Connecting a Community
A report outlining a community health worker-led health promotion program implemented in low-income housing developments in Austin. As part of the intervention, CHWs offered nutrition, exercise, and chronic disease management classes to development residents.
Deciding Together Guide Instructions
The Deciding Together Guide provides a clear, step-by-step team approach to facilitate dialogue between service coordinators and families using a family-centered, collaborative decision-making framework. This manual provides instructions for the team regarding how to facilitate each of the steps, fa [...]
Premium Assistance
The payment of all or part of an individual’s or family’s private health insurance premium, usually by a public program such as Title V, Medicaid, or CHIP. For more information, see the Premium Assistance description on the Department of Labor website.
What do Patients with Diabetes Think of Health Coaching?
A research report from the Urban Institute assessing a health coaching program for improving medication adherence, stress management, and nutrition among people with diabetes. Examines patients’ impressions of the lay health coaches as well as engagement with primary care and A1c levels.
Shared Plan of Care User’s Guide
This document describes what a SPoC is, why it is important, and how to use it. The two files linked below have the same content with slightly different layouts.
Fact sheet: Low-Income Children with Special Health Care Needs and the Affordable Care Act
Uninsured low-income CSHCN are less likely to have a usual source of care and are more likely to have unmet needs for routine medical and dental care than their insured counterparts. Unmet health care needs can be detrimental to any child; however, for CSHCN, who require more health-care services th [...]
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 [...]
A Mixed Methods Review of Education and Patient Navigation Interventions to Increase Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening for Rural Women
A review of literature addressing breast and cervical cancer prevention education and patient navigation interventions. Calls for increased evaluation of such programs, especially those that target rural women.
Strategies for Connecting Justice-Involved Populations to Health Coverage and Care
A guide from the Urban Institute for connecting justice involved people with Medicaid. Interventions include hiring justice-involved individuals as patient navigators to ensure that their peers have access to comprehensive and continuous care.
Spotlight: Power Job Club
Employment and economic self-sufficiency play a key role in health. With the effectiveness of early antiretroviral treatment (ART), many people with HIV can (and do) participate in the country’s workforce. When community-based organizations, HIV/AIDS service organizations, and health care centers [...]
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