"Baystate Health Awards $500,000 in Better Together Grants to Community" By BusinessWest Staff, BusinessWest SPRINGFIELD — Baystate Health, in partnership with the Community Benefits Program, announced the recipients of the 2024 Better Together Grants. This year, proposals considered focused on advancing youth well-being through strategic interventions that seek to decrease adverse youth mental-health outcomes. Projects funded by Better Together must apply a framework of social determinants of health, be evidence-based, include routine performance evaluation, and align with Baystate’s community health needs assessment. “We recognize that addressing youth mental health is not limited to clinical and traditional medical settings,” said Dr. Tyonne Hinson, senior vice president and chief Diversity, Health Equity, and Inclusion officer. “These grants were awarded to organizations implementing initiatives that focus on the development of strategies and practices to address social determinants of health, access, and the social environment to make our communities a healthier and safer place to live.” Baystate Health announced the five winning proposals of the 2024 Better Together grants, totaling $500,000 in funding: - Community Legal Aid ($100,000 for its Family Preservation Project); - Follow My Steps Foundation ($100,000 for its Steps to Empowerment Program); - Latino Counseling Center ($100,000 for its Mindful Connections/Conexiones Conscientes); - Martin Luther King Jr. Family Services ($100,000 for its Beat the Odds Project); and - Springfield Pride Parade Organization ($100,000 for its Safe Space Program). Funding for the Better Together grants is made possible through the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s determination-of-need requirements. In addition to funding the grantees, Baystate Health has also contracted with the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts to provide technical assistance and evaluation support to the grantee cohort over the next one to two years. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/d3mhhJfn
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I offer you this advice, as I look around the room I see another potential coalition that could act for change in community health. We must hold each accountable and push for more. I’d like to ask my government and donor colleagues and partners to continue to invest in CHWs 1. We need to ensure that all CHWs are paid fairly for their work. Stipends are a start but we want to work towards reliable, consistent, and just salaries that match the consistency and quality of our work. 2. It’s important to invest in continuous training, supervision, and mentorship to ensure that we can remain up to date in providing the best practices and best quality of care to our patients. 3. Finally, I ask you to continue events like today and continue to include CHW voices in these debates and discussions. As a Vice President of the National Association of Community Health Promoters (CHPs), I have witnessed firsthand the impact that CHWs can have when they are involved in shaping policies and programs. I ask that you continue to center CHWs in policy events and debates and invest in their advocacy. When CHWs are involved in decision-making processes, they can hold programs and policymakers accountable for meeting the needs of their communities. I am here because of my community and I promise to continue serving them and representing CHWs across the world my statement
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We need your help! Regional Development Australia Peel (RDA), in partnership with the Peel Community Development Group and supported by the Peel Development Commission, has engaged the team at Hatch to undertake research to map the current Community and Community Health Sectors Across the Peel region. They are asking organisations in the Community and Community Health sectors in the Peel region to assist by completing a survey. Any data and information collected during the survey will be stored securely and will not be presented to advocacy targets in a way that can identify the provider of that information. The survey will explore: 1. What programs and services are currently being delivered in Peel? 2. Where are services based and or delivered in Peel? 3. What are the funding sources? 4. To what extent is funding supporting sustainable services, and 5. To what extent those services are meeting current and future demand? The next stage of this project, following the publication of the report and integration of the findings into the Peel Away the Mask III Dashboard, will be to work with willing members of the sector to develop and coordinate advocacy strategies to State and Federal Governments for additional resourcing. The survey will take less than 20 minutes to complete. We understand the demands on everyone’s’ time at the moment and sincerely appreciate you taking the time to help us out. Click here, or copy this URL into your web browser to start the survey: https://lnkd.in/gwuyc-_C The survey will close on 22 December. Please feel free to circulate to your colleagues working in Peel across the sector.
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Cigna Healthcare has launched a multiyear initiative to enhance youth mental health, with the The Cigna Group Foundation allocating over $27 million in grants over three years. The foundation aims to collaborate with community organizations addressing youth mental health challenges, veteran mental health, and equity barriers. Grants are open for youth mental health programs, seeking to promote emotional and social skills, improve well-being, increase support networks, and enhance mental health care access, particularly targeting post-pandemic stress. Melissa Skottegaard, board chair of The Cigna Group Foundation, emphasizes the urgency of addressing the mental health crisis among young people post-pandemic. Initially focusing on states with significant presence and high social needs, Cigna plans to extend its reach to international communities. The Boys & Girls Clubs of America is among the initial grantees, utilizing funds for staff training and trauma-informed support deployment. Applications for veterans' mental health and health equity programs will open in the fall. Our RCM team manages financial aspects, ensuring efficient fund allocation and compliance. Tele-behavioral specialists offer remote counseling and support, addressing youth mental health challenges. Together, they optimize grant utilization, extend mental health services, and improve outcomes for young people in need. We are the One! #revenuecycle #revenuecyclemanagement #priorauthorization #medicalbilling #medicalcoding #healthcare #healthcaretechnology #accountsreceivables #denialmanagement #consulting #management #implementationpartner Fierce Healthcare
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https://lnkd.in/gBeh4nUr "UnitedHealthcare is awarding $11.1 million in grants to 66 nonprofit organizations through its Empowering Health program across 12 states to help uninsured individuals and underserved communities. These grants will help those struggling with food insecurity, social isolation, behavioral health issues, health literacy efforts and more. Maintaining good health isn’t always easy, especially if you struggle with accessing nutritious food, safe, affordable housing or if you don’t have access to mental health care. In fact, up to 90% of what influences a person’s health relates to these nonmedical issues, or what’s commonly referred to as social determinants of health. $200,000 [was awarded] to Trellis in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota to reduce social isolation among people living with memory loss and their caregivers with targeted outreach to convene community leaders to provide input, complete needs assessments, develop culturally appropriate materials, identify areas of greatest need and host community events bringing awareness to memory loss and providing practical solutions for addressing social isolation." Check out the full article to see other examples of grants that UHC awarded to nonprofits to help uninsured individuals and underserved communities! Let's continue to help make the health system work better for everyone. #unitedhealthcare #unitedhealthgroup #socialdeterminantsofhealth #healthcare #healthcaredesign #empoweringhealth
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State and federal payers are developing strategies to address social risks like food, housing, and transportation insecurity in care delivery settings. In this new open-access Milbank Quarterly article, Justin M. Lopez of the University of California, Berkeley–University of California, San Francisco Joint Medical Program and colleagues interviewed clinicians, frontline staff, and administrative leaders from community health centers (CHCs) in Oregon about the role of existing or anticipated financial payments in promoting social risk screening and referrals. The authors found that many CHC staff were unaware of the financial incentives, and that fee-for-service payments, as currently designed, are unlikely to influence social care practices. “Refining the design of financial incentives—e.g., by increasing clinical teams’ awareness of incentives, linking screening to well-funded social services, and changing incentive amounts to support social care staffing needs—may increase the uptake of social care practices in CHCs,” the authors say.
Community Health Center Staff Perspectives on Financial Payments for Social Care | Milbank Quarterly
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