Promoting health and social equity through family navigation to prevention and early intervention services: a proof of concept study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health and social inequality are associated with multiple adverse childhood experiences including poverty, mental illness, and child maltreatment. While effective interventions currently exist for many health and social problems, large segments of the population experience barriers accessing needed services. In alignment with broader public health efforts to reduce health and social inequality in one state in the U.S.A., the current study describes the development and formative evaluation of a brief, low cost, portable model of prevention-oriented family service navigation called Navigate Your Way.

Methods

Caregivers of children experiencing significant unmet health or social service needs were recruited to the study. Participants completed an initial and closing

SUBMITTER: Waid J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9610316 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature