COE PA Navigate - JHF

September 10, 2025

Participants will learn about the statewide system for Social Determinants of Health / Health Related Social Needs referrals, including how to access and use PA Navigate to identify community organizations for referrals, how to connect to community organizations, and engage participants in sharing experiences and challenges with the referral process and outcomes.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
    1. Overview of Community Action as the “anti-poverty authority.”
  2. Navigate Overview
    1. Description of PA Navigate as a statewide resource and referral platform sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (PA DHS).
    2. Purpose: Connect residents with healthcare teams and CBOs addressing SDOH/HRSN needs.
    3. CAAP’s role as Community Engagement Partner providing support and education to CBOs.
  3. PA Navigate Data & Participation
    1. Participant overview.
    2. Search trends
  4. Community Engagement Activities
    1. Connect with CBOs.
    2. Claim and Train: Technical assistance & training for CBOs.
    3. Referrals: Support for intake methods, referrals, and closing loops.
    4. Analytics: Reporting engagement & success.
    5. Collaboration: CBO convenings.
  5. PA Navigate Platform Features (Demo)
  6. No Wrong Door Approach.
    1. Abbreviated demo covering:
      1. Front-end: Resource search, send & track outbound referrals.
      2. Back-end: Manage program listings, inbound referrals, analytics, reporting dashboards.
  7. Discussion
    1. Prompt to share experiences, successes, challenges, and questions.
  8. Questions

 

Target Audience

  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Social Worker

Learning Objectives

• Explain CAAP’s role in anti-poverty work and the purpose of PA Navigate in connecting patients, providers, and CBOs to address SDOH/HRSN.
• Describe the Community Engagement Team’s key functions in supporting CBOs.
• Demonstrate PA Navigate's core features and engage participants in sharing experiences and challenges.

 

 

Additional Information

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File Audience Disclosure slides (1.25)_75.pptx51.54 KB
File PA Navigate Objectives_Agenda_References.docx36.1 KB
PDF icon PA Navigate_General Public (1).pdf137.59 KB
PDF icon PA Navigate_Community Engagement (1).pdf1.83 MB
PDF icon PA Navigate Tools for Community Organizations.pdf322.82 KB
PDF icon PA Navigate Slides.pdf3.15 MB
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
09/10/2025
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
Event starts: 
09/10/2025 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
09/10/2025 - 1:30pm EDT
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Participants will learn about the statewide system for Social Determinants of Health / Health Related Social Needs referrals, including how to access and use PA Navigate to identify community organizations for referrals, how to connect to community organizations, and engage participants in sharing experiences and challenges with the referral process and outcomes.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
    1. Overview of Community Action as the “anti-poverty authority.”
  2. Navigate Overview
    1. Description of PA Navigate as a statewide resource and referral platform sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (PA DHS).
    2. Purpose: Connect residents with healthcare teams and CBOs addressing SDOH/HRSN needs.
    3. CAAP’s role as Community Engagement Partner providing support and education to CBOs.
  3. PA Navigate Data & Participation
    1. Participant overview.
    2. Search trends
  4. Community Engagement Activities
    1. Connect with CBOs.
    2. Claim and Train: Technical assistance & training for CBOs.
    3. Referrals: Support for intake methods, referrals, and closing loops.
    4. Analytics: Reporting engagement & success.
    5. Collaboration: CBO convenings.
  5. PA Navigate Platform Features (Demo)
  6. No Wrong Door Approach.
    1. Abbreviated demo covering:
      1. Front-end: Resource search, send & track outbound referrals.
      2. Back-end: Manage program listings, inbound referrals, analytics, reporting dashboards.
  7. Discussion
    1. Prompt to share experiences, successes, challenges, and questions.
  8. Questions

 

Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Keisha Edwards

Kat Royer, MSc, Community Action Association of Pennsylvania

 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
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