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Crisis Intervention and De-escalation in Primary Care Learning Collaborative: Session 3: Developing Crisis Prevention Policies and Procedures (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This Learning Collaborative will provide four learning sessions to help healthcare workers identify, de-escalate, and intervene in crisis behaviors in the healthcare setting. These four sessions will use evidence-based practice interventions that promote safety for patients and staff by emphasizing preventive measures and least-restrictive/non-physical interventions to reduce the risk of unsafe crisis behaviors. Each session of the Learning Collaborative will provide an opportunity for the participants to plan de-escalation and crisis interventions that promote patient and staff safety in their health centers. This Learning Collaborative aligns with the Health Center Performance Improvement domain of Quality, Patient Care, and Safety as it addresses approaches to reduce behaviors that may harm patients. More Details...

Mental Health Awareness Issue Brief: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their Impact on Mental Health (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Adverse Childhood experiences (ACEs) have a lifelong impact on the health and wellbeing of patients. The impact of ACEs on patient care is significant. By prioritizing trauma informed/culturally competent care (TIC), social services and clinical staff can help to improve the impact of medical and behavioral health services. More Details...

Crisis Intervention and De-escalation in Primary Care Learning Collaborative: Session 2: Implementing Evidence-Based De-escalation and Crisis Intervention Techniques in Health Care Settings (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This Learning Collaborative will provide four learning sessions to help healthcare workers identify, de-escalate, and intervene in crisis behaviors in the healthcare setting. These four sessions will use evidence-based practice interventions that promote safety for patients and staff by emphasizing preventive measures and least-restrictive/non-physical interventions to reduce the risk of unsafe crisis behaviors. Each session of the Learning Collaborative will provide an opportunity for the participants to plan de-escalation and crisis interventions that promote patient and staff safety in their health centers. This Learning Collaborative aligns with the Health Center Performance Improvement domain of Quality, Patient Care, and Safety as it addresses approaches to reduce behaviors that may harm patients. More Details...

VetoViolence (Veto Violence) CDC Resource on Violence Prevention: Help Stop Violence Before It Happens (2024). Resource Type: Other Resource Collection. Description: This external website includes a repository of potentially-relevant, curated resources from an organization outside of the HRSA-funded training and technical assistance organizations. (Note: resources in such collections do not undergo review by the Clearinghouse). This online resource portal and toolkit, developed by the CDC, provides access to tools and trainings; prevention information; and resources in support of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). More Details...

Guides for Patients Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence and Exploitation (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Individuals who have experienced or are experiencing intimate partner violence, human trafficking, or exploitation may have challenges utilizing dental services. These resources are intended to support dental professionals and patients prepare for dental visits. More Details...

Interview series: Sexual Assault in the Fields as a Social Risk Factor (2024). Resource Type: Micro-Learning. Description: This video is an interview with leaders of farmworker-serving organizations on the issues of sexual assault faced by farmworker women. More Details...

Human Trafficking and Exploitation: How School-Based Health Center Providers Can Help Keep Students Safe (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This 60-minute webinar focuses on how school-based health center providers can support students who have experienced human trafficking and sexual exploitation. More Details...

Staying Hydrated in the Heat (2023). Resource Type: Publication. 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...

Necesito tomar más agua? (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH desarrollo este recurso para brindarles a los trabajadores agria;colas y otros trabajadores q que pasan largas horas trabajando al aire libre en el calor informacion sobre como reconocer la deshidratacion y cuando tomar mas agua y buscar atencion medica si lo necesitan. More Details...

Mantengase hidratado en el calor (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH desarrollo este recurso para brindarles a los trabajadores agrícolas y otros trabajadores que pasan largas horas al aire libre trabajando en el calor información sobre cómo estar hidratados y tomar más agua y comer alimentos que les ayuden a reponer sus electrolitos. More Details...

Do I Need to Drink More Water? (2023). Resource Type: Publication. 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 recognize dehydration and when to drink more water and seek medical care if necessary. More Details...

At the Core of Care Podcast (2023). Resource Type: Podcast. Description: This Podcast highlights the consumer experience of patients, families, and communities and the creative efforts of nurses and other partners to better meet their health and healthcare needs through diversity, leadership, and practice innovation. More Details...

Lessons Learned in Training School-Based Health Center Staff to Prevent and Address Adolescent Relationship Abuse (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource is intended to support teams interested in offering structured learning opportunities designed to strengthen the capacity of SBHC staff to prevent and respond to adolescent relationship abuse and human trafficking. More Details...

Lessons Learned in Training School-Based Health Center Staff to Prevent and Address Adolescent Relationship Abuse (2023). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource is intended to support teams interested in offering structured learning opportunities designed to strengthen the capacity of SBHC staff to prevent and respond to adolescent relationship abuse and human trafficking. More Details...

Sensitive Information and the Electronic Patient Record: HITEQ Center, June 2023 (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: With nearly 100% of community health centers utilizing electronic health records (EHR) to care for patients, focus has pivoted from implementation and new workflow development to enhancement in order to drive value and reflect patient needs and population trends. EHR technology presents potential opportunities and significant constraints. Providers frequently document and share potentially sensitive information in the EHR, such as risk for intimate partner violence (IPV), consistent offers of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), or patient sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). More Details...

Safety and Security Series: The Basics (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: Safety and security are primary issues for both patients and staff of health care for the homeless health centers. It is important for health center staff to understand foundational factors to consider and discuss in order to increase their own personal safety and support the safety and security of their team members and patients. More Details...

Safety and Security Series: Organizational Culture of Safety (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This introductory course provides an overview of organizational safety in health care for the homeless (HCH) health centers. The course will define organizational safety and provide an overview of the four components of an organizational culture of safety: leadership, policies and procedures, communication, and staff supports. This course is intended for all staffing levels within HCH health centers and will include information on how everyone can play a role in developing and maintaining a culture of safety. More Details...

Harm Reduction (2023). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This course introduces harm reduction as a philosophical approach and public health intervention. The course will review the foundational principles of harm reduction, details of harm reduction practices, and supporting change through harm reduction. We will review a case study as a practical way to explore how you can integrate harm reduction into your work. Finally we will work on dispelling myths through reviewing current research. 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...

Active Shooter and Active Threat Response for Healthcare (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The webinar discusses active shooter and active threat definition and profiles, background statistics, key response and recovery considerations, and preparedness resources. More Details...