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Where Does Homelessness Happen?: Understanding the Definitions of Homelessness (2021). Resource Type: Other. Description: This infographic succinctly depicts the various shelter arrangements that constitute the breadth of homelessness, distinguishing major differences between federal definitions, with considerations for screening. More Details...

Who Are Frequent Users in Health and Housing Systems?: A Closer Look at Definitions Used by Communities to Identify the People Cycling Through the Crisis Care Systems (2015). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Are frequent users costing your crisis care systems and not producing positive houtcomes? Is your community looking at how to identify the frequent users across multiple crisis care systems in an effort to deliver more effective services and save resources? This webinar highlights how various communities develop the criteria to define 'frequent user' across the systems of care and how to match data to identify those individuals. More Details...

Who Wants To Be A Vaccinator: Volunteers, Students, and Other Professionals (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: To meet the demand for knowledge on COVID-19 vaccines, CHCI and its Weitzman Institute is moving back to weekly COVID-19 national webinar sessions! More Details...

Why Collect Standardized Data on Social Determinants of Health?: A slide deck outlining the potential use of ICD10 coding for SDOH. (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource will equip health center stakeholders with the motivation, knowledge, and ability needed to collect and use standardized social determinants of health data. This resource describes the importance of collecting Standardized SDOH Data in the context of value based payment.  The resource reviews commonly used codes in ICD-10 that can help document SDOH.  Finally, the slide deck describes useful tools for collecting these data and what’s on the horizon for health centers to strengthen their efforts to move “upstream” in addressing health disparities. Download this slide deck below. More Details...

Why Homeless Populations Are a High-Risk Group — COVID-19 (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This shareable infographic explains why people experiencing homelessness are especially vulnerable to to the coronavirus pandemic. More Details...

Why Weight? Improving the health of LGBTQIA+ patients by reducing weight stigma (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Weight-related discrimination in the U.S. is common and is associated with substantial social, economic, and health costs. Allegra Gordon (she/her), ScD, MPH, Assistant Professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health and Jamie Dannenberg (she/they), MS, RD, LDN, outpatient eating disorder dietitian at Metrowest Nutrition and co-creator of thirdwheelED, invite you to explore how we can improve health outcomes of LGBTQIA+ patients through a weight-inclusive approach to healthcare. This webinar will offer an introduction to the current state of the science on weight stigma and its effects on health, as well as critical insights on weight stigma in relation to LGBTQIA+ identities. Participants will come away from the webinar with concrete recommendations for creating a weight-inclusive medical practice. More Details...

Work as a Social Driver of Health: How La Casa Family Health Center Identifies Farmworkers (2022). Resource Type: Podcast. Description: What happens when health center care teams know more about a patient’s occupation? This data can be especially important if the patient is an essential worker, as the Health Choice Network, a health center-controlled network based in Miami, and their partners at La Casa Family Health Center in New Mexico, learned during the COVID pandemic when treating a high-risk group of dairy farmworkers. This episode of NACHC’s podcast, Health Centers on the Front Lines, takes us behind the scenes at a health center and its partner network as they change the culture around disclosure of occupation among patients. More Details...

Workforce Development and Retention of Community Health Workers Project (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: There are many benefits to recruiting, hiring, and on-boarding a well-qualified individual for a Community Health Worker position. This report details the experience of Health Centers that have gone through the CHW hiring and recruiting process. It also provides insight on how CHWs have contributed to positive outcomes and success within Health Centers and patients. More Details...

Workforce Planning Resource Repository (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This resource repository is meant to serve as a starting point for health centers when developing a workforce plan to support their future development and growth. More Details...

Workforce Self-Assessment Tool (2015). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This self-assessment tool (updated in 2022) has been designed to assist your health center in exploring your organization’s strengths and challenges in your workforce program. More Details...

Workforce Self-Care Resource Repository (2021). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This resource repository is meant to serve as a starting point for organizations to grow their support of self-care of their workforce and an ever-growing clearinghouse of resources for individuals to engage in well-being and self-care. More Details...

Workforce Self-Care: Self-paced module (2022). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This self-paced learning module is designed for supervisors and provides strategies for promoting self-care among teams and direct reports. Learn techniques to integrate trauma-informed supervision, model self-care behaviors, and promote resilience among your team. More Details...

Working with Minority-Serving Institutions to Enhance and Diversify Recruitment Pathways (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This paper serves as a quick resource and reference guide for human resources (HR) professionals and health center leaders to understand how to identify and partner with minority-serving educational institutions. More Details...

Working with Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Youth during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar will assist health centers in recognizing and supporting the importance of access to gender-affirming care for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth. More Details...

World AIDS Day: Spreading the Word About PrEP (Blog Post) (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This World AIDS Day blog post highlights the progress being made towards ending the HIV and AIDS global epidemics. More Details...

Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow: Key Milestones for Community Health Centers (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication provides the unique context, history, scope and impact of the health center program. Many new staff at health centers are unfamiliar with the health center program. Data shows that connection to mission and impact can increase commitment and retention of the workforce. This publication aims to connect the learner to the national scope and impact of health center program as they embark on their work in an individual health center. More Details...

"Yo me la puse" - COVID-19 Vaccination Posters: New Video and COVID-19 Vaccination Posters along with Templates for creating your own posters available (2021). Resource Type: Field-Generated Publication. * Description: New Videos & Poster to Celebrate COVID-19 Vaccinations. More Details...

Young Invincibles Medicaid Unwinding Toolkit (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The toolkit is a one stop shop for all things unwinding - what’s happening, who is impacted, key messaging, and of course, sample social media and shareable graphics for organizations to plug and play on social media platforms. More Details...

Your Health Care Home ​Keeping Your Diabetes Under Control​ (2017). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: This guide provides key recommendations for diabetes control and a personal diabetes care plan sample for patients with diabetes. More Details...