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Understanding the Fundamentals: Health Center Compliance and Reproductive Health Services (Webinar) (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Health centers provide access to comprehensive primary care services for their patient population in underserved communities. Family planning services may be a component of the comprehensive primary care provided. This webinar was not produced using any federal funds. More Details...

Workforce Self-Care: Self-paced module (2022). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This self-paced learning module is designed for supervisors and provides strategies for promoting self-care among teams and direct reports. Learn techniques to integrate trauma-informed supervision, model self-care behaviors, and promote resilience among your team. More Details...

Monkeypox: What Frontline Clinicians Need to Know (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The 2022 monkeypox (MPX) outbreak disproportionately affects gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM). Although severe illness from MPX has been rare, many affected individuals are experiencing a painful illness that takes weeks to resolve, and they may face stigma related to the illness and/or their sexual orientation. In this interactive webinar, clinicians will learn the latest information about MPX epidemiology, clinical manifestations, prevention, supportive care, and treatment. More Details...

Gender-affirming Pediatric Care Toolkit (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children, adolescents, and their families are increasingly seeking out pediatricians and mental health providers for education, treatment, and services related to gender-affirming care. TGD children, adolescents, and their families are looking for care that is welcoming, affirming, and safe. However, due to a lack of training and information about providing gender-affirming care, providers may feel unprepared to offer this level of care to children and adolescents in TGD communities. This toolkit is a curated list of resources created by the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center to aid medical and behavioral health providers who are either starting on their journey in gender-affirming care for TGD youth or are looking to refresh or further their learning and understanding of creating safe, supportive, affirming health care experiences for TGD children and adolescents. More Details...

5 Powerful Ways to Take REAL Action on DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Learn how to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace — and why CCL recommends EDI over DEI, with a focus on equity first, before diversity & inclusion. More Details...

Meningococcal Disease Outbreak among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Florida: Background, Response, and Vaccination Recommendations (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This collaborative webinar with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention will focus on the ongoing outbreak of serogroup C meningococcal disease in Florida, mostly among men who have sex with men. Experts will provide background on meningococcal disease, an overview of the outbreak and the related response, and recommendations for vaccination. 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...

Improving Diabetes Care and Health Equity in a Changing Healthcare Landscape: Diabetes Continuum of Care (2022). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This publication is part of a collection of key resources, lessons learned, and effective strategies identified during the Special & Vulnerable Populations Task Force's Winter 2022 Learning Collaborative to address diabetes among special and vulnerable populations along the HRSA-defined diabetes continuum of care. A total of four (4) total publications were created by the Special & Vulnerable Diabetes Task Force. This publication is reflected on the Improving Diabetes Care and Health Equity in a Changing Healthcare Landscape Learning Collaborative. 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...

Health and Housing Partnerships to Support the Needs of Aging Patients (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This national webinar provides an overview of best practices for developing or strengthening health and housing partnerships to support aging patients. More Details...

Using Health IT and EHRs to Address the Burden Providers Experience: Takeaways for primary care safety net settings including federally qualified health centers and look-alikes. June 2022. (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Providers are burnt out and most expect it to get worse. Burnout is typically defined as a psychological response to job stressors characterized by emotional exhaustion, detachment, and a sense of ineffectiveness. Investigations of burnout in primary care have usually focused on factors associated with burnout among individual clinicians. But, it may be more useful to think about organizational-level burnout, which can shift the focus from individual responsibility to organizational solutions. More Details...

Abt Conversations: What Does the Future of Community Health Centers Hold? (2022). Resource Type: Podcast. Description: Community health centers provide essential healthcare to people who are uninsured or underinsured. Increasingly, these health centers are offering additional critical services like dental and mental health care, and the question of how we support and enhance these resources is becoming more pressing. More Details...

Promising Practices: Providing Behavioral Health Care in a Medical Respite Setting (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report presents a summary of the findings and highlights promising practices in behavioral health care that are currently being implemented in medical respite care (MRC) programs across the country. It outlines strategies and approaches that can be replicated and adapted to other programs’ unique contexts, equipping them to deliver high-quality care that is consistent with the Standards for Medical Respite Care and is responsive to the needs of people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in their communities. More Details...

Monkeypox & People Experiencing Homeless (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of monkeypox and specific considerations for service providers in the HCH community. This is a rapidly evolving public health emergency; for up-to-date information, continue to monitor the CDC’s monkeypox webpage. More Details...

Financing Decision Tree Model for Health Center Capital Projects (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Decision Tree resource is a visual map to aid in deciding which financing options would best suit your capital project requirements, that also provides a summary description of each. (Released 2022) 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...

CalAIM: Major Components and Current Implementation Status (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar reviews the major components of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiatives, including: Enhanced Care Management, Community Supports, Behavioral Health (Criteria to Access Specialty Mental Health and No Wrong Door), and the Population Health Management Strategy and Roadmap. Presenters will provide an overview of the initiatives, timeline, and strategic implications for health centers. This conversation is meant to be a high-level overview of the most impactful initiatives to health centers. 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...

Primer on Health Center Pharmacy Operations (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this resource is to orient new readers to pharmacy operations at health centers with a specific call-out section for the 340B program. Target audiences are health center C-Suite, Board Members, new health center 340B program staff, pharmacy leaders and new health center staff. More Details...