The Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy has just published a Community Fact Sheet summarizing the findings of their research paper exploring the design and implementation of, and lessons learned from, the delivery of housing support services via NC Medicaid's Healthy Opportunities Pilot as a way to reduce healthcare costs and improve health outcomes and quality of life for recipients.

The WNC Health Policy Initiative has held several listening and working sessions relating to the needs and challenges facing aging adults, children in the foster care system, and affordable housing. Bridge Meadows, a multigenerational housing community in Oregon, offers an example of how to build intersectional, supportive environments to address these and other such issues.

A new initiative launched by the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), co-host of the WNC Health Policy Initiative, offers an innovative housing solution for medical residents serving in rural Western North Carolina - purpose-built, energy-efficient tiny homes placed exactly where they’re needed most.

Learn more about North Carolina efforts to address health-related social needs via Medicaid and CHIP that are paving the way for a new approach to preventive healthcare and chronic disease management via non-medical social interventions, and that could serve as models for other states and Medicaid programs interested in exploring ways to address health-related social needs.

Nov. 11-18 2023 is Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. This week, across the country, schools, towns, municipalities and community organizations host events, activities, and programs to promote the relationships and shared work being done to combat hunger and homelessness, and to support those efforts by engaging volunteers and the community in active work to address those situations.