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The Path Forward on Social Determinants of Health: Housing (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The first of five webinars in the Weitzman Institute\'s Path Forward \"Moving from Screening to Solving for Social Needs\" series focusing on the intersection of stable housing and health outcomes with presenters Tim Shaw; Associate Director of Policy, Financial Security Program, Aspen Institute, David Rich; Executive Director of Supportive Housing Works, and Jason Shaplen; Chief Strategy and New Ventures Officer, Community Health Center, Inc. More Details...

Leveraging Data to Develop Workforce Strategic Plans (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The STAR² Center describes health center recruitment and retention data profile dashboards created for each health center organization. A California community health center also shares how they leveraged the data profiles to enhance their recruitment and retention efforts and build a strategic workforce plan. More Details...

Preparing Your Community for the Flu: Partnering with Health Providers to Prevent a Twindemic: Webinar (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: During this webinar, the Healthcare Resilience Working Group discussed the initiatives that are currently taking place at a national level to prepare health center communities for flu season 2020 and how partnerships with public housing agencies and health care providers to prevent a twindemic between flu and COVID-19 among vulnerable populations is important during these unprecedented times. In this session, various health promotion resources were shared as well other resources for patients to use to successfully locate a flu vaccine provider. More Details...

Food Insecurity: The Digital Transformation in Social Determinants of Health (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The fourth webinar in the Weitzman Institute's Path Forward "The Digital Transformation in Social Determinants of Health" fall series focusing on addressing food insecurity as an important public health issue. The content expert for the webinar is Sarah Carroll; Director of the Center for Care Transformation at AVIA. The following organizations served as panelists for the webinar: Jacob Luria, Co-Founder and CEO, Algorex Health; Catherine Macpherson, Vice President Product Strategy & Development, Chief Nutrition Officer, Moms Meals; and Laura Robbins, Co-Founder and COO, Advocatia Solutions. More Details...

EnVision Centers, Jobs Plus and Health Centers Interactive Map (2020). Resource Type: Interactive Map. Description: NCHPH recently launched a new interactive map. This map shows the location of Health Centers, Envision Centers and Jobs Plus sites. EnVision Centers are centralized hubs that provide people living in public housing with resources and support needed to excel. Jobs Plus Sites. The place-based Jobs Plus Initiative program addresses poverty among public housing residents by incentivizing and enabling employment. Health Centers interested in partnering with near Envision Centers and Jobs Plus sites, visit this NCHPH resource and hover over the organization you want to partner with. Contact information will then be displayed in the information box. More Details...

Case Study: Building a statewide subscription model for MLP services in Montana with help from a PCA (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This case study looks at how the Montana Primary Care Association helped develop a statewide, subscription model for MLP services. More Details...

Flu LEAD (Linkages to End Access Disparities) Initiative 2020 Information: A Pilot Project to Increase Influenza Vaccination Coverage among HUD-Assisted Residents (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This NCHPH informational page provides an overview, and resources about the Flu LEAD pilot project directed by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to increase influenza vaccination coverage among residents of Public Housing Agencies (PHAs). More Details...

The Path Forward: Re-Imagining Primary Care During and Beyond the Pandemic (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: As the nation struggles with the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism, the moment is upon us to deeply examine and reshape the primary care delivery system for underserved communities. In this webinar, leadership of the Community Health Center, Inc. and its Weitzman Institute will lay out a road map for the new Path Forward. We invite health center and safety net providers, staff, consumer leaders and others to join the conversation and contribute their expertise, perspective and ideas. More Details...

Social Determinants of Health for Public Housing Residents: Access to Healthy Food (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Using data and maps created by National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH) and other national data sources, this publication is one in a series that identifies the prevalence of social factors and population health indicators that affect public housing residents. It is intended for non-clinical health center staff, decision makers, and public housing stakeholders. More Details...

Developing Cross-Sector Partnerships (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This guide provides health center staff with tools and strategies to initiate, develop, and sustain community partnerships to better serve older adult residents of public housing. Content of this publication was developed through a 4-session learning collaborative launched by the SDOH academy with a small cohort of HRSA-funded health centers, HCCNs, and PCAs. More Details...

Are You Ready?” Essential Preparation Activities to Move Your Capital Project Ahead (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session covers essential steps to prepare your project for success, including incorporating facilities goals in your strategic plan, understanding your patient base and community trends, analyzing your current operations to determine the space you need, and ensuring your center is financially sound before proceeding. We’ll also describe resources available to help you plan. More Details...

Implementing Post-Graduate Residency Training Programs: Building the Case for Implementing Postgraduate Residency Training Program (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar will provide background and details on why your health center should consider developing a program, and the return on investment to your organization and the community health center system as a whole. Faculty includes innovators and health center leaders who are directly engaged in building and developing these models across the nation. More Details...

Growing Our Own: Cultivating the Next Generation of Primary Care Physicians in Community Health Centers (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: It is critical to advance policies and programs that help community health centers (CHCs) become Educational Health Centers (EHCs)2 and “grow their own” primary care training opportunities. This paper explores several pathways for promoting CHCs as teaching environments - enhanced partnerships between Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) and CHCs (with either the AMC or the CHC as the sponsoring institution3), and CHCs participating in HRSA Teaching Health Center (THC) funding opportunities (with sponsorship either by the CHC alone or by a consortium body) - and posits a spectrum of options and costs associated with each of these pathways to train medical residents. More Details...

Strategic Guidance for Health and Housing Partnerships: Step by Step Strategies for Health and Housing Partnerships (2015). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This indepth resource guide explores the importance and value of partnering with supportive housing providers, partner perspectives and goals, how to assess your organization's and your partner organization's readiness, and how to make partnerships last. More Details...

Plantilla de Notas de la Junta Directiva (2015). Resource Type: Template . Description: Plantilla de reunión para el registro de actas y notas de las reuniones de la junta directiva. More Details...

Governing Boards: Recruitment Grid (2015). Resource Type: Template . Description: This tool provides governing boards with a quick view of current board members, their characteristics, number of terms, and skills. It also provides an easy way to assess the characteristics and skills needed for future board position openings. More Details...

Governing Board- Record of Health Center Policy Approval At-A-Glance (2016). Resource Type: n.a.. Description: Maintaining appropriate authority to oversee the operations of Federally Qualified Health Centers requires Governing Boards to comply with the PHS Section 330 Program Requirements, including establishing and periodically revising health center policies. The number of policies can be overwhelming and keeping policies current is challenging. This tool provides a non-exhaustive list of these policies and is intended to assist health centers and governing boards to keep track of needed updates and approvals. More Details...

Considerations for Serving Residents of Public Housing During Emergencies and Disasters: Staff and Patient Wellness (44174). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Hosted by the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the National Center for Health in Public Housing, this webinar discusses staff well-being and patient wellness during emergencies and disasters. This webinar provides health centers with guidance for developing tools and resources that enable the health center workforce and the patients they serve to navigate the practical and psychological after-effects of disaster events. More Details...

Board Training Topics and Schedule (2015). Resource Type: Template . Description: Community Health Centers are complex organizations requiring Boards of Directors to be well-oriented to the organization and the Health Center Program, and also equipped, well-versed, and up-to-date on the most significant factors impacting service delivery at community health centers. This requires ongoing training on several important topics. As volunteer Boards of Directors with monthly meetings scheduled, and committee work in between, it is challenging to allocate a large block of time exclusively dedicated to board training. Therefore, to provide the opportunity for all board members to be introduced to selected training topics, it is recommended that a short training session be included as an agenda item at monthly board meetings. This template can help boards determine which topics they prefer to address for each meeting and which ones to schedule for their annual meeting. More Details...

Board of Directors- Meeting Minutes Template (2015). Resource Type: Template . Description: Meeting template for recording minutes and notes for board of directors meetings. More Details...