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Rapid Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy for People with HIV (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is recommended for all people with HIV to improve and preserve their health and to reduce transmission of HIV to others. Increasingly, rapid ART starts have become a clinical and public health priority, with the Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents recommending that ART be started as soon as possible after HIV diagnosis. Definitions of what constitutes a rapid start of ART vary; the most stringent is also termed immediate ART and occurs when ART is prescribed on the same day an HIV diagnosis is delivered. This fact sheet reviews the potential benefits and rationale for rapid ART starts, outlines potential pitfalls, and offers practical, evidence-based tips on ART selection for rapid starts. More Details...

Substance Use Guidelines (2024). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The National Health Care for the Homeless Council's Substance Use Guidelines are brief substance-specific guidelines intended for use by anyone who is a consumer of services or a service provider working with people experiencing homelessness and people who use drugs. More Details...

Improving Patient Safety in Health Centers Using Technology-Driven PDSA Methods Learning Collaborative: Session 4: Office Hours (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: I this Learning Collaborative, speakers will provide examples of ensuring Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles have staff accountable and responsible for the PDSAs. Also, the session speakers will explain how teams can use technology to capture patient safety data for PDSAs. The participants will share their progress, challenges, and best practices during the learning collaborative sessions. More Details...

Evidence-Based Practices Comprehensive Approach to Behavioral Health Care (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This training reinforces the value of having all employees, from frontline staff to management and executive leadership, receive foundational instruction and training in four areas. Participants will learn to design a core training curriculum incorporating the following skills and practices: - Patient-centered care - Trauma-informed care - Motivational interviewing - De-escalation More Details...

Stay hydrated in the heat: Tsotsil- Indigenous Language (2024). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: NCFH developed this quick resource card to provide indigenous agricultural workers and other outdoor workers who spend long hours working in the heat with information on how to stay hydrated and drink more water and foods to replenish electrolytes when necessary. It also includes information on how to identify dehydration. More Details...

Manténgase hidratado en el calor (2024). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: NCFH desarrollo este recurso en formato de tarjeta para brindarles a los trabajadores agricolas y otros trabajadores que pasan largas horas al aire libre trabajando en el calor informacion sobre como estar hidratados y tomar mucha agua y comer alimentos que les ayuden a reponer sus electrolitos y como identificar la deshidratacion. More Details...

Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Agricultural Workers (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This fact sheet supplies background information about Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and data regarding these infections among the agricultural worker population. This fact sheet is helpful when wanting to understand the infection numbers, risk factors, and knowledge and behaviors surrounding STIs. More Details...

Integrating Social Risk Factors into Hypertension Care and Prevention: Collaboration with New Jersey Primary Care Association: Primary Care Association (PCA) Training on Advancing Team-Based Care (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Presented to health centers of the New Jersey Primary Care Association, this training explored how social determinants of health affect patient outcomes, focusing on key factors impacting individuals with hypertension, how to utilize the care team to address patients' social needs and use knowledge of social risk factors to create personalized hypertension care plans, and how to assess the impact of integrating social risk factors on hypertension prevention by evaluating approaches for combining medical and dental care. More Details...

Increasing Equity in Pain Management, Substance Use Disorder Treatment, and Linkages to Care (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this Resource Guide is to support health center care teams in providing equitable, compassionate, high-quality care for patients in the contexts of pain management, substance use disorders (SUDs), and meaningful linkages to care. Inside, you will find actionable strategies and resources to help your care team reduce health disparities and advance health equity among minoritized and stigmatized people who, due to historical and structural injustices, are more vulnerable to undertreatment and mistreatment of pain and SUDs. More Details...

Culturally Responsive Depression Screening and Referral for LGBTQIA+ Patients (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar aims to increase the capacity of health centers to conduct culturally responsive depression and mental health screening and referral for LGBTQIA+ communities. This webinar will support health centers in population needs assessment and management, community needs and resource mapping, and clinical effectiveness of care for LGBTQIA+ patients, with an emphasis on social determinants of health. More Details...

Suicide Risk Assessment: How to Incorporate Into the Workflow Asynchronous Learning Module (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This asynchronous learning module will provide training on how to develop organizational policies and procedures to incorporate suicide risk assessment screenings into practice, standardizing the approach of screening in the health center environment. Participants will learn to develop, implement, and follow policies and procedures emphasizing a team-based approach to suicide risk screening and response. More Details...

Stepping Toward Prevention (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication offered interprofessional team considerations for assessing fall risk and strategies for tailored interventions for community-dwelling older patients. More Details...

Quality Improvement Strategies for LTBI Prevention and Care in A/AA and NH/PI-Serving Health Centers: National Clinical Quality Measurement - January 2024 (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: AAPCHO and the Tuberculosis Elimination Alliance held a learning collaborative, funded by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the Health Resources & Services Administration, in April 2023. More Details...

How EHRs Can Be Leveraged to Streamline Social Needs Screening: Screening for Housing Status and other Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) measures Webinar (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Is your health center planning, implementing, or revamping a social needs screening program? The National Health Care for the Homeless Council and the HITEQ Center hosted a free webinar on Tuesday, February 6th, 2024, from 2 - 3 pm Eastern (1 - 2 pm Central) where they taught participants how to screen for housing status and other Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) measures that can be introduced or better integrated into health center clinical workflows. Presenters shared guidance on implementing and systematizing social needs data collection in Electronic Health Records (EHRs), followed by a panel of expert health center representatives who spoke about their programs & journeys with social needs screening programs. Participants had the opportunity to ask questions, share successes, or discuss specific challenges they faced regarding social needs screening. While this webinar focused on health care for the homeless (HCH) health centers, anyone involved directly in social needs screening or interested in improving screening processes was welcome to attend. More Details...

Staying Hydrated in the Heat: Tagalog (2023). Resource Type: Patient Material. Description: NCFH developed this resource to provide farmworkers and other outdoor workers who spend long hours working in the heat with information on how to stay hydrated and drink more water and foods to replenish electrolytes when necessary. More Details...

Why Weight? Diabetes Prevention and Care Learning Collaborative (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Education Center's Why Weight? Diabetes Prevention and Care Learning Collaborative focused on engaging teams from health centers across the US to undertake practice transformation conducive to diabetes care in LGBTQIA+ communities. Throughout this publication, we briefly describe the structure and objectives of the learning collaborative and highlight promising practices for diabetes prevention with LGBTQIA+ patients. More Details...

Poverty, Housing and Stigma: The Profound Effects of The Social Determinants of Health on Addiction Management: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In the coming years FQHC’s and PHPC’s are expected to take an increasing share of the country’s addiction management caseload. This is particularly true of health centers serving disadvantaged populations. More Details...

Suicide Prevention Strategies for LGBTQ+ Communities White Paper (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The stunningly disproportionate rate of self-induced deaths among LGBTQ+ individuals is an ongoing emergency. LGBTQ+ Care clinicians and other health care workers serve sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) people every day, but adequate preparation about supporting these populations is rarely offered in professional training. This publication highlights some of the pressures that lead sexual and gender minority people to suicide, what factors elevate or lower self-harm risk, and interventions to help LGBTQ+ people build resilience in a hostile world. This publication is in partnership with the Center for LGBTQ Health Equity at Chase Brexton Health Care. More Details...

Stories from the Field: How Health Centers are Addressing Health Disparities for LGBTQIA+ People and People with HIV in Public Housing: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and The National Center for Health in Public Housing held a three-part series on addressing health disparities for LGBTQIA+ people and people with HIV in public housing. More Details...

Lived Experiences: Health disparities for LGBTQIA+ people and people with HIV in public housing: NCHPH Webinar (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and The National Center for Health in Public Housing held a three-part series on addressing health disparities for LGBTQIA+ people and people with HIV in public housing. More Details...