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National Center for Health in Public Housing’s Smoking Cessation Protocol: A Guide to Conducting Groups (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This guide provides readers with all necessary information and supplemental materials that are needed to conduct a comprehensive smoking cessation program either in a group setting, or with individual patients. More Details...

Impact of COVID-19 On Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) Health Center Patients and Operations (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication by NCHPH highlights findings from a survey distributed to public housing residents assessing the effects that COVID-19 has had on Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) patients and health center operations. More Details...

How Health Centers Can Promote Benefits of Exercise to Diabetic Public Housing Residents and Promising Practices (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication by NCHPH discusses the importance of exercise among public housing patients with diabetes, in addition to how it can benefit them. More Details...

Healthy Together: A Toolkit for Health Center Collaborations with HUD Assisted Housing and Community-Based Organizations (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This toolkit by NCHPH and NNCC provides information and resources for health center staff to partner and collaborate more effectively with their local housing authorities and with other providers serving residents of public housing and other low-income housing. More Details...

Data Discovery: Snapshot of Social Determinants of Health in Public Housing Primary Care Communities (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This brief describes the findings of an online mapping resource that shows the distribution of Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) indicators across counties with Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) health centers. The publication will summarize the importance of SDOH on the behavioral health of public housing residents, highlight the online mapping resource developed by National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH), and describe the geographic distribution of SDOH-related indicators that impact behavioral health in counties with PHPC health centers. More Details...

Collaborating to Address the Health and Legal Needs of Patients Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence and Exploitation: Learning Collaborative Series (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In May, we collaborated with Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation to host a four-part learning collaborative on partnering to address the health and legal needs of patients and clients experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) and exploitation. The learning collaborative featured several partnership models and promising practices to develop, sustain, and grow partnerships between health care professionals and legal services providers. Speakers from Colorado Legal Services, Alaska Legal Services, Asian Health Services, and the Indiana LAVA project each shared how partnerships between providers and legal services partners have improved outcomes for survivors and increased access to services. The series also addressed creating MOUs between civil legal service programs, health centers, and domestic violence programs. Attention was also given to tools to utilize “CUES”, a universal education approach that allows providers to reach more patients as a form of both prevention and intervention. Learning Objectives: In this learning collaborative series, participants learned to: Identify strategies to build partnerships between civil legal services providers and community health centers to address the health and legal needs of survivors of IPV and exploitation. Describe strategies for sustaining and growing collaborative health justice responses to preventing and addressing IPV. Describe 3 tools that can help community health centers and civil legal services formalize partnerships and develop protocols for responding to domestic violence and building prevention strategies. More Details...

Using SDOH Data to Screen for Social Vulnerability (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NCHPH, JSI, and HITEQ hosted a webinar that discussed how health centers can access and use available SDOH data sources to determine and screen the social vulnerability of their patients and link them to appropriate care and services. More Details...

The Role of Family Caregivers in Older Adult Nutrition (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH) and National Center for Equitable Care for Elders (NCECE) webinar shared approaches to working with caregivers to address barriers to healthy eating and provide nutrition education that meets the diverse needs of older adults. More Details...

The Impact of Health Literacy on Diabetes (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This blog by NCHPH explains how health literacy can affect persons living with diabetes in addition to its benefits. More Details...

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Health Center Workforce: Challenges and Solutions (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Despite increasing demand for health care services, health centers indicate a critical shortage of staff necessary to meet that demand. Burnout, stress, depression, etc. have eroded our healthy workforce. This Facebook Live session discussed workforce challenges and how to navigate these challenges to advance well-being. More Details...

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Screening Tools 101 for Health Center Staff Serving Public Housing Residents (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NCHPH convened a webinar that discussed the importance of screening for social determinants of health (SDOH) More Details...

SDOH Academy Innovations Showcase Kickoff Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, health centers were provided the opportunity to demonstrate the work that they have been doing to address Social Determinants of Health. More Details...

Implementing Screening of People with Disabilities and Functional Needs During Disasters (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This learning collaborative is designed to help health centers work with people with disabilities to create customized emergency preparedness kits and plans. More Details...

Collection of Promising Practices on Health Center and Housing Partnerships (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCHPH has catalogued promising practices on health center and housing partnerships that were identified during T/TA activities. More Details...

Body Image, Perception, and Health Beyond the Binary (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar is designed to improve the capacity of health centers to meet the needs of non-binary patients, particularly through the understanding the relationship of body image and perception to health for people with gender identities and expressions beyond the binary. Participants will learn affirming language and terminology, including foundational concepts to understand the unique healthcare needs of non-binary people, and gain strategies for creating a welcoming and affirming environments for all patients. More Details...

Addressing COVID-19’s Impact on Health Centers’ Finance and Operations and Response Planning for Future COVID-19 Outbreaks and Other Emergencies (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This learning collaborative guides participants through the challenges and solutions for addressing the financial and operational impacts of COVID-19 on health centers serving residents of public housing and other underserved communities, with an emphasis on applied response planning for future emergencies. More Details...

Addressing Barriers to Diabetes Management for Residents of Public Housing (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This Facebook Live session reviewed behavioral interventions that incorporate promising practices for public housing residents to manage diabetes and its complications. More Details...

A New Normal: Learning to Live with COVID (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this Facebook live session, we discussed what a health center is doing to adapt to an endemic COVID-19 era. This session included infection control approaches, outreach, on-site and virtual visits, and strategies to improve primary health services. More Details...

Quick Guide: Conducting Your Health Center’s Needs Assessment (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This guide provides health center staff with an overview of key consderations, tools, and strategies for planning and implementing your needs assessment. More Details...

Establishing an Administrative Fellowship Program: A Practical Toolkit to Support and Develop Future Community Health Center Leaders (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This toolkit provides an overview of administrative fellowships, items to consider prior to implementation and practical tools to recruit, train and place Fellows into permanent roles in a health center. Administrative Fellowship programs offer a pipeline for administrative and operations leaders who come from a health systems, health management and advanced administration background. More Details...