Building Blocks to Peer Success: A toolkit for training HIV-positive peers to engage PLWHA in care
Curriculo en espaΓ±ol Purpose of this toolkit: to support the training of HIV-positive peers who work to engage and retain people living with HIV in health care. Primary audiences: experienced trainers and training organizations who can use this toolkit to design, enhance or refine their own trainin [...]
Correlates of Unmet Dental Care Need among HIV-Positive Persons since Being Diagnosed with HIV
This article appeared in Public Health Reports 2012 Supplement 2. It describes a study in which the characteristics of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) who reported unmet oral health needs since testing positive were analyzed and compared to characteristics of people reporting no unmet health nee [...]
Disparities in Insurance Coverage among Children with Special Health Care Needs: How Social Workers Can Promote Social and Economic Justice
In this article, we first provide information about CSHCN, insurance status, and associated disparities. We then discuss practice and policy initiatives that social workers could pursue to reduce these disparities, including initiatives prompted by the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordabl [...]
Advancing Leadership in Public Health Social Work Education: Toolkit
This toolkit contains an overview of public health social work (PHSW) history, definitions, and examples of contemporary practice. It includes a model PHSW syllabus and a resource guide that links educators and practitioners to additional curriculum-building materials. It also contains a collection [...]
MCH Workforce Development
The Catalyst Center serves as a partner with the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) and the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) to form the Access to Care Core for the University of North Carolina’s National Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Workforce Developm [...]
NIDRR Access to Care
This three-year research project, funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), aimed to examine access barriers to the continuum of mainstream health care services for persons with disabilities across the lifespan in Massachusetts. This project was designed to [...]
Ruth Paris
Ruth Paris, chair of the Clinical Practice Department, is recognized for her expertise in trauma and infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH), including a particular focus on families struggling with substance and opioid use disorders (SUDs and OUDs). With support from the Substance Abuse an [...]
Howard J. Cabral
Howard Cabral is Professor of Biostatistics, a co-director of the Biostatistics Graduate Program since 2003, and the founding Director of the Biostatistics and Research Design Program of the Boston University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. He has over 30 years of teaching, consulting [...]
HIV/AIDS Medical Case Management Acuity Tool Form and Evaluation Report
In 2014, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) and Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) launched a project to develop an acuity tool to assess the severity of needs of clients living with HIV. The CAHPP team worked with MDPH and BPHC staff to create an acuity tool that assesses clie [...]
The TEFRA Medicaid State Plan Option and Katie Beckett Waiver for Children
Making It Possible to Care for Children with Significant Disabilities at Home The Catalyst Centerβs State Data Chartbook offers a comprehensive array of data from a variety of different sources on the coverage and financing of care for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). On [...]
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