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A Tale of Two States: Access to Oral Health Care

TypeInfographic

Research has shown the interconnectedness of oral and overall health and how it impacts individuals’ physical, social, emotional, and economic well-being. Highlighted below are two real-world examples of how interdisciplinary teams are collaborating to address health disparities and improve access to oral health care in their communities. View their toolkits below! Low Resource Communities Charles […]

Focus Areas
  • IT/Technology
  • Oral Health
  • School-based Health Care
  • Health Care Access
Locations
  • Atlanta, Georgia
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota

A Tale of Two States: Pharmacists as Leaders

TypeInfographic

We recognize the need for a diverse mix of health care providers working together in new ways. For example, we know that pharmacists and others who may work outside a traditional clinical setting have a tremendous role in building a Culture of Health. Highlighted below are two real-world examples of how interdisciplinary teams are collaborating […]

Focus Areas
  • Business/Private Sector
  • Medication Access
  • Public, Population, & Community Health
  • Addiction & Substance Use
Locations
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin

A Whole Child Approach to a Better Future

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Early Childhood
  • School-based Health Care

Location Santa Monica, California

Breathing Easy in Schools

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Early Childhood
  • School-based Health Care

Location Baltimore, Maryland

Calling Back the Spirit

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • School-based Health Care
  • Violence & Trauma

Location New Town, North Dakota

Gift of time and language

TypeBig Idea Talk

Filipinos are an immigrant community affected by alarming mental health disparities including high suicide rates, but the time and conversations families have together can help. Pediatrician Joyce Javier shares her research and personal experiences alongside her team including Pediatrician Horacio Lopez, Psychologist Dean Coffey, and Occupational Therapists Jed David and Aviril Sepulveda. Their work involves […]

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Immigrants & Refugees

Location Los Angeles, California

Healing centered engagement

TypeBig Idea Talk

Exposure to violence can disrupt a child’s development and functioning if left untreated, but there is hope for this vulnerable population with healing-centered engagement. Pharmacist and Public Health Practitioner Lachell Wardell shares how children exposed to trauma are often misdiagnosed and prescribed medications but how this framework is a more holistic and humanistic way to […]

Focus Areas
  • Faith/Religion
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Ferguson, Missouri

Help Veterans Who Survived The War Survive the Peace

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Public, Population, & Community Health

Location Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Let me listen to your heart

TypeBig Idea Talk

When caring for transgender and gender non-conforming patients, the phrase “let me listen to your heart” takes on a new meaning for health care providers. Family Physician Carolyn Wolf-Gould shares her “accidental” professional and personal journey of becoming a gender-affirming clinician in rural New York, including lessons learned that can help anyone become an ally.

Focus Areas
  • LGBTQ+ Health
  • Rural Health

Location Oneonta, New York

Make my city safe again

TypeBig Idea Talk

On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by police in the city of Ferguson outside of St. Louis. Public Health Nurse Tonita Smith’s youngest son was the same age and she couldn’t believe what she was seeing live on social media but knew she must do something to help with the health-related […]

Focus Areas
  • Faith/Religion
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Ferguson, Missouri

Power of experiences

TypeBig Idea Talk

Every child with special health care needs (SHCNs) deserves a healthy smile, but dental care is the second most common unmet health need for them. Pediatric Dentist Jeff Karp urges families to share their experiences with health care providers. The power of these experiences can be leveraged through professional telementoring networks (Project ECHO) to transform […]

Focus Areas
  • Health Care Access
  • Oral Health

Location Minneapolis, Minnesota

Power of third space in barbershops

TypeBig Idea Talk

A barbershop is a third space (neither work nor home) that has long served an important social and cultural purpose in black communities, but how can it also be a safe space for conversations about mental health? Internist Nnemdi Kamanu Elias and Nurse Practitioner Erin Athey describe why and how they are partnering with barbers […]

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion

Location Washington, DC

Providing Youth an Opportunity to Believe in Themselves

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Public, Population, & Community Health
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Omaha, Nebraska

Redefining second chances in foster care

TypeBig Idea Talk

Would our life outcomes, especially foster care youth, be better if instead of only second chances we were given as many as it takes? “Yes!” explains Social Worker Derrick Stephens and ER Physician Annette Bell while they share what is known about brain science, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and chronic stress. Knowing that approximately 90% […]

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Orlando, Florida

Reimagining health, transforming shame

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Behavioral and Mental Health

Location Albuquerque, New Mexico

There is no health without oral health

TypeBig Idea Talk

In the U.S. there are far too many children and adults without affordable access to even basic oral health care. Head and Neck Surgeon Charles Moore, Dentist David Reznik, and Nurse Practitioner Hope Bussenius describe why oral health is an important part of our overall health. They urge health care providers to work together with […]

Focus Areas
  • IT/Technology
  • Oral Health
  • School-based Health Care

Location Atlanta, Georgia

Toolkit for a Community-Led Response to Pharmacy Closures in Chicago

TypeToolkit

This document can be used to guide the development and planning of future efforts aimed at engaging the community and public officials in addressing pharmacy access barriers in Black and Hispanic/Latino neighborhoods. We also expect this tool to emphasize the importance of awareness and building the evidence base to promote equitable policies.  For more information, […]

Focus Areas
  • Business/Private Sector
  • Medication Access
  • Public, Population, & Community Health

Location Chicago, Illinois

Toolkit for a Prescription of Hope for a Vulnerable Population

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used to address violent behaviors of at-risk youth through a trauma-informed care model used in after-school programs. For more information, contact: emmanuelhealthandsocial @gmail.com

Focus Areas
  • Faith/Religion
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Ferguson, Missouri

Toolkit for Accompanying Uninsured Community from ER to Medical Home

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used as a guide for those who wish to transform their Emergency Department (ED) into a Center of Excellence for uninsured patients. The objective for such transformation is to optimize a patient’s ability to obtain insurance and resultant health services, thus recontextualizing an undocumented status as a modifiable social health determinant. […]

Focus Areas
  • Health Care Access
  • Immigrants & Refugees

Location Los Angeles, California

Toolkit for Anti-Violence Awareness

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used to develop and implement an anti-violence awareness initiative in any community where there are high risks youth and a high incidence of violent crimes. For more information, contact: stlprayerproject@gmail.com

Focus Areas
  • Faith/Religion
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Ferguson, Missouri

Toolkit for Community-Based Approach to Addressing Opioid Addictions in New Mexico

TypeToolkit

This toolkit is designed to provide lessons and insights on how to build a responsive treatment program for opioid addictions and recovery. The hope is it is helpful to others in building their own local, creative, integrative and caring approach to opioid treatment and healing. For more information, contact: info@casadesaludnm.org

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Behavioral and Mental Health

Location Albuquerque, New Mexico

Toolkit for Creation of a Center of Excellence in Transgender Healthcare

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used by providers and administrators who are developing medical and mental health practices and centers which provide care to transgender and gender non-conforming individuals. For more information, contact: (607) 431-5757

Focus Areas
  • LGBTQ+ Health
  • Rural Health

Location Oneonta, New York

Toolkit for Dental Home for Children with Special Health Care Needs

TypeToolkit

This toolkit is designed to provide insights for dental, medical, and allied health providers who have an interest in developing dental homes or creating a network of providers focused on creating dental homes for children with special health care needs. For more information, contact: jmkarp@umn.edu

Focus Areas
  • Health Care Access
  • Oral Health

Location Minneapolis, Minnesota

Toolkit for Improving Quality of Life Outcomes for Foster Youth and Families

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used by providers and administrators who are working with youth and families engaged with the foster care system. It may also provide helpful information for anyone working with children with adverse childhood experiences. For more information, contact: dstephens@underdogdreams.com

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Violence & Trauma

Location Orlando, Florida

Toolkit for Mental Health Improvement

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used as a guide for practitioners interested in positively influencing mental health outcomes, increasing mental health literacy, and an example of embedded education in action. For more information, contact: healthymind@mhistreet.com

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion

Location Washington, DC

Toolkit for Multi-Level Approach to Addressing Housing Insecurity and Related Unmet Social Needs

TypeToolkit

This toolkit can be used as a roadmap for healthcare institutions that are seeking guidance on how to integrate addressing housing insecurity and related unmet social needs for the patient populations they serve. We use a multi-level approach, which includes clinical, educational and community-based activities. For more information, contact: hello@omolaramd.com

Focus Areas
  • Built Environment/Housing/Planning

Location New York, New York

Toolkit for Oral Health in Communities and Neighborhoods

TypeToolkit

This toolkit should serve as a general guide on methods to increase access to oral healthcare for vulnerable populations. For more information, contact: cemoore@emory.edu

Focus Areas
  • IT/Technology
  • Oral Health
  • School-based Health Care

Location Atlanta, Georgia

Toolkit for Prevention of Behavioral Health Disparities in an Immigrant Community

TypeToolkit

This toolkit is designed to provide insights to healthcare practitioners and community members who have interest in addressing childhood mental health and suicide prevention in minority groups. For more information, contact: incredible. filipino.families@gmail.com

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
  • Immigrants & Refugees

Location Los Angeles, California

Toolkit for Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion in Tribal Communities

TypeToolkit

This toolkit provides information and recommendations on creating a suicide prevention campaign in tribal communities. This toolkit includes ideas for events, suicide prevention interventions and development of community support. For more information, contact: taylor-desir.monica@mayo.edu

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • School-based Health Care
  • Violence & Trauma

Location New Town, North Dakota

Toolkit for the Prevention of Opioid Misuse Through Peer Training

TypeToolkit

This toolkit is designed for anyone who would like to adopt community engaged practices to the fields of substance abuse, addiction recovery, or trauma-informed care. This toolkit uses peer mentoring as a successful model for intervention and prevention.  For more information, contact the Office of Community Engagement at the Medical College of Wisconsin: communityengagement@mcw.edu 

Focus Areas
  • Addiction & Substance Use
  • Public, Population, & Community Health

Location Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Toolkit for Whole Child Health in Preschool

TypeToolkit

 This toolkit is intended as a guide for integrating diverse disciplines to address holistic wellness along a range of indicators and with multiple levels of intensity in the preschool setting, resulting in a more equitable distribution of health and wellness services to young children. Additionally, we hope this guide will inspire cross-agency and cross-discipline collaboration […]

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Early Childhood
  • School-based Health Care

Location Santa Monica, California

Treating Psychosis in Jails

TypeBig Idea Talk

Focus Areas
  • Behavioral and Mental Health
  • Criminal Justice

Location Belmont, Massachusetts

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