We work to help our clients achieve results that improve health systems, services, and, ultimately, people’s lives.
Team-based care is important to the future of health care. It has shown to improve clinical outcomes, provide better access to care, improve support for complex patients, and reduce provider and staff burnout. In a team-based care approach the care of the patient is coordinated and managed by a team of staff and providers, that…
JSI provided consultation services to the MA Health Policy Commission (HPC), an independent state agency that develops policy to reduce health care cost and improve the quality of patient care. JSI gathered and reviewed data and prepared a summary of recommendations to support the HPC’s development of policy recommendations related to long-term reduction of incidence…
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) chose JSI to develop and provide educational materials, targeted media promotions, trainings, and technical assistance to increase awareness and promote utilization of the Colorado Medicaid tobacco cessation counseling benefit and pharmacotherapy benefit available to Medicaid clients. Over the course of the three-year project, JSI developed an…
Through the RI Prevention Resource Center, we provided training and technical assistance to address the challenges and barriers to implementing evidence-based approaches in community program settings. Also, we worked to increase the ability and commitment to proactively build programs’ capacity and infrastructure of twelve (12) high need RI sub-recipient communities.
The integration of behavioral health and primary care is an essential strategy for realizing the Triple Aim health reform objectives. While there is a substantial evidence base of successful integration models, challenges remain in effective and wide-spread adoption of these models. JSI will work with the BCBS MA Foundation to promote and disseminate integrated behavioral…
JSI has worked with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) for many years to provide technical assistance, quality improvement, policy analyses, and other technical services to support the Office of HIV/AIDS and Bureau of Infectious Diseases. For example, through the Technical Assistance for Service Integration (TA4SI) initiative, JSI provides TA and training to integrate…
Beginning in 2009, JSI was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide capacity building services (CBA) to community-based organizations (CBOs) across the country to strengthen grantees’ capacity to plan, implement, and sustain a high-impact approach to HIV prevention. From 2014-2019, CBA@JSI delivered CBA services to increase CBO operational and programmatic…
Between 2014-2019, JSI established and operated a National Technical Assistance and Training (TTA) Center to provide support to Healthy Start (HS) grantees to ensure program effectiveness in achieving the goals to reduce infant mortality and health disparities and improve perinatal health outcomes. Branded the Healthy Start EPIC Center, JSI provided comprehensive and innovative capacity building…
Interventions in early childhood can have profound preventive and protective impact. As a significant body of research points to the same risks and protective factors, clinicians and service systems have been urged to shift from traditional approaches to new intervention efforts to lower risk and promote protective factors. Nationwide, SAMHSA’s Project LAUNCH (Linking Actions for…
The CDC Division of Reproductive Health engaged JSI to assist in the Engaging Young Men in Clinical Services to Prevent Premature Fatherhood (EYM) project. The first four years of the grant focused on improving reproductive health services for young men, ages 15-19, in Gaston, NC. JSI partnered with health center partners Gaston Family Health Services…
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