MLPB Launches Phase 2 Action Lab

MLPB Launches Phase 2 Action Lab:  Best Practices for Strength-Based Screening, Triage and Response

MLPB kicked off Phase 2 of the Health-Related Social Needs Learning and Action Lab series this month.  Fifteen Phase I participants (representing older adults and organizations serving that population) were joined by representatives from several RI primary care practices (providers, nurses, medical assistants, social workers, pharmacists and managers). The group will work together toward a goal of improving health-related social needs screening, referring, and problem-solving strategies impacting older adults living in RI.

The program will focus on three key health-related social needs priorities identified during Phase I of the project:  Housing, Social Connection/Isolation, and Food Security. The group heard presentations from Phase I participants with key facts about each priority area. Next month’s meeting topic is "Moving from Theory to Practice on Anti-Racism in Healthcare" and will be facilitated by guest speaker, Dr. Baraka Floyd, Stanford University School of Medicine.