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Designing Your Facility: Preparing Your Team for Space Planning Success - Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Based on our new publication, “Designing Your Facility: Preparing Your Team for Space Planning Success,” this webinar will walk health center leadership through the process of defining, preparing, and equipping internal planning teams to work effectively with design teams in defining a flexible, efficient facility that reflects your health center’s unique goals and priorities. More Details...

Simplified Instructions for QuickVue Home Tests: Translations Available in Many Languages (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document contains patient instructions for using at-home QuickVue COVID-19 tests that are being distributed at health centers. Instructions contain text and graphics and cover both sides of a single sheet. Health Centers can use these documents as handouts when distributing the kits, or send them to patients as PDFs via text or email. This resource is available in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Burmese, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Dari, Hindi, Ilokano, Ka\'Ren, Laotian, Nepali, Pashto, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, and Urdu. The files should be printed with a color printer, since colors are very important to reading the test results, but were designed to use a minimum of ink. More Details...

Nine Tips for Giving Better Feedback at Work (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Receiving feedback (positive and negative) helps us feel engaged, connected, and satisfied at work. More Details...

Improving Mental Health Outcomes for Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Youth through Gender-affirming Care (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar is designed to help health centers understand the importance of access to gender affirming care for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth. Participants of the webinar will discover current and emerging research on the positive mental health effects of support for gender affirmation, learn best practices for supporting social transition, and discuss resources for helping TGD youth access gender affirming medical care to improve health outcomes. More Details...

Health Literacy and COVID-19: Approaches to Patient Communication (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource will review lessons learned about health communication during the pandemic and share strategies to address low literacy in under-resourced patient populations, including agricultural workers and older adults. More Details...

Healthy Relationships and Youth: How School-Based Health Providers Can Start the Conversation (2022). Resource Type: Other. Description: This blog post, developed by the School-Based Health Alliance and Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation, describes action steps school-based health center providers can take to promote healthy relationships among their adolescent patients. More Details...

Health Center Financial Strength and Health Inequities: A Study of Los Angeles-Based FQHCs (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication is a summary of a data-driven analysis, conducted by Capital Link with the assistance of HealthLandscape and funded by Cedars-Sinai, of more than 100 factors for the 58 FQHC members of the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County (CCALAC) for the period of 2017-2020. The full report may be accessed here. (Released 2022) More Details...

Consumer Participation Outreach (CPO) Survey Report: Consumer Perspectives on Behavioral Health and Health Equity (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCAB decided to focus the CPO on understanding how COVID-19 impacted people’s behavioral health and access to behavioral health services, the impact of systemic racism and other discrimination on well-being, and ways to improve access to behavioral health services during the pandemic and recovery. Results of this survey should improve current practices, identify policy changes, and inform training around behavioral health and health equity for health centers. More Details...

A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding Factors Contributing to Health Inequities (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In order to better understand whether, and to what extent, specific patient and health center characteristics influence health equity (including access to care and health outcomes) among various sub-populations of patients, Capital Link, with the assistance of HealthLandscape and funded by Cedars-Sinai, conducted a data-driven analysis of more than 100 factors for the 58 federally qualified health center (FQHC) members of the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County (CCALAC) for the period of 2017-2020. (Released 2022) More Details...

Federally Qualified Health Center Strategies for Coping with Hospital Closure: Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: An in-depth exploration of a rural health center\'s response to the closure of a local hospital and the subsequent impact on the community. (Released in 2022) More Details...

Foundations of LGBTQIA+ Health Care and Homelessness: Terminology, Concepts, and Best Practices (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: View this 90-minute webinar for an introduction to foundational terminology and concepts related to LGBTQIA+ identity and experience of homelessness with a focus on LGBTQIA+ health care. Health center staff will learn about healthcare disparities and applicable clinical practices that participants can integrate into their own contexts. More Details...

Increase Access to Care Program Pillars (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH created this visual resource to illustrate the three Increase Access to Care for Ag Workers (IAC) Program Pillars and how they contribute to increasing access to care for Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs) and their families. More Details...

Introduction to the Planning and Financing a Capital Project to Accommodate Integrated Care Learning Collaborative (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join Capital Link for an introductory webinar to learn more about our upcoming \"Planning and Financing a Capital Project to Accommodate Integrated Care\" Learning Collaborative and to gain insight on organizational readiness, select financial and operational benchmarks, financial capacity, and how to begin planning for your capital project. Capital Link is launching a fifth year of our capital planning learning collaborative, which provides practical direction and tools for capital project planning, financing, and completing for health centers that anticipate the need for a project in the next one to five years. More Details...

Health Literacy and COVID-19: Approaches to Patient Communication (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource will review lessons learned about health communication during the pandemic and share strategies to address low literacy in under-resourced patient populations, including agricultural workers and older adults. Understanding how health literacy impacts health outcomes is crucial for health centers to provide accurate health information that is easy to understand, both verbally and through patient education materials. More Details...

A Profile of Migrant Health: 2020 Uniform Data System Analysis (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report summarizes the Uniform Data System (UDS) data about migrant and seasonal agricultural worker (MSAW) patients of Migrant Health Centers in 2020. This document reports how farmworkers utilized health care at Migrant Health Centers, trends in MSAW patient populations from 2011 to 2020, and new metrics reported with the outbreak of COVID-19. More Details...

Optimizing People, Place, and Process in Planning Your Facility for Integrated Care (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar will provide an overview of the most important factors to consider when planning a facility that will accommodate various models of integrated care. Drawing from our publication, “Tools for Creating an Environment that Supports Integration,” released in 2020 and the recently released, “Optimizing People, Place and Process: Resources to Facilitate Integrated Care in FQHCs,” we’ll present guiding principles for creating a place in which integrated care teams can work effectively with each other and the patients they serve. More Details...

Get the Facts COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign (Many Languages) (2022). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: The Get the Facts campaign is based on CDC guidance, offering facts about COVID-19 vaccines in a simple and memorable way that counters common misconceptions. These facts address cost, ingredients, side effects, eligibility and more. Each set of materials includes translations in more than 30 languages as well as the ability for you to customize the logo, URL, photo and more. More Details...

Health Center COVID-19 Testing Supply Program Partnership Memorandum of Understanding (2022). Resource Type: Field-Generated Publication. * Description: This memorandum of understanding is between a Community Health Center and a Partner, with respect to the distribution of Quidel QuickVue At-Home OTC COVID-19 Testing Kits. Through the HRSA Health Center COVID-19 Testing Supply Program, HRSA has provided testing kits to Community Health Centers at no cost to ensure testing kits COVID-19 tests are made available equitably to populations and settings in their service area that are in need of testing, especially populations at greatest risk from adverse outcomes related to COVID-19 and those disproportionately affected by COVID-19. It is not a requirement to have a MOU in place as health centers leverage partnerships for distribution. It is optional based on your health center needs and partners. More Details...

What You Need to Know: At-Home COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Tests: FAQ for when to use which type of COVID-19 test (2022). Resource Type: Field-Generated Publication. * Description: This 1-page, instructional handout offers patients information about when to test for COVID-19, which test to use, and what to do if the results are positive versus negative. More Details...

Promoting Safety in Street Outreach (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar recording describes core competencies for maintaining safety in street outreach. More Details...