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Connecting People to Resources and Improving Health Outcomes: the REACH Partnership

Connecting People to Resources and Improving Health Outcomes: the REACH Partnership

Update: 2024-04-01
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The Regional Engagement to Advance Community Health (REACH) Partnership is a systems approach to improve community health. In this episode of Inside IALR, we speak REACH Program Manager Dr. Cassandra Shelton, Regional Coordinator for the Health Collaborative Maggie Richardson, and Care Coordinator and certified Community Health Worker Cindi Poteat about the program's aim to improve health factors and outcomes by connecting people to available resources. 

  • What is the REACH Partnership (1:10 )
  • The program's origin and evolution (2:16
  • The role that community health workers and coordinated care teams play in the community by connecting people to available resources (5:45 )
  • How the REACH Partnership is helping the community (9:05 )
  • "There is no wrong entry point." (11:29
  • The role of the connected REACH AmeriCorps program (12:29 )
  • Lessons learned (14:25 )
  • Measuring impact (17:45


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Connecting People to Resources and Improving Health Outcomes: the REACH Partnership

Connecting People to Resources and Improving Health Outcomes: the REACH Partnership

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