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Over the past three years, Macie Gettings, class of 2026, has been involved in a multi-institutional project examining access to social services among traumatically injured patients and the relationship between social needs and long-term physical and mental health outcomes. Through the FORTE project, telephone survey data are collected from patients at BMC, Brigham, and MGH at 6- and 12-months post-injury, creating a large longitudinal dataset. The current focus is on patients screening positive for food insecurity, unemployment, or functional disability, with the aim of identifying barriers to accessing services and assessing the long-term impact of that access.