Skip to main content
Home
  • About Alignment
    • What Is Cross-Sector Alignment?
    • RWJF’s Approach
    • Glossary
  • Our Work
    • About RWJF
    • Related Programs
    • Aligning Systems for Health
    • Aligning in Crisis
  • From the Field
    • Resource Library
  • Get Involved
    • Virtual Event Series
    • Related Events
    • Subscribe
    • Contact Us
Back to ResourcesBack to Resources
Closing the Gaps in Health and Social Services for Low-Income Pregnant Women
Webinar

Closing the Gaps in Health and Social Services for Low-Income Pregnant Women

View Webinar

This webinar examines the Los Angeles Maternity Assessment Management Access and Service (MAMA) program, an innovative multi-sector initiative seeking to address social factors that contribute to adverse maternal and infant outcomes, including housing instability, food insecurity, untreated mental health conditions, domestic violence, and substance abuse.

A research team led by Los Angeles County review the effectiveness of the program’s four major components:

  • a health home care management model,
  • peer and community support,
  • flexible funding for non-medical services, and
  • (4) an advanced health information technology platform.

Components of Alignment

Data Icon Data
Financing Icon Financing
Shared Purpose Icon Shared Purpose

Author Organization

Systems for Action

Publication Date

11.10.2021

Topic Area

Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Publication

Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022

This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs

Brief

Rethinking Value: Perspectives on the Benefits of Cross-Sector Collaboratives Serving Populations with Complex Health and Social Needs

This brief explores how different organizations and community members define and measure the value of cross-sector collaboration by convening key informant focus groups with organizations and also with affiliated community members involved in cross-sector efforts.

Publication

Addressing the Social Needs of Medicaid Enrollees Through Managed Care: Lessons and Promising Practices from the Field

This publication describes the perspectives of Medicaid managed care organizations representatives on the lessons learned and emerging promising practices from addressing social determinants of health among their Medicaid enrollees.

  • Contact Us
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
© 2022 RWJF