Population Reached: Focused on support services and navigation for those affected by health disparities
Project Partners: Clackamas Community Based Organizations
Project Aim: Exploration of the feasibility and readiness for a Community-Based Navigation Network
Priority Topic Area: Access to Health Care & Human Services
Goal:
Increase utilization of health and human services through the reduction of barriers and increased awareness.
Improve quality and capacity of health and human services through health equity.
Objectives:
Increase the utilization of primary medical and dental care for individuals with Oregon Health Plan (OHP) in communities within Clackamas County.
Increase the proportion of individuals in Clackamas County with mental and substance use challenges who receive treatment.
Improve the community’s capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health care decisions for OHP recipients and the uninsured.
Increase number of formal partnerships and collaborations amongst agencies that deliver and provide services based on disparities within the 10 Health Equity Zones.
Increase the availability of culturally appropriate and trauma informed care services provided.
Priority Topic Area: Culture of Health
Goals:
Clackamas County will use housing as a platform to improve health.
All Clackamas County residents have access to healthy food.
Clackamas County families with children, ages 0-5, are engaged in high quality early learning experiences and are connected to comprehensive health care services.
Objectives:
Develop cross-sector partnerships that promote health and housing.
Priority Topic Area: Healthy Behaviors
Goals:
Reduce heart disease and type II diabetes.
Increase the number of trauma-informed care agencies in Clackamas County.
Summary of opportunities and concerns
Opportunities:
If the broad goals of expansion and coordination of community-based navigation efforts could be reached this would be moving in the right direction
Having a community-based, collaborative network that allows for client choice, rather than a competitive application process that requires clients to work with organizations where they might not have relationships could increase effectiveness of navigation efforts
Broad information sharing (excitement and concern) for better coordination and more trauma informed interactions
Bring relative simplicity to multiple navigation efforts
Unifies voices of CBOs and community to better influence systems change
Coordinating and learning from multiple sectors and their different perspectives
Concerns:
Protection of client privacy (fears around marginalized communities information being shared), *also an excitement around info sharing
How would you create a holistic platform around information sharing? How will this be driven and endorsed by families and how will it be accessible?
HIPAA (danger and liabilities of having information in one place)
Concern that a regional approach may move away from families being the center of the work
How does Regional Network remain neutral?
Does the network have enough leverage to get the right players to the table.
Vetting of providers in the Network – want to assure quality
Case manager vs navigator role. (what happens with overlap?)
Money being diluted with too many levels of “bureaucracy”