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 brief shares case studies demonstrating how primary care practices can develop effective community engagement strategies to deliver whole-person care and address patients’ and families’ health-related social needs.

Program led by a nurse practitioner and community health worker improved housing stability, access to primary care, and chronic disease management among older women experiencing homelessness.

Evaluation shares health, social, emotional, and financial outcomes resulting from community health worker programs for older adults in Texas.

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

This study offers a standardized approach for embedding community health workers into primary care, providing a valuable framework for health systems aiming to integrate this workforce.

A community health worker initiative embedded in an urban health system led to a significant number of primary care patients receiving services to address their health-related social needs.

This brief offers tips for managed care organizations and Medicaid agencies on how to incorporate community health worker expertise when building or enhancing CHW programs.

Systematic review finds that fruit and vegetable incentive programs reduce food insecurity, increase fruit and vegetable consumption, and improve blood glucose levels among low-income populations.

A guide for health care organizations on evidence-based strategies to implement food and nutrition security programs.

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.

A produce prescription program leads to improvements in blood pressure and A1c levels and reductions in food insecurity for people with or at risk of type 2 diabetes.

Analysis of a produce prescription and nutrition counseling program show promising results and key implementation insights.

Systematic review shows produce prescription programs improve food security, reduce blood glucose levels among patients with diabetes, and have mixed evidence for other health outcomes.

Medically tailored meals significantly reduced admissions to hospitals and nursing homes for people with complex health and social needs.

Insights from experts, recent research, and state case studies offer actionable recommendations for advancing medically tailored meal initiatives to improve outcomes and reduce costs.

Evaluation of a diabetes-focused medically tailored meals pilot demonstrates improved health outcomes and provides examples of key implementation tools.