Social Services

The social service market is defined as supports and services related to the social determinants of health such as poverty, food insecurity, lack of education, racism, discrimination, environment, and community conditions. Addressing social determinants of health has become a common strategic conversation in a market focused on whole person care and the value equation. Payers and health plans are taking a more structured approach to addressing social support needs and this opens new possibilities for managers of organizations that provide social support programs that have typically been excluded from health care financing arrangements.

Latest Resources

• Best Practices To Integrate Your Systems Of Care: A Conversation With Srinivas Velamoor, President & CEO Of NextGen Healthcare
• Ohio Awards $5.3 Million Across 30 Grants To Expand Addiction Treatment In Jails
• Cook County, Illinois, To Launch Youth Jail Alternative Pilot
• HHS Freezes Child Care & Family Assistance Grants In Five States Over Fraud Concerns
• Assessing The Impact
• Illinois Invests $2 Million To Fund Homelessness Services In Central Region
• Health-Related Social Needs Associated With Emergency Department Use
• Court Issues Preliminary Injunction To Block HUD From Imposing New Restrictions On Housing Grants 
• CMS Issues State Guidance On Implementing Medicaid Eligibility Changes Due To Federal Community Engagement Mandates
• Humana Healthy Horizons In Oklahoma Selects Six Nonprofits To Receive Community Impact Awards
• Michigan To Invest $37.5 Million Of Opioid Settlement Funds To Expand Recovery Housing
• Federal Home Loan Bank Of Dallas Awards $73.5 Million For Affordable Housing
• Relatives Raising Children: Federal Support Helps, But Challenges Persist
• New York Launches $100 Million Child Day Care Capital Construction Funding Program To Create Up To 10,000 New Slots
• Florida Hospitals’ Opioid Case Against Retail Pharmacy Chains Results In Mistrial

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The Housing/Health Overlap

The path for addressing homelessness and housing insecurity appears to be on a new trajectory. An executive order issued last month shifts federal policy on homelessness and housing policy toward involuntary civil commitment (see Executive Order Sets New Federal Policy On Homelessness & Civil Commitment). And last Sunday, August 10, in a social media post, President Trump wrote, “The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY…We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital” (see Trump… Read

• Department Of Veterans Affairs Reports Increase In Number Of Veterans Housed During 2025
• Reimagining & Improving Student Education (RISE) Negotiated Rulemaking Session 2, November 3 – 7, 2025 #2 Proposed Draft Regulations: Section 682.405 Loan Rehabilitation Agreement
• The Top Social Threat To Seniors Is… 
• Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia Receives $1.7 Million Investment From UnitedHealthcare To Support Essential Community Programs
• California Youth Homelessness Declined By Nearly One-Fourth Between 2019, 2024

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