Policy & Practice | Summer 2026

Coordinated Health and Social Outcomes

cross health and human services, there has long been consensus among practitioners that no single, isolated program or single issue intervention can achieve long-term social and economic mobility. Individuals and families experience health, safety, income, education, and work not as separate issues, but as a fully intertwined reality. When systems respond through fragmented structures, participant outcomes suffer even when individual programs are perceived as performing well. Organizing Human Services for Long-Term Social and Economic Mobility By Mary Alice Hunt A