Resource Search Results

Environmental Determinants of Health: Fostering Environmental Health Programs in Public Housing Primary Care (2022). Resource Type: Webinar. Description: n.a. More Details...

Tool: Screening for Disability Discrimination (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: As part of Tips to Help Health Centers Address Disability & Chronic Disease Discrimination, consultant Katie Hathaway created two brand new screening tools to determine if your patient is experiencing discrimination based on a disability or chronic disease. There is one tool for adults and another for children and young adults (including those attending college). More Details...

Promoting Healthy Choices and Community Changes: A Virtual Workshop for Community Health Workers (Spanish Language) (2022). Resource Type: Learning Collaborative. Description: n.a. More Details...

Preventing Relapse in the COVID Era (2022). Resource Type: Webinar. Description: n.a. More Details...

Understanding the Current Social Needs of Health Center Patients (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NCMLP kicked off its annual Health Center Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) Webinar Series on September 20, 2022. This webinar series, based on the Health Center Toolkit, is designed to provide T/TA for the health center field on the core components of MLP and the advanced application of medical-legal partnership planning, implementation and growth. After almost two and a half years of adjusting services and operations to meet the evolving needs of low-income populations during the ongoing public health emergency, panelists and attendees strengthened their foundational knowledge and understanding of the data on current and emerging social needs for health center patient populations. Attendees heard from the following subject matter experts: • Brad Corallo, KFF • Rosy Weir, AAPCHO • Albert Ayson, Jr., AAPCHO More Details...

Increasing Capacity to Address Health, Justice, & Equity Through Partnerships (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Given their disproportionate share of patients or clients who are survivors, this guide provides select tools and resources for the following key partners and allies: HEALTH CENTERS | To promote collaboration with DV programs and civil legal aid organizations, and help establish medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) DV PROGRAMS | To promote collaboration with HCs/civil legal programs CIVIL LEGAL AID ORGANIZATIONS | To promote collaboration with HCs/DV programs/establish MLPs ESTABLISHED MLPS | To promote DV/HT/E as issues they can address, intersectional with other I-HELP areas of work More Details...

The Health of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Patients Served at Health Centers: An Analysis of the 2020 Uniform Data System (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report examines current patient demographics and utilization of health services at health centers serving Asian Americans (AAs) and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NH/PIs), and highlights the differences between these centers and the national average of all health centers in the United States. More Details...

Caring for an Aging Population (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar series focused on increasing the capacity of health centers to meet the health and social needs of older community-dwelling adults followed in primary care. Unprecedented growth in older populations and increasing awareness of social determinants of health presents challenges and opportunities for health centers focused on providing optimal care for the patient population across the lifespan. The webinar series helped participants understand the impact of the growing number of patients approaching or over the age of 65, explain the value of integrated and highly coordinated care for populations of older adults, especially those living with multiple chronic conditions or functional limitations Identify, and how to integrate age-friendly strategies to reduce harm and optimize the health and well-being of older adult patients. More Details...

Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) and COVID-19 (2022). Resource Type: Webinar. Description: n.a. More Details...

Voices from the Field: Recruiting and Hiring for Social Determinants of Health Screening (2022). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This self-paced resource includes modules exploring the success and challenges of recruiting, hiring and retaining staff to provide screenings for Social Determinants of Health within community health centers. Learn from the voices of professionals in the field on how to address barriers and amplify the role of peer specialists. More Details...

Housing Focused Mobile Outreach for Health Centers (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: n.a. More Details...

Two-Tiered Screening for Patient Social Needs in a Safety-Net Setting: Using Two Pre-Screening Questions to assess patients’ social needs at a Chicago-area FQHC (2022). Resource Type: Template. Description: Erie Family Health Centers, a Chicago-area Federally Qualified Health Center, initiated a two-part social needs screening process with patients in May 2020. A medical assistant asked a single prescreening question about interest in being connected to resources and interested patients received a follow-up call from staff to screen for needs and connect with resources. A second prescreening question was added asking patients their preferred method for receiving resources. The results of this process suggest that a two-tiered screening for social needs is feasible in the safety net setting. More Details...

Webinar: Closing the Loop on the Referral (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this HRSA-supported webinar, Siouxland Community Health Center discussed how they joined forces with an HCCN and their civil legal services MLP colleagues to “close the loop on the referral.” The team shared best practices to help other health centers advance their MLP practice beyond screenings and referrals. View the webinar recording to learn how to conduct real-time tracking and analysis of legal needs interventions in the EHR. More Details...

Unwinding the Medicaid Continuous Enrollment Provision: Projected Enrollment Effects and Policy Approaches (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue brief presents current HHS projections of transitions in coverage due to the sunset of the continuous enrollment provision at the end of the PHE; describes administrative actions underway to mitigate coverage losses; and highlights legislative approaches including the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 that could help promote seamless coverage transitions at the end of the PHE. More Details...

Connecting Community Health Centers & Courts to Improve Behavioral Health of People & Communities (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: As an exploration of the intersection of health and justice, Connecting Community Health Centers & Courts to Improve Behavioral Health of People & Communities offers nine major recommendations for health centers and courts to better support the behavioral health of justice-involved people. This brief proposes ways in which these organizations can collaborate and ultimately foster the next phase of the medical-legal partnership movement: bringing the health provider into the legal context and expanding the pool of potential legal services providers. More Details...

Demographic Facts: Residents Living in Public Housing (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: n.a. More Details...

Strengthening Social Connection in Older Adults (2022). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This guide details the impact of social isolation and feelings of loneliness on older adult health. Social isolation might be identified during SDOH screening and this oublication reviews patient resources that are appropriate for multiple levels of technology literacy. More Details...

“Acting on Social Determinants of Health Screening Data to Address Barriers to Health” Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: AAPCHO, Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) hosted a HRSA-sponsored webinar to explore strategies to screen special and vulnerable populations for social determinants of health (SDOH) and build effective practices to begin addressing SDOH through outreach and enabling services (ES). More Details...

Reentry, Referrals, and Responsive Care: How Health Care Centers Can Support Justice-Involved LGBTQIA+ Patients (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The goal of this panel webinar is to increase the capacity of health centers to meet the health care and support needs of LGBTQIA+ patients who have experienced incarceration or who are justice-involved. Participants will learn from an expert panel about how to improve screening, support, and referral services as well as explore opportunities and promising practices in developing community-based partnerships for reentry support. More Details...

Tips to Help Health Centers Address Disability & Chronic Disease Discrimination (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This tip sheet provides advice as well as key resources to help staff of health centers and look-alike programs quickly improve their understanding of the important role they can play in helping to identify discrimination at its earliest stages and how to mitigate it by leveraging their own medical authority and resources within the community. More Details...