Overview A vast majority of older Americans who are eligible for federal nutrition assistance programming remained unenrolled, placing them at increased risk of food insecurity and its associated adverse health conditions and healthcare costs. A research team led by Benefits Data Trust and the UPMC...

Overview Children affected by the opioid epidemic need a complex array of services and supports to safeguard their health and wellbeing, including child protective services, legal representation, educational services, comprehensive physical and mental health care, and often foster care placement...

Overview Community Academic Partnerships for Implementation in Child Welfare Presenters: Alicia Bunger & Fawn Gadel Where: Implementation Research Institute (IRI) – Washington University in St. Louis When: Thursday, June 20, 2019 In this session, we focus on engaging organizational stakeholders in...

Overview Large-scale multi-sector health improvement initiatives can be difficult to initiate and sustain over time due to uncertainties about their health and economic impact. This presentation reviews research on multi-sector population health initiatives, and examines several alternative...

Overview Collective actions to improve health status on a community-wide basis do not happen automatically. Government agencies and private sector organizations frequently lack sufficient information, incentives, and infrastructure to make large shared investments in health improvement activities...

This article , published in Implementation Science, identifies, describes, and specifies multi-level collaboration strategies used during the implementation of Ohio Sobriety Treatment and Reducing Trauma (Ohio START), a cross-system intervention that integrates services across child welfare and...