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Strategies to Improve Staff Retention in Health Center Settings: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The rate of staff turnover at health center facilities is staggering and was exacerbated by the complexities and stressful circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the important implications of staff turnover, health centers have made significant attempts to understand its underlying reasons and devise solutions to decrease it. More Details...

Health Centers and Syringe Services Programs (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Our new resource emphasizes HRSA policy allowing health centers to participate in SSPs, outlines models of care, and provides best practices and resources for moving forward to provide health center patients access to syringes. More Details...

Bridging the Medical Technology Gap: The Impact of New Technology on Diabetes Management: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: High tech devices such as insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors (CGM) can be effective tools to help diabetes patients manage their blood glucose, but access to these technologies, as well as the education and support necessary to successfully use them, remains a challenge for patients served by health center programs. Being familiar and up to date with diabetes technology is essential to successfully improve diabetes management among underserved populations, More Details...

Heat Safety for Older Adults (2023). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This tip sheet is intended to give health center staff a starting point to engage older patients in preparing for extreme heat to stay cool and avoid illness. More Details...

Mpox: A Guide for Front-line Clinicians (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Human mpox (monkeypox) is an infection characterized by rash and fever. Mpox has historically been reported in Central and Western Africa, and in early 2022, additional cases were identified in Europe and North America. By late November 2022, more than 80,000 cases had been identified in 110 countries, most of which had never previously reported the infection. More Details...

What You Need to Know About Informal Caregiving and the LGBTQIA+ Community  (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar from the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and the National Center for Equitable Care for Elders (NCECE) will focus on the unique experiences and considerations for supporting both LGBTQIA+ caregivers who provide care or assistance to a family member, chosen family, or friend and those providing care to LGBTQIA+ older adults.  More Details...

STAR2 Center Health Professions Education and Training Financial Impact Assessment Tool (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The STAR² Center Health Professions Education and Training Financial Impact Assessment Tool is designed to help you understand how a health professions training and education (HP-ET) program can financially affect your health center, including estimating impact to staff development and satisfaction, which can be harder to calculate using discreet figures. More Details...

Consumer Engagement Assessment Tool (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This assessment tool will aid health centers in evaluating their efforts to invite, facilitate, and support consumer input and leadership in the governance of their organizations. For Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) programs within larger FQHC funding structures or public entities, accurate responses to questions about organizational governance and administrative activities may require input from both organizational leadership and HCH program directors. The purpose of these questions is to evaluate how people with lived experience of homelessness are invited into governance, even for programs that are not HCH standalones. More Details...

Climate Ambassador Training (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This free, three-hour training equips health professionals with the knowledge, hands-on experience, and resources to speak and act confidently on climate change solutions. Health professionals are empowered to inspire their colleagues, associations, community, the public, and policymakers to be empowered in making a change on climate solutions that help protect the health of our families and communities now, and ensure a prosperous, just, and secure future. More Details...

What's Next in PrEP?: New Strategies for Prevention (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Just over 10 years ago, the first agent for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis was approved in the United States. Since then, the landscape of PrEP has shifted, with approval of additional PrEP medications and growth of low-threshold PrEP delivery strategies, such as same-day PrEP. In this interactive webinar, participants will learn about new medications in the pipeline for PrEP and emerging PrEP delivery models. More Details...

What's Next in PrEP?: New Strategies for Prevention (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Just over 10 years ago, the first agent for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis was approved in the United States. Since then, the landscape of PrEP has shifted, with approval of additional PrEP medications and growth of low-threshold PrEP delivery strategies, such as same-day PrEP. In this interactive webinar, participants will learn about new medications in the pipeline for PrEP and emerging PrEP delivery models. More Details...

Preparedness in Action: Practical Exercises for Health Centers (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH)presents this 60-minute webinar which will familiarize attendees with practical and efficient tools for meeting and exceeding emergency preparedness (EP) rules, specifically on exercises. The presenter will cover EP exercise basics, tips for communicating their value to increase staff buy-in, and tools for health centers to implement exercises more easily, before hearing from a health center panel on common challenges they face in this area, and lessons learned along the way. Presented on 5/24/2023. More Details...

Preparedness in Action: Practical Exercises for Health Centers (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH)presents this 60-minute webinar which will familiarize attendees with practical and efficient tools for meeting and exceeding emergency preparedness (EP) rules, specifically on exercises. The presenter will cover EP exercise basics, tips for communicating their value to increase staff buy-in, and tools for health centers to implement exercises more easily, before hearing from a health center panel on common challenges they face in this area, and lessons learned along the way. Presented on 5/24/2023. More Details...

VIH / SIDA Entre Los Trabajadores Agricolas (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH has produced an updated HIV/AIDS & U.S. Agricultural Workers fact sheet. Updates include more recent statistics from CDC and recent peer- reviewed literature on HIV studies among agricultural workers. It is available on the NCFH website to view and download at the link below. More Details...

Long COVID and LGBTQIA+ Mental Health (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar will focus on the mental health impacts for LGBTQIA+ people who are coping with Long COVID (Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome, or PACS). More Details...

Conquering Diabetes Therapeutic Inertia: Patient Engagement Strategies: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Early blood sugar (blood glucose) management leads to better health outcomes for people with type 2 diabetes. But therapeutic inertia—or delays in advancing treatment—can keep people from reaching their A1C goals. Having the right conversations during health center visits can help patients overcome this inertia and get patients’ A1C where it needs to be. More Details...

Using Trauma-Informed Yoga as a Tool (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) in collaboration with Exhale to Inhale, presents the Trauma-Informed Yoga Workshop and Practice. Exhale to Inhale is a non-profit organization that offers essential wellness practices to communities affected by violence and provides trauma-informed training and education to help create trauma-informed spaces, During this webinar, participants will learn about trauma symptoms, how trauma-informed yoga can be used as a modality to support and empower survivors of sexual and domestic violence, and ways trauma-informed yoga can also be used for self-care. Presented on 5/18/2023. More Details...

Using Trauma-Informed Yoga as a Tool (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) in collaboration with Exhale to Inhale, presents the Trauma-Informed Yoga Workshop and Practice. Exhale to Inhale is a non-profit organization that offers essential wellness practices to communities affected by violence and provides trauma-informed training and education to help create trauma-informed spaces, During this webinar, participants will learn about trauma symptoms, how trauma-informed yoga can be used as a modality to support and empower survivors of sexual and domestic violence, and ways trauma-informed yoga can also be used for self-care. Presented on 5/18/2023. More Details...

Partnership for the Future: Health Centers and Maternal Child Health Home Visiting Opportunities: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this three-part webinar series hosted by the National Nurse-led Care Consortium (NNCC) and the National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH), viewers can expect to learn about improving maternal and child health equity with home visiting program partnerships and health centers. This series explores opportunities for health centers to develop partnerships with home visiting programs shown to improve maternal and child health outcomes, promote health equity, and reduce health disparities. More Details...

NTTAP Webinar Series - May 18, 2023: The Changing Landscape of Behavioral Health Care: What is the “new normal” going to look like? (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant shifts in the mode of care from face-to-face to virtual interactions. Join us as we discuss the challenges currently facing behavioral health care and at least one strategy for each. Along with these strategies, panelists will go over what integrated behavioral health care was and is before and following COVID-19, as well as what actions should be taken going forward to increase access to comprehensive care. More Details...