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“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...

National Center for Health in Public Housing’s Smoking Cessation Protocol: A Guide to Conducting Groups (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This guide provides readers with all necessary information and supplemental materials that are needed to conduct a comprehensive smoking cessation program either in a group setting, or with individual patients. More Details...

Impact of COVID-19 On Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) Health Center Patients and Operations (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication by NCHPH highlights findings from a survey distributed to public housing residents assessing the effects that COVID-19 has had on Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) patients and health center operations. More Details...

How Health Centers Can Promote Benefits of Exercise to Diabetic Public Housing Residents and Promising Practices (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication by NCHPH discusses the importance of exercise among public housing patients with diabetes, in addition to how it can benefit them. More Details...

Healthy Together: A Toolkit for Health Center Collaborations with HUD Assisted Housing and Community-Based Organizations (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This toolkit by NCHPH and NNCC provides information and resources for health center staff to partner and collaborate more effectively with their local housing authorities and with other providers serving residents of public housing and other low-income housing. More Details...

Data Discovery: Snapshot of Social Determinants of Health in Public Housing Primary Care Communities (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This brief describes the findings of an online mapping resource that shows the distribution of Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) indicators across counties with Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) health centers. More Details...

Using SDOH Data to Screen for Social Vulnerability (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NCHPH, JSI, and HITEQ hosted a webinar that discussed how health centers can access and use available SDOH data sources to determine and screen the social vulnerability of their patients and link them to appropriate care and services. More Details...

The Role of Family Caregivers in Older Adult Nutrition (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH) and National Center for Equitable Care for Elders (NCECE) webinar shared approaches to working with caregivers to address barriers to healthy eating and provide nutrition education that meets the diverse needs of older adults. More Details...

The Impact of Health Literacy on Diabetes (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This blog by NCHPH explains how health literacy can affect persons living with diabetes in addition to its benefits. More Details...

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Health Center Workforce: Challenges and Solutions (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Despite increasing demand for health care services, health centers indicate a critical shortage of staff necessary to meet that demand. Burnout, stress, depression, etc. have eroded our healthy workforce. This Facebook Live session discussed workforce challenges and how to navigate these challenges. More Details...

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Screening Tools 101 for Health Center Staff Serving Public Housing Residents (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NCHPH convened a webinar that discussed the importance of screening for social determinants of health (SDOH) More Details...

SDOH Academy Innovations Showcase Kickoff Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, health centers were provided the opportunity to demonstrate the work that they have been doing to address Social Determinants of Health. More Details...

Implementing Screening of People with Disabilities and Functional Needs During Disasters (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This learning collaborative is designed to help health centers work with people with disabilities to create customized emergency preparedness kits and plans. More Details...

COVID-19 Vaccine Resource Guide (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication provides a compilation of COVID-19 vaccine activities conducted by NCHPH. More Details...

COVID-19 By The Numbers Infographics 2021 (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCHPH analyzed survey data reports from Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) Health Centers fielded by the Bureau of Primary Care. These infographics by NCHPH provide the latest statistics in Public Housing Primary Care Health Centers for the year 2021. More Details...

Collection of Promising Practices on Health Center and Housing Partnerships (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCHPH has catalogued promising practices on health center and housing partnerships that were identified during T/TA activities. More Details...

Addressing COVID-19’s Impact on Health Centers’ Finance and Operations and Response Planning for Future COVID-19 Outbreaks and Other Emergencies (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This learning collaborative guides participants through the challenges and solutions for addressing the financial and operational impacts of COVID-19 on health centers serving residents of public housing and other underserved communities, with an emphasis on applied response planning for future emergencies. More Details...

Addressing Barriers to Diabetes Management for Residents of Public Housing (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This Facebook Live session reviewed behavioral interventions that incorporate promising practices for public housing residents to manage diabetes and its complications. More Details...

A New Normal: Learning to Live with COVID (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this Facebook live session, we discussed what a health center is doing to adapt to an endemic COVID-19 era. This session included infection control approaches, outreach, on-site and virtual visits, and strategies to improve primary health services. More Details...

Social Determinants of Health Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Barriers: A Resource for Health Centers, Vol. 2 (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC), four HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partner organizations, released a report on lessons learned, challenges, barriers, and impact stories shared from the (4) sessions of the “Screening Methods and Strategies for Using Data on Outreach and Enabling Services to Address Social Determinants of Health” Learning Collaborative. This Learning Collaborative explored strategies to screen special and vulnerable populations for social determinants of health (SDOH) and successfully utilize data to build effective practices to begin addressing SDOH through outreach and enabling services. With these lessons learned, AAPCHO, HOP, MHP Salud, and NHCHC will continue this work with a webinar and successive learning collaborative in 2022-2023. More Details...