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Affirming Telehealth Practices for LGBTQIA+ Communities (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join us for this one-hour session to explore promising telehealth practices to serve LGBTQIA+ communities and mitigate stigma and barriers to healthcare. This session will give a comprehensive overview of tools, resources, and best practices to help you build or expand your telehealth programming to improve the health and wellbeing of LGBTQIA+ patients. This session will be led by Emily Phillips, Fenway Health Telehealth Project Manager. More Details...

Affordable Care Act Factsheet (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Factsheet provides information for patients to help them understand how to enroll in the ACA health insurance, become familiar with important words, learn about the enrollment process and important dates, and identify where they can find help and resources for them and their family! Also, it includes testimonials of two people who were able to benefit from the ACA during the COVID-19 pandemic. More Details...

Affordable Connectivity Program Consumer Outreach Toolkit (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The Affordable Connectivity Program was created by the FCC to help households struggling to pay for internet service. As part of that effort, the FCC is mobilizing people and organizations to help raise awareness about the ACP. The materials below are available for public use, and you can download and customize them to meet your needs. 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...

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 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 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 Indenitfication Digital Training Tool (-). Resource Type: Patient Material . Description: A digital story designed to assist front desk staff in accurately identifying, registering, and reporting their MSAW patients in the UDS. This 10-minute training video is a perfect introduction to the Ag Worker ID process for new team members, as well as seasoned staff. More Details...

Aging in Place: A Resource for Health Centers (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This guide builds upon MHP Salud’s experience implementing the CHW model in aging in place programs and the expertise of the National Center for Equitable Care for Elders. These organizations have coalesced their experience to provide guidance on implementing CHW-led aging in place programs by outlining the recruitment, implementation, and evaluation processes. More Details...

Aging in Place: A Resource for Health Centers (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The proportion of the world’s population over 60 years of age is projected to increase nearly double from 12% to 22% between 2015 and 2050 according to the World Health Organization (WHO). With the dramatic increase of this population, the need for programs and initiatives that address their healthy aging also increases. Ensuring that older adults have access to health care and the ability to “age in place” is a national priority both from a quality of life perspective and a cost savings perspective. More Details...

Agricultural Health Safety Bilingual Picture Dictionary: "Seguridad en Palabras/ Safety in Words" (2016). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: MCN's Bilingual Picture Dictionary, "Seguridad en Palabras/ Safety in Words," illustrates work place hazards and best practices for health and safety in agriculture. Developed with support from the OSHA Susan Harwood Grant Program, this resource will bolster Hispanic workers' English vocabulary and will help prevent agricultural injuries. 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...

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 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 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 Workers and Mental Health Factsheet (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This factsheet includes a collection of recent facts and figures pertaining to the mental health of agricultural workers. In addition, it provides recommendations and adfvice for healthcare and service providers who work with this population. 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...

All About Nutrition: How Health Centers Can Promote Nutrition Education in Efforts to Prevent Diabetes and Chronic Disease (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar focused on promising strategies and lessons learned from nutrition education experts, who will help guide a conversation around supporting chronic disease prevention through nutrition, food access, and connections to community resources. More Details...

All Hazards Emergency Preparedness and Response Competencies for Health Center Staff (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) and the Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS) have developed a set of competencies to improve the emergency and disaster preparedness of all health center staff. This publication provides a comprehensive overview of these competencies and sub-competencies, as well as a description of how they were developed. More Details...

AMIGAS Cervical Cancer Prevention Program Learning Collaborative (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The AMIGAS “Ayudando a Las Mujeres con Información, Guía y Amor para su Salud” or “Helping Women with Information, Guidance, and Love for Their Health” is an evidence-based, bilingual health education intervention program designed to train community health workers (CHW) or “promotoras” to increase cervical cancer screening rates among Hispanic women. This learning collaborative will provide an overview of the AMIGAS program to guide CHWs on how to promote cervical cancer screening resources and education in English and Spanish to Hispanic women who may be at high risk of cervical cancer in their community to improve health outcomes. More Details...