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Community resource referral platforms
Webinar

Community Resource Referral Platforms: Going From 1.0 to 2.0

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This webinar shares experience and strategies for effective community resource referral platforms and discusses what it looks like to activate these recommendations.

Community resource referral platforms have been growing in popularity as a way for health care and social sector organizations to coordinate services for individuals with complex needs — a demand that has intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Promising practices on how to structure and maintain these tools and workflows are emerging, but organizations seeking to implement these practices must navigate their unique local environment.

Presenters:
Ebonie Cobb, Software Developer, R&D, Health Leads
Arantxa S. Sanchez-Cruz, Project Manager, R&D, Health Leads
Andrew Katz, Associate Director, Accountable Health Communities, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers

Brief

Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.

Publication

“More Than Just Giving Them a Piece of Paper”: Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations

This publication characterizes referrals to community-based organizations by primary care practices, which are increasingly being used by healthcare organizations to invest in social care.

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