Preserving, Protecting, & Expanding Affordable Housing: A policy toolkit for public health

Policy Toolkit & Executive Summary: This toolkit provides information on housing market trends and research on the links between rising housing costs and poor health outcomes. It identifies strategies across six policy areas to help ensure that house

Fundamentals of Preemption

The legal term preemption may have little resonance outside of courts and legislative chambers. But what it describes — the invalidation of state law by federal law, or of local law by state law — has profound significance for public health.

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Shared Use Playbook: Opening up recreation facilities to promote community & health

Shared use agreements—also known as joint use agreements, memoranda of understanding, and contracts—allow public and private property owners to broaden access to their underutilized facilities for community use. Shared use agreements can be used in a

Preliminary Findings on the Role of Health Care in Multi-Sector Networks for Population Health: Notes from the Field

Networked approaches to tackling complex social challenges are not new, yet practitioners and researchers are continually working to share frameworks for how to support, fund, and sustain work that cuts across sectors. One powerful contribution to th

A Roadmap to the Ideal Juvenile Justice System

JJLN leaders are offering their best thinking to date and challenge the country to engage in dialogue around three questions: 1) Why is it important to create the ideal juvenile justice system? 2) What specifically would the ideal system include? and

Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Report: Updates, Gaps, Inconsistencies, and Recommendations

A Stakeholder-driven Action Plan for Improving Pain Management, Opioid Use, and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Through Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support

The Opioid Action Plan Working Group focused its efforts in 2018 to produce an Opioid Action Plan (OAP) to articulate and begin advancing progress toward a shared vision for applying Patient-centered clinical decision support (PCCDS) more broadly and

SAMHSA: Use of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Criminal Justice Settings

This guide focuses on using medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in jails and prisons and during the reentry process when justice -involved persons return to the community. It provides an overview of policies and evidence-based pract

The Ripple Effect: The Impact of the Opioid Epidemic on Children and Families

The United Hospital Fund, supported by the Millbank Memorial Fund, highlights the impact of the opioid epidemic on children and families. This publication delivers a comprehensive look at the successive waves of loss and trauma experienced by newborn

Preventing Opioid Misuse in the States and Territories: A Public Health Framework for Cross-Sector Leadership

The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), in collaboration with the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD), developed the Preventing Opioid Misuse in the States and Territories framework to p

In line with the NIC's SDoH Action Agenda: Community-Driven Health Equity Action Plans

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) piloted the model in collaboration with five diverse communities across the United States from 2018 to 2019. Each community's plan as well as lessons learned are shared. 

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Community-Driven Health Equity Action Plans

Expanding Our Response: The NH Governor’s Commission on Alcohol and other Drugs Action Plan

New Hampshire Governor's Commission Action Plan: This three-year strategic plan serves as a blueprint for NH's shared efforts with a focus on alignment, coordination, innovation and accountability. The plan encompasses best practices and other key st

Washington State Interagency Opioid Working Plan

Washington State's interagency comprehensive strategy to prevent opioid morbidity and mortality.

State government agencies, local health departments, professional groups, and community organizations are working together to implement these priority goa

Community Information Exchange Toolkit: Collaboration and Cross-Sector Data Sharing to Create Healthier Communities

2-1-1 San Diego’s Community Information Exchange (CIE) toolkit shares lessons learned and best practices in a effort to break down barriers across sectors to improve public health.

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Work, Skills, Community: Restoring opportunity for the working class

A bipartisan working group came together to propose policy that will be a start in the renewal of the U.S' social contract to "revive the promise of equal opportunity and upward mobility for all Americans". The report introduces: who makes up the wor

Working Up: A Convergence Dialogue for Action to Increase Economic Mobility

Closing America’s opportunity divide and finding cross-sector solutions to increase economic mobility, especially for low-income Americans, is a signal challenge for our country. Our Working Up project set out to tackle this challenge with a focus on

Resources for States to Address Health Equity and Disparities

This resourse shares successfull state efforts to improve health equity, improve care, and prioritize social determinants of health. "Health equity- means everyone has an equal opportunity to live a long and healthy life regardless of race, ethnicity

The Massachusetts Opioid Epidemic: An Issue of Substance

The Massachusetts Taxpayer’s Foundation (MTF) conducted research, through funding by RIZE Massachusetts, to understand the economic impact of the opioid crisis on businesses. In attempts to quantify the impact of the epidemic, MTF's research focused

Accelerating Opioid Safety: Ambulatory Care Toolkit

The following document is a guide for provider organizations working to improve opioid safety — to prevent new populations of patients from becoming dependent on or addicted to opioids and improve care for patients with chronic non-cancer pain, opioi