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Housing and HIV: Bridging the Gap between HIV and Housing in Special and Vulnerable Populations (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: On Wednesday, March 13, 2024, CSH joined National Center for Health and Public Housing and the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center to host session 2 the Population Health Management National Learning Series. This session featured a discussion on the drivers of health for individuals at risk for or living with HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. Panelist providers shared lessons from the field on addressing social drivers of health (SDOH) needs with special emphasis on housing as an intervention and the importance of cross sector partnerships. More Details...

Cómo el uso del tabaco puede afectarle a usted y a su familia (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Este colgador de puerta educativo bilingüe, disponible en inglés y español, proporciona a los centros de salud una herramienta educativa para abordar el consumo de tabaco entre los trabajadores agrícolas durante sus esfuerzos de educación y alcance. Este recurso tambien ofrece información a los trabajadores agrícolas sobre los diversos métodos de consumo de tabaco, los riesgos para la salud relacionados y los beneficios de dejar el consumo de tabaco específicos para los trabajadores agrícolas. Este colgador de puerta se puede utilizar cuando los trabajadores del centro de salud realizan actividades de educacion y alcance para apoyar a los trabajadores agrícolas. More Details...

Aging Patients Facing Long-term Homelessness (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This national webinar provided an overview of best practices developing or strengthening health and housing partnerships to support aging patients experiencing long-term homelessness. Participants will understand how long-term homelessness accelerates aging, the types of partnerships that are essential to supporting aging patients, and the community housing models that support the needs of aging patients. More Details...

A Guide for Health Centers to Address Tobacco Use Among Agricultural Workers (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This guide provides information to help health centers address tobacco use among agricultural workers and it includes a bilingual educational door hanger for agricultural workers that health centers can use during their education and outreach efforts. The guide provides information to health center staff about the various methods of tobacco consumption, related health risks, and the benefits of quitting specific to agricultural workers. it also highlights cessation and tobacco use screening tools and strategies to motivate change, identify a patient's level of readiness to quit, conduct outreach, and build collaborative partnerships to address tobacco use. This guide and door hanger can be used to support agricultural worker patients in a health center setting or while conducting outreach. More Details...

2024 Regional Stream Forums Impact Report (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Regional Stream Forums 2024 Impact Report offers a review of each of the Forums including the conference program, participant demographics, conference sponsors, planning committee members and conference highlights.  More Details...

Tobacco Use Among MSAW: Environmental Scan Findings Report (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This environmental scan provides information about tobacco use and cessation among agricultural workers. Information was collected from a national poll of MSAW organizations and from agricultural worker focus groups. More Details...

Instructions for Using Naloxone (2024). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: Instructional sheet on how to use Naloxone in the case of an opioid overdose. Available in both English and Spanish. More Details...

Health Center 2030: 5 Critical Skills for Leading the Digital Transformation (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discusses 5 critical skills that will enable health centers to address current and emerging challenges. More Details...

Exploring the Six Domains of Health Workforce Equity - Session 2 (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join ACU's STAR² Center program as it presents expert faculty from the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity, at the George Washington University, for a dynamic webinar series that explores their cutting-edge research on the Six Domains of Health Workforce Equity. The second session addresses who the workforce serves, how they practice, and under what conditions they work. By exploring these various questions, participants will gain a better understanding of ways to improve workforce equity and ultimately support the complex needs of their health center clinical staff. More Details...

Empowering Communities: The Role of Health Centers in Addressing SDOH and Advancing Health Equity (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: With Capital Link, Dr. Cheryl Clark, Executive Director and Senior Vice President of the Institute of Health Equity Research, Evaluation and Policy at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, reviews the paths through which social determinants affect health and explore the history of the nation's community health centers to reveal why and how they can effectively reduce health disparities and promote true health equity among the most vulnerable patient populations. More Details...

Chief Workforce Officer Core Competencies (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) STAR²; Center, in partnership with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), have updated the Chief Workforce Officer (CWO) Core Competencies to include Behavioral Examples. These Behavioral Examples provide actionable examples that outline the scope of the CWO role. While CWOs may go by different names, the role they play cannot be understated as it is crucial to have a strategic thinker at the leadership level that is solely focused on advancing workforce initiatives. This timely and relevant resource assists community health centers (CHCs) and primary care associations (PCAs) to recruit, hire, train, develop, and retain workforce leaders who are strategic, capable, and highly effective at meeting the complex needs of the CHC workforce. More Details...

Sexual Violence in Agricultural Worker Communities: A Guide for Clinicians (2024). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Clinician resource that provides guidance on how to identify and support survivors of sexual violence in agricultural worker communities, as well as best practices when reporting any incidents. Also included are stories from survivors and advocates, and additional resources for community support. Available in both English and Spanish. More Details...

Optimizing Physical Safety and Cyber Security for Health Centers Offering Gender-Affirming Care (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Presented by Dr. Alex Keuroghlian, Dr. Chris Roby, and Bonnie Michelman, this webinar will focus on the current risks to those providing gender-affirming care and provide strategies for safeguarding facilities and employees from threats, violence, and unsafe behavior. The faculty will discuss emergency preparedness as part of addressing the complex needs of health centers when ensuring physical safety and cyber security. More Details...

Net Zero Health Centers: How Solar Microgrids Help Cut Costs and Build Climate Resistance (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This case study delves into the pioneering journeys that four distinct health centers have embarked on to achieve renewable energy production. This is part of the overall, high-level goal of eventually reaching Net Zero - where the amount of energy used is equal to the amount of renewable energy created. More Details...

Addressing Rural Health Inequities through Medical-Legal Partnership: MLP Spotlight featuring McKinney Medical Center & Georgia Legal Services Program: MLP Spotlight 2 (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: New MLP Spotlight explores how McKinney Medical Center and Georgia Legal Services Program have aligned their missions to tackle persistent rural health inequities and justice gaps More Details...

Serving Farmworker Patients Who Speak Indigenous Languages (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource, co-created with Rural Women's Health Project and Language Access Florida, shares best practices for health center outreach staff and clinicians who are serving Indigenous-Speaking farmworkers. The recommendations come directly from Indigenous farmworkers. It is available in English and Spanish. More Details...

Moving OUD/SUD Care Upstream through Partnership with Legal Aid: Health Center MLP Planning, Implementation & Practice (PIP) Webinar Series (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This interactive webinar will explore the collaboration between Philadelphia Legal Assistance (PLA) and community health centers in the City of Brotherly Love. Together, they are advancing and strengthening community-based care and treatment for individuals recovering from Opioid and Substance Use Disorders (O/SUD). Learn about the implementation journey and impact of the medical-legal partnerships between PLA and the healthcare teams at Esperanza Health Center and Delaware Valley Community Health (DVCH) – Girard. This webinar is appropriate for anyone interested in the intersection of healthcare and legal services. More Details...

Maternal Mortality Fact Sheet (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This infographic summarizes the racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and infant perinatal outcomes and summarizes NACHC's efforts to improve maternal health and post-partum care, providing up-to-date data, resources, and promising practices. More Details...

"Data Disaggregation: Principles, Promising Practices, and Lessons Learned To Advance Health Equity" Report (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report outlines the data disaggregation principles, promising practices, and lessons learned based on an environmental scan and feedback from health center stakeholders in Asian American (AA) and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NH/PI)-serving health centers. More Details...

Increasing Childhood Immunizations for School-Aged Children (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Increasing Childhood Immunizations for School-Aged Children webinar was designed for health center and health center look-alike staff. The webinar aims to increase the audience's knowledge of and capacity to identify strategies to increase the delivery of immunizations, discuss barriers to care, and improving access to care. More Details...