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Funding for the Full Service Community Schools Program has doubled, so we’re offering three tips to make the most of this approach to support the whole child.

This report by CRC, Abt, and the National Weather Service profiles public perception of dangerous heat events & recommends actionable messaging.

This Health Affairs article explains how CMS’s Accountable Health Communities links people to social services & needs resources, & how more research could help.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

Helping country health systems change how they pay for health care to improve quality, efficiency, patient outcomes, and patient satisfaction.

Quasi-experimental evaluations of Compass FSS programs show sustained positive impacts for participants and cost-effectiveness for the program.

Abt’s qualitative studies of Compass FSS programs shed light on the experiences of participants and why some households don’t enroll.