Launching & Scaling What Works: PHI:60 Impact Report

For 60 years, PHI has played an essential role in improving health, equity and wellness by generating new research, centering community voices, and launching and scaling what works. Over the next few days, PHI will be exploring how we have impacted millions of people, creating lasting change that will continue to impact communities for generations to come with insights from our PHI:60?Impact?Report. Today, we focus on launching and scaling what works.

Thanks to support from funders and partners, trusted relationships with communities, and a strong operational infrastructure, PHI is able to quickly and efficiently get resources where they are needed most. This means we can rapidly hire staff and launch new initiatives. It also allows us to scale and expand existing work over time—by bringing successful models to new geographical areas, for example, or building on established community relationships to address a priority, urgent or emerging public health concern.?Our PHI:60 Impact Report shares impact stories that lift up successful strategies and best practices for launching and scaling what works, including:

• Changing the Face of Healthcare & Public Health — FACES for the Future
• Reducing the Impacts of Indoor Heat & Smoke — Science for Toxic Exposure Prevention
• Ensuring Access to Sexual &?Reproductive Health Care — Access Bridge
• See these impact stories and more?→

Find out more about launching & scaling what works:

Giving Young People Tools for Overdose Treatment & Prevention: PHI's FACES for the Future Public Health Youth Corps is teaching California high schoolers to support health, identify?substance use and reverse overdoses, through?trainings in CPR, Mental Health First Aid, Stop the Bleed,?Narcan/Opioid Overdose Intervention and more.?“I know to tell an adult if I know anyone who is abusing opioids, and I have the Narcan kit that I can use if I need to,” said participant Jada Solis, who is now considering a future medical career in nursing or mental health therapy. Read the article?→

Improving?the Health & Wellness of Refugee Children & Families: PHI's Sehat Initiative—headed by Mohammad Sediq Hazratzai, MD, MPH, who is himself an Afghan refugee—acts as a crucial bridge that connects newly arrived refugee families with information, resources and services provided by culturally rooted staff who are also part of the refugee communities. Since launching in 2022 at PHI, Sehat?has rapidly?expanded its successful local model to provide support services to newly arrived youth and families from Afghanistan and Ukraine. Learn more →

Trainings: How Hospitals Can Increase MAT Access: PHI's Bridge has led the largest expansion of medication for addiction treatment (MAT) in?emergency departments (EDs) in the country. Today, more than 600 EDs now serve as treatment access hubs in their communities. Bridge also?offers an on-demand training library to expand and deepen knowledge of treating individuals using the program's unique approach.?The videos are designed to support clinicians and substance use navigators (SUNs), and cover topics such as clinical treatment; navigation to care; and culture of harm reduction. Get started →

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