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How to Use Population Health Tools to Stratify Your Population for Care Management (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar demonstrates how to use population health electronic tools to identify patients with chronic illnesses with an obesity (or elevated BMI) comorbidity. Having this information allows health centers to identify the patients who would benefit from care management, additional resources, and care coordination services. 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...

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...

Pediatric Dental Care: Building a Successful Program (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar provides health center information on access to dental care by pediatric patients, the importance of integrating dental care into primary care practices, and the visualization of data to measure success of a pediatric oral health program. This training was in conjunction with National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA). 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...

Weaving the PCMH Model of Care Into Your Operations Learning Collaborative: Session 3: Care Management, Care Coordination, and Care Transitions (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care is a way to organize healthcare delivery, coordinate care for patients, ensure the patient's needs are identified, and optimize healthcare outcomes. Despite the various certifications, many feel that a true PCMH is not attainable. This learning collaborative provides a first step in assisting health centers with organizing their approach to communication of the model with their healthcare teams and incorporating the standards into everyday operations. More Details...

Disaster Equity: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery for LGBTQIA+ Patients of Health Centers (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Climate change and natural disasters pose substantial threats to communities, the effects of which are exacerbated by inequalities in vulnerable populations—particularly those with intersectional marginalized identities (e.g., LGBTQIA+ people who are Black, Indigenous, and/or have a disability) and are disproportionately affected by chronic disease. It is vital that health centers pay special attention to the marginalized communities who have been historically forgotten in emergency preparedness and response plans. Social determinants of health such as stigma, discrimination, violence, neighborhood characteristics, transportation, and a lack of recognition of families and relationships in institutional policies dramatically impact the effects of natural disasters on LGBTQIA+ people. This publication will summarize the issues at hand and provide strategies for health centers to promote disaster management equity for LGBTQIA+ patients. More Details...

Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Children Whose Parents Are Involved in a Custody Dispute (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this brief is to: Provide a foundation and context for clinicians to feel better prepared and confident to educate family court professionals Offer best practices to illustrate how clinicians can appropriately and compassionately navigate care when co-parents disagree regarding medically necessary interventions Assist clinicians as they consider structural interventions to improve outcomes for TGD children and their families in the family court system More Details...

Crisis Intervention and De-escalation in Primary Care Learning Collaborative: Session 1: How to Identify and Prevent Crisis Behaviors 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. More Details...

Weaving the PCMH Model of Care into Your Operations Learning Collaborative: Session 2: Team-Based Care and Practice Organization (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care is a way to organize healthcare delivery, coordinate care for patients, ensure the patient's needs are identified, and optimize healthcare outcomes. Despite the various certifications, many feel that a true PCMH is not attainable. This learning collaborative provides a first step in assisting health centers with organizing their approach to communication of the model with their healthcare teams and incorporating the standards into everyday operations. More Details...

Safe Practices in Dental Care (2024). Resource Type: Archived In-Person Training. Description: This conference seminar addresses building an infection prevention and control (IPC) program in a health center dental department that addresses personal protective equipment, hand hygiene, injections, sharps, and sterilization and disinfection procedures. The seminar will review assigning roles and responsibilities to everyone on the team using project management tools. Measuring and reporting success with the IPC program will also be highlighted. Information shared references the Center for Disease Control and Prevention expectations for safe care for dental practices. More Details...

Assessing the Care Team Tech Experience: A Digital Health Tool Toolkit: HITEQ Center, created through Aliados Health (2024). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This toolkit helps health center electronic health record (EHR) and Information Technology (IT) departments to deliver effective EHR training for staff, whether for new hires, rolling out new EHR modules, or providing ongoing training support. More Details...

Weaving the PCMH Model of Care into Your Operations: Session 1: The Benefits of a Patient-Centered Medical Home (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care is a way to organize healthcare delivery, coordinate care for patients, ensure the patient's needs are identified, and optimize healthcare outcomes. Despite the various certifications, many feel that a true PCMH is not attainable. This learning collaborative provides a first step in assisting health centers with organizing their approach to communication of the model with their healthcare teams and incorporating the standards into everyday operations. More Details...

Health Center Dashboard Design Guide (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The purpose of this resource is to provide a comprehensive guide to user-centered dashboard design for health center staff. The accompanying workbook provides a guided series of prompts and questions for health center dashboard developers. More Details...

Organizational Self-Care Assessment Tool: Fostering a Culture of Wellness Among Health Center Staff (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Health Outreach Partners’ Organizational Self-Care Assessment Tool: Fostering a Culture of Wellness Among Health Center Staff webinar focuses on the importance of adopting organizational self-care practices in the health center setting. The training covers how the assessment tool can assess each organization’s employee wellness practices. Use the link here to access the tool. More Details...

Data Visualization for Value-based care: HITEQ Resource (2024). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource details how data visualization can be employed to support value-based care and includes suggestions on how to depict measures and trends using data dashboards. 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...

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...

"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...

Emergency Preparedness in School-Based Telehealth (2024). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Emergency Preparedness in School-Based Telehealth 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 define how health centers can partner effectively with schools to implement telehealth care, identify how to provide students with care through telehealth, and reduce barriers to telehealth services. More Details...