MED-HEART: Finding Home: Tips and tools for guiding people living with HIV toward stable housing
Download the housing toolkit (PDF) Toolkit resources are listed below. This toolkit is designed to provide resources to organizations to increase access to stable and permanent housing for people who are homeless or unstably housed, living with HIV, and who may have persistent mental illness and/or [...]
The Wilson Family
Amy and Tim Wilson describe themselves as “forced poor.” Their annual income of $25,000 makes it a constant challenge to support a family of five, but it keeps them eligible for the Medicaid program that covers most of their son Hunter’s ongoing medical expenses. “I would be cutting my own t [...]
Health Care Transformation
The staff of the Catalyst Center has in-depth knowledge of the implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was passed in 2010. The Supreme Court upheld challenges to the law in 2012 and 2015. Our team has produced a range of peer-reviewed articles, fact sheets, report [...]
Financing Strategies
Many Title V and Medicaid programs use funds from their own programs or leverage other funding to reduce the number of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) without health insurance, close benefit gaps, pay for additional services, and build the capacity of the system of care. T [...]
Medicaid and CHIP: A Tutorial on Coverage for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)
This tutorial gives a broad overview of Medicaid and CHIP, the many different populations these programs serve, the changes they are undergoing under health reform, and some details to help readers think about opportunities to improve access to coverage for CYSHCN through communication and collabora [...]
Ryan White 2016 Conference Presentation: Everybody Loves a Good Story
Using digital media to capture & share patient stories–As part of the initiative Building a Medical Home for Multiply Diagnosed HIV Homeless Populations, staff from nine HIV provider sites created digital stories demonstrating their clients’ experiences working with the initiative. [...]
New manuals support programs that improve health outcomes along the HIV care continuum
Since 2015, staff from the Center have been conducting a multisite evaluation of four previously released HIV interventions focusing on specific populations. These interventions, funded under the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau, and Special Projects of National Signi [...]
NCCA Blog – “Bringing families to the center and empowering them to lead their child’s care:” Team Texas’s Vision for Transforming the Complex Care System
Team Texas participated in the National Care Coordination Academy (NCCA) to continue the family-centered care coordination work they started as part of the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network to Advance Care for Children with Medical Complexity (CMC CoIIN). According to Ivy Goldstein, S [...]
Leverage Opportunities + Speak the Medicaid Language: A Workbook for Title V
Leverage Opportunities + Speak the Medicaid Language: A Workbook for Title V focuses on Medicaid as an important element of the system of services for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN), as it is the single largest payor for CYSHCN and provides a robust benefits package for c [...]
Missed us at APHA? Here’s what we said
Didn’t make it to the American Public Health Association annual meeting, or missed the presentation of one of our staff members? We have made the following presentation materials available on our website: Presentation: Transitional Care Coordination: Providing a Supportive Link Between Jail and Co [...]
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