Resources covering clinical care protocols, chronic disease management, preventive care, and evidence-based clinical guidelines for health center providers.
This Renaye James Healthcare Advisors' webinar introduces the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) Lifestyle Change Program (LCP) and Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) program to help health centers build a strong business case for Implementation. It also covers setting program goals, outlining key components and standards, and tracking quality outcomes.
This two-part series explores the unique healthcare needs of aging individuals living with HIV and provide primary care providers with strategies to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered care. Learn how to address the complex medical, social, and psychological challenges that arise as people with HIV age, and how to integrate HIV care with general aging-related health concerns.
Substance use can lead to poor health and safety outcomes for both mother and baby. This webinar reviews these risks and explores how health care providers can reduce stigma, leverage partnerships with social services and community organizations, and adopt evidence-based approaches to optimize health. These approaches include screening and referral protocols, coordinated discharge planning, and collaborative perinatal care.
Offered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partners (NTTAP) on Clinical Workforce Development at the Connecticut Primary Care Association Annual Conference, this 60-minute breakout session will explore behavioral health integration through the lens of collaborative care models that blend brief interventions, case management, and psychiatric consultation into primary care. Presenters from Community Health Center, Inc. (CHCI) will share best practices and lessons learned, as well as insights from their Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Residency Program to support workforce development and sustainable behavioral health integration.
With its combination of effectiveness and speed, the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) model deserves a place in every health center’s behavioral health integration toolkit, no matter the stage of its integration journey. This resource covers the use of SBIRT for both adult and adolescent patients to help prevent, identify, and treat drug and alcohol use misuse. It covers the major how-tos of SBIRT: evaluating evidence-based screening and assessment tools; developing solid workflows; and building treatment referral networks.
This resource guide for migrant health centers is designed to enhance the dissemination of information on chronic disease and diabetes management. It will explore strategies to provide Community Health Workers & Health Center Staff with resources and engagement techniques to ensure proper access to care.
Learn how Community Health Workers (CHWs) can use Mental Health First Aid to recognize, respond to, and support individuals experiencing mental health challenges. This article provides tools, training insights, and real-world applications tailored for CHWs. Explore how early intervention through Mental Health First Aid can make a lasting impact on a person's well-being.
The third session, " Integrated Behavioral Health in the Digital Age " will explore pediatric behavioral health implications of digital dependence and provide recommendations for early, coordinated intervention for problematic media use.
This new, interactive learning module is designed to support the oral health team in understanding skills and strategies to deliver positive customer service in a dental setting. This module is intended for the entire dental team from dental providers to administrative team members. (1.25 CDE is offered).
This Depression Screening Resource was developed for health centers that serve MSAWs. It includes an introduction to mental health symptoms, coping strategies, barriers to managing these symptoms, and approaches for community health workers to discuss mental health with people working as MSAWs.
In Part 1 of this two-part Renaye James Healthcare Advisors' training, this webinar offers health care providers knowledge and tools to implement a team-based Patient-Centered Medical Home diabetes care management program. It covers the roles and responsibilities of the diabetes care team, how to stratify diabetes care management individuals based on risk, and how to measure a diabetes care management program.
Integrating behavioral health and substance use disorder services into primary care requires changes to both clinical care and administrative practices. This is the first in a two-part series that breaks down the essentials that health centers need to know to address common billing challenges when integrating behavioral health services with traditional medical services. There is discussion of clinical documentation that supports health center sustainability, including professional coding practices and revenue cycle management.
In Part 2 of this Renaye James Healthcare Advisors' two-part training, this webinar informs health care providers on how to effectively implement a team-based Patient-Centered Medical Home diabetes care management program. It reinforces the care management process for individuals with diabetes and identifies the National Committee for Quality Assurance Electronic Medical Record requirements for diabetes care management programs.
This is the second in a two-part series. It delves into the deeper challenges related to behavioral health integration (BHI) documentation, billing, and coding in health centers. It reviews current Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) billing rules and strategies for appropriate documentation and coding of integrated behavioral health services in a community health center setting. The speaker also addresses documentation, billing, and coding considerations for substance use disorder treatment and remote delivery of behavioral health services.
This action guide highlights seven strategies to start a successful Family Healthy Weight Program (FHWP) within a primary care setting. Based on learnings from a group of Health Centers implementing FHWPs over five years and updated Clinical Practice Guidelines, this implementation guide provides the foundation for success when a health center or clinical practice decides to begin a FHW program
This resource is intended to support health centers in identifying some important components to effective programming for HIV+ individuals leaving carceral settings to ensure smooth linkage to care and housing following discharge.
This toolkit is designed to help health centers develop and implement in-house behavioral health training programs. It includes information on program design, curriculum development, supervisor roles, and other resources. Experts also provide examples from practicum and postdoctoral programs to guide the creation of a behavioral health training pathway.
Find answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the new UDS sealant measure for children between the ages of 6-9 years at risk for dental caries. Developed in consultation with oral health specialists and HRSA staff, the FAQ answers questions asked during NNOHA training and technical assistance sessions and webinars.
This training addresses the impact of HIV linkage to care, challenges, and screening and assessment methods for older adults receiving comprehensive sexual histories, as well as the impact a delayed sexual history assessment has on HIV linkage to care. Participants will identify strategies to manage provider and patient challenges in completing comprehensive sexual history and identify screening questions and assessment methods to complete sexual history in older adults.
This resource is designed to increase primary care and behavioral health provider skills and confidence to assess patients’ chronic pain and to develop and implement evidence-informed, patient-directed care plans. Education will focus on effective patient-provider goal setting, risk mitigation, and communications strategies. Case studies will demonstrate how to apply what we learn to common clinical scenarios.
This webinar will review the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) and address barriers to their integration into primary care. Participants will learn ways to discuss medication options with patients seeking treatment for OUD and will be introduced to the latest, evidence-based screening tools and integration resources.
Diabetes is a common but complicated health condition facing agricultural workers within the United States. To help assist agricultural workers in learning about this diagnosis. This low-literacy comic book explores the topic through the full-color story of an agricultural farmworker named Goyo, whose recent diagnosis of diabetes prompts him to engage in conversations with other agricultural workers on topics of diet, exercise, and illness prevention while facing the unique hurdles of living a life of migration. The comic book was originally produced in Spanish and is now available in English below.
Diabetes is a common but complicated health condition facing agricultural workers within the United States. To help assist agricultural workers in learning about this diagnosis, this low-literacy comic book explores the topic through the full-color story of an agricultural farmworker named Goyo. His recent diagnosis of diabetes prompts him to engage in conversations with other agricultural workers on topics of diet, exercise, and illness prevention while facing the unique hurdles of living a life of migration. The comic book was originally produced in Spanish and is now available in English.
Diabetes is a common but complicated health condition facing agricultural workers within the United States. To help assist agricultural workers in learning about this diagnosis, this low-literacy comic book explores the topic through the full-color story of an agricultural farmworker named Goyo. His recent diagnosis of diabetes prompts him to engage in conversations with other agricultural workers on topics of diet, exercise, and illness prevention while facing the unique hurdles of living a life of migration. The comic book was originally produced in Spanish and is now available in English below.
Pediatric mental health challenges are common, yet most primary care providers face challenges when delivering complete behavioral health services. This training explores the role of integrated care in addressing pediatric behavioral health throughout childhood—from infants and toddlers to school-aged children and adolescents. Presenters share strategies to support family-centered practices throughout screening and assessment, referral, and care coordination and provide examples from evidence-based programs, such as home visits and Healthy Start.
An informative 60-minute training on the role of integrated oral health in improving patient care. Through an interdisciplinary panel discussion and practical case study, expert panelists will illustrate how integration strengthens collaboration and enhances patient access. Dr. Sheela Tummala, Chief Dental Officer, at Community Health Center, Inc. (CHCI) presents.
CommUnityCare in Texas shares how their organization implemented medical and dental integration through NNOHA Integration of Diabetes and Oral Health Learning Collaborative to help improve the health outcomes of patients with diabetes.
This promising practice features Horizon Health Care, Inc. in South Dakota. This health center implemented a medical and dental integration program for patients with diabetes while participating in NNOHA's Integration of Diabetes and Oral Health Learning Collaborative.
This webinar explores how health centers can successfully integrate oral and mental health services to improve health outcomes and enhance patient care. A didactic presentation will review best practices for integrating oral and mental health and how to implement universal depression screening and assessment in the dental clinic. Panelists from the Puerto Rico Primary Care Association, HealthproMed in Puerto Rico, Clackamas County Health Center in Oregon, and Vista Community Clinic in California, will share their integrated oral and mental health programs and lessons learned from their integration journey. Participants will gain actionable tools and resources to support oral and mental health integration efforts in their health centers.
Health centers play a vital role in prevention and treatment of HIV and Hepatitis C to improve overall access to care. This fact sheet provides an overview of best practices in engagement in care at this intersection and discusses prevention strategies to reduce rates of coinfection.
This session, featuring a panel of subject-matter experts and staff from Partnership Health Center in Missoula, MT, and Project Vida Health Center Campus Care in El Paso, TX, introduces evidence-based practices and models for delivering integrated school-based behavioral health care to youth. Presenters identify resources for expanded patient access in the SBHC setting and discuss staffing considerations to support mental health and substance use counseling and referrals. Real-world insights on integrated behavioral health care implementation in school-based settings.
Presented by Mary Blankson, Chief Nursing Officer, at Community Health Center, Inc. (CHCI), this 60-minute webinar discusses the importance of patient self-monitoring and self-education in improving A1c levels. Participants will gain practical knowledge on identifying effective self-monitoring strategies, applying best practices in diabetes education, and developing an action plan to implement diabetes self-monitoring education and support within their health center.
The National Center for Health in Public Housing (NCHPH) and the National Council for Mental Wellbeing hosted a timely discussion on the growing presence of synthetic opioids, including nitazenes, and their impact on community health. The webinar examined how health centers strengthened prevention efforts, patient education, and response strategies to address this emerging threat.
When your head, neck, or face gets hurt, the injuries might not be visible or show up right away but can impact your brain and your life in many ways. Please complete this CHATS form and work with your advocate to get support after a head injury.
This Renaye James Healthcare Advisors' webinar addresses workforce challenges in behavioral health by defining the value of Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) in primary care, offering strategies for recruiting and onboarding staff, providing insights into daily workflows, and examining successes and challenges at key implementation milestones. How an IBH model differs from traditional outpatient mental health specialty care and the use of associated quality improvement measures are covered.
Older people with HIV may face different issues than their younger counterparts, including greater community isolation and loneliness. Stigma is also a particular concern among older people with HIV. Stigma negatively affects people’s quality of life, self-image, and behaviors, and may prevent them from disclosing their HIV status or seeking the health care or support services that patients may require. This issue brief lists the health-related needs affecting patients and resources to find assistance.
What’s your next step following a positive patient screening for alcohol use disorder (AUD)? Reinforce your skills and confidence with a discussion of motivational interviewing techniques to support patient-directed treatment plans with an introduction to the National Institute on Drug Abuse Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription medication, and other Substance use (TAPS) screening and assessment tool.
This training addresses the impact, identification, and management of food addiction characteristics for patients with elevated or rising BMI (Body Mass Index). This training will address the definition and pathogenesis of food addiction, and interventions that healthcare providers can initiate to minimize the rising BMI will also be discussed.