Understanding community history is vital to responsible stewardship, whether you are an organization seeking to expand your geographic footprint or navigate neighborhood change. Dr. King developed in collaboration with community leaders in South LA and members of National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation a framework known as Critical Dialogues. This is an engagement tool for bringing community leaders and organizations together to create shared understanding of social issues of timely importance to the health of our communities, such as racism and gender justice. Photo credit: Joshua Hamm

Melissa KingMay 3, 2017Community Engagement

Promoting Primary Care and Mental Health Integration

PHS led research and evaluation that demonstrated how interventions to support relationship-building and organizational culture are essential to primary care and mental health integration. This implementation research was done in collaboration with colleagues at John’s Hopkins University, Nationwide Children Hospital, and American Academy of Pediatrics. It was part of Dr. King’s doctoral research at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with her advisor, pediatrician and child psychiatrist Dr. Larry Wissow.

Behavioral Health Screening and Follow-Up in Massachusetts

An important aim of the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) is to improve access to behavioral health screening and community-based services for youth enrolled in MassHealth. Dr. King conducted longitudinal data analyses and designed a series of static and animated maps in ArcGIS to tell the story of how health care access changed over the first three years of the initiative. The maps were used to help identify opportunities to improve health equity.

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