Monday, May 19, 2025
5/19/2025
City of Long Branch SDOH Accelerator Plan - RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH) Institute for Prevention and Recovery (IFPR) will partner with the City of Long Branch in New Jersey to implement the CDC FY 2021 Closing the Gap with Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Accelerator Plans to convene a multisector Leadership Team of community stakeholders to develop an implementation-ready action plan that reduces disparities in health outcomes related to chronic disease and health inequities. The Leadership Team's cross-sector partnerships and action plan will generate community-wide strategies to accelerate health improvements to outcomes. Long Branch is a city in Monmouth County, New Jersey seated along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline; it is home to approximately 30,516 people as of 2019, with the central portion of the city's population living with the highest social vulnerability index (SVI) rates, low socioeconomic status, and disparities in health status and access to services. Long Branch is racially and ethnically diverse; more than half (52.0%) of the population is non-Hispanic white, 30.3% is Hispanic/Latino, and 13.3 % is non-Hispanic black. Almost a third (30.9%) of the population are immigrants and about a quarter (26.0%) speak primarily Spanish. The project will utilize three SDOH priority areas--social connectedness, community-clinical linkages, and health care access and quality related to substance use disorder (SUD)--to engage community and clinical partners to develop the SDOH Accelerator Plan to reduce health disparities and inequities and improve health outcomes for the city. The outcomes of the SDOH Accelerator Plans are to: 1) increase collaboration and engagement across multi-sectoral partners, 2) implement the SDOH Accelerator Plan among multi-sectoral partners, 3) increase access to prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery support services for SUD, 4) increase access to social support services and promote participation in the community to improve social connectedness, 5) increase access to and use of preventive health care services to improve community-clinical linkages, 6) improve health and social outcomes for people experiencing health disparities and inequities, and 7) increase community resilience to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations. The project will measure progress towards goals and outcomes by utilizing key informant interviews, focus groups, and reviewing local and community-based data.
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