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FACT SHEET: The New Public Charge Rule's Impact on Populations and Stakeholders
A proposed rule, published in the Federal Register on October 10, 2018, makes several significant changes to the criteria used to determine whether an individual is likely to become a public charge.
Effective Strategies For Diversifying Funding
This toolkit includes tips and tools from advocates around the country who have developed and implemented effective fundraising strategies to sustain their advocacy work.
Building Local Capacity to Engage Hospitals through Community Benefit: A Case Study
Follow the stories, successes, and challenges of three community-based organizations and coalitions as they build skills and partnerships with local hospitals to address social and economic challenges impacting the health of local residents.
Hospital Community Benefit Dashboard: Advancing Health Equity and Community Engagement
This dashboard outlines five core principles that hospital community benefit staff and community organizations can use to evaluate and strengthen current practices, with a focus on achieving health equity and meaningful community engagement.
The Family Four-Month Visit: A Multi-Generational and Multi-Caregiver Approach to Whole Family Health
The following brief proposes an approach to addressing caregiver depression through integrating depression screenings for partners into a four-month infant visit.
Storybanking for Medicaid Defense: Elevating Mental Health and Substance Use Stories To Reduce Barriers to Care
Stories of consumers with substance use disorders/and or mental illness can be an effective tool to push back against work requirements in Medicaid, which create barriers to essential services.
Massachusetts Provides a Model for Addressing Students’ Risky Substance Use
This two-pager explains Massachusetts’ first-in-the-nation requirement for screening students for risky substance use, and the strategy that led the state to take action.
A Case for Trauma-Informed Care
This issue brief outlines what childhood trauma is, how it is measured, and how integrating trauma-informed approaches into advocacy work can improve the health of children and families.
Addressing Out Of Control Prescription Drug Prices: Federal and State Strategies
This new brief provides a policy framework to support efforts to make prescription drugs more accessible and affordable for people across the country.
Lessons in Health Coverage Consumer Assistance: Best Practices and Future Challenges
This report reviews the current enrollment and assistance landscape, highlights best practice approaches to consumer assistance, and identifies remaining opportunities and challenges.
Innovative Pre-Arrest Diversion Strategies: Using Hospitals as Service Entry Points For People With Addiction
This case-study focuses on hospital emergency departments, as alternatives to police contact, as the point of entry for individuals to access substance use, mental health, and other diversion services and supports.
A Guide to Using Non-Stigmatizing Language
This resource provides a person-centered guide to language and terms in substance use disorders advocacy.
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Funding Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) with Young People
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CHIP Defense Toolkit: Ready, Set, REFUND!
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The Title X Family Planning Program is Under Attack!
The Trump administration has proposed sweeping revisions to the Title X family planning program, which provides federal funding to clinics that provide reproductive health services and preventive care to approximately 4 million low-income patients.
Latest Comment Letter
CCEHI comments to CMS on Massachusetts Medicare-Medicaid Duals Demonstration 2.0
Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation Comments to CMS on the Massachusetts Medicare-Medicaid Integration Demonstration: Duals Demonstration 2.0