Parent-to-Parent (P2P) Support
P2P programs offer parent-to-parent support as a core resource for families with children who have special health care needs, disabilities, behavioral, or mental health issues. Through a one-to-one “match” experienced support parents provide emotional support to families and assist them [...]
Medicaid’s Transportation Benefit and Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)
Transportation is essential for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) to regularly access health care and support chronic health conditions that require ongoing treatment. However, CYSHCN are significantly more likely to delay care due to transportation barriers than children an [...]
Developing Community Health Worker Diabetes Training
A journal article from Health Education Research (Oxford Journals). Provides a summary of the design, implementation, and evaluation of a 48-hour training program for CHW working in diabetes care teams in community health centers.
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Office of CHW
The Office of CHW homepage of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The Office of CHW coordinates workforce development activities and promotes CHW in chronic disease prevention and management.
Finding Home: Tips and tools for guiding people living with HIV toward stable housing
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 substance use disorders. It is primarily intended for Ryan White provid [...]
Palliative Care
Care that focuses on improving quality of life for patients with progressive, incurable illness, focused on quality of life. For more information, see the Catalyst Center publication Financing Pediatric Palliative and Hospice Care Programs.
A Community Health Worker Training Resource for Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke
A user-friendly curriculum that CHW can use in their training and also as a resource. Offers plain-language basic information and activities to increase skills in preventing heart disease and stroke. Also covers lifestyle-related issues and risk factors for stroke, heart attack, heart failure, atria [...]
Community Assessment and Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
OBJECTIVES At the end of this unit, participants will be able to: Explain the organic relationship between principles, methods, and outcomes in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), using the “Tree of CBPR” metaphor Identify project design and implementation methods that foster an envir [...]
Medical Home
An approach to providing primary care that emphasizes proactive identification of special health care needs, comprehensive care coordination, partnership between providers and families (or youth) around health decision-making, and collaboration with other community providers, including schools. The [...]
Strategies for Supporting Expanded Roles for Non-Clinicians on Primary Care Teams
A report from the National Academy for State Health Policy. Outlines strategies for, and provides examples of, Medicaid financing of non-clinician services in fee-for-service, managed care, medical home or health home, and accountable care organization settings. Describes different training curricul [...]
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