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Checklist for Administrators, Managers, and Clinicians to Integrate Community Health Workers in Vaccine Outreach, Acceptance, and Distribution Strategies (2021). Community Health Workers (CHWs) have played a key role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is essential that health center administrators, managers, and care teams understand how to effectively leverage the skills and experience of CHWs and adequately support and prepare them for this work. This checklist contains guidance and action items to help. More Details...

Community Health Center Chartbook 2021 (2021). The Community Health Center Chartbook uses graphics and charts to describe who health centers serve, how health centers meet their communities’ needs, health center growth and remaining challenges, and how health centers make an impact. More Details...

COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic Implementation Toolkit (2021). This is a toolkit for decision-makers and implementers of vaccine clinics. Our goal was to create a “vaccination clinic in a box” that could be replicated in, and tailored to, many types of settings. The guide includes prompts for questions you may need to ask, examples of many types of documents that you may need (and information about where to find more documentation), and lessons-learned from our experience. More Details...

Recruiting, Training, and Retaining LGBTQIA-Proficient Clinical Providers (2021). The Fenway Institute highlights resources and best practices that strengthen a CHC’s ability to recruit, train, and retain LGBTQI+-Proficient Clinical Providers and workforce staff. More Details...

Leveraging Data to Develop Workforce Strategic Plans (2021). 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...

FTCA Office Hours for Clinical Leaders (2021). NACHC, in collaboration with Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell (FTLF), will be holding two virtual FTCA Office Hours to answer health center clinical leaders’ specific questions. Topics covered include coverage for COVID-19 related activities, navigating telehealth, coverage for virtual services, issues related to COVID-19 vaccine delivery, deeming of volunteer health professionals, preparing for a virtual site visit, and risk management. More Details...

Staff Wellness During COVID-19: Healing Hands (2021). Healing Hands, a publication of the HCH Clinicians’ Network, melds scientific knowledge with the experience of clinicians working in Health Care for the Homeless and reflects issues of concern to direct service providers and program administrators who serve people experiencing homelessness. This is the second in a pair of editions focusing on the impacts of COVID-19 on homeless health care. More Details...

Key Considerations in Planning Your Facility for Integrated, Comprehensive Care (0201). This webinar provides an overview of the most important factors to consider when planning a facility that will accommodate various types of integrated care. More Details...

Trial, By Desire: One FQHC’s Research Trial Experience RE: COVID-19 Vaccine (2021). The CEO of HealthLinc, Inc, a FQHC in Indiana. Beth Wrobel shares her recent experience in the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine trial as a health center CEO at HealthLinc, LLC., a vaccine trial site, and her personal experience as a trial participant. This interview was conducted as part of NACHC’s Leadership Development Technical Assistance Program. More Details...

Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) COVID-19 Dashboard (2020). This dashboard by NCHPH provides the latest COVID-19 statistics in Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) Health Centers, including race and ethnicity data and additional resources. More Details...

Sample Drive Thru Procedures NACHC Resource Packet (2020). This packet contains operational procedures and supporting materials developed and contributed by health centers that are currently implementing Drive-through and/or Walk-Up Primary Care Clinics primarily as COVID-19 Testing Sites. More Details...

Supporting Implementation of Smoking Cessation Programs in Public Housing Primary Care Settings: Learning Collaborative (20; Session 2 11). During this learning collaborative health center staff learned about different aspects for implementation of smoking cessation programs. More Details...

Culturally Competent Care: Learning Collaborative (20; Session 2 11). This is a learning collaborative series of 4 sessions where Health Center staff learned about standards for providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) to their patients. Slides and recordings for all sessions are available here as well as resources to facilitate the implementation of CLAS in health center settings. More Details...

Considerations for Serving Residents of Public Housing During Emergencies and Disasters: Staff and Patient Wellness (2020). Join the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the National Center for Health in Public Housing for a one-hour webinar on staff and patient wellness during emergencies and disasters. This webinar will provide health center with guidance for developing tools and resources that enable health center staff and the patients they serve to navigate the practical and psychological after-effects of disaster events. More Details...

Emergency Preparedness: Infectious Disease Risk: Risk Communication: Infectious Disease (2019). Sarah Darcy, Media Relations Manager for South Shore Health System, speaks on risk communication and how it relates to infectious disease. More Details...

Workforce Development and Retention of Community Health Workers Project (2020). There are many benefits to recruiting, hiring, and on-boarding a well-qualified individual for a Community Health Worker position. This report details the experience of Health Centers that have gone through the CHW hiring and recruiting process. It also provides insight on how CHWs have contributed to positive outcomes and success within Health Centers and patients. More Details...

Turnover Tool Webinar Series (2020). Is your health center experiencing high turnover? Are you trying to make the case for stronger workforce retention efforts within your organization? Are you struggling to figure out what is contributing to turnover at your organization? If you answered yes to one or all of these questions, then you will want to join ACU’s webinar series focusing on health center workforce turnover.  More Details...

Turnover Calculator Tool (2020). Health centers can access this tool on a rolling basis, completing their turnover information from the year prior. Once adequate information has been collected, ACU will be able to aggregate the data on a state, regional and national basis, which can be shared to assist health centers in benchmarking their own data. By completing the tool, health centers will also be able to calculate the total cost of turnover at their organization as well as receive recommendations for mitigating turnover. More Details...

STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success (2020). In today’s rapidly changing workplace environment, health centers need to be at the forefront of developing solutions that meet the ever evolving needs of their workforce. ACU’s STAR² Center Podcast Series brings you engaging and informative chats with health center leaders and experts about the different core components that make up a robust health center workforce as it is the fuel for your organizational mission. More Details...

Practice Authority: COVID-19 and the Changing Role of the NP (2020). This webinar discussed the practice changes for NP-provided care throughout the country (Full Practice, Reduced Practice and Restricted Practice) More Details...