Enabling Services and Social Determinants of Health
Overview
Health centers provide more than cost-effective primary and preventive care — they also connect patients to health coverage and resources such as food or housing assistance and transportation and translation services. These enabling services, or non-clinical patient services that enable individuals to access health care and improve health outcomes, allow Michigan health center staff to help patients and communities address health barriers and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), or the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. MPCA supports enabling services staff, including Community Health Workers (CHWs), peer educators, and Outreach & Enrollment (O&E) specialists, with technical assistance, training, network communications, resource development and best practices sharing.
Highlighted Topics
- Important developments: Public Health Emergency (PHE) Unwinding Action Plan Template for Health Centers, with links to information: Medicaid Redetermination Toolkit for Health Centers and MDHHS Benefits Changes website
- Frequently accessed materials: Enabling Services SharePoint – EnablingServicesNetwork, and FindHelp.org (Aunt Bertha)
- Join the Enabling Services Network meeting conducted bi-monthly to to discuss critical updates and share information. There is no cost with advanced registration.
Enabling Services & Social Determinants of Health Resources
- Enabling Services and SDOH Resources
- MDHHS SDOH Strategy
- MDHHS Community Partner Training
- HRSA Technical Assistance (TA) Calendar
- MDHHS State Innovation Model (SIM) SDOH Resources
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Outreach and Enrollment Resources
Relevant Partners
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities – Beyond the Basics
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – Outreach and Enrollment
- Organizing for Outreach
- Protocol for Responding to & Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks & Experiences (PRAPARE)
- National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) – Outreach and Enabling Services
- Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance (MiCHWA)
- Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO)
- National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP)
- Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
- National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH)
- National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC)
- Farmworker Justice (FWJ)
- Health Outreach Partners (HOP)
- MHP Salud
- Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN)
- National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH)