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Incarceration and Homelessness: Reentry Considerations for Health Care Providers: Healing Hands (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: For clinics providing healthcare to people experiencing homelessness, understanding the specific challenges associated with reentry is key to offering effective and compassionate care during the reentry period. This care takes the form of understanding systems and processes in order to facilitate access to healthcare, and it also involves being willing to transform organizational structures to include people with experience of incarceration as experts in providing care to others. More Details...

Creating Community-Based Health Education Materials for Indigenous Farmworkers (2024). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This toolkit offers insight and strategies for creating culturally sensitive and accessible health educational materials for Mesoamerican Indigenous Farmworker Communities. More Details...

CalAIM Implementation of Recuperative Care Services: Lessons Learned (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this issue brief is to document what is working well with the implementation of the CalAIM recuperative care service to date, what remains a challenge, action steps California should consider moving forward, and advice for other states looking to add a statewide Medicaid benefit for recuperative care. This issue brief is based on interviews with leadership and staff at eight recuperative care programs, as well as several hospitals and MCPs from across the state (see appendix for list of participants). These interviews took place between June and August 2023, and their feedback is presented in the sections below. More Details...

Emergency Preparedness/Emergency Management Requirements: A Crosswalk of The Joint Commission (TJC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Standards for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This technical assistance document intends to support health center staff in their understanding of emergency management standards, requirements and elements of performance associated with The Joint Commission (TJC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This document compares TJC and CMS standards and requirements that directly pertain to health centers, reflecting emergency standards as of July 2022. More Details...

Trauma-Informed Care in School-Based Health Centers (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Trauma-Informed Care in School-Based Health Centers webinar aims to increase the audience’s knowledge of and capacity to define key principles of trauma-informed care in a school setting, identify the diverse ways in which trauma can affect school-age children, the importance of cultural competence in trauma-informed practices, and develop effective communication strategies to foster a supportive environment.    More Details...

Trauma-Informed Care in School-Based Health Centers (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Trauma-Informed Care in School-Based Health Centers webinar aims to increase the audience’s knowledge of and capacity to define key principles of trauma-informed care in a school setting, identify the diverse ways in which trauma can affect school-age children, the importance of cultural competence in trauma-informed practices, and develop effective communication strategies to foster a supportive environment.    More Details...

Trauma-Informed Care in School-Based Health Centers (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Trauma-Informed Care in School-Based Health Centers webinar aims to increase the audience’s knowledge of and capacity to define key principles of trauma-informed care in a school setting, identify the diverse ways in which trauma can affect school-age children, the importance of cultural competence in trauma-informed practices, and develop effective communication strategies to foster a supportive environment.    More Details...

The Health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Served at Health Centers: An Analysis of the 2021 Uniform Data System (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report examines current patient demographics and utilization of health services at health centers serving Asian Americans (AAs) and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NH/PIs), and highlights the differences between these centers and the national average of all health centers in the United States. The analyses presented throughout this report are intended to improve understanding of AA and NH/PI patients served by health centers nationwide. More Details...

Poverty, Housing and Stigma: The Profound Effects of The Social Determinants of Health on Addiction Management: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In the coming years FQHC’s and PHPC’s are expected to take an increasing share of the country’s addiction management caseload. This is particularly true of health centers serving disadvantaged populations. More Details...

Suicide Prevention Strategies for LGBTQ+ Communities White Paper (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The stunningly disproportionate rate of self-induced deaths among LGBTQ+ individuals is an ongoing emergency. LGBTQ+ Care clinicians and other health care workers serve sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) people every day, but adequate preparation about supporting these populations is rarely offered in professional training. This publication highlights some of the pressures that lead sexual and gender minority people to suicide, what factors elevate or lower self-harm risk, and interventions to help LGBTQ+ people build resilience in a hostile world. This publication is in partnership with the Center for LGBTQ Health Equity at Chase Brexton Health Care. More Details...

Stories from the Field: How Health Centers are Addressing Health Disparities for LGBTQIA+ People and People with HIV in Public Housing: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and The National Center for Health in Public Housing held a three-part series on addressing health disparities for LGBTQIA+ people and people with HIV in public housing. More Details...

Implementing Staff Satisfaction Surveys Infographic (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This STAR² Center infographic is designed to support health center teams as they focus on staff resiliency, wellness, satisfaction, and engagement by guiding teams through the process of conducting staff satisfaction surveys.  More Details...

Webinar: Strategic Planning: Preparing in Times of Uncertainty (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This training assists health centers in preparation for changes and growth through various strategic planning methods and ideas. By utilizing Capital Link’s publication, the Strategic Business Planning Handbook for Health Centers, we guide participants through the three key components of the strategic planning process and provide tools and information based on extensive experience working with health centers, as well as readily available external resources. More Details...

Vaccination Coverage Among Farmworkers in Selected U.S. Counties in 2022 (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet provides vaccination data among farmworkers that were surveyed during Phase 2 of National Center for Farmworker Health\'s Farmworker COVID-19 Community Assessments in 2022. Vaccination data spans across adult vaccines including COVID-19, Influenza, and TDAP. More Details...

Using Your EHR to Improve Your Diagnosis and Follow Up of Obesity (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ webinar, health center staff will learn tips for capturing the Body Mass Index (BMI) value, documenting a follow-up plan, capturing data, and reporting. The speakers will discuss the roles and responsibilities of care team members in the BMI documentation workflow, data capture, reporting, and best practices. More Details...

HITEQ Highlights: What to Do About Health IT Hazards Associated with Copy and Paste in the EHR: HITEQ Highlights Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Copy and paste functionality can support efficiency during clinical documentation, but may promote inaccurate documentation with risks for patient safety. This webinar discussed three key areas where health centers can consider implementing safe practice recommendations: Define copy and paste as a health IT safety issue by identifying the potential patient safety risks Review safe practice recommendations and implementation strategies to mitigate health IT-related hazards and safety issues Disseminate evidence, tools and practices for implementation More Details...

Enhancing Language Access: Assessing Health Center Staff Competency (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) will address the critical need for health centers to properly assess the language competency and qualifications of their staff, as well as highlight the significance of having adequate bilingual staff, to address language barriers for diverse patient populations. By the end of this webinar, health center staff will recognize the importance of minimizing language barriers in healthcare and access tools to assess language competency, including NCFH’s new tool, Assessing Bilingual Staff Competency Tool, to improve overall care and patient health outcomes. More Details...

Enhancing Language Access: Assessing Bilingual Health Center Staff Competency (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) will address the critical need for health centers to properly assess the language competency and qualifications of their staff, as well as highlight the significance of having adequate bilingual staff, to address language barriers for diverse patient populations. By the end of this webinar, health center staff will recognize the importance of minimizing language barriers in healthcare and access tools to assess language competency, including NCFH’s upcoming tool, Assessing Bilingual Staff Competency Tool, to improve overall care and patient health outcomes. Presented on 12/13/2023. More Details...

Enhancing Language Access: Assessing Bilingual Health Center Staff Competency (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) will address the critical need for health centers to properly assess the language competency and qualifications of their staff, as well as highlight the significance of having adequate bilingual staff, to address language barriers for diverse patient populations. By the end of this webinar, health center staff will recognize the importance of minimizing language barriers in healthcare and access tools to assess language competency, including NCFH’s upcoming tool, Assessing Bilingual Staff Competency Tool, to improve overall care and patient health outcomes. Presented on 12/13/2023. More Details...

Performance Measure Data Definition Worksheet (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The Performance Measure Data Definition Worksheet can be used during the Quality Improvement (QI) process to assess the alignment of your health center’s workflows and documentation and your EHR vendor’s reporting logic processes. More Details...