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Mental Health Hub (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The Mental Health Resource Hub provides patient education materials, mental health screening tools, and national resources that support mental health outreach and advance integrated behavioral health interventions utilized with the MSAW population. It also features screening tools gathered from guest speakers and health resources and patient education materials developed by NCFH with input from the​ Mental Health Learning Collaborative (MHLC), a collaboration supported by HRSA to build the capacity of health center staff within Migrant and Community Health centers in successfully integrating behavioral health services with primary care for their MSAW patients. More Details...

Mental Health Amongst Agricultural Workers (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: This webinar discusses the importance of mental health outreach and integrated services to Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs). The webinar will also share results from NCFH’s Mental Health Learning Collaborative and feature the upcoming Mental Health Resource Hub that will provide patient education materials, mental health screening tools, and national resources that support mental health outreach to this vulnerable population. In sharing these resources, NCFH seeks to build capacity within Health Centers in utilizing integrated behavioral health interventions amongst MSAWs and provide this population greater access to culturally appropriate mental health services across the country. This webinar is great for health center staff who conduct outreach to MSAWs including Promotores de Salud and those involved with service delivery of integrated behavioral health programs. Presented on May 4th. 2021 by Gladys Carrillo, LCSW. More Details...

Mental Health Amongst Agricultural Workers (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: This webinar discusses the importance of mental health outreach and integrated services to Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs). The webinar will also share results from NCFH’s Mental Health Learning Collaborative and feature the upcoming Mental Health Resource Hub that will provide patient education materials, mental health screening tools, and national resources that support mental health outreach to this vulnerable population. In sharing these resources, NCFH seeks to build capacity within Health Centers in utilizing integrated behavioral health interventions amongst MSAWs and provide this population greater access to culturally appropriate mental health services across the country. This webinar is great for health center staff who conduct outreach to MSAWs including Promotores de Salud and those involved with service delivery of integrated behavioral health programs. Presented on May 4th. 2021 by Gladys Carrillo, LCSW. More Details...

Maternal and Child Health (2017). Resource Type: Publication . Description: Due to mobility and low median family incomes, pregnant agricultural worker women and infant children face obstacles in obtaining adequate and timely prenatal and postnatal care. This factsheet provides information on maternal and child health, prenatal and pediatric care, nutrition for mothers and children, and occupational health and safety. More Details...

Language Access Services Assessment and Planning Tool (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: A tool to assist health centers in developing a plan to address language access needs and better serve patients needing such services. More Details...

Joint Commission BPHC Strategies to Keep Health Center Employees Engaged (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: Research shows that health care organizations that routinely assess and achieve high employee satisfaction scores, have these 3 important factors: 1) leadership support, 2) a culture of open communication and 3) employee empowerment and initiative in providing the best possible care to patients. Combined, these factors result in job satisfaction and retention, increased self-confidence, better job performance, effective team relationships, and ultimately enhances the workplace environment and improves quality of care provided to patients. This webinar will provide an overview of these key factors and will discuss strategies to create an organizational culture of open communication, leadership, engagement and will include tips and tools to administer and assess staff satisfaction surveys on an on-going basis. Recommendations will be made regarding strategies for successful implementation of systems, practices, training, etc., with the ultimate outcome of improving staff engagement. More Details...

Integrating Diabetes Self-Management Education into a Federally Qualified Health Center (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health Services (BJHCHS) maintains an accredited Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) program in rural South Carolina. Intended for health centers looking to offer diabetes self-management education, this presentation will detail the integration of a DSME program into eight Federally-Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) using quality improvement data, as well as future plans to expand the program's integration and a discussion of the role DSME assumes in improving diabetes outcomes nationwide. Presented by Susan Mills Tucker, MNS, RD, LD, CDE and Madeline Lasell, MPH, RD, LD More Details...

Insuficiencia Cardíaca-Heart Failure (2018). Resource Type: Educational Video. Description: This is the story of Ada and how she manages her heart failure diagnosis with the help of her medical team and family. More Details...

Influenza and the COVID-19 Pandemic Social Media Toolkit (44652). Resource Type: Publication . Description: The Influenza and the COVID-19 Pandemic Social Media Toolkit contains resources to amplify your organization's social media messaging about the flu season during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides information on how to develop a social media campaign and tools to aid in content creation. More Details...

Increase Access to Care (IAC) Q&A Packet (2018). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This list provides a compilation of questions and answers gathered from past Increase Access to Care workshops, webinars, and trainings. This Q&A Packet for Increasing Access to Care provides Health Centers a one-stop shop for information related to the accurate identification and classification of agricultural workers. Information has been categorized by familiar topics to enable the user to find related information quickly. More Details...

Importance of Multi-Disciplinary and Multi-Tier Succession Planning (2015). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: To many, “Succession Planning” means one thing: “When is the boss retiring and how will subsequent changes in leadership affect the organization.” While top-level executive change is critical to the Migrant Health movement, given the age of the program and the significant number of Executives who have devoted their careers to running Migrant and Community Health Centers, real Succession Planning happens at all levels of the organizational structure, and is multidisciplinary in scope. This workshop will provide tools that can be useful at any level, and will encourage frank dialog about the risks associated with lack of a viable corporate succession plan. More Details...

Implementing a Language Access Program (2019). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: A step-by-step guide developed to implement Language Access Services (LAS) to patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP). More Details...

Implementing a Cohort Process to Minimize COVID-19 Infection for Migrant Farmworkers    (44841). Resource Type: Publication. Description: During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFWs) experienced fewer protections due to their migratory patterns and work conditions. As the 2020 season started, MSFWs were traveling from Texas or Mexico to Iowa, and in July 2020, a family farm in Iowa experienced an outbreak of COVID-19 cases among its migrant and H-2A guest workers. As workers returned for harvest later that year, Proteus, a federally qualified health center (FQHC), implemented a cohort process to minimize risk of COVID-19 infection during travel to Iowa in August and September of 2020. More Details...

Implementation Template (2020). Resource Type: Publication . Description: A self-assessment that provides a snapshot highlighting the work you are currently doing and areas for growth to address Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS). More Details...

Impact of a Multilingual Outreach Model on COVID-19 Vaccinations and Testing for Farmworkers and their Families at Community-based Events   (44841). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Starting the summer of 2021, Healthcare Network’s COVID-19 Response Team and Golisano Children’s Hospital facilitated community-based COVID-19 vaccine and testing sites in Immokalee, Florida. By bridging the clinical services and the community, their collaborative work and community outreach and education removed barriers to vaccine access for farmworkers and their families in a multilingual community. This multi-agency vaccine collaboration created an open line of communication between the local Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and children’s hospital and the farmworker communities they serve. More Details...

IAC Plus Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Screening Tool (2021). Resource Type: Template . Description: This tool assist health care providers in assessing, screening, and documenting SDOH factors among MSAW patients and create an action plan to enhance population health outcomes and UDS reporting.  More Details...

IAC Plus Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Checklist (2020). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This checklist serves to identify Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs) SDOH challenges, resources available, and strategies implemented to manage these barriers. More Details...

IAC Migrant Health Program Self-Asessment Tool (2018). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This tool is designed to assist health center staff in evaluating their current Migrant Health Program and identify potential areas for improvement. More Details...

How CHCs Are Funded - The Revenue Cycle (2015). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: Training on understanding how CHCs are funded and the role that staff play in the health center’s financial viability. Staff at CHCs often have limited or no understanding of where funds that support center activities and staff salaries come from. This webcast will provide HC staff knowledge of the role that billing, co-pays, SFS and collections play in the financial viability of the health center and how they are part of that role from the front desk to the provider. More Details...

HIV/AIDS and U.S. Agricultural Workers (2017). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This factsheet provides information on the heavy burden on migratory and seasonal agricultural workers for contracting HIV and/or AIDS due to their lack of health care access due to legal, financial, geographical, and linguistic barriers coupled with a lack of material and social support. The migratory lifestyle, often characterized by constant mobility, geographic isolation, separation from family, lack of health education, and varying cultural attitudes and beliefs about safe sex practices further escalates these risks. More Details...