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Transgender Women and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know (2014). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication focuses on PrEP as a prevention option that transgender women should consider but also stresses the need for more research to demonstrate that PrEP is effective for preventing HIV infection among transgender women and a gap in the literature regarding the understanding about the interaction of PrEP and feminizing hormones. More Details...

Cholinesterase (ChE) Testing Protocols and Algorithm for Healthcare Providers (2014). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: A clinician guide for monitoring cholinesterase levels for patients working with Class I and Class II organophosphates (OP) and N-methyl-carbamates. More Details...

Oral Health and Disease in People Living with HIV Disease (2013). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This Powerpoint presentation describes the latest trends in oral manifestations seen in association with medically complex patients, discusses how to recognize and manage the most common oral manifestations seen in association with medically complex patients, explains Dental Treatment Considerations for HIV+ patients, and describes post exposure protocols after an incident in the dental setting. More Details...

Benefits of Oral HIV Testing in the Dental Chair: Promising Practice (2012). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This promising practice describes how the Columbia College of Dental Medicine in New York developed an iniative to conduct HIV testing in the dental clinic. More Details...

Health Screenings in the Dental Office (2011). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This Powerpoint presentation describes the importance of screening in a dental clinic and includes data from the CDC National Diabetes Fact Sheet, discusses the first reports of HIV/AIDS, and reviews the CDC's basics of HIV including counseling and testing recommendations. It provides a detailed rationale for current prevention efforts. More Details...

Communicating Effectively About Vaccines: New Communication Resources for Health Officials (2010). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Communicating effectively with parents about the importance of vaccines is a key issue for the public health community to address. In August 2009, ASTHO commissioned a survey of U.S. parents and guardians to gather information about effective messages and materials for state and territorial health officials to use to better address parental concerns and promote the benefits of vaccines. More Details...

Environmental and Occupational Screening Questions for the Primary Care Setting: Preguntas para sondear en los lugares de atencion a la salud (2007). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Three concise and effective environmental/occupational health screening questions for the primary care provider. English/Spanish resource More Details...

My Healthy Eating Plate: Middle Eastern North African Edition (1905). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Fresh fruits and vegetables, portion control, and knowledge of nutrition are essential to maintaining a healthy diet. This brochure, created by MHP Salud and the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, was designed to help Middle Eastern and North African communities build nutritious plates with familiar fresh foods. More Details...

What happens when you give the community resources it needs: Using a Community-led Approach to Assess Farmworker COVID-19 Needs and Assistance (44869). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Latino Community Fund, Inc. (LCF Georgia) was founded in 2017 to provide economic funding to groups that do critical work in the state but lack access to networks of funding and power. Fast forward to 2020, due to the onset of the pandemic, the community of South Georgia was especially impacted. The economic and social support needs of the community in southern Georgia led LCF Georgia to create the South Georgia Navigation Program (SGNP), a community led, community-staffed program. This program ensures sustainable community development in a region where farmworkers have access to limited resources. More Details...

Utilizing AmeriCorps Members to Support the Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout (44301). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: n.a. More Details...

Understanding Stages of Change and Best Interventions for Substance Use Disorders (44341). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discusses how nurses, nurse practitioners, and other providers can support patients with substance use disorders. More Details...

Understanding & Advancing the Health Center Role in Local Emergency Response (43186). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Health centers play a crucial role in local emergency planning and response efforts. Panelists from across the country will share their experiences in building health care coalitions and other collaborative opportunities to position health centers for a greater impact in preparedness and response. More Details...

Trust and Creativity: Increasing COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in Orange County, California  (44874). Resource Type: Publication. Description: At the onset of the pandemic, Latinx communities were disproportionately affected by COVID19. LHA’s Community Health Workers, also known as Promotores de Salud, demonstrated the importance of meeting community members where they are at and approaching complex topics creatively through a popular education approach. While the strategy highlighted here is only one method of many strategic actions implemented by LHA, other wrap-around concepts contributed to the overall success of the organization in reaching the community. See Figure 1 for LHA’s holistic COVID-19 response. More Details...

Todos Contamos: Community Building in a Multilingual Indigenous Community (44876). Resource Type: Publication. Description: To address the impact of COVID-19 on farmworkers and construction workers in their community, WeCount! utilized existing strategies of including Mesoamerican Indigenous members in its organizational leadership and decision-making and reaching Indigenous community members through face-to-face outreach and multilingual radio programming. This inturn, has expanded access to health education information for the multilingual community in Homestead, Florida. More Details...

The National Diabetes Prevention Program: Where We Are, Where We're Going (43738). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: To provide an overview of the Primary Care Association (PCA) environmental scan and results. More Details...

Technical Documentation with and for Mesoamerican Indigenous Language Speakers (44848). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The RWHP team and their collaborators tested participatory strategies to create multilingual resources alongside Indigenous communities. Materials included information about the COVID19 pandemic through mediums such as fotonovelas, audionovelas, and flyers translated into Indigenous languages and representing Indigenous peoples. Through an iterative process of evaluating and designing materials with feedback from Indigenous partners, RWHP focused on “localizing” resources to resonate better and ultimately better serve Indigenous communities. More Details...

Sharing COVID-19 Vaccine Information Through Social Media (44426). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This interactive workshop helped prepare nurses to share information and stories on social media. Presenters walked participants through the basics of individual social media channels as well as best practices for sharing your own content and engaging with others’. More Details...

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in Urban FQHCs (41804). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar describes a randomized clinical trial of a brief intervention (SBIRT) against a 2-6 session intervention of brief treatment in three urban federally qualified healthcare centers (FQHCs), focusing on screening and onsite brief intervention / brief treatment. More Details...

Removing vaccine access barriers by hosting on-farm vaccine clinics for dairy workers and their families    (44841). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Starting March 31, 2021, Dr. Anabel Rodriguez’s UT Health team and volunteer interpreters facilitated on-dairy farm COVID-19 vaccine clinics by bridging established relationships with Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Public Health Region 1 in Lubbock, Texas, and Aurora Organic Dairy in Stratford and Dublin, Texas. Dr. Rodriguez’s and her team’s farmworker research and outreach efforts and pre-existing relationships with producers in this rural region of Texas helped propel this initiative into action. This multi-agency vaccine collaboration created an open line of communication between the public health offices in the Texas Panhandle and the dairy farm leadership, dairy farm workers, and their families. More Details...

Public Housing Today: Trends, Changes, and Next Steps (43545). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Alexandra Ernst (Research & Evaluation Group), Ron Clewer (Alliance for Strong Families and Communities), and Shambreia McBrayer + team (American Lung Association) discuss the public housing landscape in the United States and how health centers (and other safety net providers) can access resources to optimize care for residents of public housing. More Details...