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Helping the Community Navigate Mental and Physical Wellness for Children and Families: BUILD Health Aurora
Case Study

Helping the Community Navigate Mental and Physical Wellness for Children and Families: BUILD Health Aurora

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This story highlights how Aurora, Colo., formed a cross-sector and community-driven collaborative that aimed to drive sustainable improvements in health, with a focus on helping the community navigate mental and physical wellness for children and families, by applying bold, upstream, integrated, local, and data-driven approaches.

This story is part of a broader series of 19 stories that provides a look at what is possible when community based organizations, hospitals and health systems, public health departments, and residents work together for better health. Each one documents the progress made, challenges met, and lives changed in these communities with practical takeaways that any practitioner can not only relate to, but also benefit from.

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