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Communicating Effectively About Vaccines: New Communication Resources for Health Officials (2010). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Communicating effectively with parents about the importance of vaccines is a key issue for the public health community to address. In August 2009, ASTHO commissioned a survey of U.S. parents and guardians to gather information about effective messages and materials for state and territorial health officials to use to better address parental concerns and promote the benefits of vaccines. More Details...

Environmental and Occupational Screening Questions for the Primary Care Setting: Preguntas para sondear en los lugares de atencion a la salud (2007). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Three concise and effective environmental/occupational health screening questions for the primary care provider. English/Spanish resource More Details...

My Healthy Eating Plate: Middle Eastern North African Edition (1905). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Fresh fruits and vegetables, portion control, and knowledge of nutrition are essential to maintaining a healthy diet. This brochure, created by MHP Salud and the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, was designed to help Middle Eastern and North African communities build nutritious plates with familiar fresh foods. More Details...

Climate Resiliency Among Agricultural Workers (0202). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The changes in climate and weather patterns have a disproportionate impact on Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs) because of the nature of their work, including increased exposure to heat and other severe weather events like wildfires, drought, and flooding, and loss of income due to crop failures and missing work due to natural disasters. This new fact sheet addresses the need for health centers to have access to current, relevant research on how changes in climate impact their MSAW patients. More Details...

What happens when you give the community resources it needs: Using a Community-led Approach to Assess Farmworker COVID-19 Needs and Assistance (44869). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Latino Community Fund, Inc. (LCF Georgia) was founded in 2017 to provide economic funding to groups that do critical work in the state but lack access to networks of funding and power. Fast forward to 2020, due to the onset of the pandemic, the community of South Georgia was especially impacted. The economic and social support needs of the community in southern Georgia led LCF Georgia to create the South Georgia Navigation Program (SGNP), a community led, community-staffed program. This program ensures sustainable community development in a region where farmworkers have access to limited resources. More Details...

Utilizing AmeriCorps Members to Support the Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout (44301). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: n.a. More Details...

Understanding Stages of Change and Best Interventions for Substance Use Disorders (44341). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discusses how nurses, nurse practitioners, and other providers can support patients with substance use disorders. More Details...

Understanding & Advancing the Health Center Role in Local Emergency Response (43186). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Health centers play a crucial role in local emergency planning and response efforts. Panelists from across the country will share their experiences in building health care coalitions and other collaborative opportunities to position health centers for a greater impact in preparedness and response. More Details...

Trust and Creativity: Increasing COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in Orange County, California  (44874). Resource Type: Publication. Description: At the onset of the pandemic, Latinx communities were disproportionately affected by COVID19. LHA’s Community Health Workers, also known as Promotores de Salud, demonstrated the importance of meeting community members where they are at and approaching complex topics creatively through a popular education approach. While the strategy highlighted here is only one method of many strategic actions implemented by LHA, other wrap-around concepts contributed to the overall success of the organization in reaching the community. See Figure 1 for LHA’s holistic COVID-19 response. More Details...

Todos Contamos: Community Building in a Multilingual Indigenous Community (44876). Resource Type: Publication. Description: To address the impact of COVID-19 on farmworkers and construction workers in their community, WeCount! utilized existing strategies of including Mesoamerican Indigenous members in its organizational leadership and decision-making and reaching Indigenous community members through face-to-face outreach and multilingual radio programming. This inturn, has expanded access to health education information for the multilingual community in Homestead, Florida. More Details...

The National Diabetes Prevention Program: Where We Are, Where We're Going (43738). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: To provide an overview of the Primary Care Association (PCA) environmental scan and results. More Details...

Technical Documentation with and for Mesoamerican Indigenous Language Speakers (44848). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The RWHP team and their collaborators tested participatory strategies to create multilingual resources alongside Indigenous communities. Materials included information about the COVID19 pandemic through mediums such as fotonovelas, audionovelas, and flyers translated into Indigenous languages and representing Indigenous peoples. Through an iterative process of evaluating and designing materials with feedback from Indigenous partners, RWHP focused on “localizing” resources to resonate better and ultimately better serve Indigenous communities. More Details...

Sharing COVID-19 Vaccine Information Through Social Media (44426). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This interactive workshop helped prepare nurses to share information and stories on social media. Presenters walked participants through the basics of individual social media channels as well as best practices for sharing your own content and engaging with others’. More Details...

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in Urban FQHCs (41804). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar describes a randomized clinical trial of a brief intervention (SBIRT) against a 2-6 session intervention of brief treatment in three urban federally qualified healthcare centers (FQHCs), focusing on screening and onsite brief intervention / brief treatment. More Details...

Removing vaccine access barriers by hosting on-farm vaccine clinics for dairy workers and their families    (44841). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Starting March 31, 2021, Dr. Anabel Rodriguez’s UT Health team and volunteer interpreters facilitated on-dairy farm COVID-19 vaccine clinics by bridging established relationships with Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Public Health Region 1 in Lubbock, Texas, and Aurora Organic Dairy in Stratford and Dublin, Texas. Dr. Rodriguez’s and her team’s farmworker research and outreach efforts and pre-existing relationships with producers in this rural region of Texas helped propel this initiative into action. This multi-agency vaccine collaboration created an open line of communication between the public health offices in the Texas Panhandle and the dairy farm leadership, dairy farm workers, and their families. More Details...

Public Housing Today: Trends, Changes, and Next Steps (43545). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Alexandra Ernst (Research & Evaluation Group), Ron Clewer (Alliance for Strong Families and Communities), and Shambreia McBrayer + team (American Lung Association) discuss the public housing landscape in the United States and how health centers (and other safety net providers) can access resources to optimize care for residents of public housing. More Details...

Preparing for Value-Based Care: A Guide for Health Centers (43402). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication serves as a primer on value-based care for community health centers, specifically in treating chronic diseases. More Details...

Practice Authority: COVID-19 and the Changing Role of the NP (43978). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discussed the practice changes for NP-provided care throughout the country (Full Practice, Reduced Practice, and Restricted Practice) More Details...

Prácticas prometedoras de alcance a lost trabajadores agrícolas: Lecciones del campo (44791). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Health Outreach Partners (HOP), in collaboration with NCFH, interviewed and documented promising outreach practices of farmworker-serving organizations across the United States. This webinar will feature 3-4 experts who will share their outreach practices, key strategies, and lessons learned while giving participants an opportunity to ask questions about the development and implementation of the practices. More Details...

Planning for Specific Hazards - Bolstering Health Center Staff Readiness for an Outbreak (43179). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar explores the value of developing hazard-specific plans, such as for infectious disease outbreaks, as part of an all-hazards approach to emergency preparedness. Panelists share tips for prioritizing hazards and guidance on planning for an outbreak, including how to effectively train staff, test plans, and access helpful resources. More Details...