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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...

Get the Facts COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign (Many Languages) (2022). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: The Get the Facts campaign is based on CDC guidance, offering facts about COVID-19 vaccines in a simple and memorable way that counters common misconceptions. These facts address cost, ingredients, side effects, eligibility and more. Each set of materials includes translations in more than 30 languages as well as the ability for you to customize the logo, URL, photo and more. More Details...

Promoting Safety in Street Outreach (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar recording describes core competencies for maintaining safety in street outreach. More Details...

Statewide Medicaid Benefit for Medical Respite Care: Issues Informing Benefit Design and Implementation (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have encouraged states to consider how to address social determinants of health in their Medicaid plans. Washington State Health Care Authority recognizes the benefits of a statewide MRC service, and is proposing it as part of Washington State’s Medicaid Transformation Project Section 1115 Demonstration Renewal Request as a health-related service for Apple Health enrollees in both managed care and FFS delivery systems. More Details...

Self-Care for Farmworkers: Advice from your CHW (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Farmworkers face certain barriers to self-care due to unique challenges related to living and working conditions. However, self-care should be a priority to help them improve their overall mental health. Here are some tips from a community health worker to help improve the self-care of farmworkers. More Details...

Autocuidado para Trabajadores Agrícolas: Consejos de su Promotor de Salud (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Los trabajadores agrícolas se enfrentan a ciertas barreras para el autocuidado debido a desafíos únicos relacionados con las condiciones de vida y trabajo. Sin embargo, el autocuidado debe ser una prioridad para ayudarles a mejorar su salud mental general. Aquí están algunos consejos de un promotor de salud para ayudar a mejorar el cuidado personal de los trabajadores agrícolas. More Details...

Get Your Foot in the Door: Health Center Strategies for Initiating Relationships with Growers, Contractors, and Employers (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH developed this publication to provide strategies, specifically for health centers, in identifying and connecting with growers, contractors, and employers that employ Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs). More Details...

Health Care Considerations for Two Spirit and LGBTQIA+ Indigenous Communities (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication will guide health centers in providing affirming care and services for Two Spirit and LGBTQIA+ American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people and readers will explore key concepts, terminology, and the effects of historical trauma. More Details...

Children's COVID-19 Vaccine Song (2022). Resource Type: Other. Description: Farmworker Justice created a song and video for children and families to encourage COVID-19 vaccination. The song, sung by kids, is in Spanish and is to the tune of a popular Latin American children\'s song. The message promotes vaccine confidence to protect the health of themselves, friends, and families. More Details...

SCOPE of Pain: Safer/Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (2022). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: SCOPE of Pain is a series of continuing medical education/continuing nursing education activities designed to help you safely and effectively manage patients with acute and/or chronic pain, when appropriate, with opioid analgesics. Our program consists of: A 2-module cased-based online activity Live conferences held around the US Resources for use institutionally Supplemental, focused content to extend the knowledge built through the core curriculum The FDA has mandated manufacturers of opioid analgesics, as part of a comprehensive Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS), to make available comprehensive prescriber education in the safe use of these medications based on the FDA curriculum known as the Opioid Analgesic REMS Education Blueprint for Health Care Providers Involved in the Treatment and Monitoring of Patients with Pain (PDF). Our curriculum covers all aspects of this blueprint and more to provide a comprehensive educational program. More Details...

One Community's Collaborative Approach: A Spotlight on Yakima, Washington (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This spotlight interview includes the housing, CoC, and MRC leaders in Yakima, Washington. They describe their MRC program, how it fits within their community’s response to homelessness, their collective approaches to racial equity, and specific ways they have strengthened their system through their collaboration. More Details...

Medical Respite Literature Review: A Update on the Evidence for Medical Respite Care Executive Summary (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The number of medical respite programs has grown substantially in the United States over the past several years, as has the number of research studies and publications exploring this health care service(NIMRC, 2020; Doran et al., 2013). In response to this expansion and subsequent research, a literature review was conducted to: 1) provide an updated and comprehensive overview of existing medical respite programs; 2) identify the need for medical respite programs; and 3) identify the outcomes of medical respite programs and interventions. More Details...

Improving Behavioral Health Screening & Access to Treatment for Veterans in Community Care: Phase II: Improving Behavioral Health Screening & Access to Treatment for Veterans in Community Care (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This toolkit describes a partnership between the Iowa Primary Care Association (Iowa PCA), Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa (CHC/SEIA), and the VA Office of Rural Health (ORH) Veterans Rural Health Resource Center-Iowa City (VRHRC-IC). These partners came together with the goal of establishing mechanisms to ensure veterans seeking care at all CHC/SEIA locations could be systematically identified, screened for behavioral health issues, and engaged in healthcare guided by their choice to remain in the community or engage in a VA care setting. More Details...

From Homelessness to Housing: Challenges and Opportunities of Housing Transitions: Healing Hands (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue of Healing Hands will present some of the key challenges faced by newly housed individuals and their care providers, and will consider a variety of principles, concepts, and approaches that can be useful in mitigating and transforming these challenges, in support of the best possible outcomes for a client’s health and well-being. More Details...

Expanding Options for Health Care Within Homelessness Services: CoC Partnerships with Medical Respite Care Programs (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A brief to improve health care quality and outcomes for people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 response by strengthening partnerships between homelessness assistance systems and medical respite care (MRC) providers. This brief features the views of both Continuums of Care (CoCs) and MRC staff about how to best integrate operations at the systemic level, as well as featuring a community spotlight on the CoC-MRC partnership in Yakima, Washington. More Details...

SDOH 2: Housing is Healthcare: Stable Housing Creates Positive Health Outcomes (2021). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: Health Centers have a role forging relationships with community partners to help stabilize patients' housing which in turn has been demonstrated to improve health outcomes. More Details...

Indigenous Agricultural Workers Fact Sheet (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet provides research and data about Indigenous Agricultural Workers. It covers topics from History of Indigenous in Latin America, health in Latin America, health in the U.S, discrimination, working conditions, and barriers to health care. More Details...

Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorder for People Experiencing Homelessness (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet presents an analysis of national health center data on buprenorphine-based Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) services provided at Health Care for the Homeless health centers in calendar year 2020, underscoring that while more health centers are providing MAT, regions with the highest overdose rates lack sufficient access to buprenorphine. More Details...

The Impact of Health Literacy on Diabetes Mellitus (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In diabetes, health literacy is related to diabetes knowledge, self-efficacy and self-care behaviors and glycemic control. Health literacy may also provide a better understanding of racial disparities observed in patients with diabetes. This webinar describes the concept of health literacy and its assessment and the evidence of its impact on patients with diabetes and offers suggested methods and tools that may be implemented to improve clinical care.  More Details...