Practical Strategies for Providing Therapy to Children via Telehealth
Children’s health experts at the Child Witness to Violence Program share best practices for mental health practitioners. By Nilagia McCoy The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the delivery of mental health services online. While giving some patients greater access and flexibility, this change poses i [...]
Community Health Worker Institute: Apply by February 13, 2020
Are you planning to start a community health worker (CHW) program at your organization, or strengthen an existing program? The Community Health Worker Institute will take place April 1-2, 2020 in Albuquerque, NM, with a focus on how CHWs can help people with HIV. This event will feature work from CI [...]
Social Work Lens Adds Value to Integrated Depression Care Model
Integrated behavioral health and telephonic depression care management programs create access to services despite barriers. By Mariah LeStage Busy work schedules, a lack of reliable childcare and transportation, and stigma are some of the challenges that can prevent people from accessing the mental [...]
Webinar, 9/12: Integrating Community Health Workers into HIV Care
Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:00 pm ET As Community Health Workers (CHWs) are used in more health settings, questions have emerged about the role of CHWs, how the CHW role is different from others on the care team, and best practices for integrating CHWs into care teams. In this webinar, participan [...]
Sexual Assault on Campus: How Social Work Can Guide Prevention Efforts
A Big Picture, Bottom-up Approach to Student Well-being Sexual assault affects one in five female college students, with LGBTQ+ students facing a greater likelihood of assault. In recent years, colleges nationwide have responded with new Title IX policies and resources to support survivors medically [...]
Addressing Barriers to HIV Care: the Med-HEART Project
The Center for Advancing Health Policy and Practice and Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program have partnered to establish the Med-HEART (Medical Home-HIV Evaluation & Resource Team) project that serves as evaluation and technical assistance center for nine demonstration sites. As part of [...]
Catalyst Center
The goals of the Catalyst Center are to: promote universal, continuous, and affordable coverage for all CYSHCN; close benefit and financing gaps; promote payment for additional services; and build sustainable capacity to promote financing of care. Center objectives are to: Provide support and techn [...]
SPECTRuM Manual
A manual developed by the Department of Health and Human Services based on the implementation of a peer program (SPECTRuM) into HIV care. Strategy 1 lists the protocol developed and implemented for integrating peers into HIV care teams. Provides sample forms as tools for organizations to use when re [...]
New Grant for CISWH Executive Director and BU Colleagues Supports Linguistic Interpreters Working with Trauma Patients
Interpreters working with medical patients who have experienced forced displacement are often exposed to their clients’ traumatic experiences, otherwise known as vicarious trauma. Unlike social workers, psychologists, and other clinicians; linguistic interpreters frequently lack the institutional [...]
NCCA Blog: Interview with Richard Antonelli, MD, and Heather Pomella, NP
The National Care Coordination Academy (NCCA) is a collaboration between the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network to Advance Care for Children with Medical Complexity (CMC CoIIN) and Boston Children’s Hospital. This two-year program has assisted state teams in building sustainabili [...]
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