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How Health Center Care Teams Can Address Health and Housing for Patients Involved With the Justice System (44400). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue brief aims to describe the cyclical relationship between those systems and housing insecurity (including homelessness). It also provides an overview of both the civil and criminal justice systems in the United States. Based on this foundation, the brief outlines potential workflow considerations for health centers working to reduce health disparities for patients and families. More Details...

Housing is Health: La Maestra Community Health Centers (44537). Resource Type: Podcasts. Description: In this podcast episode leadership from La Maestra Community Health Centers in San DIego highlight how they support various housing needs ranging from programs for people living in public housing, experiencing homelessness and human trafficking, to counseling for renters and residents receiving public assistance. More Details...

Hepatitis Awareness Month: Providing Care for Patients During COVID-19 (43970). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar explored resources available to providers that treat patients seeking viral hepatitis services during the COVID-19 pandemic. More Details...

Healthy Together: A Toolkit for Health Center Collaborations with HUD-Assisted Housing and Community-Based Organizations Webinar (44705). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National Center for Health in Public Housing and the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium are happy to announce the release of “Healthy Together: A Toolkit for Health Center Collaborations with HUD-Assisted Housing and Community-Based Organizations”. More Details...

Healthy Together: A Toolkit for Health Center Collaborations with HUD-Assisted Housing and Community-Based Organizations (44652). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The National Center for Health in Public Housing and the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium are happy to announce the release of “Healthy Together: A Toolkit for Health Center Collaborations with HUD-Assisted Housing and Community-Based Organizations”! More Details...

Health Education Farmworker Feedback Committee (44867). Resource Type: Publication. Description: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, accessing farmworker-friendly health education materials to conduct outreach and education activities became an evident challenge, namely due to language barriers as much of the material published was in English. This led NCFH to work together with network organizations and other farmworker-serving organizations in the development of new resources. The process included the formation of a Farmworker Feedback Committee to review and provide feedback on health education resources created by NCFH, which has been instrumental in making material suitable for farmworker audiences. More Details...

Health Center Showcase: The National Diabetes Prevention Program (44327). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: n.a. More Details...

Health Center Heroes: Primary Care and Nurse Home Visiting (43684). Resource Type: Other. Description: NNCC spoke to nurses at the Abbottsford Falls Family Practice & Counseling Network and Philadelphia Nurse-Family Partnership to explore the partnership between primary care and home-visiting nurses and how a public health approach can provide quality care. More Details...

Health Center Emergency Management Plan - Template (43633). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document is to be used as a guide for the development of a health center emergency management (EM) plan, or EMP. Health centers should modify suggested language, policies, and/or protocols to reflect current operations and organizational approach to the EM program’s structure and ongoing maintenance. The yellow, highlighted text that appears in brackets provides direction/placeholders for customizing this plan to align with your health center’s policies and procedures. More Details...

Health Center Communications Plan - Template (43633). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document is to be used as a guide for developing a health center Communications Plan. It may be maintained as a free-standing document or as an annex to your organization’s Emergency Management Plan (EMP). The yellow text in brackets provides directions/placeholders for customizing this plan to align with your health center’s policies and procedures. More Details...

Health and Housing Partnerships: Progress Towards a Tobacco-Free Community (43881). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar reviews the requirements of HUD’s smoke-free rule and identifies behavioral health treatment strategies for tobacco use disorder. More Details...

Farmworker Outreach Promising Practices: Lessons from the Field (44791). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Health Outreach Partners (HOP), in collaboration with NCFH, interviewed and documented promising outreach practices of farmworker-serving organizations across the United States. This webinar will feature 3-4 experts who will share their outreach practices, key strategies, and lessons learned while giving participants an opportunity to ask questions about the development and implementation of the practices. More Details...

Examining the Impact of COVID on Community Health Centers, Part 1: "At the Core of Care" (Podcast) (44096). Resource Type: Podcast. Description: Kristine Gonnella, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, discusses how the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium is working with partners nationally to make public health preparedness resources more readily accessible to community health centers. More Details...

Equitable Housing Policy Central to Addressing COVID-19 Pandemic (43913). Resource Type: Other. Description: This blog post outlines what policymakers and healthcare providers can do - now and in the future - to respond to the needs of those at greatest risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. More Details...

Emergency Preparedness: Tabletop Exercises (43784). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) requires that health centers test their emergency preparedness plans annually. A tabletop exercise may be acceptable to satisfy this requirement if conducted every 2 years. More Details...

Emergency Preparedness: Panel Discussion Q&A: Emerging Infectious Disease Readiness for Community Health Centers and Ambulatory Care (43481). Resource Type: Archived In-Person Training. Description: Dr. Rick Sacra, Bernadette Thomas, Lt. Brian Pomodoro, Sr., and Sarah Darcy answer questions about emerging infectious disease readiness for community health centers and ambulatory care. More Details...

Emergency Preparedness: Infectious Disease Surveillance: Infectious Disease Surveillance in Massachusetts and Beyond (43481). Resource Type: Archived In-Person Training. Description: Larry Madoff, MD, speaks on infectious disease surveillance in Massachusetts and beyond. More Details...

Emergency Preparedness: Health Center Perspective: Protecting our Workforce and Patients from Emerging Infectious Disease (43481). Resource Type: Archived In-Person Training. Description: Bernadette Thomas, DNP, Chief Operations Officer for Lynn Community Health Center speaks on protecting our workforce and patients from emerging infectious disease More Details...

Emergency Preparedness: Ebola Training & Overview: Ebola Training & Overview (43481). Resource Type: Archived In-Person Training. Description: Dr. Rick Sacra, ELWA Hospital, speaks on Ebola, its history, treatment, and personal experience contracting it. More Details...

Effective Communication With Colleagues and Patients About COVID Vaccines (44351). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discusses strategies for effective communication across different generational groups, and how you can apply these principles when discussing COVID vaccine information. This webinar is part of NNCC's Nurse-Led Forum for Vaccine Confidence series. More Details...