DOI
10.9707/1944-5660.1528
Key Points
In 2018, the Humana Foundation shifted the focus of its work to the social determinants of health, with the key aim of promoting health equity. With this new focus came a recognition that larger, long-term investments would be needed to support strategies addressing upstream determinants of health. The foundation also recognized the need to co-create processes with communities to understand how to provide essential holistic supports.
This article explores one area of the foundation’s new efforts, the Strategic Community Investment Program, which focuses in part on postsecondary attainment and sustaining employment. The foundation partnered with the University of Louisville’s Center for Health Organization Transformation to systematically review models in the literature of successful postsecondary attainment strategies to evaluate the results in communities.
This article shares key learnings from the literature and coordinated practice in communities that were used to revise the foundation’s strategy, and concludes with suggestions for other foundations interested in addressing postsecondary attainment and other social determinants of health to better meet the challenges and opportunities of the communities they serve.
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Recommended Citation
Eggen, M. B., Jennings, J. C., O’Keefe, M., Kelly Pryor, B. N., & Clements, L. (2020). Advancing Social Determinants of Health Through Investments in Postsecondary Attainment and Sustaining Employment. The Foundation Review, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.9707/1944-5660.1528
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