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Strategies for Supporting People with Behavioral Health Needs in Medical Respite Care (2024). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This course builds on the previous courses to provide an overview and recommendations on how programs can support people with behavioral health needs. This course focuses on identifying specific strategies that can be utilized by program staff to increase the staff and programs'; ability to address the needs of people with behavioral health conditions. More Details...

Safety and Security for CHW's: Trauma-Informed Approach, Cultural Humility, Community Partnerships (2024). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: Safety and Security for Community Health Workers (CHWs): Trauma-Informed Approach, Cultural Humility, and Community Partnerships online course offers intermediate teaching of the concepts and skills associated with trauma informed care, cultural humility, and community partnerships in the context of creating a physically and psychologically safe environment for CHWs and community members. More Details...

Program Approaches to Supporting People with Behavioral Health Needs in Medical Respite Care (2024). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This course builds on the previous courses to provide an overview and recommendations on how programs can support people with behavioral health needs. The course focuses on building programmatic policies and structures that can increase the programs\' ability to address the needs of people with behavioral health conditions. More Details...

Medical Respite Playbook: A Practical Guide for Managed Care Plans (2024). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: The goal of this Medical Respite Playbook online course is to provide Managed Care Plans (MCPs) with information about the philosophy and practice of medical respite care, and offer suggestions on how MCPs can most effectively partner with medical respite care programs. More Details...

Foundations of LGBTQIA+ Health Care and Homelessness: Terminology, Concepts, and Best Practices (2024). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This 90-minute webinar will provide participants with an introduction to foundational terminology and concepts related to LGBTQIA+ identity and experience of homelessness with a focus on LGBTQIA+ health care. Participants will learn about healthcare disparities and applicable clinical practices that participants can integrate into their own contexts. More Details...

Do No Harm: Injection Related Wounds - Non-Clinical Interventions (2024). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This training is intended to provide practical information for non-clinicians on how to provide safe and ethical wound care education and dressings for injection related wounds, with a focus on xylazine. The training is also appropriate for clinicians with limited experience in treating wounds. The course will cover three main areas: ethical considerations in wound care for people experiencing homelessness, basic wound care principles that can be applied by both service providers and clients, and information on safe dressings and how to use them. The information provided on ethical considerations, education for clients, and the use of basic dressings is applicable beyond just injection related wounds. More Details...

Creating Care and Discharge Plans for People Experiencing Homelessness who are Hospitalized Toolkit (2024). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: The goal of this toolkit is to provide concrete resources to hospital staff to support the care and discharge planning process for patients who are unstably housed. More Details...

Lessons Learned: Transitions of Care for People Experiencing Homelessness in the Hospital Setting (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: CommonSpirit Health, USC Street Medicine, and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) hosted a 90-minute webinar discussing the unique and complex needs of individuals experiencing homelessness during and post hospitalization. This webinar provides concrete ways for hospital teams and community providers to support unhoused individuals during hospitalization. More Details...

Beyond Screening: Using SDOH Data for Effective Care Solutions (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar reviews how to support timely social needs referrals and care planning and operationalize social needs data. The presenter provides guidance on optimizing social needs screening workflows, including those housed in Electronic Health Records (EHRs), for following up on positive screens and effectively using the collected data. A panel of expert health center representatives share examples of how these workflows can be applied. While this webinar focuses on HCH health centers, anyone involved directly in social needs screening processes is welcome. More Details...

Basic Safety Precautions and Considerations for Community Health and Outreach Workers (2024). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This course will provide community health workers and others who deliver services outside of a brick and mortar building with safety awareness and security skills relevant to their supportive roles at health centers. More Details...

Using Data to Promote Health Equity (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report provides practical guidance for Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) centers by conducting a comprehensive examination of financial and operational benchmark trends, empowering HCH to leverage their data resources to effectively address health equity concerns. More Details...

2025 NAP Grant Opportunity Available: The HCH Helpdesk Blog (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In light of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) long anticipated release of the 2025 New Access Point (NAP) grant opportunity, this post will review the Health Center Program, HCH designation, and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council's technical assistance offerings building off a previous HCH Helpdesk blog post and publication "So You Want to Start a Health Care for the Homeless Program." More Details...

Supporting People Experiencing Homelessness in Smoking Cessation: Healing Hands (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In this issue of Healing Hands, we will look at the impact of cigarette smoking, vaping, and other tobacco use among people experiencing homelessness, including children, teens, families, Indigenous communities with cultural experiences of medicinal tobacco use, and people who experience other forms of social marginalization. We will also consider key aspects of communication and intervention in the realm of smoking cessation, including motivational interviewing, harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and the five stages of change model. We will end with one individual’s story about quitting smoking that illustrates both the challenges and benefits of engaging in tobacco cessation. More Details...

Shelter Health: Leveraging Partnerships to Improve Access and Build a Healthier Shelter Environment (2024). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This toolkit contains resources health centers and shelters may use to improve access to primary care for people experiencing homelessness and identify strategies to create strong partnerships between shelters, health centers and local health departments. More Details...

Environmental Preparedness for Health Centers: HITEQ On the Horizon (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Climate change-induced weather events such as heat waves, poor air quality, and flooding are increasing in frequency and intensity. Health centers are challenged to maintain their own health IT and operations, ensuring continuity of care for their patients, particularly individuals who are more likely to be impacted by climate change-related disasters. 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...

How EHRs Can Be Leveraged to Streamline Social Needs Screening (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Learn how screening for housing status and other Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) measures can be introduced or better integrated into health center clinical workflows. Presenters share guidance on implementing and systematizing social needs data collection in Electronic Health Records (EHRs), followed by a panel of expert health center representatives who that speak about their programs’ journeys with social needs screening programs. While this webinar will focus on health care for the homeless (HCH) health centers, anyone involved directly in social needs screening or interested in improving screening processes are welcome. Learning Objectives After this webinar, attendees will… ○ Describe the importance of capturing social needs screening data and how they relate to overall health center services. ○ Appraise their organization’s social needs screening workflow based on promising practices and examples of peer health center examples. ○ Describe strategies that could be applied to their health center to improve or streamline social needs screening process. ○ Identify which strategies demonstrated in the webinar can be introduced at their health center. More Details...

Advancing the use of SDOH Data to Support Value Based Care: National Training for Health Centers (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Is your health center interested in learning about how collection of social needs data can support your performance in providing value based care? This one-hour webinar, presented by Washington Association for Community Health, CHAS Health, and the HITEQ Center taught about best practices in SDOH screening and how health centers have used SDOH data for patient care, population health, and value based care. Participants had the opportunity to ask questions and share the specific challenges they face regarding SDOH screening and use of data. All health center staff, particularly those involved in screening clients for social needs, connecting them to resources and using data to inform care, were welcome to attend. More Details...

Building Relationships with Hospitals (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Attendees for this webinar will learn about the current landscape for America's Essential Hospitals and challenges they are facing in a post-pandemic landscape. Panelists from Cook County Health and Regional One Health will join to share how their hospitals partner with or operate medical respite programs. Strategies for communicating and collaborating with hospital systems to meet the needs of their community will be presented. 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...