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Policy Advocacy in Rhode Island: Tips for Care Teams
Policy advocacy is important form of support that asks critical questions: What laws are helping or harming communities? Who is working to...
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RI McKinney-Vento Rights of Students Experiencing Homelessness
Care teams partnering with families know that stability helps students thrive academically. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento) is a federal law...
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MA McKinney-Vento Rights of Students Experiencing Homelessness
Care teams partnering with families know that stability helps students thrive academically. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (McKinney-Vento) is a federal law...
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MA – Resources Available to People Regardless of Immigration Status
For immigrants and mixed status families, immigration status is a threshold eligibility factor for many health-promoting resources. This can make it hard...
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RI – Resources Available to People Regardless of Immigration Status
Care teams partnering with people know that immigration status (like income level) is a threshold eligibility factor for many resources and benefits....
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Strengthening families through the integration of legal advocacy into a home visiting program (2016)
Home visitors learn more about a family’s situation than other professionals, allowing for preventive legal problem-solving.
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Project DULCE: A Randomized Control Trial Demonstrating Compassion Aligns with Cost Containment (2017)
The Project DULCE intervention generated reduced emergency department utilization, enhanced adherence to preventive care, and greater access to concrete supports.
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When Social Complexity Drives Medical Complexity: Piloting Medical-Legal Partnership to Improve Patient Health and Increase Healthcare Team Efficacy (2015)
This pilot partnership aims to build skills and knowledge among current and future workforce members relating to social determinants of health.
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Partnering with Families Experiencing Housing Instability: Considerations for Interdisciplinary Teams Based in Massachusetts and Beyond (2020)
Learning from a 2019 Special Initiative sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts.
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Legal Partnering for Child and Family Health: An Opportunity and Call to Action for Early Childhood Systems (2019)
MLPB’s team-facing legal partnering model connects the dots between access to justice and family wellbeing, bolstering early childhood sector goals at household,...
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Unlocking Access: The Connections Between Medical Certifications and Health Equity (2019)
Clinicians and other health system actors have unique ability to assist in the success of their patients’ applications to safety net programs.
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A Strengths-Based Approach to Screening Families for HRSN
Six concrete recommendations for a strengths-based approach to social need screening with families, to minimize potential harm and unintended consequences.
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Housing Intervention for Medically Complex Families Associated with Improved Family Health: Pilot Randomized Trial (2020)
Children’s HealthWatch at BMC report on a pilot population-specific model that integrates health, housing, legal, and social services can improve health-related outcomes...
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