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Building COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence (44341). Resource Type: Template. Description: Building confidence for the COVID-19 vaccine - especially for special and vulnerable populations like residents of public housing - is a critical component of effective public health, and a top priority for community health centers. Active listening, combined with validating existing hesitation or concerns, demonstrates an effort to meet individuals where they are and an opportunity to provide information. More Details...

Best Practices in Cooking and Nutrition Education from Sustainable Food Center's The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: NCFH is partnering with the Sustainable Food Center's The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre to provide this informative webinar on a nutrition program that can become an essential component for addressing diabetes prevention and management with health center patients. Sustainable Food Center’s The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre® has been offering cooking and nutrition education to the Austin, Texas community since the late 1990s. Classes feature recipes that are delicious, nutritious, seasonal and affordable, plus peer-facilitated nutrition education on topics such as incorporating more vegetables and reading nutrition labels. Program Manager, Molly Costigan, shares program history, lessons learned, best practices, and how these classes may be integrated into a health center’s health and wellness program More Details...

Back to School: How Health Centers Can Address Diabetes Risk: (43879). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar describes evidence-based strategies for reducing diabetes risk among elementary school-aged children while highlighting nurses' role in creating and sustaining those strategies. More Details...

Autodeclaración: formulario de muestra (2017). Resource Type: Template . Description: Modelo de formulario de autodeclaración del paciente. La autodeclaración es un mecanismo práctico para documentar los ingresos familiares y el tamaño de la familia para las personas que tienen dificultades para mostrar otros documentos. More Details...

Alergias - Allergies​​​ (2018). Resource Type: Educational Video. Description: An educational video portraying a story of a man who was diagnosed with allergies and how he is currently managing his diagnosis. More Details...

Agricultural Worker Occupational Health and Safety (2018). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This publication provides a compilation of facts about the occupational health and safety of farmworkers. It includes facts on pesticide exposure, health and sun exposure, hazardous tools and machinery, as well as common occupational injuries and illnesses among farmworkers. More Details...

Agricultural Worker Community Needs Assessment- Policy and Procedure (2018). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This procedure serves to assess the health care needs of the local agricultural population. More Details...

Agricultural Worker Community Needs Assessment- Determining what Information is needed (2011). Resource Type: Template . Description: This questionnaire helps determine what information needs to be included in the Agricultural Worker Community Needs Assessment to assess the health care needs of the local agricultural population. More Details...

Agricultural Worker (Farmworker) Status Verification: Points to Remember (2018). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This list includes information to remember when obtaining accurate and current information from people seeking health care services. It provides considerations to establish them as users and determine their agricultural worker status under the Migrant Health Program. More Details...

Ag Worker Identification for Patients (2018). Resource Type: Educational Video. Description: This digital story is designed to help Health Centers identify Ag Workers for identification and registration purposes. It is perfect for playing in waiting rooms and is a great educational resource for community outreach and other health care professionals. This digital story is also an excellent staff training tool. More Details...

Ag Worker Identification Digital Story (2018). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This digital story is designed to help Health Centers identify Ag Workers for identification and registration purposes. It is perfect for playing in waiting rooms and is a great educational resource for community outreach and other health care professionals. This digital story is also an excellent staff training tool. More Details...

Ag Worker Idenitfication Front Office Reference Sheet (2021). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This tool is designed to help health center staff ask the right questions to accurately identify, classify and report MSAWs in the Uniform Data System (UDS). It provides information to help illustrate the tasks and industries included in HRSA’s definition of agriculture, as well as provide general guidelines for proper classification and reporting of MSAWs in UD More Details...

Ag Worker Health 102: Supporting Agricultural Worker Health (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: Health Centers serving the agricultural worker community are adept at addressing the unique needs of agricultural worker patients and families by developing innovative and strategic models of service delivery. Even with the recent national pandemic, health centers across the country have shown their ability to quickly adapt to meet the new and expanding needs of their agricultural worker patients as traditional barriers to care have been exacerbated with COVID-19. In this webinar, faculty will share information on the most relevant current agricultural worker policy issues. We will also explore effective service delivery models that include recent adaptations due to COVID-19. Finally, faculty will highlight training and technical assistance (T/TA) opportunities, resources, and promising practices to help support health center staff in the implementation of service delivery changes and adaptations when serving agricultural workers. This webinar is developed and presented by the Farmworker Health Network, a six-member network of organizations with decades of experience working with health centers to address agricultural worker health needs. More Details...

Addressing Mental Health with Agricultural Workers- A tip sheet for Health Care Workers (2021). Resource Type: Publication . Description: A tip sheet for Health Care Workers to engage in conversations about mental health with agricultural workers.  More Details...

Addressing Diabetes Factors in Elementary School Children Through School and Community Partnerships (43712). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource highlights ways health centers (such as federally qualified health centers) can enhance health outcomes of elementary-aged children with obesity and other pre-diabetic through school partnerships. More Details...

Accessing Farmworker-Friendly Health Education Material (44862). Resource Type: Publication. Description: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, accessing farmworker-friendly health education materials to conduct outreach and education activities became an evident challenge, namely due to language barriers as much of the material published was in English. This led NCFH to develop a process to systematically find and assess culturally and linguistically relevant multimedia resources from external sources for farmworkers and their families. The process included the creation of a national inventory of COVID-19 & influenza-related health education resources through a careful assessment and selection process by a trained review team. More Details...

AADE: Your Resource for Diabetes Prevention, Self Management Education, and Accreditation (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: Presented by Jodi Lavin-Tompkins, Director of Accreditation with AADE, this session will provide an overview of the American Association of Diabetes Educators and their AADE7 Self-Care Behaviors Framework, along with a review of their other products and services offered to help those who work with people with diabetes and pre-diabetes. Attendees will also learn the pros and cons of accreditation and the steps and structure needed to apply for accreditation to provide diabetes self-management and diabetes prevention services. More Details...

A Promising Practice Model for Diabetes Prevention The Program at Su Clinica Familliar (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: Diabetes is an epidemic and a true problem across the United States. Participation in a Diabetes Prevention Program can be very beneficial in enhancing a patient’s understanding of diabetes, while learning about the critical components of lifestyle changes that may prevent it. In this webinar, Su Clinica Familiar in South Texas will share a road map to the American Diabetes Association 1705 Program, based on the one implemented at their health center. This will serve as a Promising Practice Model for other community healthcare centers that may be interested in incorporating a similar Diabetes Prevention Program. In addition to highlighting the details of the program at Su Clinica, the presentation will include a discussion on the partnerships, barriers, challenges, and successes of implementing it. Presented by Lino Zamora, Marlen Chavarin-Andrews, and Dr. Elena Marin. More Details...

A Patient Model for Diabetes Management (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: The purpose of this webinar is to demonstrate an example of a patient-centered model program, such as the Diabetes Education Program at Brownsville Community Health Center (BCHC) in South Texas. More than 90% of BCHC patients are Hispanic and Spanish speaking, with most having a limited education and many challenges related to economics and family dynamics. In this 60-minute webcast, the presenter will share information on the development of this program, how it integrates understanding of the specific needs of the population served, the use of motivational interviewing techniques, and the importance of building relationships to promote lifestyle changes. At the center of the program is acknowledging the value of life experiences and belief systems that adult learners bring to an educational session and leveraging these patient experiences to promote active self-management. More Details...

The Puzzle: Piecing Together Patient Centered Medical Care and School-Based Health Centers (n.a.). Resource Type: Publication. Description: No matter the challenges of earning patient-centered medical home (PCMH) accreditation, the careful documentation of policies, procedures, and practices that constitute high-quality primary care is beneficial to SBHCs.Such a comprehensive assessment can foster better quality improvement processes, clinical practices, care coordination, and coding and billing, and ultimately, greater sustainability for SBHCs over time.Regardless of the specific path chosen, this guide aids SBHCs in adopting key performance and quality improvement strategies that align with national and state-specific PCMH measures and standards. More Details...