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Going Beyond Health Care: Addressing Social Determinants Through a Cross-Sector Approach

Jennifer Lee, Senior Program Officer Grant Program Webinar August 16, 2018

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Foundation Overview

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BCBSMA Foundation: Areas of Focus

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Criteria for Foundation Focus Areas

• Relates to a current and critical issue
• Draws on Foundation’s unique expertise
• Puts good data into the system
• Leads to concrete policy options that result in real impact and

system improvements

• Allows for synergies between policy work and grantmaking
• Encourages collaboration

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Grant Program Overview: Going Beyond Health Care

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Social Determinants of Health – Environmental Scan

• Human services and health care systems difficult to navigate,
• ften operate in siloes
• Creates significant challenges for low-income and vulnerable

populations

• Data limitations prevent exchange of critical client information

between sector

• Lack of uniform way to measure success between sectors

Social service organizations in particular need enhanced infrastructure and capacity to address needs of clients as equal partners to health care

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Interdisciplinary Teams

• Funding to support capacity and infrastructure of

interdisciplinary teams to coordinate in addressing non- clinical and clinical needs for low-income and vulnerable populations

• Goal: Demonstrate that this interdisciplinary team model can

devise a means of coordinating services that leads to:

• Increased health care access and improved health status for clients;
• Stabilization or improvement in social needs;
• Cross-sector collaboration; and
• Development of standardized non-clinical and clinical metrics that

measure the effect of their efforts

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The Grant Program - Basics

• Funding amounts are up to $75,000 for a planning year

grant to support the development of interdisciplinary teams consisting of social service and health care partners

• Focus during planning year:
• Develop propose team infrastructure
• Workflows
• Scope of service to clients
• Develop way to measure and evaluate impact, with support and

technical assistance from Foundation

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Interdisciplinary Teams – Who Can Apply?

• Lead organization (applicant to the Foundation) must:
• Be a social service organization that provides supports related to a social

determinant of health

• Provide case management services
• Have an existing client base of low-income people
• Demonstrate experience in facilitating initiatives among multiple partners
• At the point of submitting an application, lead organizations should

demonstrate an existing relationship with at least one other

• rganization
• Teams should ultimately consist of at least one health care
• rganization, and any number of social service organizations
• Health care organizations (community health centers, hospitals/hospital

programs) are not eligible to apply as the lead applicant; can be a partner within a team

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Outcomes/Deliverables of Planning Year

• At the client level:
• Description and number of clients served, and the types of social

and health care services that will be addressed

• A clear workflow to address the needs of clients
• At the organizational level:
• Team partners solidified and governance document established
• Prepared job descriptions or clear plans for how existing staff will

fulfill responsibilities

• Roles and responsibilities of the partners in serving clients
• Identification of a data platform to exchange information on clients
• Regular meeting structure among partners

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Reporting, Sharing Best Practices, Ongoing Learning

• Grantees expected to provide regular reports on the impact of

their work – structure, questions, and timeframes to be dictated by the Foundation

• Data will be gathered and shared back with grantees and other

stakeholders on trends, lessons learned, and best practices

• Regular grantee convenings via Learning Community
• Foundation shares impact and lessons with the field, including

policy issues or recommendations

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Reporting & Learning (Continued)

• Foundation’s consultant will work with grantees to identify and

develop a common set of non-health and health metrics that can be:

• Used as core measures for the grantees in reporting, and
• Potentially serve as a universally adopted set of metrics beyond this grant, to measure the

success of interventions that span social services and health care

• Shared with state level agencies and payers for consideration
• Enhanced learning provided by Foundation to grantees to develop

knowledge between and among sectors

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Key Dates

• Thursday, September 20, 2018:

Letters of Inquiry due via portal @ 5:00 PM

• Tuesday, October 2, 2018:

All applicants notified if invited to submit Full Proposal

• Friday, November 2, 2018:

Full Proposals due via portal @ 5:00 PM from invited organizations only

• Thursday, December 20, 2018:

Grant awards announced

*Grantees who receive a planning year grant will be eligible to apply for implementation year grants. Receiving a planning year grant does not guarantee implementation year funding.

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Thank you for you interest!

Questions?

The Foundation will post webinar slides and answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) at: www.bluecrossmafoundation.org/grant/going-beyond-health- care.

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Key Contact Info

• Jennifer Lee, Senior Program Officer (for content questions

related to proposal) Jennifer.Lee@bcbsma.com 617-246-3509

• Evelyn Monteiro, Administrative and Grants Coordinator (for

technical questions related to portal) Evelyn.Monteiro@bcbsma.com 617-246-4850