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Screening for Broadband Access and Digital Health Literacy in Public Housing Patients (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, we described the importance of screening digital health literacy and broadband access; listed potential screening tools; and highlighted a health center that is screening for these issues. More Details...

Identifying, Classifying & Reporting H-2A Workers in the UDS (Uniform Data System) (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH created this publication to assist health center staff in understanding the key differences between H-2A and H-2B visa programs and how to accurately identify and report H-2A workers in the UDS. More Details...

The SDOH Academy Innovations Showcase Competition: Closing Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The SDOH Academy Innovations Showcase Competition is an interactive training opportunity that incorporates an element of competition for health centers to showcase their innovations. A unique opportunity for health center staff and stakeholders to not only shape the narrative about their innovative work to address the SDOHs but also a way to inform a national audience on how they have been successful in addressing any of the following core competencies. More Details...

Strategies for Providing Health Care for Frequent Users in Rural Communities (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Frequent Users are defined as individuals with complex needs that have significant interaction with crisis services such as emergency rooms, ambulance transport and substance use detox services. This webinar outlines strategies for meeting the complex needs of this population in rural areas. More Details...

Identifying Older Adult Depression in a Dental Setting (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: This National Center for Equitable Care for Elders (NCECE) webinar highlighted best practices for integrating mental health and dental care through assessments and appropriate referrals. The webinar explained the bi-directional relationship between poor oral health and behavioral health needs, described the impact of social risk factors on oral health disparities in older adults, and demonstrated integrative strategies for establishing an interdisciplinary team-based approach for treating older adult mental health More Details...

Meeting Where They Are: Innovating Mobile Services in COVID Aware World (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Health Care for the Homeless Community has long been providing innovative care in a mobile setting. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated both the need and opportunity to build on the mobile model of care and push for creative ways to do so. This webinar highlighted the efforts of communities who have taken mobile services in a new direction. More Details...

Addressing Health Care Challenges for Migrant Farmworkers (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Today in the Golden State, farmworkers encounter numerous risks to their health and increased barriers to care before, during, and after migration. Health centers play a crucial role in addressing disparities in accessing COVID-19 services, education, and resources in special and vulnerable communities. Health centers that serve migrant farmworker and their families face unique challenges. Mobility results in poor continuity of care, and the health issues that fact migrant farmworkers and other mobile underserved populations are often magnified or compounded by their migratory lifestyle. In this webinar, we provide examples, tools, and best practices to help health centers better integrate health center teams (e.g., providers and community health workers) and external partnerships (e.g., community-based organizations and local government). More Details...

Improving Health of Public Housing Residents Through Intentional Health Center and Housing Authority Partnerships (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In collaboration with the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium, the National Center for Health in Public Housing conducted a webinar highlighting the health center and housing authority partnerships that have led to improved health for public housing residents. More Details...

Building Partnerships to Address Housing Insecurity (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to focus on different patients’ demographics that have been disproportionately affected by the virus. Additionally, the public health emergency interrupted capacity building health centers have been developing for patient-centered services to different special populations. This webinar will discuss how health centers can further support or modify current infrastructure to meet the needs of the patients experiencing homelessness (PEH) or in public housing, for COVID-19 care and beyond. More Details...

Meeting the Needs of the LGBTQIA+ Community at Community Health Centers in the South (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) citizens are a diverse community. However, they share a common need for culturally competent health care that recognizes and responds to specific risks and challenges due to social and structural inequities such as stigma and discrimination. This webinar aims to educate stakeholders on the needs and experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community and inform how HRSA health centers can effectively serve this community by addressing local needs and disparities and identifying opportunities to advance health equity through training, education, and collaboration with local community organizations. More Details...

Healing-Centered Approaches to Addressing Adolescent Relationship Abuse and Trafficking (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: School-based health providers can play an important role in promoting healthy relationships among adolescents. This webinar, co-hosted by the School-Based Health Alliance and Health Partners on IPV and Exploitation, will offer strategies for talking about relationship abuse and trafficking with adolescent patients in school-based health settings. Presenters will also share ideas for collaborating with community resources and partnering with youth to prevent violence and promote healthy relationships. More Details...

Developing a Postdoctoral Psychology Residency Program in Your Community Health Center (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Two years later, we continue to witness the pandemic’s toll on mental health – and a sustained increased demand for mental health services. Behavioral health care providers who are experienced in integrated care settings are needed now more than ever. Join this webinar to learn how your health center can establish its own postdoctoral clinical psychology residency program. This webinar will address considerations such as program structure, design, curriculum, the supervisor’s role, required resources, and the benefits of sponsoring an in-house formal postdoctoral clinical psychology residency training program. More Details...

Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow: Key Milestones for Community Health Centers (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication provides the unique context, history, scope and impact of the health center program. Many new staff at health centers are unfamiliar with the health center program. Data shows that connection to mission and impact can increase commitment and retention of the workforce. This publication aims to connect the learner to the national scope and impact of health center program as they embark on their work in an individual health center. More Details...

Building Sustainable Partnerships using the Community Centered Health Home Model (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: View this webinar to learn how one community identified a health need and used the CCHH model to respond. More Details...

Barriers to Accessing Higher Levels of Care: Implications for Medical Respite Programs (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue brief describes the different levels of care within the health care service continuum a person may need following acute care hospitalization and highlights the admission barriers commonly encountered by people experiencing homelessness. It also illustrates the role of medical respite care programs within this continuum, and outlines action steps that communities can take to improve access to higher levels of care for people experiencing homelessness. More Details...

The State of Medical Respite Care (2022). Resource Type: Other. Description: Medical respite care (MRC), also known as recuperative care, is acute and post-acute care for people experiencing homelessness (PEH) who are too ill or frail to recover from an illness or injury on the street or in a shelter, but who do not require hospital-level care. The field of MRC continues to grow as more communities recognize the importance of addressing this gap in care for PEH who need a place to heal. The data in this interactive webpage provide a snapshot of the state of MRC programs in 2022. This resource is intended to support MRC advocacy, education, program planning, and quality improvement in communities across the U.S. 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...

MLP in Health Centers (Session 1): A deep dive on laying the foundation & funding the model (2022). Resource Type: In-Person Training. Description: The first session of the webinar series featured Ann C. Mangiameli (Managing Attorney at Legal Aid of Nebraska) and Brad L. Meyer (CMPE, CEO of Bluestem Health) as panelists. They spoke from their experience to help health center and MLP staff better understand how to develop and implement their MLP models and explore effective methods for funding. More Details...

Electronic Case Reporting Leveraging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Toolkit: Electronic Health Records and Case Reporting Privacy and Security (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: In order to aid PCAs and HCCNs in developing a workplan for implementing a FHIR API integration for their network partners this guide includes resource planning, consideration of EHR vendor and individual EHR instance needs, and understanding case reporting requirements. More Details...

Electronic Case Reporting Leveraging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Toolkit: Electronic Health Records and Case Reporting Privacy and Security (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: In order to aid PCAs and HCCNs in developing a workplan for implementing a FHIR API integration for their network partners this guide includes resource planning, consideration of EHR vendor and individual EHR instance needs, and understanding case reporting requirements. More Details...