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This podcast is about strengthening the health and wellbeing of historically underinvested communities. Every episode offers new ideas and practical advice that you can apply today.

The Center for Care Innovations selected West County Health Centers as one of seven organizations to participate in Roles Outside of Traditional Systems, or ROOTS, a one-year learning collaborative f…

Petaluma Health Center worked to strengthen their PRAPARE implementation and foster strategic partnerships to develop job training and employment services for under- or unemployed patients.

St. John’s used the ROOTS grant opportunity to develop and refine their RISE program. RISE (Re-entry Integrated Services, Engagement & Empowerment), which was launched in the fall of 2017, provi…

LAC+USC worked to integrate patient social and behavioral health needs into primary care clinics in the late spring of 2016. With the ROOTS grant, the team saw an opportunity to improve food and housi…

LifeLong Medical Care used the ROOTS grant to pilot a food insecurity screening and referral intervention in one primary care clinic with the goal of eventually expanding systemwide.

Asian Health Services saw an opportunity to expand its PRAPARE work and improve its response to the needs surfaced through screenings.

Northeast Valley Health Corporation focused on screening and referring for food insecurity, a top social risk for its patient population, in patients 12 through 17 years of age at two of its clinical…

The Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network (SIREN) at UCSF hosted a webinar on strategies safety net clinics use to finance social needs initiatives. Speakers included:

Laura Got…

Our ROOTS teams share advice for tackling upstream challenges, whether you’re just starting out or expanding this work.

On this webinar, we heard from Sara Bader and Rishi Manchanda from HealthBegins discuss the key components involved in closing the loop on clinic referrals.
Sara and Rishi engaged webinar attendees i…

On this webinar, the CCI team shared a summary of early lessons learned gathered from teams through various program activities, including in-person sessions, team coaching calls and evaluation activi…

On this webinar, we heard from Carol Bernstein of Elevation Health Partners about how to use empathic inquiry within the medical clinic setting.
Carol shared an introduction to empathic inquiry, inc…

Listening is what we need to be doing to make a real difference in caring for patients.

Our ROOTS teams came together for the second program convening on March 8, 2018 to learn more about building partnerships and change management. Througout the day, we heard from three different organi…

There’s a clear recognition that the goal of the health center is to serve the community and focus on what’s important to overall health and wellbeing. And it can’t happen without truly listeni…

In an effort to move even more upstream, let’s reframe the way we think of health inequities and reexamine the ways in which our health care system intentionally and unintentionally perpetuates insti…

How does a health care organization begin to incorporate social needs information and work into its clinical setting? Learn how from HealthBegins

Dr. Andrew Beck of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital talks about how his organization uses data to identify and prioritize key social determinants of health (SDOH) to improve child health outcomes.

Our ROOTS 2017 grantees came together on October 5, 2017 to learn about the goals of the ROOTS program and learning community. Project teams also had the opportunity to share about their proposed proj…

This webinar kicked off the beginning of the ROOTS program on September 14, 2017.

How did we pick the name for our new social determinants program? Value-Based Program Manager Megan O’Brien discusses its origins in the early days of the community health movement.

This webinar, held on May 30, 2017, is the informational webinar for CCI’s new ROOTS program. The webinar describes the new ROOTS program and application process.