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Posted 1/24/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
The HIV Testing Sites & Care Services Locator is a first-of-its-kind, location-based search tool that allows you to search for testing services, housing providers, health centers and other service providers near your current location.
Posted 12/3/2019 (updated 9/2/2021)
SBIRT is an integrated, public health approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment services for persons with substance use disorders and those at risk of developing these disorders.
Posted 1/16/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
Health care is currently in the middle of a transition from a system of payment based on the volume of services provided (fee-for-service) to payment based on the value of those services (value-based care and alternative payment models).
Posted 2/4/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
How States are Responding to the Opioid Crisis: An Overview Webinar Presentation and Materials
Posted 1/24/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
Get Naloxone Now is an online resource to train people to respond effectively to an opioid overdose emergency.
Posted 1/16/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
Co-location refers to services that are located in the same physical space (e.g. office, building, campus), though not necessarily fully integrated with one another.
Posted 7/16/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
The recently-created website for telehealth launched by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in April now provides information in Spanish to help patients understand what types of care are available, how to prepare for a telehealth visit, and tips on finding telehealth options. Information in Spanish that's geared toward providers will be available in the future.
Posted 4/29/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
Generations United's National Center on Grandfamilies works to enact policies and promote programs to help grandfamilies address challenges.
Posted 5/13/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
In recent years, much attention in the U.S. has been focused on the opioid crisis, which was responsible for nearly 46,000 overdose deaths in 2018. This crisis initially began to accelerate in the early 2000s with a steady rise in the abuse of prescription pain medications, and beginning around 2010, opioid deaths increasingly involved heroin. As of 2013, the ready availability of potent synthetic opioids such as fentanyl ushered in a new era of rapidly increasing opioid overdose deaths, with the total number of opioid deaths doubling between 2013 and 2018. Deaths involving synthetic opioids have continued to rise very rapidly, even as involvement of commonly prescribed prescription opioids and heroin has leveled off recently.
Posted 12/3/2019 (updated 9/2/2021)
The Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) improves the health of underserved and vulnerable populations by strengthening the health workforce and connecting skilled professionals to communities in need.