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Chronic Stress, Housing, and Health: Patient Experiences and Strategies for Comprehensive Care (44727). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar explores the intersections of chronic stress, housing, and health and featured a panel of experts offering a variety of perspectives, including (1) the patient perspective on the realities of residing in public housing and how it impacts health, (2) research on the intersections of health and housing, and (3) trauma-informed care in community and patient engagement. More Details...

Child Labor in Agriculture Factsheet (2017). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This factsheet is a compilation of the latest data available regarding underage agricultural workers. It provides an overview of children's common injuries and fatalities, education deprivation, and labor laws. More Details...

C/MHC Acronym List (2014). Resource Type: Publication . Description: Acronym list with partner organizations and common words for community health centers. More Details...

Building Surge Capacity for Community Health Centers (43580). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar describes strategies for community health centers to rapidly assess patient status during an emergency, including ways in which health centers can prepare for patient care during emergent situations. The webinar highlights available resources and additional opportunities for training and technical assistance. More Details...

Building COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence (44341). Resource Type: Template. Description: Building confidence for the COVID-19 vaccine - especially for special and vulnerable populations like residents of public housing - is a critical component of effective public health, and a top priority for community health centers. Active listening, combined with validating existing hesitation or concerns, demonstrates an effort to meet individuals where they are and an opportunity to provide information. More Details...

Best Practices in Cooking and Nutrition Education from Sustainable Food Center's The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: NCFH is partnering with the Sustainable Food Center's The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre to provide this informative webinar on a nutrition program that can become an essential component for addressing diabetes prevention and management with health center patients. Sustainable Food Center’s The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre® has been offering cooking and nutrition education to the Austin, Texas community since the late 1990s. Classes feature recipes that are delicious, nutritious, seasonal and affordable, plus peer-facilitated nutrition education on topics such as incorporating more vegetables and reading nutrition labels. Program Manager, Molly Costigan, shares program history, lessons learned, best practices, and how these classes may be integrated into a health center’s health and wellness program More Details...

Back to School: How Health Centers Can Address Diabetes Risk: (43879). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar describes evidence-based strategies for reducing diabetes risk among elementary school-aged children while highlighting nurses' role in creating and sustaining those strategies. More Details...

Autodeclaración: formulario de muestra (2017). Resource Type: Template . Description: Modelo de formulario de autodeclaración del paciente. La autodeclaración es un mecanismo práctico para documentar los ingresos familiares y el tamaño de la familia para las personas que tienen dificultades para mostrar otros documentos. More Details...

Alergias - Allergies​​​ (2018). Resource Type: Educational Video. Description: An educational video portraying a story of a man who was diagnosed with allergies and how he is currently managing his diagnosis. More Details...

Agricultural Worker Occupational Health and Safety (2018). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This publication provides a compilation of facts about the occupational health and safety of farmworkers. It includes facts on pesticide exposure, health and sun exposure, hazardous tools and machinery, as well as common occupational injuries and illnesses among farmworkers. More Details...

Agricultural Worker Community Needs Assessment- Policy and Procedure (2018). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This procedure serves to assess the health care needs of the local agricultural population. More Details...

Agricultural Worker Community Needs Assessment- Determining what Information is needed (2011). Resource Type: Template . Description: This questionnaire helps determine what information needs to be included in the Agricultural Worker Community Needs Assessment to assess the health care needs of the local agricultural population. More Details...

Agricultural Worker (Farmworker) Status Verification: Points to Remember (2018). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This list includes information to remember when obtaining accurate and current information from people seeking health care services. It provides considerations to establish them as users and determine their agricultural worker status under the Migrant Health Program. More Details...

Ag Worker Identification for Patients (2018). Resource Type: Educational Video. Description: This digital story is designed to help Health Centers identify Ag Workers for identification and registration purposes. It is perfect for playing in waiting rooms and is a great educational resource for community outreach and other health care professionals. This digital story is also an excellent staff training tool. More Details...

Ag Worker Identification Digital Story (2018). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This digital story is designed to help Health Centers identify Ag Workers for identification and registration purposes. It is perfect for playing in waiting rooms and is a great educational resource for community outreach and other health care professionals. This digital story is also an excellent staff training tool. More Details...

Ag Worker Idenitfication Front Office Reference Sheet (2021). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This tool is designed to help health center staff ask the right questions to accurately identify, classify and report MSAWs in the Uniform Data System (UDS). It provides information to help illustrate the tasks and industries included in HRSA’s definition of agriculture, as well as provide general guidelines for proper classification and reporting of MSAWs in UD More Details...

Ag Worker Health 102: Supporting Agricultural Worker Health (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: Health Centers serving the agricultural worker community are adept at addressing the unique needs of agricultural worker patients and families by developing innovative and strategic models of service delivery. Even with the recent national pandemic, health centers across the country have shown their ability to quickly adapt to meet the new and expanding needs of their agricultural worker patients as traditional barriers to care have been exacerbated with COVID-19. In this webinar, faculty will share information on the most relevant current agricultural worker policy issues. We will also explore effective service delivery models that include recent adaptations due to COVID-19. Finally, faculty will highlight training and technical assistance (T/TA) opportunities, resources, and promising practices to help support health center staff in the implementation of service delivery changes and adaptations when serving agricultural workers. This webinar is developed and presented by the Farmworker Health Network, a six-member network of organizations with decades of experience working with health centers to address agricultural worker health needs. More Details...

Addressing Mental Health with Agricultural Workers- A tip sheet for Health Care Workers (2021). Resource Type: Publication . Description: A tip sheet for Health Care Workers to engage in conversations about mental health with agricultural workers.  More Details...

Addressing Diabetes Factors in Elementary School Children Through School and Community Partnerships (43712). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource highlights ways health centers (such as federally qualified health centers) can enhance health outcomes of elementary-aged children with obesity and other pre-diabetic through school partnerships. More Details...

Accessing Farmworker-Friendly Health Education Material (44862). 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 develop a process to systematically find and assess culturally and linguistically relevant multimedia resources from external sources for farmworkers and their families. The process included the creation of a national inventory of COVID-19 & influenza-related health education resources through a careful assessment and selection process by a trained review team. More Details...