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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...

Serving Veterans in Health Centers: A Compendium of Success Stories (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: These ten success stories from around country share how health centers are successfully supporting the unique needs of local military veterans. From oral health care and care coordination to housing and outreach to the VA, these stories capture the ingenuity, advocacy and passion of local health centers giving back to Veterans. More Details...

Human Resources (HR) Issue Brief: Employee Freedoms in the Health Center Workplace (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This Issue Brief examines employee freedoms in the health center workplace. It summarizes the relevant legal issues that must be considered when establishing policies relating to employee freedoms in the workplace. 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...

Servant Leadership 101 (2022). Resource Type: eLearning. Description: This module is meant to provide a basic understanding of the background and advantages of servant leadership, and to illustrate to health center leaders, at all levels of the organization, the benefits of a serving mindset for ensuring the success of their teams. Learners will discover the role servant leadership has in encouraging innovation and tending to the well-being of employees, the workforce in general, and in turn, their patients. More Details...

NACHC’s “Workplace Well-Being” Self-Paced Modules (2022). Resource Type: eLearning . Description: This 4-part series explores how to foster mind, body, and sense of purpose in individuals, teams, and organizations for a more resilient workforce and improved well-being in the workplace. More Details...

Finding Your Passion at Work (2022). Resource Type: eLearning. Description: This module will explain how to rekindle or find new passion in your work. It emphasizes the importance of being mission driven and passionate about what you do, knowing your ambitions, and adopting a positive attitude, leading to improved satisfaction and engagement in your work. More Details...

The Emotional Toll of Caring for Others: A Factsheet on Supporting Staff Mental Health Through Compensation Equity and Inclusive Benefits (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: One of the most crucial roles health center leadership plays is taking care of the wellbeing and mental health of all staff, including their own. While mental health challenges among the healthcare workforce is not a new phenomenon, the COVID-19 pandemic and other societal and traumatic events only served to further exacerbate the problem. 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...

Active Shooter and Active Threat Response for Healthcare (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The webinar discusses active shooter and active threat definition and profiles, background statistics, key response and recovery considerations, and preparedness resources. More Details...

Teledentistry User's Guide (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Teledentistry is an emerging trend to  help improve access to oral health care, improve the dental care  delivery system, and lower costs. NNOHA has worked with health centers  since Spring 2020 to develop and test a variety of strategies to deliver  dental services via synchronous teledentistry. This User’s Guide gives  an overview of teledentistry, describes its use in health center dental  programs, and includes practical tools for implementing teledentistry. 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...

Demographic Facts: Residents Living in Public Housing (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: n.a. 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...

NACHC's Health Center Program 101 eLearning Module (2022). Resource Type: eLearning. Description: This eLearning program offers learners a self-paced, asynchronous course divided into five modules that provides a comprehensive overview of HRSA’s Health Center Program. More Details...