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Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islander (AA&NHPI)-Serving Health Centers and Medicaid (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet outlines the impact of potential cuts to Medicaid on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (AA&NHPIs) and health centers. More Details...

Storytelling Guide (2017). Resource Type: Other. Description: Storytelling helps share experiences of homelessness, and highlights the services that helped while facing homelessness and transitioning into housing. Sharing these experiences can demonstrate that homelessness can happen to anyone based on a health need, job loss, natural disaster, or domestic violence situation. People experiencing homelessness developed this guide as a tool to be used by others experiencing homelessness. More Details...

Literature Review: Resources for Building Health and Housing Partnerships: Abstracts of Health and Housing Partnership Literature (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Searching for data to support fundraising or new program development? This Literature Review provides robust summary of articles and studies supporting SDOH and health and housing partnerships. More Details...

Emerging Issues in Payment Reform: Engagement at the State Level and Opportunities to Address the Social Determinants of Health (2017). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar focuses on the national and state payment reform landscapes and its administrative changes to explain how they are used in different states and why. It also details how some health centers document social determinants of health (SDOH), and how this could influence delivery system reform. Lastly, It highlights different strategies and tools health centers could use to connect with key players on the state levels. More Details...

Health Outcomes & Data Measures: A Quick Guide for Health Center & Housing Partnerships: A Quick (Data) Guide for Health and Housing Partnerships (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Both health and housing providers are tracking data elements and outcomes for a similar vulnerable populations. This resource guide highlights the common data elements currently being tracked, and opportunities to learn from multi-sector partners More Details...

Community Based Supportive Housing Serving Persons with Disabilities at Risk of Institutional Care: Health Centers Serving the Individuals Discharging to Community Based Housing from Nurshing Homes and Mental Health Institutions (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This case study profiles Health Centers serving vulnerable populations leaving institutions for community based housing More Details...

Survey Report: Meeting the National CLAS Standards amongst Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander (AA&NHPI)-Serving Health Centers: Cultural Language Access Standards in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA&NHPI)-Serving Health Centers: 2016 Survey Report (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This survey is designed to assess the specific cultural and language access policies, practices, and services provided by health centers. Primary Care Associations (PCAs) working with AA&NHPI or other limited English serving health centers, can use this report to assist in the prioritization of health center trainings and resources for policies across the 4 CLAS areas: 1) Governance, Leadership, and Workforce, 2) Language Access Services, 3) Data Collection and Assessment and 4) Community Engagement and Partnership. More Details...

Virtual Training- Webinar Series, contains archived webinars on Trauma Informed Care, Motivational Interviewing, Colorectal Cancer Screenings, Trauma and Youth, Fostering Trauma-Informed Leadership Skills for Consumers, UDS Secondary Data Analysis (2017). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This series contains archived webinars on Trauma-Informed Care, Motivational Interviewing, Colorectal Cancer Screenings, Trauma and Youth, Fostering Trauma-Informed Leadership Skills for Consumers, and UDS Secondary Data Analysis. More Details...

Nicotine Anonymous Peer Support Groups: Can They Work in the Homeless Service Settings? (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This enterprising study features results from three participating HCH sites, finding that NicA meetings are feasible given the capacity of support staff and health centers to reduce barriers to participation. More Details...

On the Ground Floor: Housing First Frequent Users of Health Systems Initiative Common Challenges & Promising Community Practices: Common Challenges and Promising Community Practices (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: On the ground communities are building the right partnerships to address the housing and health service needs of their frequent users of crisis care systems. This report summarizes the discussions and lessons learned from four communities implementing health and housing partnerships for frequent users. More Details...

Emergency Department Care Coordination: Targeted Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes and Decrease Costs (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue brief outlines strategies to achieve emergency department (ED) care coordination, summarize important legal and policy issues, and provides case studies of health centers that have implemented successful ED care coordination. More Details...

Understanding And Combating Stigma: A Toolkit For Improving Care And Support For People Affected By HBV (2017). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This toolkit is written for health care providers and community health advocates who want to improve the care and support for people affected by HBV. The aim of this toolkit is to support you and anyone you are working with to confront and reduce the stigma associated with HBV, and to promote increased prevention, care and treatment of hepatitis B. Anyone can get HBV. We need to work together to promote understanding and action to combat HBV-related stigma and discrimination to combat this disease. More Details...

Sliding Fee Discount Program (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH and Farmworker Justice have created this customizable, low-literacy tool for all Migrant & Community Health Centers to help explain your patients' financial responsibility - how and what patients should expect to pay during their visit - focusing on the sliding fee scale discount program. More Details...

Blood Pressure Digital Story: La Presión Arterial Alta - High Blood Pressure (2017). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This digital story, narrated in Spanish with English subtitles, educates the viewers about living with and managing high blood pressure. In the story, we follow Roberto, a 46-year-old man, who shares his account of managing his high blood pressure, the challenges he faces, and tips on how to succeed. The video is a great educational resource for community health workers, clinicians, and other health care professionals. More Details...

Best Practices and Considerations for Wound Care: Healing Hands (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Research has shown that people experiencing homelessness often experience acute wounds as a result of lacerations, injuries, fractures, stabbing or gunshot wounds, burns, frostbite, and chronic medical conditions such as diabetes. When these acute wounds are not adequately treated, they can evolve into chronic wounds, such as venous stasis ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, or intravenous (IV) drug use site infections. This issue of Healing Hands provides perspectives on the role of clinics, respite facilities, outreach teams, and community partnerships in facilitating improved wound care for people experiencing homelessness. More Details...

The Health of AA&NHPIs Served at Health Centers: UDS 2014 (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This factsheet examines patient demographics and utilization of health services at health centers serving Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA&NHPIs) at health centers from the 2014 UDS dataset. It highlights the differences between these health centers and the national average of all health centers in the United States. Despite the high disease burden of its patient population, AA&NHPI-serving health centers have statistically significant better screening rates and health outcomes for hepatitis B, pap smears, hypertension and diabetes. More Details...

Lead the Way: Engaging Youth in Health Care (2016). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Lead the Way: Engaging Youth in Health Care is the School-Based Health Alliance’s online youth engagement toolkit. This resource is designed for individuals who work in school-based or community health centers who want to engage youth in their mission and work. In these sections, you will find practical strategies, resources, and reflections from the field to help you empower youth to be productive actors in their health care and their future. More Details...

Lead the Way: Engaging Youth in Health Care (2016). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Lead the Way: Engaging Youth in Health Care is the School-Based Health Alliance’s online youth engagement toolkit. This resource is designed for individuals who work in school-based or community health centers who want to engage youth in their mission and work. In these sections, you will find practical strategies, resources, and reflections from the field to help you empower youth to be productive actors in their health care and their future. More Details...

Trauma Informed Care Webinar Series (2016). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Featuring nationally celebrated trauma expert Matt Bennett, this four-part webinar series examines how the Trauma-Informed Care paradigm can play a critical role not only in transforming providers’ approaches to care, but also in informing direct advocacy for real solutions to end homelessness. More Details...

Providing Civil Legal Aid Through Medical-Legal Partnerships: A Critical Enabling Service for Health Centers Serving Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AA&NHPIs) (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This case study highlights how a health center serving a high immigrant and limited English proficient patient population, including Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AA&NHPIs) integrated civil legal aid into its services through a medical-legal partnership (MLP) approach in order to address the social determinants of health (SDOH). Lessons learned in conducting this case study show that the MLP approach is essential to health care transformation and quality improvement. The approach encourages collaboration between health care providers and legal teams to work together to improve clinical practice and institutional policies to better respond to patients’ needs. More Details...