Background: The BeHealthy Partnership is a Medicaid ACO that serves patients in five community health centers in Western MA. Objective: By the end of the session, participants will understand decision-making about telehealth, as well as barriers and facilitators to telehealth use among BeHealthy ACO patients. Methods: We conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with ACO members by […]
Funders and stakeholders have increasingly turned to participatory methods as a way to advance equity in evaluation practice. This panel draws on our experience (re)shaping participatory methods at the Institute for Community Health (ICH) by building the capacity of different communities to participate in every phase of a project: from design, to data collection and […]
Background Gambling research has historically been disconnected from the experiences of communities surrounding casinos, resulting in limited engagement and learning from those communities most directly impacted. Casino gambling became legal in Massachusetts in November 2011, and the third casino in Massachusetts, the Encore Boston Harbor Casino (Encore), opened in June 2019 in Everett, a diverse […]
Participatory practices are important tools for evaluators working to increase the equity and social justice practices of their work. However, the impact of participatory processes can be limited when they get stuck at a shallow level. In this one-day workshop, facilitators from the Institute for Community Health will lead participants in an exploration of how […]