Results: Learning Collaboratives

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Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC).
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Timeframe: Spring 2025 For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Jennifer Du Momd: jdumond@nachc.org

A Family-Centered Approach to Affirming Care Learning Collaborative

Organization: Renaye James Healthcare Advisors, LLC (RJHA).
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Advancing Health Equity.
Primary Target Audience: C-Suite, Enabling Staff, Clinicians
Description: A nationally recognized pediatric endocrinologist will explore approaches to providing affirming medical gender care to children and adolescents and guide participants through a series of care strategies and tools. Content over four sessions will address treatment for gender-expansive youth at each stage of development, special considerations for transgender adolescents, and a review and discussion of current controversies in pediatric gender care. Unique to this training will be interactive skill-building on the essentials of communication with patients and their families in common gender care scenarios and a special skills lab for pediatric gender-affirming care. February 15, 29, 2024 and March 14, 21, 2024.
Timeframe: Spring 2024
Register: https://hcea_rjha.swoogo.com/AffirmingCare-FamilyCentered/register
For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Alicia Berkowitz: aberkowitz@renayejames.com

Access to Comprehensive Care and Health Coverage for Farmworkers

Organization: Farmworker Justice (FJ).
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Access to Comprehensive Care.
Primary Target Audience: Outreach Staff
Description: In this learning collaborative, health center staff will learn about the current landscape of health access for farmworkers and barriers to obtaining comprehensive health coverage. Participants will have the opportunity to problem-solve around these barriers, share best practices and strategies with peers, and access educational resources to improve outreach and access to health care in MSAW communities.
Timeframe: Winter 2025
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpdeitpjgrE9DeXoTUBzg3kxky6K5svoi1#/registration
For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Rebecca Young: ryoung@farmworkerjustice.org

Advancing Health Equity: Increasing Access to Care for IPV and Exploitation Survivors

Organization: Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation.
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Objective 4: Health Equity.
Primary Target Audience: Clinicians
Description: outreach service providers, and health center staff to participate in a four-
Timeframe: Winter 2024 For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Jake Sese: Jsese@futureswithoutviolence.org

Advancing Perinatal Care Learning Collaborative: Promising Practices to Tackle Maternal Mortality

Organization: National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC).
Level: Introductory, Intermediate.
BPHC Objective: Emerging Issues.
Primary Target Audience: Administrative Staff, Clinicians
Description: In addressing the significant public health concern of maternal mortality, health centers play a crucial role, and this learning collaborative is a proactive step towards equipping professionals with the tools to meet this challenge. By implementing evidence-based practices, health centers, in particular those that serve residents of public housing, can actively contribute to reducing maternal mortality rates, demonstrating a commitment to high-quality care and positive health outcomes. The collaborative's focus on care coordination and workforce development further contributes to improved patient satisfaction and overall excellence in care provision by health centers. This four-part learning collaborative, with attention to advancing health center excellence by addressing maternal mortality through evidence-based practices and programs. Tailored for health center professionals, especially those engaged in MIECHV programs, this collaborative aims to elevate the standard of perinatal care and enhance health outcomes for mothers and infants. This initiative delves into promising practices and programs for comprehensive perinatal care, placing a special focus on maternal mortality. By actively engaging health center professionals, we seek to equip them with the knowledge and tools needed to implement effective strategies for perinatal care. The goal is to improve outcomes, reduce maternal mortality, and elevate the overall standard of care across health centers. The collaborative emphasizes evidence-based practices in perinatal care, with a specific focus on reducing maternal mortality rates, directly contributing to clinical quality improvements. Addressing maternal mortality through promising practices enhances access to care, aligning with the access to care domain within the performance framework. The collaborative supports workforce development by providing health center professionals with the latest knowledge and skills necessary for delivering comprehensive perinatal care as well as address the other Health Center Excellence Framework domains of Access & Affordability, Patient Experience, and Population Health & SDOH.
Timeframe: Spring 2025 For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: n.a.: n.a.

Advancing Team-Based Care

Organization: Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC, Inc.).
Level: Intermediate.
BPHC Objective: Team-based care.
Primary Target Audience: Clinicians
Description: The Advancing Team-Based Care Learning Collaborative is a four session series designed to support health centers in their move to high performance team-based comprehensive primary care. The learning collaborative provides health center participants with quality improvement concepts and skills to systematically achieve a specific aim, and identify areas for process improvement and role optimization. With coaching support and transformational strategies, health centers will develop highly trained clinical primary care teams and work to improve at least one UDS measure. This learning collaborative is led by multiple experts in team-based care and quality improvement.
Timeframe: Spring 2024
Register: https://education.weitzmaninstitute.org/content/community-health-center-inc-national-training-and-technical-assistance-partnership-nttap
For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Meaghan Angers: angersm@mwhs1.com

All Hazards Competencies for Health Center Staff Learning Collaborative

Organization: National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC).
Level: Introductory, Intermediate.
BPHC Objective: Preparedness for Emergencies and Environmental Impacts on Health.
Primary Target Audience: Administrative Staff, Clinicians
Description: This LC will support health centers, particularly those serving residents of public housing, to enhance their emergency preparedness capabilities and strengthen their resilience in the face of emergencies and disasters. Health center staff will acquire the essential knowledge and skills needed to respond effectively to crises, including critical topics such as emergency management principles, integration with community healthcare infrastructure, and achieving competency in disaster response. The four-part session will introduction to health center emergency preparedness: learn about your health center's responsibility in emergency care and the importance of integrating with community healthcare infrastructure. understanding emergency management principles: gain a solid foundation in emergency management principles, including altered management structures and modified operations. overview of health center emergency and disaster competencies: explore the competency set developed by industry leaders to guide health center staff in emergency preparedness. achieving competency and supporting organizational preparedness: discover strategies for supporting staff in achieving competency and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
Timeframe: Spring 2024 For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Anne Hassleman: arhhealthconsulting@yahoo.com

Building a Latino Program to Stop Smoking

Organization: National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH).
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Preventive Services Outcomes (Applicant Choice).
Primary Target Audience: Clinicians
Description: Commercial tobacco use varies among diverse Hispanic/Latino population groups. For example, Hispanic adults who were born in the U.S. are more likely to smoke cigarettes than Hispanic adults who live in the U.S. but were born in another country. NCHPH will develop a 4-session learning collaborative for public housing primary care health center programs serving Latino communities. The learning collaborative will provide a guide for smoking cessation, include educational resources for Latinos, and will help participants to establish a smoking cessation program in Spanish.
Timeframe: TBD For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Fide Pineda: fide@namgt.com

Capital Development Learning Collaborative - Early Project Planning Stages

Organization: Capital Link.
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Access to Comprehensive Care.
Primary Target Audience: C-Suite
Description: The Capital Development Learning Collaborative - Early Project Planning Stages is the first of a two-part learning collaborative, with the first taking place in the fall and the second, Later Project Planning Stages, in the spring. This collaborative is designed to assist health centers that anticipate the need for a capital project during the next one to five years. Through a series of four virtual meetings, health centers learn the basics of capital planning, financing, and project development.
Timeframe: Fall 2024 For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Kristin Allen: kallen@caplink.org

Capital Development Learning Collaborative - Later Project Planning Stages

Organization: Capital Link.
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Financial and Operational Sustainability.
Primary Target Audience: C-Suite
Description: This Collaborative will focus on the later stages of planning and financing a capital project that supports an effective, integrated, comprehensive model of care that provides access to affordable, and culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
Timeframe: Spring 2025
Register: TBD
For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Kristin Allen: kallen@caplink.org

CFO Leadership Institute

Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC).
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Leadership Development.
Primary Target Audience: C-Suite
Description: This activity will include several components designed to foster an increased strategic focus and peer networking for health center Chief Financial Officers (CFOs). They include the following: • Learning Collaborative of at least 50 health centers and 50 health center CFOs. • Hosting 8 learning events (2 in-person and 6 virtual) to discuss leadership strategy within the context of health center challenges related to managing the bottom line, working effectively with other C-Suite leaders, revenue cycle, strategic use of data, and value-based care payment systems. • Monthly peer mentor discussions to develop a Capstone project with applicability to strategic health center leadership challenges. • Online community for sharing resources and accessing course content and recordings. • Foundational training concepts/documents will include the NACHC Value Transformation Framework and core competencies for CFOs.

Childhood Diabetes Prevention Learning Collaborative

Organization: Health Outreach Partners (HOP).
Level: n.a..
BPHC Objective: Chronic Disease Management.
Primary Target Audience: Clinicians
Description: This Learning Collaborative is aimed at improving diabetes prevention in migrant and seasonal agricultural worker (MSAW) children. This four-session learning collaborative, offered by Farmworker Justice, Health Outreach Partners, and the School-Based Health Alliance, is for community health center primary care and behavioral health providers and outreach staff. The sessions will focus on strategies and best practices for identifying and addressing diabetes risks, incorporating better nutrition and physical activity into families' daily lives, and sharing experiences with community health center (CHC) peers and experts. Each community health center, FQHC or SBHC must have at least two staff members participate. The four sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays on February 9, February 23, March 9 and March 23 from 2:00-3:30 pm ET (11:00 am - 12:30 pm PT). Register here: https://bit.ly/3DrHScH

Community Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Academy Learning Collaborative

Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC).
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Preparedness for Emergencies and Environmental Impacts on Health.
Primary Target Audience: C-Suite, Enabling Staff
Description: The Learning Collaborative will target health center, PCA and HCCN Emergency Management staff from around the country. Through collaborative sessions, health centers will learn to prevent and address issues related to continuity of care and patient safety during emergencies. Emphasis will be made on all-hazards preparedness and foundational principles of healthcare emergency management. These Learning Collaborative sessions will emphasize learning workshops focusing on a comprehensive and flexible approach, as well as resources and/or tools that assist health centers and PCAs in preparing for and responding to a wide range of potential hazards and disasters. Workshops will provide guidance on essential principles of emergency preparedness and response, including but not limited to risk assessment and vulnerability analysis, emergency planning, crisis communications, emergency mental health support, building strong partnerships, exercise training, compliance with the CMS rule, and more.
Timeframe: Spring 2025 For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Taina Lopez: tlopez@nachc.org

Controlled Hypertension Learning Collaborative

Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC).
Level: Intermediate.
BPHC Objective: Chronic Disease Management.
Primary Target Audience: Clinicians
Description: NACHC will partner with key safety net partners and other subject matter experts in managing hypertension to co-design a robust 4-part learning collaborative focused on implementation of the most impactful evidence-based interventions using an implementation science approach to identify strategies that are the are acceptable, adopted, feasible, cost-effective, appropriate, sustainable, patient centered, and equitable for health centers.

Crisis Intervention and De-escalation in Primary Care Learning Collaborative

Organization: Renaye James Healthcare Advisors, LLC (RJHA).
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Emerging Issues.
Primary Target Audience: Clinicians, Enabling Staff, C-Suite
Description: This Learning Collaborative offers four learning sessions to help healthcare workers identify, de-escalate, and intervene in crisis behaviors in the healthcare setting. These four sessions will use evidence-based practice interventions that promote safety for patients and staff by emphasizing preventive measures and least-restrictive/non-physical interventions to reduce the risk of unsafe crisis behaviors. Each session of the Learning Collaborative will provide an opportunity for the participants to plan de-escalation and crisis interventions that promote patient and staff safety in their health centers. This Learning Collaborative aligns with the Health Center Performance Improvement domain of Quality, Patient Care, and Safety as it addresses approaches to reduce behaviors that may harm patients. This Learning Collaborative is eligible for CME credits. October 1, 15, 29, and November 12, 2024 all at 1:00 pm ET
Timeframe: Fall 2024
Register: https://hcea_rjha.swoogo.com/BHCrisisCare/register
For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Alicia Berkowitz: aberkowitz@renayejames.com

Culturally-Tailored SDOH Screening and Response Learning Collaborative

Organization: Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO).
Level: n.a..
BPHC Objective: Social Risk Factors.
Primary Target Audience: n.a.
Description: Spring 2025

Dental Assistant Workforce Learning Collaborative

Organization: National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA).
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Oral Health Workforce.
Primary Target Audience: Administrative Staff
Description: This collaborative will support health centers in developing their own in-house dental assistant training program, optimizing their recruitment and retention strategies.
Timeframe: Spring 2025
Register: Opens in October 2024
For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Candace Owen: candace@nnoha.org

Diabetes Learning Collaborative

Organization: National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH).
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Chronic Disease Management.
Primary Target Audience: Clinicians
Description: For the past three years, NCFH has offered Diabetes LC to provide guidance and assistance to health center staff on obtaining the CDCES certification, which is recognized as the gold standard for diabetes care and support. A total of 152 healthcare professionals have been part of this unique learning experience and gone out with very high self-reported levels of satisfaction, knowledge gained and applicability. NCFH is partnering with Expert Consultant, Ardis Reed, for the fourth year, to assist LC participants in strengthening their readiness to take the Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) exam, formerly known as CDE, and become a certified CDCES.  Enhance your skills and knowledge to better serve populations living with diabetes and help prevent the chronic condition on time, all while also working on your personal professional advancement opportunity.
Timeframe: Fall 2024
Register: Closed; Waitlist form https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MJHLSYZ
For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Megan Martinez: martinez@ncfh.org

Emergency Preparedness and Access to Care for LGBTQIA+ Communities

Organization: National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center.
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Preparedness for Emergencies and Environmental Impacts on Health.
Primary Target Audience: Clinicians, Administrative Staff, Enabling Staff, Outreach Staff
Description: This learning collaborative will support health centers in developing and refining processes for inclusion of LGBTQIA+ communities in emergency preparedness plans and protocols. Health center teams will learn from experts in the field as well as engage in peer-to-peer learning.
Timeframe: Winter 2025
Register: N/A
For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Breeze de Jong and Paige Frost: bdejong@fenwayhealth.org and pfrost@fenwayhealth.org

Enabling Services Learning Collaborative

Organization: National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC).
Level: Introductory.
BPHC Objective: Access to Comprehensive Care.
Primary Target Audience: Outreach Staff
Description: The Learning Collaborative will convene Health Center Enabling Services staff from around the country, which is particularly beneficial for HC staff positions such as Community Health Workers, Outreach and Enrollment Staff, and others. This Learning Collaborative will host learning workshops focusing on process improvement strategies that participants will leverage at their health centers to better facilitate efficient and effective access to care in response to individual and family needs. Workshops will provide an overview of performance and process improvement tools such as LEAN, process mapping, workflow refinement, and more. As a complement to established learning sessions, NACHC may offer optional office hours to participants; topics may address relevant federal/state ES policies, partner resources, and more.
Timeframe: Spring 2025 For more information about this Learning Collaborative, contact: Ted Henson: thenson@nachc.org