In May 2022, we welcomed Micah Hillis and Corey Kuebler of Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care and Peter Treitler of Rutgers Center for Health Services Research to discuss New Jersey’s Intensive Recovery Treatment Support (IRTS) Program. This first-in-the-nation support initiative was designed to provide recovery-focused assessment of needs, linkage to treatment, and comprehensive re-entry support for individuals with opioid and other substance use disorders leaving incarceration. In the IRTS program, peer health navigators — individuals with lived experience with the criminal justice system and/or with substance use disorder — have a central role and work closely with an interdisciplinary team consisting of case managers, nurses, and others. 

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By Jason Turi, RN, MPH, Director of Field Building & Resources; Ellen Schultz, MS, Independent Consultant; Rebecca Sax, MPH, Senior Program Manager for Field Building & Resources In today’s healthcare system, “value” is everywhere. Value-based purchasing is the focus of major reform efforts. Building a value-case is the “make-or-break” imperative for many programs seeking to...

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This brief by Health Leads provides guidance for organizations adopting resource databases as a technology solution to support social determinants of health programs, providing examples to demonstrate the ways in which data usage and interpretation can impact equitable access to essential resources and improve connection rates. Read the brief

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This set of resources from the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) illustrates how convergent analysis — which helps to depict the extent that different health conditions coexist at their worst level — can be applied to publicly available data sets to advance health and racial equity. The toolkit includes examples of convergent analysis...

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