Explores strategies for optimizing braided funding to enhance integrated, person-centered care for Medicaid enrollees, featuring profiles of three organizations that successfully implemented strategies to braid funds.

Featured community-based organizations that shared how they braid funding streams within and outside Medicaid to deliver integrated whole-person care and the strategies they use to mitigate common challenges with braiding funds.

Explored the opportunity of using tech-enabled solutions in addressing health-related social needs and how Medicaid agencies and health plans can support the implementation of technology in improving care for Medicaid enrollees

Offers takeaways from a conversation with Medicaid health plands about the challenges and opportunities that come with leveraging technology-enabled innovations to address health-related social needs.

Spotlighting early adopters of less often implemented Community Supports in California, including day habilitation, sobering centers, asthma remediation, respite, personal care, and homemaker services.

Illustrates how tech-enabled solutions can support state goals to address health-related social needs and offers examples of how Medicaid agencies can incentivize the use of tech solutions to support social care interventions.

Examines different health care and community organization partnership models that are emerging in Texas to address the health-related social needs of Medicaid members.

Includes practical guidance and tools to help street medicine programs in California maximize their use of available funding, particularly new opportunities introduced through CalAIM, the state’s Medicaid transformation initiative.

Shares experiences from Medicaid stakeholders in Texas on using community resource and referral platforms to identify and address member' health-related social needs.

Explores insights from early state innovators across the U.S. to help guide other states seeking to support health care and community organizations in shaping and navigating successful partnerships.

Highlighted two California-based, cross-sector initiatives focused on improving health care for people experiencing homelessness by meeting the population where they are through medical respite care and integrated data exchange.

Shares observations, promising practices, and future considerations following the launch of California's Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports that focus on addressing health-related social needs for people with complex needs.