Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Added: Jul 14, 2017
This model describes opportunities to promote smoking cessation in the workplace and resources for employers.
...Workers In this model, worksites sponsor competitions for employees that promote smoking cessation, or provide incentives for abstaining from tobacco use. A competition could involve a contest that rewards a worker who abstains from tobacco...
Reviewed: Dec 26, 2018
Explore the how care managers provide care coordination.
...workers, and gerontologists, or have training in other health fields and disciplines. The following are examples of the services that care managers may provide: Coordinate patients' hospital discharge plans Support the transition from an acute...
Date: Apr 2020
Summarizes community-based strategies to increase testing among African Americans in both urban and rural areas of North Carolina. Identifies concerns over confidentiality, negative treatment by healthcare workers, and lack of support regarding self-testing kits. Discusses strategies such as decentralizing HIV testing, particularly in rural areas.
...Community Barriers and Facilitators to HIV Testing and HIV Self-Testing among African Americans in Urban and Rural Areas in North Carolina --- Summarizes community-based strategies to increase testing among African Americans in both urban...
Date: Nov 29, 2023
Old Dominion University's new mobile clinic is bridging care gaps in underserved communities while providing clinical opportunities to nursing students. - The Rural Monitor
...Community College, a two-year school in Franklin, have also begun working at the clinic. Some patients might come to the clinic with acute issues, such as infections or injuries, while others need general wellness...
Reviewed: Sep 23, 2020
Information on identifying appropriate measures for evaluating a diabetes program and examples of evaluation measures used by diabetes programs.
...health Changes in health status Changes in obesity rates Complications rate (renal failure, retinopathy) Changes in mortality rates (diabetes-related and all causes) Other Outcomes Environmental and contextual factors (living situation, social support, cultural influences...
Deadline: Feb 15, 2024
Grants for cooperative extension to work in collaboration with other organizations to develop and deliver educational programs that help at-risk youth build the skills they need to lead positive, productive, and contributing lives. Considerations should include children and youth facing issues related to substance use, violence, crime, mental health, teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, obesity, and poverty, among others.
...workers New immigrant children and families Children in families coping with military deployments, separations, and reunions Children and youth facing issues related to use of substances Violence and crime Mental health Social-emotional skills Bullying...
Reviewed: Apr 8, 2022
Learn about challenges and barriers to consider when implementing an HIV/AIDS prevention or treatment program in a rural community.
...community. For a broad overview of rural program implementation, see Implementing a Rural Community Health Program in the Rural Community Health Toolkit. In this module: Stigma Transportation HIV/AIDS Data Collection Partnerships Social Determinants of Health...
Reviewed: Apr 8, 2022
Information on behavioral interventions that aim to promote behavior change in an effort to reduce risk of HIV infection.
...worker population. Includes both past and current strategies to overcome challenges to working in rural migrant communities. Offers several toolkits and resources providing technical assistance when implementing HIV/AIDS prevention programs. Organization(s): Farmworker Justice...
Reviewed: Jun 21, 2023
Hope Squad helps students in 16 states and Canada identify classmates struggling with suicide and other mental health concerns and refer them to adult advisors who can help.
...communities in Utah. In 2004, Hope4Utah implemented Hope Squad , a school-based peer leadership program in which students learn how to identify warning signs of suicide or other mental health concerns in their peers...
Date: Aug 7, 2019
To address rising ER readmissions, an Arizona healthcare system and network partners adapted an unconventional EMS telehealth service to help rural patients. Coupled with care coordination, mobile telehealth units are saving the healthcare system money while better meeting patients' healthcare needs. - The Rural Monitor
...health providers, patients needing care that is more specialized are referred to ChangePoint Integrated Health , a community mental health clinic and crisis stabilization unit and NIOREC partner. Having ChangePoint as a place to refer patients...