Resource Search Results

Suicide Risk Assessment and Management for LGBTQ People (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication offers a brief summary of what is known about suicidal behavior and risk among LGBTQ people, followed by information and resources for health centers to help both young and old LGBTQ people get support and tap into internal and community resilience. More Details...

Examining Implicit Bias: Tools and Techniques for Self-Inquiry and Compassionate Care for LGBT People (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A primary objective for health care professionals is to establish solid, trusting relationships with patients in order to promote healthier behaviors. As with other minority groups, when working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) patients, it is especially important to build rapport as a way to counteract the exclusion, discrimination, and stigma that many have experienced previously in health care. Despite our best intentions, however, internal –or implicit–biases may affect the way we talk to and behave with patients. For health care professionals, biases can lead to inequitable care, either through biased clinical decisions, or through communicating bias in conversation with patients. More Details...

Creating a Transgender Health Program at Your Health Center: From Planning to Implimentation (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In this guide, we provide a framework for building a health program for transgender and gender diverse patients at your health center. There is no “one size fits all” approach to this work, but there are certain building blocks from which to create your own program that supports the gender diverse people in your community. 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...

Caring for Patients with Pain is a Team Sport (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, the expert faculty at CHCI will look at the contribution of each member of the expanded care team in addressing needs of patients with chronic pain, and the strategies that support their work. More Details...

Stopping the Revolving Door: How Health Centers Can Serve Justice Involved Populations: Coordinating to meet the health needs of individuals leaving prison and jails. (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Disproportionate numbers of individuals leaving correctional facilities suffer from substance use, medical and mental health challenges that go untreated when they return to the community. Health centers across the country are working to improve the lives of justice-involved patients. From coordinated discharge planning with jail and probation staff, to proactive post-release health center appointments and assistance with locating housing, health centers are uniquely able to serve this population. More Details...

Supplemental Anticipatory Guidance: For Children and Adolescents Experiencing Homelessness (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A key component of well-child visits, anticipatory guidance—a proactive, age-based education and counseling technique—provides an opportunity for health care professionals, parents, and the child to ask questions and discuss issues of concern. This publication supplements standard anticipatory guidance to account for the unique challenges presented by homelessness that may affect a child’s health and development. More Details...

Shelter-Based Care for Homeless Populations: Healing Hands (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue explores innovative shelter-based health care programs and highlights best practices and lessons learned for effective collaborations with shelter staff and providing person-centered, trauma-informed health care in a shelter. More Details...

Recommendations for End-of-Life Care for People Experiencing Homelessness: Adapting Your Practice (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: These recommended practice adaptations reflect HCH Clinicians' Network steering committee's collective judgment about end-of-life care for this population, with the realistic understanding that limited resource availability in local areas, fragmented health care delivery systems, and lack of follow-up often compromise adherence to optimal clinical practices. These recommendations are intended to contribute to improvements in both quality of care and quality of life for people experiencing homelessness. More Details...

Assessment and Treatment of People with Asthma Who Are Experiencing Homelessness: Adapting Your Practice (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Part of the NHCHC's Adapted Clinical Guidelines series, this edition promotes continued improvement in the quality of asthma care provided to adults and children whose lack of financial and social resources complicate the treatment and self-management of their chronic disease. More Details...

From Affiliation to Action: Proven Strategies to Make it Easier to Host Health Professions Students (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar clinical leadership will explore the elements of our enhanced teaching arrangements within the medical, behavioral health, nursing, and dental disciplines. More Details...

Training the Next Generation of Integrated Primary Care Providers to Safely and Effectively Manage Chronic Pain Utilizing Telehealth Solutions​ (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Leaders and experts from the Weitzman Institute’s Project ECHO and Postgraduate Residency Training Programs discuss enhancing your training curriculum with additional content specific to treating complex pain patients within a team-based model of care. More Details...

Multi-system Coordination: Building and Maintaining a Coordinated Provider Community: Highlights examples of health and housing multi-system coordination for very complex patients (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: People experiencing homelessness are at the intersection of multiple systems, including health, housing, and the justice system. This webinar highlights examples of multi-system coordination for very complex patients that aim to not only increase access to care but also to collaboratively manage care among multiple providers. More Details...

Understanding and Addressing the Health Needs of Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Strategies for Increasing Access and Quality Care for Hard to Reach Youth (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Significant health disparities including higher rates of mental health and substance use impact youth experiencing homelessness, yet they are at risk of underutilizing services and care. This webinar explores the needs of youth experiencing homelessness with an emphasis on LGBTQ youth, best practices in providing care, and the intersection of behavioral health for this vulnerable population. More Details...

Population Specific Approaches to SDOH: Elderly, LGBT, Migrant Workers and Public Housing Residents (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Individuals within certain special and vulnerable populations experience health inequalities and therefore are at a higher risk of late detection, inadequate management and treatment of diabetes. Improved access to certain non-clinical enabling services and a comprehensive social history is essential to understanding the needs of these often overlooked individuals, and developing interventions that address those needs. 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...

Suicide and Homelessness: Data Trends in Suicide and Mental Health Among Homeless Populations (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet details common risk factors for suicidal behaviors, mental health and clinical utilization trends of HCH grantees reported in the 2016 Uniform Data System dataset, and circumstantial data reported in the National Violent Death Reporting System. More Details...

What's new in STI epidemiology, prevention, and treatment for Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM)? (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Rates of syphilis and gonorrhea have been increasing in the United States, and most cases occur in men who have sex with men (MSM). In this webinar, Dr. Kevin Ard will review recent trends in STIs and examine causes for these trends. He will also discuss the controversial impact of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on STI incidence among MSM. Dr. Ard will outline steps clinicians and health centers can take to address STIs in 2018. 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...