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Behavioral Health Staff in Integrated Care Settings: The Vital Role of Collaboration Across Teams: Expand the Impact of Your Care (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Experts in psychology, psychiatry and nursing will share ways in which they effectively utilize their roles at the top of their license to monitor and support high-risk patients. By examining these various roles, experts will address how you can effectively support integration at your health center to improve outcomes. More Details...

What's New In PrEP and STIs?: Cases from a Sexual Health Clinic (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Dr. Kevin Ard will use clinical cases to explore recent advances in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and sexually-transmitted infection prevention and treatment for LGBTQ people, discussing implications for primary and specialty care. More Details...

Treatment Models for Non-Opioid Substance Use Amongst Populations Experiencing Homelessness: Healing Hands (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This edition of Healing Hands complements a previous issue of Healing Hands, “Non-Opioid Substance Use, Mental Health, and Homelessness,” which contained information about the health impacts and demographic variance of substances that are commonly used by people experiencing homelessness, as well as guidance on confronting and reducing social stigmas about substance use. This issue focuses a lens on treatment by first examining treatment models and pharmacological interventions for substance use disorder, followed by information about additional tools that may assist care providers in providing comprehensive client-centered, trauma-informed physical and mental health care and harm reduction interventions. More Details...

Diabetes Prevention and Management for LGBTQ People (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In this publication, we discuss diabetes risk factors unique to LGBTQ people, and make recommendations for screening and management of diabetes in LGBTQ populations. More Details...

Caring for Sexual Minority Women (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Dr. Jennifer Potter will discuss healthcare considerations for sexual and gender minority women, with particular emphasis on recent innovations and trauma informed care. This webinar will cover best practices and case scenarios, and will provide a solid foundation for caring for this population. More Details...

Addressing HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among LGBTQ People: A Primer for Health Centers (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Some lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people face an increased risk for HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The increased risk of HIV and STIs in these populations stems from both social and biological factors.Health center clinicians can help address HIV and STIs among LGBTQ people by screening appropriately based on a comprehensive sexual history, providing culturally appropriate safer sex counseling, and offering biomedical prevention strategies, such as vaccinations and pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV (PrEP). More Details...

HITEQ Highlights: Addressing Childhood Obesity in Health Centers (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar focused on how to improve child weight screening, nutrition and physical activity counselling, and design appropriate and meaningful interventions according to health center peers. A number of tools that support this quality improvement around addressing child weight and potential for obesity were discussed, including Bright Futures guidance and data validation tools from HITEQ. More Details...

Addressing Food Insecurity Among Older Adults in Clinical Settings (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Because food insecurity is a serious threat to the health and well-being of older adults in the U.S., this webinar sought to equip health centers’ healthcare providers to screen and intervene on this important public health issue. More Details...

Complex Conversations on Cost: MCN Research Article (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: How many clinicians hold a conversation with patients around the potential costs of the proposed care devised for the patient? More Details...

Adding Mobile Dental Services to a Pediatrics Clinic: Promising Practice (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Harbor Health Services in Massachusetts identified the need for dental services at a primary care location at their health center that did not have a dental clinic. The health center decided to add portable dental equipment to the medical site. This promising practice will discuss how the program was developed and lessons learned. More Details...

Think Yes to Care: Customer Service Training (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This customer service training model and related materials will allow providers to standardize the service they provide to clients, community partners, and each other. This model was created in 2016, and was adapted from the Multnomah County Library Think Yes! Customer Service Initiative. More Details...

Building Your Family: LGBTQ Reproductive Options (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Dr. Rebekah Viloria, OBGYN at Fenway Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, presents the most up-to-date options and strategies for LGBTQ people to build a family. This webinar covers options for conception including alternative insemination, IVF, IUI, and more. More Details...

Addressing Intimate Partner Violence Series: Session 2: PROVIDING ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR MEN TO ACT ON PREVENTING INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Intimate partner violence (IPV) occurs in all segments of our society, but vulnerable populations like migrant women may encounter additional disparities and barriers to care that make intervention and treatment of IPV more complex. In these two sessions, Migrant Clinicians Network provides specific and effective action items to better serve women who have experienced IPV in the exam room, and to make our communities safer by engaging men in the community. More Details...

Mobile Dental Units for School-Based Dental Care: Promising Practice (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Gaston Family Health Services in North Carolina established a robust school-based dental program utilizing mobile dental units. This promising practice discusses the health center's mobile dental program to increase access to care for school children. More Details...

Understanding and Addressing Diabetes in your Communit: A Quick Guide for CHWs (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Understanding and Addressing Diabetes in your Community: A Quick Guide for CHWs  is a resource for Community Health Workers that provides information about diabetes, and provides tools for Community Health Workers can use to guide patients with diabetes towards a healthier future. More Details...

HITEQ Highlights: Growing and Sustaining a Data Driven Culture (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Building on the HITEQ Center’s previous webinars that introduced an Analytic Capability Assessment, building a roadmap for action and using data governance to maximize the value of data, the third webinar in this series explored how to grow and sustain these efforts. More Details...

Addressing Intimate Partner Violence Series: Session 1: CREATING A SUPPORTIVE CLINICAL ENVIRONMENT TO ADDRESS INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Intimate partner violence (IPV) occurs in all segments of our society, but vulnerable populations like migrant women may encounter additional disparities and barriers to care that make intervention and treatment of IPV more complex. In these two sessions, Migrant Clinicians Network provides specific and effective action items to better serve women who have experienced IPV in the exam room, and to make our communities safer by engaging men in the community. More Details...

Herramientas para la Infraestructura de Salud Oral: (2019). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: NNOHA desarrolló estas herramientas para apoyar la oportunidad de financiar la Infraestructura de Salud Oral (AF19) y servir como guía que los centros de salud pueden utilizar en sus esfuerzos para mejorar la infraestructura y proveer nuevos servicios integrales de salud oral o mejorar los existentes. El desarrollo de estas herramientas también incorpora la información recopilada durante las sesiones regionales de retroalimentación para la Expansión del Servicio de Salud Oral (OHSE, por sus siglas en inglés) que la HRSA celebró durante el 2018. Los centros de salud pueden usar estas herramientas para evaluar su preparación para la expansión del servicio de salud oral. Además, proveen enlaces a los requisitos, reglamentos y recursos de la HRSA y ofrecen estrategias para mejorar y expandir la infraestructura de los centros comunitarios de salud, ya sea que ya ofrezcan los servicios dentales in situ o que no tengan servicios dentales en la actualidad. More Details...

Addressing the Opioid Crisis: Medication-Assisted Treatment at Health Care for the Homeless Programs (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This paper outlines strategies for how Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) programs can start or expand medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services to address the opioid epidemic. While HCH programs serve only four percent of all health center patients nationally, they are responsible for serving nearly 40 percent of all patients receiving MAT. More Details...

Oral Health and Diabetes for Patients Experiencing Homelessness: Fact Sheet (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NNOHA and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council partnered to develop this fact sheet on oral health and diabetes for patients experiencing homelessness. This purpose is to highlight linkages between periodontal disease, diabetes, and homelessness, as well as address, frequently asked questions related to understanding and caring for individuals who are experiencing homelessness. More Details...