A Call to Action for Social Work: Minimizing Financial Hardship for Families of Children with Special Health Care Needs
Families face significant challenges in caring for their CSHCN. For many families, one of these challenges is the economic impact of inadequate health care coverage. Families must make hard choices about how to spend limited salaries and then make substantial sacrifices in other domains to ensure ad [...]
Protected: Learning Communities
Seven distinct learning communities are each charged with examining social workβs impact on a different aspect of health. These learning communities are trans-disciplinary, inter-professional teams that include students, faculty from Boston University and beyond, policymakers, and practitioners. C [...]
Medicaid Managed Care: The Importance of Risk Adjustment
This report has its origins in a one-day meeting held with an expert panel in September 2011 on risk adjustment for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). This meeting was sponsored by the Division of Services for Children with Special Health Needs, Maternal and Child Health Bur [...]
An Overview of the Consumer Protections and Coverage Options in the Affordable Care Act
This joint webinar between the Catalyst Center and the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health took place on Tuesday, January 14, 2014.
A typology of models for expanding access to oral health care services for people living with HIV
This article appeared in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, May 11, 2011. It describes a typology of program models for expanding access to dental services for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). These programs serve communities with limited access and high unmet need for oral healthcare, such [...]
TEFRA and FOA Medicaid Buy-in Programs: An Educational Worksheet from the Catalyst Center
The Catalyst Center has created a TEFRA and FOA Medicaid Buy-in Educational Worksheet that you can use to learn about the similarities and differences between these two programs. Using the attached instructions, you can fill out the worksheet with data on the insurance status of families in your sta [...]
The Affordable Care Act: A Working Guide for MCH Professionals
This guide, developed by the Access to Care Core (Catalyst Center, AMCHP and NASHP) of the National MCH Workforce Development Center, provides the building blocks for current and future Maternal and Child Health professionals to learn the basics of the Affordable Care Act and its implications for Ti [...]
Keeping At-Risk Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Care: A Qualitative Study of Staff Perspectives
This article appeared in the Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services in 2011. The articleΒ summarizes the results of a qualitative study of 21 staff members from seven programs aimed to engage and retain at-risk PLWHA in HIV medical care.
Emergency Preparedness & Response (EPR)
Project Lead Team The EPR project team is based in The Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH) at Boston University School of Social Work. Meg Comeau, MHA β Principal Investigator Bethlyn Houlihan, MSW, MPH β Co-Principal Investigator Chris Louis, Ph.D., MHA β [...]
Peer Re-Engagement Project: Enhanced Peer Intervention Manual, Teaming with Peers to Engage and Retain Hard-to-Reach Populations in Care
VersiΓ³n en espaΓ±ol Peer Re-Engagement Project Enhanced Peer Intervention Manual, Teaming with Peers to Engage and Retain Hard-to-Reach Populations in Care: This manual describes the process created and refined to link and re-engage people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) of color in HIV primary care. [...]
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