Caring for children with medical complexity through transformative family partnership
This presentation, created for a National Center for Complex Health And Social Needs webinar, discusses findings from family focus groups conducted by CoIIN teams and how the Massachusetts and Texas teams used these findings to support family partnership.
Per Diems in Polio Eradication: Perspectives From Community Health Workers and Officials
An article from the American Journal of Public Health. Reports and analyzes the differing attitudes towards per diems among health officials and community health workers. Suggests that further engaging in conversations with CHWs around this issue could spark significant shifts in thinking about labo [...]
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 [...]
Expanding Access to Medicaid Coverage: The TEFRA Option and Children with Disabilities
This policy brief explains what the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) means in terms of creating additional pathways to Medicaid for children, a comparison of TEFRA and HCBS waivers, how TEFRA affects children with special health care needs, and suggested improvements that could provi [...]
Effective Family Partnership Tools to Drive Global and Local Improvements: Learnings from the CMC CoIIN
This poster, created for the AMCHP 2021 conference, details the Family Engagement in Systems Assessment Tool (FESAT) process with CoIIN teams, overall FESAT findings from 3 rounds of assessment spanning the pandemic, and initial state team local action plans for targeted improvement based on the FES [...]
Florida Community Health Worker Coalition
The Florida Community Health Worker Coalition was founded in 2011 via a grant to increase research into CHW models of care awarded to the Florida Department of Health. Its mission is to promote the advancement of the CHW career and its specific model of care. The FCHWC links 305 CHWs in the state of [...]
Ask a Policy Expert
The Catalyst Center team has over 15 years of experience in policies related to health care financing and coverage for children. Our policy focus among children is children and youth with special health care needs, which we define as children who “have or are at increased risk for chronic phys [...]
The American Rescue Plan Act: Opportunities for Improving Home- and Community-Based Services for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was signed into law on March 11, 2021. Provisions in this legislation have the potential to expand and strengthen Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) for children enrolled in Medicaid, in turn strengthening the systems of services for children and youth with [...]
California Association of Community Health Workers
The California Association of Community Health Workers is a statewide advocacy group in California. Its mission is to value and promote Community Health Workers and their model of care, and to support career development of CHWs. It aims to increase access to healthcare, reduce healthcare costs, and [...]
Are Community-Based Health Worker Interventions an Effective Approach for Early Diagnosis of Cancer? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
A review and meta-analysis examining controlled trials of community health worker interventions to improve rates of cancer screening. Evaluates the efficacy of such interventions and calls for improved quality studies to better support such interventions.
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