Academic Partnerships to Foster Multidirectional Learning and Reinforce our Health Center Workforce
Partnerships focusing on improving the health of individuals and communities through alliances among academic associations and health centers are essential to develop workforce innovation projects, serve as a conduit for public health workforce activities, and enhance population health education for medical, nursing, and public health students. This webinar explored the academic partnerships developed by a health center in San Diego, CA, and how these practices helped to recruit, train, and retain its workforce.
Building Resilience in the Midst of a Pandemic: What Health Care Workers and Leaders Can Do During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis has required health centers to focus on the challenges of achieving effective healthcare delivery during shortages of staff, equipment and funding. A lot of energy has been devoted to the urgent and critical need for personal protective equipment, the impending lack of respirators and tests, and the pressure on health centers to help “flatten the curve.” This crisis has left little time to address the impact of workplace and personal stressors on providers and other staff as they try to balance the fear of contracting the virus while carrying a heavy, complex workload. There is a real risk of a mental health crisis facing health care workers on the front lines of this pandemic. This webinar provided tips and recommendations for leadership, clinical and non-clinical staff working at health center clinical sites on how to create a healthy environment and cope with anxiety, depression and other behavioral disorders caused by COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2).
Building Value and Return On Investment in Housing and Health Partnerships
Building and maintaining effective community partnerships is a critical component of health center management and community involvement. Local partners help integrate important stakeholders into organizational processes and empower health centers to better understand and care for the communities they serve. But can health centers design and evaluate their partnerships? In this webinar, we reviewed tools and procedures for designing, evaluating, and strengthening community partnerships with a focus on pragmatic, practical and innovative solutions.
EnVision Centers, PHAs, and FQHCs–Opportunities for Collaboration to Improve Resident Health
In this webinar, background information is provided on the intersection of health centers and public housing agencies in the effort to improve health and wellness of residents. This webinar also focuses on EnVision Centers and how community health centers can collaborate nationally with EnVision Center partners in order to achieve the health and wellness goal of the health and wellness pillar within the EnVision Centers.
Healthy Together: A Toolkit for Health Center Collaborations with HUD-Assisted Housing and Community-Based Organizations
This webinar by NCHPH and NNCC walked through an updated resource toolkit for partnerships with organizations, e.g., Public Housing Agencies, managing current HUD-Assisted housing programs, including Public Housing, Housing Choice Voucher, Multifamily, and resident services programs, including FSS, ROSS, Jobs Plus and Connect Home; as well as partnerships with other community-based organizations. It illustrated how health center staff can (a) identify housing partners, (b) create common language and goals to ensure partnership success, and (c) sustain partnerships over time.
Improving Health of Public Housing Residents Through Intentional Health Center and Housing Authority Partnerships
In collaboration with the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium, the National Center for Health in Public Housing conducted a webinar that highlighted the health center and housing authority partnerships that have led to improved health for public housing residents. The webinar described promising practices on improving health education and outreach, access to care, and distribution of COVID-19 related supplies. The webinar featured speakers from North End Waterfront Health Center (NEW Health) and the Boston Housing Authority.
Outreach and Opportunities for Collaboration to Improve Resident Health: Health Centers, Public Housing Agencies and More
This webinar by NCHPH and SCPHCA highlights ways to improve outreach.
Partnering for the COVID Vaccine: Lessons from the Flu-LEAD Project
The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium, the National Center for Health in Public Housing, and subject matter experts from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development hosted a webinar about leveraging health center and housing authority partnerships for COVID vaccine distribution. Speakers discussed lessons learned from the HUD/HRSA Flu-LEAD (Linkages to End Access Disparities) project.
Partnership for the Future: Health Centers and Maternal Child Health Home Visiting Opportunities
In this three-part webinar series hosted by the National Nurse-led Care Consortium (NNCC) and the National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH), viewers can expect to learn about improving maternal and child health equity with home visiting program partnerships and health centers. This series explores opportunities for health centers to develop partnerships with home visiting programs shown to improve maternal and child health outcomes, promote health equity, and reduce health disparities.
The first session covered trends in the current landscape of Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) funded programs and where existing and future partnerships with health centers are possible. In session two, participants heard about community health centers’ return on investment (ROI) and increased patient health outcomes after home visiting integration. And the third session showcased strategies for creating action and sustainability plans to implement a home visiting partnership for interested health centers.
The Road to Trauma-Informed Care in Primary Care
Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) is an approach in the human service field that assumes that an individual is more likely than not to have a history of trauma. Trauma-Informed Care recognizes the presence of trauma symptoms and acknowledges the role trauma may play in an individual’s health and wellbeing, – inclusive of both staff and patients. staff. The National Council for Behavioral Health in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente is leading a three-year initiative, Trauma-Informed Primary Care: Fostering Resilience and Recovery, to educate health care providers on the importance of trauma-informed approaches and to create a change package for implementation of standardized and scalable trauma-informed care practices in the primary care setting. Zufall Health Center in Dover, NJ, has been working with National Council experts to pilot resources, tools and processes, developed by a multidisciplinary team of health care stakeholders, designed to guide the planning, implementation and evaluation of a trauma-informed approach in primary care. During this webinar we will hear from the National Council and Zufall Health Center about Trauma Informed Primary Care, lessons learned and resources for Health Centers on how to implement a trauma-informed care program.
Winter 2022-23 Update: Respiratory Disease Prevention- Addressing COVID-19, Flu, RSV, and Preparation for Future Outbreaks
The National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH) in collaboration with HUD, conducted a webinar on COVID-19, Flu and RSV and how they can be addressed through treatment, prevention and partnerships between Health Centers, Public Housing Agencies and other CBOs. Challenges, resources and promising practices for addressing current outbreaks and preparing for the next emergency were identified by speakers from CDC, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), HUD, a health center and a public housing agency.