaid Accountable Care Organization
A program to connect Medicaid ACO enrollees with nutrition and housing-related services demonstrated early indications of effectiveness.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Integration on the Frontlines of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations and Associations with Perceived Care Quality, Health Equity, and Satisfaction
Integrated care in MassHealth ACOs varies greatly across primary care practice type and is associated with greater ability to improve care quality and advance health equity.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Crisis Response Model Preferences of Mental Health Care Clients With Prior Misdemeanor Arrests and of Their Family and Friends
A nonpolice response model was the first choice for mental health crisis response among people with serious mental illness and their family members.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Community Health Worker Programs in Primary Care
Curates recent evidence behind community health worker programs that support people with complex health and social needs, as well as practical strategies to support effective implementation of these programs.
Collection
April 2023
Addiction Care
Curates recent evidence behind newer approaches to addiction care for people who have complex needs, as well as practical strategies to support effective implementation of these programs for people with substance use disorder.
Collection
December 2022
Addressing Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Older Dually Eligible Individuals
Toolkit offers recommendations and examples for screening and interventions that support social connectivity of older adults.
Implementation Tool
A Patient-Centered Complex Care Research Agenda
Recommendations for building a stronger, more coordinated, and patient-centered complex care evidence base.
Brief/Report
Guide to Evidence for Health-Related Social Needs Interventions: 2022 Update
Summarizes evidence on costs of health-related social needs interventions and their impact on utilization and cost of care to inform ROI Calculator users.
Implementation Tool
Behavioral Health Service Use Post‐Jail Release and Reduced Risk of Return to Jail
Individuals with behavioral health diagnoses who are released from jails are less likely to return to jail if they receive behavioral health services after release.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Applying the ROI Calculator for Partnerships to Address Social Determinants of Health
Described how health care organizations and community-based organizations can use the ROI Calculator to explore and plan financial arrangements to fund social services for people with complex needs.
Webinar
Housing and Health
Curates recent evidence behind housing programs and interventions, and explores practical tools and case studies on effective strategies for improving the health of people experiencing homelessness or unstable housing.
Collection
April 2022
Medical Respite Care Tool Kit
Resources to help organizations plan and implement medical respite care programs, including program development guides, case examples, and implementation tools.
Website/Resource Center