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IAC Plus Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Screening Tool (2021). Resource Type: Template . Description: This tool assist health care providers in assessing, screening, and documenting SDOH factors among MSAW patients and create an action plan to enhance population health outcomes and UDS reporting.  More Details...

IAC Plus Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Checklist (2020). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This checklist serves to identify Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs) SDOH challenges, resources available, and strategies implemented to manage these barriers. More Details...

IAC Migrant Health Program Self-Asessment Tool (2018). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This tool is designed to assist health center staff in evaluating their current Migrant Health Program and identify potential areas for improvement. More Details...

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...

HIV/AIDS and U.S. Agricultural Workers (2017). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This factsheet provides information on the heavy burden on migratory and seasonal agricultural workers for contracting HIV and/or AIDS due to their lack of health care access due to legal, financial, geographical, and linguistic barriers coupled with a lack of material and social support. The migratory lifestyle, often characterized by constant mobility, geographic isolation, separation from family, lack of health education, and varying cultural attitudes and beliefs about safe sex practices further escalates these risks. 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...

Healthy Habits from Home (2020). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: Fillable flyer for diabetes 2 and healthy habits for health centers. More Details...

Health, Schools, and Public Housing: Uniting for Young People's Success (43186). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discusses the needs of children and adolescents within public housing and successful health center strategies for creating partnerships between the housing and education sectors. More Details...

Health Literacy Introduction (2018). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This publication provides an introduction to the different strategies utilized to address health literacy among special and vulnerable populations, including agricultural workers. 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 Expansion Opportunities & Community Needs (43279). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar outlines expansion opportunities for health centers to leverage resources, identifies growth potential, and work with patients and community partners to improve care. You will learn about special considerations for serving residents of public housing, identify strategies to expand services for vulnerable populations, and understand how to position themselves strategically for expansion regardless of funding availability. 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 Public Housing: Supporting Smoke-Free Public Housing in Health Centers (43307). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This one-pager describes HUD's Smoke-Free Housing Rule in detail and provides the next steps for health centers. 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...

Hábitos saludables desde su hogar (2020). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: Folleto rellenable de Diabetes 2 y hábitos saludables para centros de salud. More Details...

Guide to Implementing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) (2020). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This set of action steps for providing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) serve as a guide to promote healthcare organizations that fosters health equity for all patients regardless of their culture or socio-economic factors.   More Details...

General Precaution Procedure (2012). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This procedure includes a list of general safety precautions for Community Workers when working with new or existing clients. More Details...