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Consejos para un sueño saludable (Health Sleeping Tips): A Witness to Witness (W2W) Program resource for those in high stress jobs (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A one page easy to read healthy sleeping tips handout in Spanish. More Details...

Considerations for Health Center Boards: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Governance (2021). Resource Type: Self-Paced Module. Description: Considerations for Health Center Boards on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Governance, is a short introductory module intended as a resource for boards starting to explore or reevaluate diversity, equity, and inclusion in health center governance. More Details...

Considerations for Heart Health for LGBTQ Identified Patients (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Lisa Neff, Community Impact Director at the American Heart Association and Dr. Alex Gonzalez, Medical Director at Fenway Community Health, will discuss cholesterol, diabetes, and other heart health considerations as they pertain to the LGBTQ community. The webinar will cover strategies for care including the AHA's Check. Change. Control, Cholesterol program and diabetes management strategies tailored to the needs of LGBTQ people. More Details...

Considerations for Serving Residents of Public Housing During Emergencies and Disasters: Staff and Patient Wellness (44174). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Hosted by the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the National Center for Health in Public Housing, this webinar discusses staff well-being and patient wellness during emergencies and disasters. This webinar provides health centers with guidance for developing tools and resources that enable the health center workforce and the patients they serve to navigate the practical and psychological after-effects of disaster events. More Details...

Considerations for Sustaining a Culture of Cybersecurity: Part I: Understanding the Essentials (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: With the rise in cyberattacks of government agencies and large-scale companies, organizations large and small are questioning if they are doing all they should to protect their data. More Details...

Considerations for Sustaining a Culture of Cybersecurity: Part II: Cybersecurity Risk and Preparation (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: With the rise in cyberattacks of government agencies and large-scale companies, organizations large and small are questioning if they are doing all they should to protect their data. More Details...

Consumer Advisory Board Manual (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Special-populations-only health centers are eligible for a waiver of the consumer-majority Board if it meets special efforts to engage consumers. The best way to do this for Health Care for the Homeless health centers is the Consumer Advisory Board (CAB). Championed by the National CAB of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, this manual includes updated lessons from decades of relevant experience. More Details...

Consumer Engagement Assessment Tool (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This assessment tool will aid health centers in evaluating their efforts to invite, facilitate, and support consumer input and leadership in the governance of their organizations. For Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) programs within larger FQHC funding structures or public entities, accurate responses to questions about organizational governance and administrative activities may require input from both organizational leadership and HCH program directors. The purpose of these questions is to evaluate how people with lived experience of homelessness are invited into governance, even for programs that are not HCH standalones. More Details...

Consumer Participation Outreach (CPO) Survey Report: Consumer Perspectives on Behavioral Health and Health Equity (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCAB decided to focus the CPO on understanding how COVID-19 impacted people’s behavioral health and access to behavioral health services, the impact of systemic racism and other discrimination on well-being, and ways to improve access to behavioral health services during the pandemic and recovery. Results of this survey should improve current practices, identify policy changes, and inform training around behavioral health and health equity for health centers. More Details...

Consumer Perspectives of the COVID-19 Vaccine: COVID-19 & the HCH Community (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: To better understand how people experiencing homelessness view the COVID-19 vaccine, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council conducted focus groups with steering committee members of its National Consumer Advisory Board and with consumers from local community homeless service programs. This brief is intended to (1) share their direct feedback so those planning vaccination events can better reach priority populations like those experiencing homelessness, and (2) identify actions that should be taken now to maximize the uptake of the vaccine. More Details...

Contracting for Dental Services In Health Centers: A Checklist for Planning (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Contracting for dental services is one service delivery method that may be used to provide and/or increase access to dental care for health center service area populations. This checklist will assist health centers in determining if contracting is an appropriate strategy for them. More Details...

Contracting for Dental Services In Health Centers: Implementation Strategies (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Health centers may contract for dental services as a way to increase access to care. NNOHA conducted interviews with health centers that are sustainably contracting for dental services. This publication shares those promising practices. More Details...

Controlando mi Asma - ​Managing My Asthma ​ (2018). Resource Type: Educational Video. Description: An educational video showing Elvia's experience with being diagnosed with asthma. Learn more about the condition and possible treatment options. More Details...

COO Competencies and Professional Development Tool (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This tool is appropriate for use by a wide variety of stakeholders, including health center Chief Executive Officers (CEO), COOs and other Leaders; Board of Directors; Human Resources; Search Firms; Primary Care Associations; Training Organizations; and more. It is our hope that this tool will provide the structure and common language to help define, develop, and sustain excellence in operations leadership of health centers across the United States. More Details...

Cooking in the Colors of the Rainbow: Preventing Diabetes through Healthy Eating (2020). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: FJ developed a coloring book for farmworker families that promotes health earing as a way to prevent diabetes. The coloring book is available in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Mam, and Mixteco. More Details...

Coordinated Entry Systems, Assessment of Vulnerability, and Housing Prioritization for People Experiencing Homelessness (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: It can be frustrating and confusing for people without homes to navigate complex patchworks of local homeless service organizations. This CME-accredited issue of Healing Hands focuses on how communities are implementing Coordinated Entry Systems (CESs) to help clients access necessary services through a single entry point and more efficiently coordinate assistance for people without homes. More Details...

Coordinating HCV and HIV Treatment in Primary Care (44470). Resource Type: Publication. Description: HCV and HIV are overlapping epidemics with serious clinical implications for people with HCV and HIV. Health centers are poised to prevent and treat these viral infections by understanding the implications of comorbidity and by creating a welcoming environment for those at risk for or currently diagnosed with one or both diseases. This publication provides context for the epidemics and outlines recommendations for health centers to best address them. More Details...

Coordinating Hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV Treatment in Primary Care (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: HCV and HIV are overlapping epidemics with serious clinical implications for infected patients. Community health centers are poised to prevent and treat these viral infections by understanding the implications of comorbidity and by creating a welcoming environment for those at risk for, previously infected, or currently infected with one or both diseases. Join the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium and the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center for a webinar exploring the link between HCV and HIV, and particular considerations for community-based primary care providers. We will be joined by infectious disease specialists Dr. Kevin Ard and nurse practitioner Maggie Beiser, Director of HCV Services at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, who will share expertise and cases that demonstrate best practices for preventing and/or treating co-infection. More Details...

Coping with COVID-19: Trauma-informed Care for Frontline Maternity Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This is a FREE online continuing education course that provides 1 credit to nurses, physicians, social workers, and licensed marriage and family therapists. All other professions are welcome to take the course, and will receive a Certificate of Completion. More Details...

Coping with COVID-19: Trauma-informed Care for Pediatric NICU Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This is a FREE online continuing education course that provides 1 credit to nurses, physicians, social workers, and licensed marriage and family therapists. All other professions are welcome to take the course, and will receive a Certificate of Completion. More Details...