We are pleased to share a new publication co-written by TONIC, a cross-sectional workgroup dedicated to preventing and treating toxic stress in San Francisco’s children. Safe & Sound is proud to represent child- and family- serving community based organizations in this group. The paper, titled New Opportunities with Enhanced Care Management: Increasing Success for San Francisco Families with Children Ages 0–5 in Family Maintenance, demonstrates the value of TONIC’s approach of breaking down silos and bringing together leaders across health care, county and city departments, and CBOs to grapple with how we can better keep children safe.
About the paper
The paper describes how Enhanced Care Management (ECM), a new benefit available to high-risk Medi-cal recipients might look like for a Family Maintenance case involving children aged 0–5 in San Francisco.
The hypothetical scenario prompted a valuable conversation among key partners to identify implementation challenges and key questions, such as how ECM can be additive and not duplicative to services provided today, who should make referrals, how they should do it, and what information should be shared with whom.
TONIC participants provided insights on current barriers to making ECM more widely available along with some recommended next steps.
What is TONIC?
The UCSF Center for Child and Community Health’s Toxic Stress Network Improvement Collaborative (TONIC) has been working since 2019 with the goal of grounding care coordination systems in San Francisco for children aged 0–5 in lived expertise and aligning sectors around the following goals:
Safe & Sound is proud to represent child- and family- serving community based organizations in this group.