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Community-based organizations can track their referrals, forms with questions, goals (e.g. Organizations can self-register, reach out to Erica, and/or leverage the toolkit (forthcoming) to get set up.
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Sumpter provided a live demonstration of the platform and the details of referral-making, obtaining services, and the registration process for seekers, organizations, and beyond. The Highmark model includes a social determinants assessment that shepherds care seekers, helpers, and community-based organizations to the community support platform to aid with plugging users into social services.
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The importance of addressing Social Determinants of Health is connected to misdiagnoses, as looking solely at the medical model approach prevents one from seeing the full scope of social issues and their impact on health. Further, Highmark utilizes “ Aunt Bertha,” which connects individuals to resources at little to no cost. The web of social services is not always intuitive to navigate, and that is why the “ Highmark Community Support Platform” was created. Highmark Health as a healthcare organization recognizes the need for commuity based orgs, government based agencies, community leaders, and beyond working together to address social determinants of health. To create a viable system requires healthy people.” Erica Sumpter’s Community Solutions Approach “Our work and focus on human-centered design work is critical as it represents our pivot from systems change to ecosystems co-creation. Opening Remarks from Fred Brown, President and CEO of The Forbes Funds In addition to this digest, a recording of the call can also be accessed at this link. The Forbes Funds was joined by guest speaker Erica Sumpter, Senior Project Manager at Highmark Health.
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