Infographic: Family Engagement And Children And Youth With Special Health Care Needs
The Catalyst Center has created a one-page infographic illustrating the importance of family engagement for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). This is one page in a series of infographics exploring key focus areas in the world of health care financing and coverage for CYSHCN [...]
Factors Associated with Engaging Socially Marginalized HIV Positive Persons in Primary Care
This article was published in AIDS Patient Care and STDs in 2007. This paper examines factors associated with engaging socially marginalized HIV-positive persons in primary care using interview and chart review data from 984 clients presenting for services at 10 agencies participating in a multi [...]
The Provider Role in Client Engagement in HIV Care
This article appeared in AIDS Patient Care and STDs in 2007. This qualitative study examined the process by which persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) engage in primary HIV medical care for treatment.
“Getting Me Back on Track”: the Role of Outreach Interventions in Engaging and Retaining People Living with HIV/AIDS in Medical Care
This article appeared in AIDS Patient Care and STDs Sept. 1, 2007. It describes a qualitative study that investigated the process of engagement in HIV medical care from the perspective of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).
New Grant for CISWH Executive Director and BU Colleagues Supports Linguistic Interpreters Working with Trauma Patients
Interpreters working with medical patients who have experienced forced displacement are often exposed to their clients’ traumatic experiences, otherwise known as vicarious trauma. Unlike social workers, psychologists, and other clinicians; linguistic interpreters frequently lack the institutional [...]
Support for Community Health Workers to Increase Health Access and to Reduce Health Inequities
This policy statement by the American Public Health Association is an update to an earlier statement (2001). Articulates challenges to CHW workforce development, incorporates lessons learned in the years since the original statement, and confirms many of the 2001 statement recommendations
The Kind Approach to Engaging People in Treatment for Substance Use Disorder
Boston Public Health Commission’s Devin Larkin explains that how services are delivered matters for engagement and retention. By Mariah LeStage Starting on a path to substance use recovery might not begin with checking into detox, or even speaking with a medical professional. It could be as simple [...]
12/8: Social Work, Health Equity and Civic Health Engagement
CISWH Health Equity Speaker Series Co-sponsored by Vot-ER Wednesday, December 8 | 5:30–7:00 pm ET Watch the Recording: Social Work, Health Equity & Civic Engagemt from CISWH on Vimeo In the U.S., political determinants of health include voting, government, and policy. But national he [...]
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS (NACHW): BUILDING A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR THE CHW WORKFORCE
The National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW) aims to unify the voices of community health workers (CHWs) and strengthen the profession’s capacity to promote healthy communities. NACHW grew out of years of organizing by national CHW leaders and allies, with financial support start [...]
Taking Action: Social Work and Civic Health
Eleanor Zambrano, CISWH executive director, presented “Taking Action: Social Work and Civic Health” at the McLean Hospital Annual Golda Edinburg Lecture on March 30, 2023. This annual event honors the late Golda Edinburg, (MSW ’46). She was invaluable in developing the McLean social wo [...]
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