Alternative Payment Strategies: Must-know Definitions that will Impress Your Colleagues
Efforts to reduce health care costs and promote quality have led to new ways to pay for health services. This glossary can help Title V staff, family leaders, policymakers, providers, advocates, and others become familiar with alternative payment strategy definitions.
The Role of State Medicaid and Title V Program Definitions of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs in the Provision of Services and Supports
This issue brief, written in partnership with the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), describes how states define CYSHCN within Medicaid and Title V CYSHCN programs and explores the implications of these definitions. Federal and state program approaches to defining children and youth [...]
Kaleidoscope of Care
Center staff developed Kaleidoscope of Care, a cross-disciplinary training curriculum to increase knowledge and awareness of the relationship between HIV infection and substance use. The training curriculum is designed for HIV medical and substance abuse treatment providers as a Training of Trainers [...]
Transforming the Delivery of Care in the Post-Health Reform Era: What Role Will Community Health Workers Play?
An article from the American Journal of Public Health. Provides an overview of how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has furthered the role of CHW.
Fact Sheet: Reducing Health Insurance Inequities Among Latino Families Raising Children with Special Health Care Needs
This fact sheet from the Catalyst Center explores strategies states can use to close the health care coverage and financing gaps experienced by Latino families raising children with special health care needs.
SPECTRuM Project
The “Strategic Peer-Enhanced Care and Retention Model” (SPECTRuM) project aimed to expand access to and improve retention in HIV care and treatment for PLWHA. To achieve this goal, the project implemented a two-pronged approach: Strategy 1: Employ a nurse-peer team to work with the exis [...]
Preparing Community Health Workers for Their Role as Agents of Social Change: Experience of the Community Capacitation Center
An article from the Journal of Community Practice. Discusses the idea that the way CHW are trained influences the roles they play, using the combined training method at the Community Capacitation Center in OR as an example. Maintains that efforts to integrate CHW into health and social service syste [...]
Improving Access to Coverage for Children with Special Health Care Needs in the Face of Health Inequities: Strategies Reported By Family Leadership Organizations
The Catalyst Center interviewed staff from family leadership organizations in five states to learn about the barriers underserved families face and the strategies these organizations use to address health insurance inequities among CSHCN in their communities. This policy brief describes the strategi [...]
Webinar: Community Health Workers (CHWs) in HIV Services: Insights from Virginia
Community Health Workers have the potential to improve outcomes on the HIV care continuum, but what does that look like in a Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) funded agency? What is their scope of work and how can they be funded? During this interactive webinar course, the second in a series and p [...]
Integrating Community Health Workers into a Reformed Health Care System
A report by The Urban Institute. Highlights the roles CHW play and the services they offer, documents CHW achievements and success, describes the obstacles and challenges to hiring CHW, discusses the increased opportunities for CHW under health care reform, and offers next steps for training and gro [...]
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