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2022 Caucus on Homelessness Program Summary (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In 2022, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council chaired the development of the Caucus on Homelessness (CoH) program for the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2022 Annual Meeting and Expo. The theme of the annual meeting was: \"150 Years of Creating the Healthiest Nation: Leading the Path Toward Equity.\" More Details...

Farmworker COVID-19 Community Assessment (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Farmworker COVID-19 Community Assessment webinar outlines how NCFH adapted the CDC’s rapid community assessment framework for data collection with farmworkers. Presenters will report lessons learned and key findings from data collected during Phase 2 of the project (March-August 2022) with a focus on highlighting the sampling and planning strategies employed, and engagement with community stakeholders. Presented on 2/9/2023 More Details...

Farmworker COVID-19 Community Assessment (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Farmworker COVID-19 Community Assessment webinar outlines how NCFH adapted the CDC’s rapid community assessment framework for data collection with farmworkers. Presenters will report lessons learned and key findings from data collected during Phase 2 of the project (March-August 2022) with a focus on highlighting the sampling and planning strategies employed, and engagement with community stakeholders. Presented on 2/9/2023 More Details...

Impacto Del Covid-19 En Los Trabajadores Agrícolas (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A Spanish version of the National Center for Farmworker Health\'s Covid-19 Fact Sheet updated in October 2022. This fact sheet reports data and research surrounding Covid-19 prevalence among agricultural worker communities, their disproportional impact, occupational and housing risks, access to care, and Covid-19 vaccination of farmworkers. Through the following link the reader can download the Spanish language pdf and disseminate with partners. 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...

The Covid-19 Impact on Agricultural Workers fact sheet (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Covid-19 Impact on Agricultural Workers fact sheet has been updated with new information surrounding Mental Health and Access to Care as well. Covid-19 vaccination and case data has been updated as well. More Details...

Work as a Social Driver of Health: How La Casa Family Health Center Identifies Farmworkers (2022). Resource Type: Podcast. Description: What happens when health center care teams know more about a patient’s occupation? This data can be especially important if the patient is an essential worker, as the Health Choice Network, a health center-controlled network based in Miami, and their partners at La Casa Family Health Center in New Mexico, learned during the COVID pandemic when treating a high-risk group of dairy farmworkers. This episode of NACHC’s podcast, Health Centers on the Front Lines, takes us behind the scenes at a health center and its partner network as they change the culture around disclosure of occupation among patients. More Details...

The Health of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Patients Served at Health Centers: An Analysis of the 2020 Uniform Data System (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report examines current patient demographics and utilization of health services at health centers serving Asian Americans (AAs) and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NH/PIs), and highlights the differences between these centers and the national average of all health centers in the United States. More Details...

Bright Spots in HIV Screening: Health center examples, developed June 2022 (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Since 2020, health centers have reported the HIV Screening clinical quality measure on Table 6B of the UDS. This measures the portion of medical patients aged 15 through 65 who have at least one HIV test recorded between their 15th and 66th birthday. HITEQ hosted discussions with health centers in fall of 2021 to find out how they have made progress on this particular clinical quality measure. More Details...

Health Centers Are Addressing America's Mental Health Crisis (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This factsheet summarizes health centers’ behavioral health services. It highlights data from UDS that shows growth in patients and staff over the last decade, as well as the variety of behavioral health professionals and services offered at health centers. We discuss the growth in telehealth use to continue behavioral health services during the pandemic. Finally, policy suggestions to support behavioral health services at health centers are presented. More Details...

Rebuilding Systems: Adapting Housing Assessments to Prioritize Health, Equity, and Belonging (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document is designed to provide a framework communities can use to create equity within their CE process. There is no one tool that can accommodate the unique resources of all communities but applying this guidance will help achieve equity in the process. More Details...

NTTAP Webinar: Integrating HIV Education (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discussed how to educate Nurse Practitioners who have completed Community Health Center. Inc’s NP Residency or NPs who have significant experience as a Primary Care Provider on the integration of specialty care for key populations, including: • HIV care • Hepatitis C management • Medication-assisted treatment for opioid use and other substance use disorders • Sexually transmitted disease (STI) screening and management • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA+) health, including hormone replacement therapy and gender affirming care. More Details...

NTTAP Webinar: Assessing Health Center Readiness to Train Health Professionals (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discussed how to use the Readiness to Train Assessment Tool (RTAT™), developed by HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partners (NTTAP) at Community Health Center, Inc., to support health centers’ strategic workforce planning through the lens of health professions training (HPT). More Details...

Integrating HIV Prevention into Primary Care (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discussed best practices for integrating HIV prevention (e.g. HIV testing, PrEP and linkage to care) into primary care within the context of enhancing clinical workforce development. 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...

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...

Responding to Competitive Compensation Pressures (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Community Health Centers (CHCs) are revamping their compensation strategy to keep up with a shifting labor market and ongoing pandemic disruptions. Join us for a one-hour webinar to learn how the current labor market is influencing the health center workforce and how CHCs can enhance their compensation strategy More Details...

Identifying Outcomes for Medical Respite/ Recuperative Care Programs (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document is intended to help programs identify specific outcomes and variables that they can feasibly track within their program. More Details...

Emerging Topics in Trans Medicine – Expert Panel Discussion (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this panel from the 2021 Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health conference, experts in transgender and gender-diverse patient care discuss emerging topics in the field. More Details...

Health Center Role in Housing Innovations: Pay for Success Models: Publication Series highlighting health center role to advance innovative housing models (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Learn more about the role for health centers in Pay for Success Models as part of the current trend towards measuring outcomes to understand successful social interventions to address the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), including housing.  More Details...