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Foundations of LGBTQIA+ Health Care and Homelessness: Terminology, Concepts, and Best Practices (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This 90-minute webinar will provide participants with an introduction to foundational terminology and concepts related to LGBTQIA+ identity and experience of homelessness with a focus on LGBTQIA+ health care. Participants will learn about healthcare disparities and applicable clinical practices that participants can integrate into their own contexts. More Details...

Demonstrating Quality in Medical Respite Care: The Importance of Data (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: Identifying and tracking outcomes in medical respite is an important way to identify program progress and demonstrate effectiveness of medical respite care. This course provides an overview on ways to identify and track outcomes within medical respite care programs. More Details...

Healing Hands: Involuntary Commitment: Ethics at the Nexus of Mental Health Care and Homelessness (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue of Healing Hands aims to unravel some of the difficulties at the core of the conversation about involuntary commitment. We will first look at the landscape of mental illness and homelessness in the United States, then some of the key issues and quandaries involved in involuntary commitment. We’ll discuss some interpersonal practices and communication strategies that clinicians can incorporate to lessen the trauma involved in involuntary commitment, and look at some considerations for structural and systemic change. More Details...

Community Inclusion and Cultural Humility in Diabetes Prevention (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) hosted a webinar focused on cultural humility and strategies for community inclusion in diabetes care. Subject matter expert Tiana Matthews-Martinez RD shared best implementations practices and real accounts of developing patient-centered diabetes prevention programs, treatments, and educational interventions tailored toward residents of public housing. Participants learned how to apply cultural humility to diabetes care while engaging community members in culturally and linguistically responsive healthcare practices to address racial and ethnic health disparities. More Details...

Data from the 2019-2020 National Agricultural Workers Survey (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet presents key statistics on the health of migratory and seasonal agricultural workers from data collected primarily from 2,172 agricultural workers by the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) between October 1, 2018, and September 30, 2020. This fact sheet covers information about the employment, demographic, and health characteristics of crop workers, and workers engaged in support activities for crop production. Health data covers health history, occupational health, and access to health care. This data excludes H-2A workers. More Details...

Understanding and Preventing Homeless Mortality (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The toll of homelessness has been shown to have long-term consequences on health and quality of life. What is not as well documented is the impact of homelessness on mortality and the incidence of specific causes of death. Homeless mortality is often underestimated due to lack of consistent housing status reporting on death certificates and incomplete data from various siloed record systems. Understanding the extent and cause of mortality among people experiencing homelessness is necessary to know how to prevent future mortality. This webinar will highlight the progress of four counties in the Bay Area, California, Alameda, Marin, San Francisco, and Santa Clara, who have worked to identify and investigate homeless mortality. Lessons from these communities will help guide others’ work in using data-driven approaches to measure and ultimately prevent death. More Details...

Connections to Housing: Everything you need to know on HMIS and becoming a Coordinated Entry Access Point (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: A Homelessness Continuum of Care (CoC) is the primary resource for individuals experiencing homelessness or housing instability in their local community. Access points within a CoC are vital organizational partners that conduct assessment and screening for prioritization of housing resources. More Details...

Models of Medical Respite Care (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document serves as a guide to describe the models of medical respite care programs and types and intensity of clinical, case management, and care coordination services that can be expected within each MRC setting. More Details...

Guide to Attracting Funding Resources to Address Social Determinants of Health Needs (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This Guide to Attracting Funding Resources to Address Social Determinants of Health Needs will explore, from the community health center perspective, approaches to attract investments in SDOH that meet common, critical patient needs such as housing. More Details...

Lunch and Learn…on the go! A Series for Mobile Health Care Providers (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Participants interested in learning more about mobile health care joined us each week as we highlighted a specific mobile health care program and discussed patient population/outreach, funding, staffing strategies, and overcoming barriers to care. These were interactive sessions – so participants asked questions and had lunch while they joined the discussion. More Details...

The Intersection of Tobacco and Opioid Use Disorder: A Guide for Health Center Providers (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) and the Health Promotion Council (HPC) have developed an issue brief for health center providers on the intersection of tobacco use disorder (TUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD). The brief outlines the benefits of addressing TUD and OUD simultaneously and covers promising tools, resources and treatment options More Details...

Promising Practices: Providing Behavioral Health Care in a Medical Respite Setting (Archived Webinar) (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In support of programs’ efforts to meet the behavioral health needs of their consumers, the National Institute for Medical Respite Care (NIMRC) produced a new resource highlighting promising practices in behavioral health care that are currently being implemented in MRC programs across the country. The report outlines strategies and approaches that can be replicated and adapted to other programs’ unique contexts, equipping them to deliver high-quality care that is consistent with the Standards for Medical Respite Care and is responsive to the needs of PEH in their communities. This webinar will expand upon the information provided in the report and will feature expert panelists from two MRC programs who will share real-world strategies, successes, and lessons-learned. More Details...

Elements of a Care Plan in Medical Respite Settings (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: MRC programs’ size, structure, personnel, and services vary greatly based on their local needs and available resources. Accordingly, this guide is not intended to represent a prescriptive, all encompassing approach to service delivery in MRC settings. Rather, it aims to: 1. Provide a reference-point to assist MRC programs in developing their own care planning tools that are appropriate to their unique contexts and the needs of PEH in their communities. 2. Help partners and stakeholders interested in learning more about MRC to understand the scope and complexity of the services provided within MRC programs. Our team at the National Institute for Medical Respite Care (NIMRC) hopes that this resource will be useful in supporting programs and communities as they strive to offer high-quality care for PEH. More Details...

Addressing Cognition in Medical Respite (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Addressing cognitive impairment within medical respite care programs can be challenging. Within the respite setting, identification and accommodating cognitive impairment can be difficult while still focusing on a person’s recovery. This challenge increases when considering and adapting for the different types of cognitive impairment, such as traumatic brain injury or dementia, which require different approaches for care. To help programs address cognitive impairment, the National Institute for Medical Respite Care will be hosting a two-part webinar series on cognition. The first webinar (Overview of Cognition) will provide a general overview of cognition and cognitive impairment related to people experiencing homelessness, and the second webinar (Addressing Dementia) will focus specifically on the identification of and strategies to address dementia within the medical respite setting. More Details...

Health Center Role in Housing Innovations: Coordinated Entry (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Building upon the original CSH Coordinated Entry publication, this paper will examine the current state of CE and the importance of health center involvement in the homeless response system. CE is a process that assesses, prioritizes and refers people experiencing homelessness with community housing resources. More Details...

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH): Targeted Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Resources for Health Care for the Homeless Centers (HCH) Considering Adopting SDOH Screening (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) invests in T/TA to support health center clinical, operational, and fiscal excellence. To increase awareness and utilization of the T/TA resources developed by BPHC-funded T/TA providers, BPHC staff have created targeted (T/TA) resources, which include curated resources in high-need areas. More Details...

Health and Housing Partnerships to Support the Needs of Aging Patients (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This national webinar provides an overview of best practices for developing or strengthening health and housing partnerships to support aging patients. More Details...

Demographic Facts: Residents Living in Public Housing (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: n.a. More Details...

“Acting on Social Determinants of Health Screening Data to Address Barriers to Health” Webinar (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: AAPCHO, Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) hosted a HRSA-sponsored webinar to explore strategies to screen special and vulnerable populations for social determinants of health (SDOH) and build effective practices to begin addressing SDOH through outreach and enabling services (ES). More Details...

Non-Clinical Approaches to Diabetes Prevention: Lessons Learned from Health Centers and Community Partners (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this publication is to share lessons learned from health centers and other community-based partners that are implementing new strategies for preventing diabetes in their communities. More Details...