A Local Approach
Healthy Living for ME® (HL4ME®), Maine’s statewide Community Care Hub, is the leader and convener of SKCCP, a local community partnership comprised of representatives from health care, social services, and public health. They are one of three Rural Community Health Improvement Partnerships (R-CHIP) demonstration sites in Maine transforming how local health systems operate to better address health-related social needs and improve health outcomes.
SKCCP has spent the last 21 months establishing their partnership, creating governance structures, conducting a detailed readiness assessment, identifying priority health-related social needs of their communities, and developing strategies to address those needs. They have also sought funding opportunities to support implementation of their identified strategies.
What Community Partners are Saying
"I think partners are going about the process in the right way, specifically by not choosing one specific HRSN over another in terms of importance. It's all important and all relative to the clients' perceptions, as well."
