Healthy Families
Ensuring community member and family access to high-quality, comprehensive healthcare with goals of decreasing infant mortality, increasing life expectancy, and improving behavioral health, which includes mental health
Framework | People and Places Thriving Approach
The Federal Plan for Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience advises this approach for agencies to cooperatively strengthen the vital conditions necessary for improving individual and community resilience and well-being.
Framework | Community-Led Mental Well-Being Framework
This framework is intended as a starting point for community specific reflection and engagement. The framework is comprised of three tiers on a spectrum from prevention to treatment—from social determinants of health (community conditions) to more specific preventative approaches (self-care and social context), to mental health care. Each of the key drivers of those factors are displayed in three categories within each tier. As you move along the spectrum, the portion of the population that you will reach either narrows or broadens as a result.
Framework | A Blueprint for Promoting Equitable Health and Health Care through Community-Led Initiatives
In this blueprint, the Urban Institute presents real world examples of how community-led efforts can bring about equitable health outcomes. It highlights commonalities in approach, structure, and needs among community organizations.
Report | Doula Care and Maternal Health: An Evidence Review
This Issue Brief from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation provides a summary of evidence, best practices, and reimbursement policies for doula care.
Interactive Tool | Maryland Behavioral Health Hospital Coordination Dashboard
This crisis bed dashboard shows the availability and location of short-term community-based stabilization services and behavioral health urgent care resources offer walk-in and same-day appointments. Data from the dashboard could be used to demonstrate gaps in care capacity on a county level.
Interactive Tool | Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development
This interactive search engine enables you to identify Blueprints-certified youth development interventions based on specific criteria and then browse through a wide range of interventions that match those criteria.
Interactive Tool | California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
This searchable database includes programs that serve children and families. Developed to advance the effective implementation of evidence-based practices for children and families involved with the child welfare system.
Interactive Tool | Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness
This searchable list of home visiting research literature provides an assessment of the evidence of effectiveness for early childhood home visiting models that serve families with pregnant people and children from birth to kindergarten entry (that is, up through age 5).
Guide | Ecosystems 101
Ecosystems of care are composed of interconnected programs and services designed to holistically address community members’ complex health and social needs. This brief introduces the concept of ecosystems of care, provides an overview of what an ecosystem of care is, discusses why ecosystems of care are important for addressing complex needs, and provides guidance on and examples of how to build an ecosystem of care.
Guide | A Guide to Using the Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool
This Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) report describes the health-related social needs (HRSN) Screening Tool from the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model and promising practices for universal screening. HRSNs are individual-level, adverse social conditions that negatively impact a person’s health or health care.
Collection | Rural Community Health Tools and Resources
This list of assessments and strategies was developed by Rural Health Value, an academic institute seeking to understand and facilitate rural health transformation.
Video | Youth Thrive Training Videos
Developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy, Youth Thrive is an anti-racist research-informed approach that promotes healing, positive growth, supportive relationships that helps young people identify and meet their needs. When families, educators, systems partners and youth workers understand adolescent development it improves how they interact with young people and their families. The heart of the Youth Thrive Framework is five Protective and Promotive factors that represent a pathway to youth well-being. This video series describes Youth Thrive, introduces the five Protective and Promotive factors, and summarizes why they are important.
Toolkit | Community Toolbox: Leading a Community Dialogue on Building a Healthy Community
Learn how to facilitate a community discussion to engage and bring together the many voices of the community. The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change.