A set of resources and strategies to help health care stakeholders foster authentic, effective community engagement that drives local policy and program change.

Website offers a qualitative database of personal narratives to support providers and policymakers in designing policies that better reflect the lived experience, needs, and priorities of older adults.

This toolkit details options for implementing recently introduced Medicare services that address members’ health-related social needs.

This toolkit provides key considerations and templates for state Medicaid leaders seeking to establish coverage, payment, and policy guidance for community health workers.

Tool shares strategies for states to use Medicaid accountable care organization agreements to promote health equity.

Guide offers implementation recommendations for introducing food insecurity screenings in clinical settings, including workflow and staffing considerations.

Food banks can use this tool to learn approaches to information-sharing for health care partnerships and interventions.

Guidance and tools for food banks to partner with health care organizations to address food insecurity and improve health outcomes.

Details implementation guidance for a rural produce prescription program, covering funding and sustainability, partnerships, design, and evaluation.

This resource toolkit offers best practices for contracting between health care systems and community-based organizations to address health-related social needs.

Actionable guidance for expanding housing options and improving justice- and health-related needs for people with criminal legal system involvement with behavioral health needs.

Recommendations to facilitate trust and effective communication between health care providers and patients with a history of criminal legal system involvement.

Toolkit offers guidance for corrections and health care professionals on evidence-based interventions to support the reentry needs of people with behavioral health needs.

Housing needs assessment tool can help providers who work with people leaving incarceration to better understand their housing needs and risk of homelessness.

Guidance on developing a reentry program to support Native Americans who are reentering communities from jail or prisons.

Strategies, challenges, and opportunities in supporting the implementation and sustainability of community paramedicine programs in rural communities.

This tool can support health care and community-based organizations in building sustainable cross-sector partnerships.

A tool helps providers capture essential information when interviewing people experiencing unsheltered homelessness to support effective treatment planning.

Health care organizations can use this toolkit to develop community ambassador/liaison programs — programs that train community members to act as a bridge between communities and the organizations that serve them.

This resource guide outlines the value case for health plans to partner with community-based organizations for social care benefits.