Forming community partnerships to create social needs referral programs

Although the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has recommended forming equitable partnerships with community stakeholders to address the HRSNs of children, application of the CBPR framework to address the HRSNs of hospitalized children is lacking. Below, we describe our successes and failures in proactively applying key aspects of the CBPR framework to our hospital-community partnership to address community resource connection.