Centering family voice during a public health crisis: Challenge and opportunity for health collaborations and community systems of care.

Introduction: Evidence is lacking about how to integrate family and community voice into systems of care. This is particularly relevant in public health crises when reducing barriers to health care and resources is critical for everyone, but especially community members who typically experience more barriers to care. Addressing this gap, this study investigated the voice strategies used by systems of care to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Advancing positive social determinants of health through collective impact and the 100% New Mexico Model.

Background: Communities across the U.S. and globally confront the challenge of transforming negative social determinants of health (SDOH) into positive ones.

Coordination challenges and promising practices for pediatric healthcare-community partnerships: A multi-site study.

There have been delays integrating universal screening and referral for social needs in pediatric practice. The study investigated two frameworks for clinic-based screen-and-refer practice in eight clinics. The frameworks depict different organizational strategies to bolster family access to community resources.

Latinx Family Perspectives on Social Needs Screening and Referral during Well-Child Visits.

Objective: To understand Latinx parent perspectives on screening and referral approaches to identify social determinants of health and address social and material needs during well-child visits and to identify techniques that promote their engagement with these approaches.

Study Design: We investigated parent perspectives and engagement with social needs screening and referral practices during well-child visits using focus group methodology.

Results: We conducted 17 focus groups (n = 134 parents and other primary caregivers) with families receiving care at sites operated by eight pediatric primary care clinics.

The Mitigating Toxic Stress study design: approaches to developmental evaluation of pediatric health care innovations addressing social determinants of health and toxic stress.

Background: Health care administrators must establish and promote effective partnerships with community agencies to address social determinants of health, including reducing exposure of infants and young children to chronic stress. Because infants' experiences are inextricably tied to their caregivers, an important target for mitigating "toxic" stress exposure in early childhood is through reducing parents' experiences of chronic stress in addition to protecting children from direct experiences of harm such as physical or sexual abuse. Conducting screening to identify when children are exposed to early life adversity is a first step; connecting families to needed support services is an essential component to addressing identified challenges.