Health & Medicine Policy Research Group’s Center for Long-Term Care Reform started the Behavioral Health-Primary Care Integration Learning Collaborative in 2015 to guide local advocacy and facilitate practice-level change to improve the lives of people with mental illness and substance use...
Since 2014, Health & Medicine’s Court-Involved Youth Project has worked to address the comprehensive health needs of youth returning to their communities from the juvenile justice system while expanding the capacities of the providers who serve them. This resource guide represents a summary of...
Augmenting the ACEs Collaborative’s larger 2016 Environmental Scan, in 2018 we set out to offer a more in-depth snapshot of organizations working to address trauma. This report, based on an additional round of 27 interviews included five organizations that were part of the original scan and...
This webinar–presented by Kavitha Selvaraj, MD, MPH, MAEd, FAAP with Audrey Stillerman, MD, and Stan Sonu, MD–explores lessons learned from Universal Screening for Toxic Stress During Well-Child Visits, a multi-site ACE screening project.
Marjorie Fujara, MD, shares lessons learned from the recent implementation of an evidence-based parenting intervention, Triple P, as well as the importance of a broad based public awareness campaign on parenting.
This brief explores current research on the importance of the parent-child dyad in child development and child health, identifies key experts, and points to program priorities to support the health of the whole child. ILARC_Parent-Child-Dyad-Report
Intended for hospital and health sector leaders, this report provides key background information about the science behind trauma-informed care; how provider and staff knowledge about trauma can improve patient health outcomes; the economics of trauma-informed care; and new understanding of the...
This brief is the second in a series focusing on the role that the criminalization of people of color plays on an individual’s life course and ultimately diversity in the health workforce. Arrests.-Formatted-12.18.17
This summary policy briefs explores the impact of ACEs in the justice system including promising practices and recommended actions for change. Justice-Policy-Brief-Nov-2017
This summary brief explores the impact of ACEs in the health system including promising practices and recommended actions for change. Health-Policy-Brief-Nov-2017
This summary policy briefs explores the impact of ACEs in the education system including promising practices and recommended actions for change. Education-Policy-Brief-Nov-2017
The consequences of over-policing and racial profiling disproportionately impacts youth of color’s involvement in the criminal justice system and has emerged in Chicago Area Health Education Center’s (AHEC’s) health workforce development activities as a key barrier to their educational and health...