Tobacco Use in King County Washington: A Medicaid Data Analysis Report ASTHO Staff, King County Staff, University of Washington Staff Washington state provides an excellent model for integrating Medicaid data to address tobacco use. ...
Supporting Incarcerated People’s Recovery: Linkage to Care Policies for People Entering and Exiting Incarceration with Substance Use Disorder Linkage to Care Policies for Incarcerated People with SUD Explore linkage to care policies for ...
This ASTHOReport provides an overview of the SPACECAT regional data for island areas, paired with foundational first steps to improve capacity in key opportunities for growth.
This playbook, originally designed for local health departments, provides resources for states and territories who would like to increase community health worker engagement.
The findings detailed in this report were gathered during a series of School Behavioral Health Advisory Committee convenings in spring 2021. The goal was identify policy gaps and strategies for delivering behavioral health services in ...
In recent years, states and territories have started looking at braiding and layering funding streams as a way to leverage existing resources to achieve population-level impact. Adverse childhood experiences is one area that lends itself ...
Across the nation, healthcare delivery systems and community-based organizations are developing partnerships to address the social determinants of health and behavioral health needs of the populations they serve. This report details ...
Syphilis Campaign Planning Project These resources provide health agencies with the tools they need to plan messaging campaigns to promote syphilis testing and prevention. The Syphilis Communications Campaign Planning Project is a ...
Innovative Partnerships for Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Collaboration and coordination with stakeholders are essential to amplifying state and territorial health agency injury and violence prevention (IVP) programs to prevent ...
Sustaining DMI: Medicaid Advanced Planning Document Process How state Medicaid agencies can request enhanced federal funding for Medicaid Enterprise Systems and related activities. Why is the Advanced Planning Document process important? ...
The Catalyst Center for Firearm Injury Prevention will take action to address firearm injury and death as a public health issue using evidence-based and equity-driven public health approaches.
In Georgia, funding from CDC's Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: Data to Action (PACE:D2A) program helps address and prevent adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), build resilient communities, improve community environments, and ...
The Benefits of Primary Prevention article
These resources are intended to support island jurisdictions in program planning, retaining community health workers (CHW), preventing CHW burnout, integrating them into health systems, and communicating their role.
Learn about federal health agencies' plans to operate during the upcoming government shutdown in this legislative alert.
ASTHO legislative alert, Dec. 20, 2022: End-of-Year Funding and Policy Package Summary
Explore the mapping center, which tracks state and territorial legislation promoting suicide prevention efforts.
ASTHO Legislative Prospectus | Previewing 2023 state legislative actions on opioid overdose prevention.
States and territories are adopting a wide array of policies to improve mental and behavioral health, including significant investments in suicide prevention, support for youth mental health, and improving access through telehealth.
Learn more about recent federal and Supreme Court cases that impact public health policy.