Project Lead Team
The EPR project team is based out of Boston University School of Social Work’s Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH). Meg Comeau, MHA – Principal Investigator Bethlyn Houlihan, MSW, MPH – Co-Principal Investigator Chris Louis, Ph.D., MHA – Lead Evaluator (BU School [...]
CDC Road to Health Toolkit
A comprehensive list of resources (guides, flipcharts, posters, quizzes, trainings, evaluations, music, podcasts) designed for African Americans at risk for type 2 diabetes. Provides materials to start a community outreach program to help people prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.
Evaluation of Healthy Fit: A Community Health Worker Model to Address Hispanic Health Disparities
Healthy Fit uses community health workers to promote cancer screenings and education about heart health. This evaluation of the program found that the intervention is a cost-effective and impactful model for addressing cancer and cardiovascular health disparities.
Utilization of Community Health Workers in Canada’s Children’s Oral Health Initiative for Indigenous Communities
An analysis of a children’s oral health initiative in indigenous communities in Canada. Communities were enrolled in the oral health program with sporadic, intermittent, or uninterrupted support from a community health worker. The authors examine the relationship between community health worke [...]
National Care Coordination Academy Sustainability Affinity Group Meeting February 2021
After attending this event, participants will be able to identify the steps to identify social risk factors that could be incorporated into a payment model, understand the process a state Medicaid program can use to add social risk to medical complexity, and be able to approach their payers about th [...]
Diabetes Training for Community Health Workers on an American Indian Reservation
A quality-improvement program assessing knowledge, attitudes, participation rates, and participant satisfaction among community health workers who received nurse-administered training in diabetes management and care on an American Indian reservation.
1915(c) Waiver
Also known as a Home and Community-based Services (HCBS) waiver, this type of Medicaid wavier allows states to provide Medicaid and additional support services that make it possible for individuals who require an institutional level of care to live at home and participate in community life. HCBS/191 [...]
Designing Evaluation Studies of Care Coordination Outcomes for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Nationwide, there is growing interest in the use of care coordination as an integral component of comprehensive, quality care provided within the medical home model for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). A broad range of stakeholders – family members, advocates, state Titl [...]
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)
Federally Qualified Health Centers are community-based health care providers that receive funding from HRSA Health Care Center Program to provide comprehensive primary care services in underserved areas. To learn more, visit the HRSA website.
Mission
Our Mission The Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH) is dedicated to expanding the impact of social work in health care and public health in order to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable populations nationally and globally. CISWH seeks to improve outcomes, patient exp [...]
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