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Advancing the use of SDOH Data to Support Value Based Care: National Training for Health Centers (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Is your health center interested in learning about how collection of social needs data can support your performance in providing value based care? This one-hour webinar, presented by Washington Association for Community Health, CHAS Health, and the HITEQ Center taught about best practices in SDOH screening and how health centers have used SDOH data for patient care, population health, and value based care. Participants had the opportunity to ask questions and share the specific challenges they face regarding SDOH screening and use of data. All health center staff, particularly those involved in screening clients for social needs, connecting them to resources and using data to inform care, were welcome to attend. More Details...

What SDOH problems do we want to address?: Health Center MLP Planning, Implementation & Practice (PIP) Webinar Series (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: As part of its work with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) is partnering with the Texas A&M University Institute for Healthcare Access (HAI) to offer a webinar series to support health center based MLP planning, implementation, and practice (PIP Webinar Series). This first session explored how to assess community and partner needs for health center-based MLPs. More Details...

Building Bridges between Healthcare Systems and Community-Based Organizations to Address Health Disparities: The SDOH Academy National Webinar Series (Part 3) (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session explored innovative strategies to advance population health and health equity through the power of community partnerships and transformative system delivery. Speakers highlighted unique SDOH challenges faced by special and vulnerable populations and the impact on their access to care and health disparities. Additionally, the webinar showcased strategies and best practices for building and sustaining effective community SDOH partnerships between healthcare systems and local communities. More Details...

Integrated Mental Health (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: We invite you to join the School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA) for a one-hour webinar on Integrated Mental Health to address care coordination, partnerships, and evidence-based care strategies for school-aged children. More Details...

How EHRs Can Be Leveraged to Streamline Social Needs Screening: Screening for Housing Status and other Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) measures Webinar (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Is your health center planning, implementing, or revamping a social needs screening program? The National Health Care for the Homeless Council and the HITEQ Center hosted a free webinar on Tuesday, February 6th, 2024, from 2 - 3 pm Eastern (1 - 2 pm Central) where they taught participants how to screen for housing status and other Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) measures that can be introduced or better integrated into health center clinical workflows. Presenters shared guidance on implementing and systematizing social needs data collection in Electronic Health Records (EHRs), followed by a panel of expert health center representatives who spoke about their programs & journeys with social needs screening programs. Participants had the opportunity to ask questions, share successes, or discuss specific challenges they faced regarding social needs screening. While this webinar focused on health care for the homeless (HCH) health centers, anyone involved directly in social needs screening or interested in improving screening processes was welcome to attend. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: The Role of Identifying the Social Drivers of Health In Advancing Health Equity: Session 4: Children and Youth in Foster Care (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative sessions will cover how to assess health outcome disparities and barriers experienced within four different communities. Trainings will cover evidence-based health-risk assessment tools and how to use a team-based approach to incorporate them into patient care. Additional information about using these tools to identify social drivers of health and connect individuals to community-based resources and services that meet those needs will be shared. Participants will be asked to draft a workflow on how their organization will identify special populations and the process of making referrals (internal and external referrals) to address Social Drivers of Health. More Details...

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...

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...

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...

HITEQ Highlights: PrEP Process Mapping Team Toolkit Demonstration: HITEQ Highlights Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Is your health center currently in the process of implementing or revamping your pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) workflow? Join this HITEQ webinar to learn how to use our PrEP Process Mapping Toolkit, which is designed to support team-based learning, reflection, and action on the use of process mapping as a tool to document PrEP clinical and EHR workflows. Your health center team can follow the steps outlined in the toolkit to develop a process map of an existing or planned PrEP service workflow and to identify opportunities to streamline and improve that workflow. More Details...

Stratifying Quality Measures by Housing Status and Location (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this training, we learned how to meaningfully impact communities by utilizing data to improve screening, care quality, and health outcomes. NNCC and the Primary Care Development Corporation partnered to conduct a webinar that guided health centers serving public housing residents and other special groups on how to use UDS data for QI, care coordination, and care model design. More Details...

Learning Collaborative: The Role of Identifying Social Drivers of Health In Advancing Health Equity: Session 3: Returning Citizens (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Renaye James Healthcare Advisors’ Learning Collaborative sessions will cover how to assess health outcome disparities and barriers experienced within four different communities. Trainings will cover evidence-based health-risk assessment tools and how to use a team-based approach to incorporate them into patient care. Additional information about using these tools to identify social drivers of health and connect individuals to community-based resources and services that meet those needs will be shared. Participants will be asked to draft a workflow on how their organization will identify special populations and the process of making referrals (internal and external referrals) to address Social Drivers of Health More Details...

Fostering a Healthcare Workforce for Today's Social Health Challenges: The SDOH Academy National Webinar Series (Part 2) (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In an era of rapidly evolving healthcare landscapes, the role of the healthcare workforce has never been more critical. As we grapple with a multitude of social health challenges, from addressing health disparities and mental health issues to responding to global pandemics and the ever-increasing demands on healthcare services, it's essential to foster a workforce that is not only capable but also adaptable. The session focused on the key strategies and best practices for developing and nurturing a healthcare workforce that can effectively meet the demands of today's social health challenges. More Details...

Removing Barriers and Facilitating Access: Improving Health Care Access for People with Disabilities: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up to 1 in 4 adults in the United States have some type of disability, and 1 in 5 of them did not have a routine check-up in the last year. Disability inclusion allows for people with disabilities to take advantage of the benefits of the same health promotion and prevention activities experienced by people who do not have a disability. Challenges to community integration for people with disabilities also need to be addressed through innovative integrated care programs in the community. More Details...

Implementing Food Rx Programs to Improve Health Outcomes (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Food Prescription (Rx) programs offer innovative solutions to addressing social drivers of health (SDOH), including food insecurity, that impact people with chronic conditions through a model that builds partnerships between the local food system, the healthcare system, and the patient population. This presentation will familiarize attendees with Food Rx programs, the NCFH Food Rx Replication Guide, and demonstrate how to use this resource to create their very own personalized Food Rx programs to improve health outcomes at the fundamental level in partnership with local organizations. More Details...

Farmworker Health Network (FHN) Key Resources 2023 (PDF) (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Farmworker Health Network (FHN) is committed to supporting the development of leadership within Community and Migrant Health Centers and increasing access to care for the farmworker population. This document is a series of resources collected from FHN partners. More Details...