Project DULCE is a universal intervention emphasizing concrete supports and improving parent knowledge of child development and parenting. It is cost-effective, efficient, and suitable for widespread replication.
Project DULCE: Strengthening Families Through Enhanced Primary Care (2014)
Medical-Legal Partnership has evolved from referral-based advocacy for individual patients to one of structured integration of preventive law to advance population health.
Patients undergoing cancer care treatment require tailored screening, navigation, and legal problem-solving to address health-related social needs.
Home visitors learn more about a family’s situation than other professionals, allowing for preventive legal problem-solving.
The Project DULCE intervention generated reduced emergency department utilization, enhanced adherence to preventive care, and greater access to concrete supports.
DULCE-poster-6.22.17This pilot partnership aims to build skills and knowledge among current and future workforce members relating to social determinants of health.
Learning from a 2019 Special Initiative sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts.
5.13.2020-MLPB-Unlocking-Access-ReportMLPB’s team-facing legal partnering model connects the dots between access to justice and family wellbeing, bolstering early childhood sector goals at household, system policy levels.
Legal-Partnering-for-Child-and-Family-HealthClinicians and other health system actors have unique ability to assist in the success of their patients’ applications to safety net programs.
6.19.2019-MLPB-Unlocking-Access-Report(2018)
Six concrete recommendations for a strengths-based approach to social need screening with families, to minimize potential harm and unintended consequences.
Published by CSSP, co-authored by Renee Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD.
A-strengths-based-approach-to-screeningChildren’s HealthWatch at BMC report on a pilot population-specific model that integrates health, housing, legal, and social services can improve health-related outcomes at the household level.
Housing-Intervention-for-Medically-Complex-FamiliesBurden of socio-legal concerns among vulnerable patients seeking cancer care services at an urban safety-net hospital: a cross-sectional survey (2016)
Cross-sectional survey of cancer care patients demonstrates need for innovation in cancer care delivery to address socio-legal concerns.
Burden-of-socio-legal-concerns-among-vulnerable-patients-BMC-Health-Services