Webinar Slides(PDF) This webinar will orient participants to the new guide on integrating community health workers into an health care for the homeless project, with a focus on outreach and enrollment. Two HCH projects’ community health workers will be featured—one whose focus is on navigation and enrollment and the other whose focus is on outreach […]
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Webinar Slides(PPT) This webinar contains information to help participants learn strategies for engaging in advocacy at the local level and in Washington, D.C., without adding significant burdens to the limited time and resources available to health care for the homeless grantees. Conscious economic and policy decisions over the last 30 years have contributed tremendously to contemporary
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This webinar will focus on key strategies for successful adoption and utilization of electronic health records, including workforce development, financial support and federal incentives, provider and consumer education, and communication infrastructure to meet the meaningful use requirements of the 2009 ARRA HITECH ACT. Highlighting best practice examples of successful adaptations and implementations serving homeless communities
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Webinar Slides(PPT) The webinar will explore the role of a community health worker (CHW) and how a CHW program can be applied in the homeless health care setting. The session will also provide an overview of the Homelessness 101 program and its relevance to the advocacy role of a community health worker. Presenters Matt Leber,
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Webinar Slides(PPT) This webinar will focus on the models of integrated care that three health care for the homeless projects has adopted in order to better serve homeless populations. Homeless populations are much more likely to have complex, multiple occurring disorders that include chronic, somatic conditions coupled with mental health and/or substance use disorders. Traditional models
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Webinar Slides(PPT) In developing New Access Points, integration of care is critical—and challenging—both internally and at the community level. In this webinar, you will learn from the experience of one community mental health organization that has planned and applied for Health Center funding to more comprehensively meet the needs of its community. They will share
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Webinar Slides(PPT) Q & A(PDF) Resources(PDF) March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. This webinar will address the diagnosis and treatment of TBI in the homeless population. The co-incidence of homelessness and TBI can lead to medical, social, behavioral, mental, cognitive, and economic decline in an individual. Presenters Angela Colantonio, PhD, OT Reg (Ont); Saunderson
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 Webinar Slides(PDF) This webinar includes a brief review of the patient-centered medical home concept and history; the reasoning behind one HCH’s plans to prioritize seeking PCMH recognition now; and a discussion of the early challenges and foreseeable hurdles to recognition for HCH programs. Presenters: Heidi Nelson, MHSA; CEO, Duffy Health Center; Hyannis, Massachusetts Joslyn Strupp
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