The Building Wealth and Health Network is based on academically rigorous research and theories. Ongoing program evaluation is key to the program's success. Because of this, the program has lead to the development of a number of peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals and research briefs in addition to Network outcome briefs.

Briefs and Reports

• Challenges and Solutions to Public Assistance Systems Alignment: How Trauma-informed Programming Unveiled Barriers to Aligning TANF and Medicaid (2021)
• Evidence Brief: The Impact of Integrating Behavioral Health with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to Build a Culture of Health Across Two Generations (Systems for Action, 2020)
• Financial Health: The Root of Economic Security (2020)
• Reducing Food Insecurity Without Food: Trauma-Informed Financial Education Program Improves Food Security (2020)
• Aligning Systems to Build a Culture of Health: Integrating TANF and Medicaid to Achieve Wealth and Health (2018)
• Trauma-Informed TANF: A Randomized Controlled Trial with a Two-Generation Impact (2018)

Peer-reviewed Articles

• How trauma-informed programming to treat social determinants unveils challenges to systems alignment - Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (May 2021)

• Effects of a trauma-informed curriculum on depression, self-efficacy, economic security, and substance use among TANF participants: Evidence from the Building Health and Wealth Network Phase II - Social Science & Medicine (August 2020)
• Financial Health as a Measurable Social Determinant of Health - PLOS One (May 2020)
• Trauma-informed Financial Empowerment Programming Improves Food Security Among Families with Young Children - Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (May 2020)
• Trauma-informed TANF: A Randomized Control Study with a Two-Generation Impact - Journal of Child and Family Studies (January 2018)
• Does Employment-Related Resilience Affect the Relationship between Childhood Adversity, Community Violence, and Depression? - Journal of Urban Health (January 2017)
• The Building Wealth and Health Network: Methods and Baseline Characteristics from a Randomized Controlled Trial for Families with Young Children Participating in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) - BioMed Central Public Health (July 2016)