New Resources

Added: 01/16/2025
2024 NACHC State Policy Assessment Summary (2025). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) has conducted an annual State Policy Assessment in partnership with state Primary Care Associations (PCAs) to determine state-level high-priority policy issues affecting health centers and their patients. This information informs policy initiatives, technical assistance resources, assists PCAs with policy approaches at the state level, and enables NACHC to measure both annual progress and areas for increased focus in the future. More Details...

Added: 01/15/2025
Talk With Me Baby – Empowering Parents to Support Babies’ Brain Development Through Rich Language (2024). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Talk With Me Baby empowers parents to help their babies build a healthy brain and strong foundation for learning, reading and literacy through the use of good language nutrition. More Details...

Added: 01/13/2025
I-HELP™ Bootcamp: Strengthening Your Ability to Spot and Manage Patients’ Complex Health-Harming Legal Issues: Learning Collaborative - Fall 2024 (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NCMLP’s new I-HELP™ Bootcamp is a 5-session learning collaborative designed for healthcare staff of all backgrounds—clinical and nonclinical—to strengthen their knowledge of the legal challenges faced by low-income patient populations. This bootcamp enhanced participants capacity to spot legal needs that affect patient health, improve their ability to screen and refer patients to legal aid, and develop strategies to provide more precise guidance and quality referrals to legal partners. Through case studies and interactive discussions, healthcare teams explored current legal issues across I-HELP™ categories: Income, Housing & utilities, Education & Employment, Legal status, and Personal & family stability. More Details...

Added: 01/13/2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding and Mitigating the Harms to Low-Income Communities (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: On December 11, 2024, at 4 pm ET, the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and TechTonic Justice together with national experts from the Center for Democracy & Technology and the National Health Law Program, hosted a national webinar to explore how medical-Legal partnership practitioners, civil legal aid attorneys, health systems, and others can protect and empower patients, clients, and communities in the face of AI’s rapid advancements. Watch the recording below to gain actionable insights and collaborate on solutions that prioritize the well-being and rights of those most affected. More Details...

Added: 01/13/2025
Supporting CHWs with Technology to Achieve Value: Ensuring CHWs are a strategic team member in value based care (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join the HITEQ Center for a two-part training on integrating community health workers (CHWs) as strategic team members in the age of value based care. In the first session, participants explored the role of CHWs in data-driven activities essential to value based care, including outreach and proactive care management, and how these rely on successful use of the health center\'s EHR and other systems. More Details...

Added: 01/13/2025
Supporting CHWs with Technology to Achieve Value: Hearing from CHWs on challenges and successes of joining the team (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join the HITEQ Center for a two-part training on integrating community health workers (CHWs) as strategic team members in the age of value based care. The second session featured a conversation with CHWs, sharing their challenges and successes in becoming team members in the current landscape of value based care. More Details...

Added: 01/13/2025
HITEQ Highlights: AI and Health Insurance Prior Authorization for Health Centers (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: AI is a tool that is now being used to automate prior authorization requests. This webinar described the implications of this for health centers and their patients. More Details...

Added: 01/09/2025
A Practical Guide on Intimate Partner Violence, Human Trafficking, and Exploitation and Technology Tools (2025). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Developed by National Training and Technical Assistance Partners, HITEQ and Health Partners on IPV+ Exploitation, this practical guide features key tools and principles to help health centers (HCs) develop safe documentation for intimate partner violence, human trafficking, and exploitation (IPV/HT/E) in their electronic health records (EHRs) and other technology tools. In 2020, the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) introduced new Uniform Data System (UDS) data elements for health centers (HCs) to report on IPV and HT/E. With the evolving landscape of data use in medical settings, it is imperative that HC staff understand privacy principles and implement best practices to protect confidentiality for survivors of IPV/HT/E. This resource features guidelines on documenting IPV/HT/E in the EHR using a trauma-informed, survivor-centered approach. The guide also features tools that FUTURES has developed alongside health IT platforms, namely for eClinicalWorks and OCHIN Epic, to aid HCs in using the evidence-based CUES intervention that focuses on universal education approaches on IPV/HT/E. More Details...

Added: 01/09/2025
Obstetrics (OB) Training Opportunities (2024). Resource Type: Other Resource Collection. Description: This external collection of online resources highlights trainings as suggestions for obstetrics training. Each health center is required to evaluate which training would be best for which staff member specific to the needs of the community served and highest areas of risk. A link to Frequently Asked Questions is also presented that links to HRSA responses and resources. More Details...

Added: 01/06/2025
A Quick Introduction to Cybersecurity for Health Center Boards (2025). Resource Type: MicroLearning. Description: This short video defines cybersecurity and outlines considerations for boards related to navigating this important issue. It was adapted from NACHC’s Policy & Issues Forum 2024. More Details...