Posts tagged Human-Centered Design
California Behavioral Health Infrastructure Gaps
California Behavioral Health Infrastructure Gaps

Investment in health infrastructure is a top priority in California, where a recent state proposition has funded initiatives to expand mental health and substance use disorder services. PHS is serving as a partner to Advocates for Human Potential to support a gap analysis for identifying opportunities to bolster the behavioral health continuum of care. This includes gathering and visualizing more than 30 geographic and population health indicators. Our analytic tools are helping changemakers to achieve the goal of greater health equity.

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People-Centered Health CaMelissa KingLandscape and Policy Analysis, Data Visualization and Storytelling, Human-Centered Design
Art of Caring at White Memorial Hospital
Art of Caring at White Memorial Hospital

Healing-centered care is essential to achieving health equity, a core value and impact area for PHS. Health care providers often seek our support in exploring what constitutes culturally-relevant care in the communities they serve and designing responsive programs. With our partners at Adventist Health White Memorial Hospital, PHS applied human-centered design to the development and pilot of an OB/GYN medical education curriculum to support healing-centered care. Credit for mural in photo: East Los Skyscrapers

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People-Centered Health CaMelissa KingHuman-Centered Design, Curriculum Development, Community Engagement
Oregon Human Trafficking Vignettes Project
Oregon Human Trafficking Vignettes Project

PHS collaborated with Oregon Department of Justice Trafficking Response and Intervention Program (TRIP) on a community intervention to respond to human trafficking. The TRIP team worked with survivors, advocates, and service providers to compile their stories. PHS in turn designed story cards and a facilitator’s guide to make the stories accessible. The materials are being used to train service providers who engage with survivors of sex trafficking.

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Community Safety and ViolMelissa KingHuman-Centered Design, Curriculum Development
Social Determinants of Health Platform for Justice-Involved Persons
Social Determinants of Health Platform for Justice-Involved Persons

Project Healing partners, Valley Care Community Consortium, Tarzana Treatment Center, and Center for Living and Learning sought to improve care coordination for their clients by using a social determinants of health (SDoH) platform to support referral and communication. While the initiative was community-led, the providers partnered with PHS, who served as a process facilitator. PHS in turn designed and facilitated a six-phase process for choosing and piloting a SDoH platform.

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Race and Gender Justice, People-Centered Health CaMelissa KingHuman-Centered Design, Community Engagement