About the Messaging Guide The messaging guide is an annotated, practice-forward guide summarizes the research’s core messaging strategies, including building trust, acknowledging complexity, calming concerns, nurturing compassion, and activating hope….
Overview Our oral health advocacy work is focused on creating a more equitable dental delivery system and supporting oral health policies that are grounded in principles of health equity and…
This resource provides information on oral health data and sources that advocates can use to describe access to care barriers, oral health problems, and disparities, and to make the case…
The relationship between reimbursement rates and access to care with several additional policy solutions that center equity and community voice.
The so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act (H.R. 1) is expected to terminate health care coverage for more than 15 million people. Though everyone will feel the pain of the…
What does it mean to truly center people in research—especially those too often left out of the conversation? Our recently completed project, Capacity Building for Patient Engagement in PCOR on…
What do Black women, who have endured the trauma, stigma, and life consequences related to experience with substance use disorder (SUD) and the criminal legal system involvement (CLSI) need from…
Our Approach In collaboration with community-based and advocacy organizations, Community Catalyst hosted listening sessions with community members in three states: Colorado, Nebraska and Ohio. Key Themes Key themes were uncovered…
Dental disease hurts more than our teeth. It’s tied to our overall health. Tooth decay can risk our physical, mental, and economic wellbeing. It also strains state budgets. Policy barriers…
What are Essential Health Benefits (EHBs)? In the simplest of terms: Essential Health Benefits (EHBs) are the health care services that most health plans across the country must cover: services…