Boston Communities’ Roadmap to Redesign Food Security
When it comes to addressing food insecurity, meaningful involvement and decision-making by community members, including those most affected by food access challenges, is often overlooked. ...
Latest Blog Posts in 2022
We Need a Community-based Essential Resource Workforce – And The Training To Support Them
Volunteers, advocates and others are responding to the economic fallout of the pandemic - and their training will be critical. Built on 20+ years of testing, our Workforce Training Guide can help. We hope to support and accelerate the number of people deployed to respond to the essential resource crisis that’s only just begun.
We Need a Community-based Essential Resource Workforce – and the Training to Support Them
Volunteers, advocates and others are responding to the economic fallout of the pandemic - and their training will be critical. Built on 20+ years of testing, our Workforce Training Guide can help. We hope to support and accelerate the number of people deployed to respond to the essential resource crisis that’s only just begun.
Patient Perspectives on Addressing Social Needs in Primary Care Using a Screening and Resource Referral Intervention
We were honored to participate in this important study with our friends from Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, University of Washington, Clarify Health Solutions and Contra Costa Health Services. Read how a human-centered intervention not only improved patients' access to resources, but enabled them to report feeling listened to and cared for, which they perceived as noteworthy in their lives, and strengthen therapeutic relationships.
Why a Check Off the List Isn’t Enough
A Q&A with the Program Chief building around barriers to create the “Healthiest Community in the Nation."
Bending the Cost Curve with Community Advocates
This case study explores Baylor Scott & White's focus on sustaining and expanding their essential resource programs through a solid business case — based largely on the ability to effectively demonstrate reductions in total costs of care.