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

• Utah Homeless Services Board 2026 General Legislative Session Recommendations
• Utah House Bill 465: Public Safety Amendments
• One-Third Of Non-Profit Organizations Providing Community-Based Social Services Lost Funding In Early 2025
• California Medicaid Reports Continued Growth & Impact From Enhanced Care Management & Community Supports Services
• Oregon Reentry Health Care Program – Implementation Updates
• California Medicaid Transitional Rent Payment Methodology
• The Next Phase Of AI In Behavioral Health: Putting Clinical Judgment Back In Charge
• 41% Of Medicaid Expansion Beneficiaries At Risk Of Disenrollment Due To Upcoming Work Requirements Have Three Or More Chronic Health Conditions
• Percentage Of Children With High Blood Pressure Declined 11% Among Those Who Attended A School With Universal Free Lunch
• Prosecutors Initiated At Least 412 Pregnancy-Related Cases & 441 Charges In 16 States From 2022 To 2024
• Epicured & Fallon Health Announce Partnership To Provide Medically Tailored Meals To Fallon Health PACE Members
• HHS Awards $61.9 Million In One-Time Funding To Enhance Head Start Nutrition Services
• Elevance Health & National Association Of Community Health Centers Partnership Integrates ‘Food As Medicine’ With Primary Care
• Correctional Populations in the United States, 2023 – Statistical Tables
• Lawsuit Challenges Abrupt HUD Changes To Continuum Of Care Build Grants For Permanent Supportive Housing

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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

• Blue Cross & Blue Shield Of Illinois Provides $10 Million In Grants To Address Mental Health, Supportive Housing & Food Insecurity
• Accountable = Integrated
• National Alliance To End Homelessness & Women’s Development Corporation v. HUD
• Prisoners In 2023 – Statistical Tables
• Seattle Seeks Community-Based Interventions To Combat Toll Of Gun Violence

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