Building Value and Return on Investment in Housing and Health Partnerships
This learning collaborative from NCHPH and National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) will guide health center staff through practical steps to help build value and return on investment in their current health center and housing authority partnerships. The learning collaborative consists of four modules that discuss strategies, case studies, and promising practices to increase the impact of partnership activities, ultimately improving the health and social outcomes for residents of public housing. The modules will discuss how to optimize the health center workforce and resources, evaluate existing and developing partnerships, and measure and improve their impact.
Diabetes Continuum of Care: Impact of Health Literacy on Patients’ Diabetes Management and Self-Care
NCHPH partnered with members of the Special and Vulnerable Population Diabetes Task Force to provide a Learning Collaborative (LC) addressing critical issues to improve diabetes control in health centers nationally. NCHPH provided expertise in public housing primary care and provided a more in-depth exploration of strategies, tools, and resources needed to create positive change in diabetes control among health center patients. The LC sessions also provided in-depth knowledge and skills in order to address the unique needs of people experiencing homelessness, residents of public housing, migratory and seasonal agricultural workers, school-aged children, older adults, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, LGBT people, and other vulnerable populations.
Expanding Diabetes Prevention and Management Through Health Center Outreach
In this training hosted by the National Center for Health in Public Housing, we addressed diabetes resources for CHWs, explained the roles and competencies of CHWs in diabetes prevention with an emphasis on nutrition, physical activity programs and other lifestyle interventions, and how CHWs can help patients with diabetes crack food insecurity and other social determinants of health through community resources.
This learning collaborative was comprised of a mix of outreach and diabetes educators from at least 10 health centers in or immediately accessible to public housing. Utilizing evidence-based models such as those developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Community Preventive Services Task Force or National Health, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the four learning modules allowed for the implementation of process for weight screening and tracking patients with abnormal BMI and HbA1c.
Social Determinants of Health Screening Tools for Public Housing Residents
In this learning collaborative, NCHPH guided participants through the practical aspects of identifying and implementing an SDOH screening process at their health center. The series went beyond the basics by covering issues such as:
• building trust while assessing social risks;
• integrating data to improve patient engagement;
• evaluating impact on patient outcomes and health center procedures;
• understanding the variability and utilization of specific screening tools that are dependent on the context of health issues;
• reimbursement and funding strategies to pay for SDOH screening and referrals.
Each session included insight and promising practices from an expert in the health care field.
Special Populations Roundtable: Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Program
NCHPH and other National Training and Technical Assistance Partner organizations hosted a bi-weekly roundtable discussion around the COVID-19 vaccination rollout for special populations. During these sessions, subject matter experts convened to provide health centers with up-to-date information about the COVID-19 vaccine and their response to cases and questions from health centers and other community partners.
Supporting Implementation of Smoking Cessation Programs in Public Housing Primary Care Settings 2021
This NCHPH Learning Collaborative discussed ways to debunk the myth that smoking is an effective way to deal with stress, enumerated various proven stress management techniques, in depth, that can be used to maintain a quit, and discussed how to successfully teach these techniques to patients.