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Regional Stream Forum Impact Report 2022: Regional Stream Forums 2022 Impact Report (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The 2022 Regional Stream Forum Impact Report offers summaries of the three annual Regional Stream Forum training events including the conference programs, participant demographics, conference sponsors, planning committee members and conference highlights. More Details...

Market Assessment Toolkit for Health Centers (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: By utilizing a Market Assessment, health centers can analyze their markets and service areas in geographic, demographic, and economic terms in order to make informed observations and guide strategic decisions. More Details...

Diabetes Control Education and Management (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The blog touches on subjects regarding costs of diabetes, how diabetes affects the body, culture & stigmas, and SDOH factors. The blog offers an educational guide on diabetes control and management. More Details...

COVID-19 and Diabetes (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The goal of this webinar is to increase the capacity of health centers to meet the health care and support needs of LGBTQIA+ patients who are living with diabetes during a global pandemic. Participants will discover how COVID-19 has changed the landscape of diabetes prevention, care, and management, particularly for LGBTQIA+ people, and learn promising practices to improve health outcomes. More Details...

Building Resilience for Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Youth (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This panel-style presentation will feature experts from community-led organizations whose work highlights the importance of assessing and supporting the resiliency of TGD youth to improve health outcomes. Participants of this webinar will discover strategies for developing meaningful and sustainable relationships to community partners that provide resiliency building opportunities for youth. More Details...

MLP in Health Centers Guide Webinar Series Part 4: The Medical-Public Defender Partnership (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Since its founding in the early 1990s, the MLP approach has evolved to incorporate criminal legal in addition to civil legal needs. One of the first MLPs focused on criminal legal needs emerged in Rhode Island, where health centers have partnered with the Rhode Island Public Defender’s Office to collaborate around preserving their shared clients’/patients’ health. On June 23, attendees heard from MLP practitioners in Rhode Island discuss a unique medical-public defender partnership. Participants learned the following: 1. The impact of criminal legal involvement on health and well-being 2. The history and evolution of the medical-legal partnership 3. Rhode Island’s approach to bringing together health centers and public defenders to support mutual patient-clients 4. Best practices that empower health centers to advocate for patients with criminal legal involvement The webinar featured the following panelists: James Lawless, Social Services Department Chief, Rhode Island Public Defender Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University Anthony Thigpen, Community Health Worker, Lifespan’s Transition Clinic Rahul Vanjani, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brown Medicine More Details...

Rebuilding Systems: Adapting Housing Assessments to Prioritize Health, Equity, and Belonging (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document is designed to provide a framework communities can use to create equity within their CE process. There is no one tool that can accommodate the unique resources of all communities but applying this guidance will help achieve equity in the process. More Details...

Social Determinants of Health Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Barriers: A Resource for Health Centers, Vol. 2 (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC), four HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partner organizations, released a report on lessons learned, challenges, barriers, and impact stories shared from the (4) sessions of the “Screening Methods and Strategies for Using Data on Outreach and Enabling Services to Address Social Determinants of Health” Learning Collaborative. This Learning Collaborative explored strategies to screen special and vulnerable populations for social determinants of health (SDOH) and successfully utilize data to build effective practices to begin addressing SDOH through outreach and enabling services. With these lessons learned, AAPCHO, HOP, MHP Salud, and NHCHC will continue this work with a webinar and successive learning collaborative in 2022-2023. More Details...

Quality Improvement Strategies for LTBI Screening, Testing, and Treatment in AA and NH/PI-serving Health Centers: EHR Template Development Learning Collaborative – June 2022 (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Tuberculosis Elimination Alliance held a learning collaborative, funded by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the Health Resources & Services Administration, in February 2022. In the learning collaborative, health center clinicians and/or enabling services providers explore quality improvement strategies for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening, testing, and treatment on electronic health record (EHR) template development. The learning collaborative goals included the development EHR templates, education on the 12-dose regimen, guidance on TB as a national clinical quality measure, and training for clinical and enabling services providers who focus on LTBI screening, testing, and treatment. More Details...

Health at the Intersection of Sexuality, Gender, and Disability (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: At the intersection of LGBTQIA+ identities and disability status, patients face increased health disparities and increased barriers to care. This webinar will focus on the unique needs of disabled, mad, chronically ill, and neuro divergent LGBTQIA2S+ patients, helping health care providers and centers to provide support for overcoming challenges in access to care, including how to provide culturally responsive care, and how to manage and advocate for affirming and accessible referrals when additional services are needed. More Details...

Affirming Reproductive Health Care for LGBTQIA+ People (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar is designed to help health centers understand the unique needs of LGBTQIA+ people when seeking reproductive health care. Participants will explore the unique barriers to reproductive health care for LGBTQIA+ people and discover promising practices for providing affirming pre-conception counseling and OBGYN and reproductive health care, including strategies for health navigation, and considerations for LGBTQIA+ patients who seek to raise children. More Details...

Issue Brief: The Impact of Language on Health Care Accessibility (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue briefs informs service providers about policies and recommendations to promote language access for Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients. More Details...

Two Years On: What the Data Says about COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Efforts at Health Care for the Homeless Health Centers (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to put a strain on communities across the country, health center data will play a central role in measuring its impact in 2022 and beyond. Health center data from the past two years points to the types of data that should be prioritized in order to obtain a clear picture of prevalence, impact, equity and adequate response to the COVID-19 pandemic. More Details...

Street Medicine and Outreach: Bringing Care to People Where They Are: Healing Hands (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue is an exploration of street medicine and outreach care. After considering the spectrum of services and forms of service delivery that are encompassed by the term “outreach,” attention will be given to several programs that illustrate the different forms that medical outreach can take, including: A street medicine program, an urban street outreach program, a rural outreach initiative, and outreach care delivered through emergency services personnel. Best practices and considerations for agencies hoping to develop or expand medical outreach services, through in-person on-site services as well as telehealth delivery, will also be presented. More Details...

Rebuilding Systems: Adapting Housing Assessments to Prioritize Health, Equity, and Belonging (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document is designed to provide a framework communities can use to create equity within their CE process. There is no one tool that can accommodate the unique resources of all communities but applying this guidance will help achieve equity in the process. More Details...

Key Provisions in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act: A Summary for the HCH Community (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: On June 25, 2022, The President signed into law the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the first major piece of gun legislation since the 1994 Gun Violence Prevention Act. While the law covers domestic violence offenders, expanded background checks, and red flag laws, it also increases funding for mental health services, school safety, crisis intervention programs, and violence prevention measures. This fact sheet summarizes the service expansions and related provisions that will likely impact the HCH community. More Details...

Health Centers Improve Health Outcomes with Medical Respite Care (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this issue brief is to describe medical respite care programs, illustrate how health centers can fulfill mission and add value to their community by adding a medical respite care program, outline both the advantages and challenges to such an expansion, and offer action steps for health centers to consider. As the larger health care system increasingly focuses on addressing social determinants of health (such as the lack of housing) through innovative care approaches, HRSA-funded health centers play an important role as a key health care partner in communities across the nation. More Details...

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...

Lista de verificación para coordinar clínicas de vacunación en el lugar de trabajo y en la comunidad para familias de trabajadores agrícolas (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Esta lista de verificación nueva y mejorada está diseñada para proporcionar a los centros de salud y otras organizaciones comunitarias la información que necesitan saber antes, durante y después de organizar una clínica de vacunación. Esta herramienta también es útil para las organizaciones que colaboran con los empleadores agrícolas y las autoridades de salud pública que atienden a los trabajadores agrícolas y sus familias en diversos entornos. More Details...

Military Culture Course Modules: Core Competencies for Healthcare Professionals (2022). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This four-part course focuses on understanding and appreciating the military culture in order to tailor clinical practices based on that understanding and appreciation for clinicians working with Service members. More Details...