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A Guide to Essential Cybersecurity Tasks for Health Centers: For health centers with limited resources, developed in June 2023 (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: In an increasingly connected healthcare landscape, health centers face a dual challenge: the rising tide of cyber threats and the need to comply with stringent data protection regulations, all while managing limited resources. The ever-evolving nature of cyberattacks and the complexity of compliance requirements make it essential for health centers to prioritize cybersecurity tasks effectively. More Details...

The Health of Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Patients Served at Health Centers: An Analysis of the 2021 Uniform Data System; Webinar - May 2023 (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) hosted a webinar sharing a data analysis of the 2021 Uniform Data System (UDS) and recommendations to increase access to care and improve health outcomes for AA and NH/PI patients. Presenters shared key findings from AAPCHO’s updated and annual report, “The Health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Served at Health Centers: An Analysis of the 2021 Uniform Data System”. More Details...

Servicios de salud a bajo costo para trabajadores agricolas y sus familias! (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH desarrollo este recurso para proporcionar a los trabajadores agricolas, incluidos los trabajadores con visa H-2A, informacion sobre los programas y servicios disponibles que ofrecen los centros de salud y como conectarse a estos servicios. More Details...

Low-Cost Health Services for Farmworkers & their Families! (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH developed this resource to provide farmworkers, including H-2A visa workers, with information about available programs and services that health centers offer and ways to get connected to these services. More Details...

Strategies to Improve Staff Retention in Health Center Settings: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The rate of staff turnover at health center facilities is staggering and was exacerbated by the complexities and stressful circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the important implications of staff turnover, health centers have made significant attempts to understand its underlying reasons and devise solutions to decrease it. More Details...

Health Centers and Syringe Services Programs (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Our new resource emphasizes HRSA policy allowing health centers to participate in SSPs, outlines models of care, and provides best practices and resources for moving forward to provide health center patients access to syringes. More Details...

STAR2 Center Health Professions Education and Training Financial Impact Assessment Tool (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The STAR² Center Health Professions Education and Training Financial Impact Assessment Tool is designed to help you understand how a health professions training and education (HP-ET) program can financially affect your health center, including estimating impact to staff development and satisfaction, which can be harder to calculate using discreet figures. More Details...

Consumer Engagement Assessment Tool (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This assessment tool will aid health centers in evaluating their efforts to invite, facilitate, and support consumer input and leadership in the governance of their organizations. For Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) programs within larger FQHC funding structures or public entities, accurate responses to questions about organizational governance and administrative activities may require input from both organizational leadership and HCH program directors. The purpose of these questions is to evaluate how people with lived experience of homelessness are invited into governance, even for programs that are not HCH standalones. More Details...

Climate Ambassador Training (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This free, three-hour training equips health professionals with the knowledge, hands-on experience, and resources to speak and act confidently on climate change solutions. Health professionals are empowered to inspire their colleagues, associations, community, the public, and policymakers to be empowered in making a change on climate solutions that help protect the health of our families and communities now, and ensure a prosperous, just, and secure future. More Details...

VIH / SIDA Entre Los Trabajadores Agricolas (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH has produced an updated HIV/AIDS & U.S. Agricultural Workers fact sheet. Updates include more recent statistics from CDC and recent peer- reviewed literature on HIV studies among agricultural workers. It is available on the NCFH website to view and download at the link below. More Details...

NTTAP Webinar Series - May 18, 2023: The Changing Landscape of Behavioral Health Care: What is the “new normal” going to look like? (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant shifts in the mode of care from face-to-face to virtual interactions. Join us as we discuss the challenges currently facing behavioral health care and at least one strategy for each. Along with these strategies, panelists will go over what integrated behavioral health care was and is before and following COVID-19, as well as what actions should be taken going forward to increase access to comprehensive care. More Details...

User's Guide for the Implementation of In-House Dental Assistant Training Programs (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This new publication describes strategies for community health centers to implement their dental assistant training programs. These programs can help enhance dental assistant recruitment and retention. They can also build community capacity by increasing the dental assistant workforce. More Details...

Social Determinants of Health Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Barriers: A Resource for Health Centers, Vol. 3 (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC), four HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partner organizations, released a report on lessons learned, challenges, barriers, and impact stories shared from the (4) sessions of the “Acting on SDOH Screening Data to Address Barriers to Health” Learning Collaborative. This Learning Collaborative shared strategies to respond to SDOH data through enabling services staff, culturally and socially appropriate interventions, and internal and external organizational capacity. More Details...

Healthcare Transition for Youth with Disabilities (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: When youth with disabilities age out of pediatric care provision, they often experience healthcare disruptions. Knowledge gaps for both families and providers persist, but increased healthcare transition activities can make a difference in healthcare and quality of life outcomes for youth with disabilities. It is important to understand healthcare transition frameworks and implementation strategies. More Details...

Building Resilient Health Center Facilities Utilizing Solar+Storage Microgrids (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource, developed with support from HRSA, explores the benefits, opportunities, challenges, and financing resources for FQHCs looking to install solar+storage microgrids. (Released in 2023) More Details...

Updated Analysis: A Data Driven Approach to Understanding Factors Contributing to Health Inequities (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource, an updated version of A Data Driven Approach to Understanding Factors Contributing to Health Inequities (released in 2022), was developed with support from Cedars-Sinai and HealthLandscape. In this analysis, we review more than 100 factors for the 57 FQHC members of the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County (CCALAC) for 2017-2021. (Released in 2023) More Details...

Optimize Your Care Team to Improve Chronic Hypertensive Disease Management (2023). Resource Type: Online Self-Paced Learning Modules. Description: This webinar focuses on advancing the mgmt of hypertension & improving patient outcomes through optimization of care teams. We explore how care team optimization, grounded in evidence-based practices, enhances health outcomes & provides vital support for our workforce. During this session, you hear from Ingrid Andersson from Mary’s Center on using RNs to enhance chronic care management, with a special emphasis on patients dealing with hypertension. Through comprehensive discussions & case studies, you explore the latest promising practices that focus on the pivotal role of collaborative teams in achieving superior patient outcomes. More Details...

Assessing Provider Capabilities, Attitudes, and Preferences about Telehealth: HITEQ Center Question Bank, April 2023 (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: As health centers are charting their path forward with telehealth after the public health emergency ends, it will be critical to have methods in place to comprehensively assess the current experiences, capabilities, attitudes, and preferences of providers. Telehealth program improvements should be grounded in a real understanding of these factors to ensure readiness of all providers. More Details...

Navigating Leadership Roles: 8 Compass Points (2023). Resource Type: elearning. Description: NACHC has developed an 8-part series of modules that supports your understanding of what’s required of an effective leader. These fundamentals can be used to orient you as you prepare for your leadership journey. Topics include core characteristics, foundational management skills, influencing without authority, communication, SMART goals, employee motivation, ethics, and professional networking More Details...

Eyes on Access: Billing for Vision Services (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is a continuation of the 2022 vision services webinar series. With a deep dive into billing for vision services, this webinar series addresses how health centers can align their billing procedures for vision services with their existing service lines. More Details...