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Juntos Nos Movemos: Parents and Children Making the Time to Move Together (2020). Resource Type: Archived In-Person Training. Description: Juntos Nos Movemos aims to prevent and reduce childhood obesity by helping agricultural worker parents make the most of their limited free time with their children by engaging in a variety of fun and culturally-appropriate physical activities. The curriculum and accompanying materials (trainer’s guide, flipchart, and worksheet, available in English and Spanish) are for outreach staff to share with agricultural worker patients. More Details...

VA Mission Act Update (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar is an overview of the VA MISSION Act for FQHCs presented by Dr. Kameron Matthews, Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Community Care Veterans Health Administration. More Details...

Effective Partnership Guide: Improving Oral Health for MIgrant and Seasonal Head Start Children and their Families (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This collaboration between the National MIgrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) programs (ACF/OHS) and the Health Center Program (HRSA/BPHC) provides an overview of oral health care within Head Start programs in conjunction with health centers. It describes effective ways that MSHS can partner with health centers for dental care and outlines payment models and avenues for partnership. More Details...

Lessons Learned in Diabetes Care for Homeless Populations: Best practices from peer collaborative of health centers and supportive housing providers (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication summarizes key barriers and promising practices in the field identified by collaborative participants related to diabetes care for individuals experiencing homelessness or formerly homeless in supportive housing. More Details...

A Guide for Rural Health Care Collaboration and Coordination (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A Guide for Rural Health Care Collaboration and Coordination was developed in cooperation with local, state, and national level leaders representing various rural health care organizations. This document discusses key lessons learned from efforts these leaders have pursued in their own rural communities. More Details...

VA Medical-Legal Partnership Readiness Guide (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Veterans are a special population with demonstrated social and legal needs that affect their health and well-being. The VA Medical-Legal Partnership Readiness Guide, developed by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, provides VA medical centers with a step-by-step approach to starting and sustaining an MLP. More Details...

Addressing Health Equity through Health and Housing Partnerships: Strategies for health and housing providers to address the inequities in our systems that impact access to quality health care for homeless and vulnerable populations. (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Community health centers can strengthen their efforts to address the inequities and barriers for homeless and vulnerable populations to access quality health care. This publication highlights the areas for focus for health centers to address the inequities that impact vulnerable populations. More Details...

Financing Medical-Legal Partnerships: View From The Field (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: To date, over 350 health organizations - including over 120 HRSA funded health centers -have implemented medical-legal partnerships (MLPs). This fact sheet draws on national survey data from these organizations and their partnering legal organizations to describe programs’ average budgets as well as a variety of health, legal, and philanthropic funding streams that currently fund MLPs. It also discusses how MLPs are adapting to meet their funding challenges and highlights examples of programs implementing innovative Medicaid financing models to pay for MLP services. More Details...

Socially Vulnerable Older Adults and Medical-Legal Partnership (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The report details three medical-legal partnership programs serving older adults and their impact on preventing homelessness, improving financial stability, and other social determinants. More Details...

Complex Care Health Settings and Medical-Legal Partnerships (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet describes five complex care settings that have integrated medical-legal partnership services into care delivery to tackle SDOH. It also features data on the ways these partnerships have demonstrated initial success in improving both physical and mental health conditions as well as stabilizing income and housing for patients with complex conditions while also curbing costly overuse of health care services by addressing the root causes of patients’ problems. More Details...

HUD Policy Brief for Health Centers - Data Matching with Housing Community: Understanding the Role and Impact of Housing Policy for Health Centers (Data Matching) (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Health centers and housing providers are serving the same clients, and HUD policies foster opportunities for partners to effectively share data target and improve Health Outcomes. This series translates federal housing policies to help health centers understand the impact and how to coordinate and adapt programming to create the most beneficial outcomes for clients. More Details...

Medical-Legal Partnership Origin Story: People's Community Clinic in Austin (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue brief traces an Austin TX health center's efforts to build an MLP, including planning process, how the nuts and bolts of the partnership came together, and how it’s expanded over time. More Details...

School-Based Health and Medical-Legal Partnerships (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In partnership with the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, this online factsheet describes common social and legal needs that affect the health of youth and ways that integrated legal services can help meet those needs. It also examines medical-legal partnership programs at two school-based health centers and shares stories of students benefiting from medical-legal partnership services. More Details...

School-Based Health and Medical-Legal Partnerships (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In partnership with the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, this online factsheet describes common social and legal needs that affect the health of youth and ways that integrated legal services can help meet those needs. It also examines medical-legal partnership programs at two school-based health centers and shares stories of students benefiting from medical-legal partnership services. More Details...

Transgender Health and Medical-Legal Partnerships (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet describes common social and legal needs that affect the health of transgender individuals, and ways integrated legal services can help meet those needs. It examines medical-legal partnership programs at three health care organizations and how they operate, and it shares stories of people benefiting from medical-legal partnership services. More Details...

School-Based Health and Medical-Legal Partnerships (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet describes common social and legal needs that affect the health of youth, and ways integrated legal services can help meet those needs. It examines medical-legal partnership programs at two school-based health centers and how they operate, and it shares stories of students benefiting from medical-legal partnership services. More Details...

Ensuring People with Chronic Conditions Maintain Access to Care (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This story series follows the Whitman Walker Health Center medical-legal partnership team as they helped prevent platinum insurance plans that were widely used by patients with chronic conditions from being eliminated in the D.C. Marketplace More Details...

Keeping Children Safe From Lead Poisoning (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This story series follows the medical-legal partnership at Erie Family Health Centers, which built a multi-state coalition to secure children’s health by updating federal regulations related to lead levels in federal housing. More Details...

Eliminating Hurdles to Life Saving Medication (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This story series follows the Whitman-Walker Health medical-legal partnership, which worked with insurance companies to remove requirements forcing Post-Exposure Prophylaxis medications to be filled by mail More Details...

Helping Kids Get At-Home Care (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: What would you do if your one-year old child depended on a ventilator to breathe, and the home nursing care needed to monitor it wasn’t available? Would you keep your child in the hospital indefinitely? Would you quit your job to be home with your child, and stay up all night to make sure they didn’t stop breathing? Would you put them in a long-term nursing facility 80 miles away where they’d have the care they needed, but where you wouldn’t see them for days at a time? In 2015, for several parents in Washington State, the heartbreaking answer to all these questions was yes. More Details...