2021 AgWorkers Virtual Conference


  • Thumbnail for Opening General Session and Channeling the Movement - Building the Agricultural Worker Health System for the Future
    Date
    May 5, 2021

    Welcome, Bureau of Primary Health Care Update and NACHC Policy Update. Keynote presentation description: The past year has shown the necessity to pivot when faced with emergencies, the urgency to speak up on behalf of agricultural workers, and the position health centers serve as national leaders of health care for marginalized populations. On any given day, a health center leader is faced with areas around community organizing, cultivating partnerships, workforce development, community and patient outreach, fiscal acuity, and leadership. This year they also faced a pandemic, rising racist attacks on their communities, fear of safety in their own buildings and demand for services only the frontline workforce like the agricultural workers we serve could provide. Our movement has seen leaders launch agricultural worker health programs and fight for civil rights for decades -- and as the next generation of leaders are facing similar challenges as their predecessors, they are also seeing the opportunities to strengthen these programs for the future. Through a moderated discussion with UnidosUS’ Vice President of Health, Rita Carreon, a cross-generational set of leaders will discuss their work, their perspectives, their cautions, and most importantly, their hope for the future of the Health Center Movement.

    Objectives

    • Understand the value and impact of partnerships and coalitions in communities served by health centers.
    • Learn how health center leaders have impacted policies affecting health centers.
    • Understand the traits and skill sets of effective health center leaders.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Rita Carreón
    Vice President, Health, Unidos US
    Speaker Image for Carmela Castellano-Garcia
    President and CEO, California Primary Care Association
    Speaker Image for Joseph Gallegos
    Former Senior Vice President, Western Operations, NACHC
    Speaker Image for Maribel Montes de Oca
    Community Health Improvement Program Manager, Northwest Regional Primary Care Association
    Speaker Image for Melissa Torres
    Chief Operating Officer, Greene County Health Care, Inc.
    Speaker Image for Joe Dunn
    Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Research Division, NACHC
    Speaker Image for Tom Van Coverden
    President and CEO, NACHC
    Speaker Image for Michael Holmes
    NACHC Chair of the Board, Cook Area Health Services, Inc.
    Speaker Image for James Macrae
    James Macrae, MA, MPP
    Associate Administrator, Bureau of Primary Health Care/HRSA
  • Thumbnail for Post-Pandemic Trauma-Informed Self-Care for Health Center Staff
    Date
    May 5, 2021

    The COVID-19 Pandemic has been a traumatic event for people around the world and in communities around the United States. Among health center staff, furloughs, task shifting and remote work, and increased exposure risk are just some of the challenges presented over the last year. In their work to bridge services and provide access to necessary care, health center staff have navigated the trauma of vulnerable patients, sometimes taking it on themselves.

    The tendency for burnout and compassion fatigue is already high for healthcare workers, and the pandemic has only increased demands on staff. A trauma-informed self-care framework provides health center leadership with the capacity to recognize and address signs of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma, but also to help prevent some of the consequences to health center operations.

    In this 90-minute session, participants will be introduced to a trauma-informed, healing-centered approach to organizational self-care. The presenters will address the ways in which trauma of the pandemic may affect health center staff and patients. Participants will learn how they can use a trauma-informed framework to establish and improve their organizational self-care policies and practices to support health center staff as they adjust to the post-pandemic context.

    Objectives

    • Define and recognize signs of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma.
    • Understand the principles of trauma-informed care.
    • Conceptualize the integration of trauma-informed care into the health center’s organizational self-care culture

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Beleny Reese
    Project Manager, Health Outreach Partners
    Speaker Image for Sarah Taylor
    Integrated Behavioral Health Clinician
  • Thumbnail for Strengthening your Health Center’s Collaboration with Migrant and Seasonal Head Start
    Date
    May 5, 2021

    Migrant Head Start sites and Migrant Health Centers are dedicated to improving the health and well-being of farmworker families. Many Health Centers partner with their local Migrant Head Start site but the strength of that collaboration varies widely. Farmworker Justice and the National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Collaboration Office (MSHSCO) have been working with MSHS grantees and Health Centers to strengthen their collaborations to serve not just MSHS children but also their families. During this session, we will discuss different levels of partnership so participants can assess their collaboration with the Health Centers. We will also share strategies to strengthen the partnership, highlighting the partnership between Greene County Health Care and Migrant Head Start. Participants will share their own experiences working with Health Centers.

    Objectives

    • Assess their partnership with the Migrant Health Center.
    • Understand the difference between MOUs and contracts.
    • Identify strategies to strengthen their partnership between their MHS site and Migrant Health Center.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Guadalupe Cuesta
    Director, National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Collaboration Office, FHI360
    Speaker Image for Alexis Guild
    Director, Health Policy and Programs, Farmworker Justice
    Speaker Image for Melissa Torres
    Chief Operating Officer, Greene County Health Care, Inc.
  • Thumbnail for Concurrent Sessions
    Date
    May 5, 2021
  • Thumbnail for 2020 Migrant Health Awards Presentation
    Date
    May 5, 2021

    2020 Outstanding Migrant Health Center Award and 2020 Lifetime Achievement in Migrant Health Award

  • Thumbnail for Invitations and Advocacy Building: How Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Will Push Our Movement Forward
    Date
    May 5, 2021

    Join NACHC’s National Grassroots Advocacy team as we discuss advocacy best practices, grassroots mobilization, and farmworker health. During this session, speakers will discuss how centering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) will strengthen the storytelling aspect of our collective advocacy. Significant focus will be given to effective coalition-building and the importance of invitations in movement building. Promotoras will also co-present on how we can use lessons from the field to build a stronger base of defensores to promote the Community Health Center Mission.

    Objectives

    • Understand the importance of coalition and community building to strengthen advocacy efforts.
    • Learn how to expand your advocate base through invitation.
    • Develop vital storytelling skills that showcase the diversity of the Community Health Center Movement.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Susan Burton
    Director, National Grassroots Advocacy, NACHC
    Speaker Image for Yamilet Valladolid
    Director of Government and Community Affairs, Golden Valley Health Center
    Speaker Image for Nataly Santamaria
    Kern County Promotora Network Manager, Vision Y Compromiso
  • Thumbnail for The Importance of Value-Based Contracts in Community Health Centers
    Date
    May 5, 2021

    We will discuss the importance of value-based contracting, the financial impacts it has on Health Centers and, most important, how that level of financial stability has helped during the pandemic not only from a cash flow perspective, but also allows systems to maintain a workforce that can be redirected to deal with the needs of the community.

    Objectives

    • How to maintain a value based system viable under a pandemic such as Covid-19 or other emergency situation impacting entire communities.
    • How to use contracted resource effectively during a pandemic alleviating financial strain in the CHC world.
    • How to maintain a viable workforce and activate them as front line respondents to a pandemic.

    Speaker

    Speaker Image for Juan Carlos Olivares
    Chief Executive Officer, Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic
  • Thumbnail for Concurrent Sessions
    Date
    May 5, 2021
  • Thumbnail for 2020 Migrant Health Awards Presentation
    Date
    May 5, 2021

    2020 Outstanding Migrant Health Center Board Member and 2020 Outstanding Migrant Health Public Service Award

  • Thumbnail for How Community Health Workers Are Key to Screening for Social Determinants of Health
    Date
    May 6, 2021

    Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are structural conditions (i.e. where people are born, grow, live, work, and age) that influence people’s health and well-being. It is important to identify the SDOH that impact communities that are marginalized because they are often most burdened by their negative effects. Providers serving complex and underserved populations need tools and strategies to identify patients experiencing social, institutional, and environmental factors that may drive poor outcomes and higher costs, as well as develop patient-, organizational-, systemic- and policy-level solutions to address these factors and ultimately improve population health.

    Screening for SDOH helps health centers identify key barriers to care and create opportunities to facilitate better service delivery. The Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients Assets, Risks and Experiences (PRAPARE) is a national effort to help health centers and other providers collect and apply the data they need to better understand their patients’ social determinants, transform care to meet patient and population needs, and demonstrate the value they bring to patients, communities, and payers. Community Health Workers (CHWs) serve key populations that are vulnerable to adverse health outcomes due to socioeconomic factors, including poverty, unsafe work conditions, food insecurity, lack of transportation, and substandard housing. CHWs can engage in a wide array of activities to screen for and identify SDOH among their patients, including collecting SDOH information, using the PRAPARE tool, documenting SDOH data in electronic health records, and training staff to use data to address patients’ social needs.

    This presentation will provide an overview of the importance of screening for SDOH, how CHW programs can be incorporated to improve screening among CHW populations, and promising practices for CHW programs addressing SDOH. Participants will obtain a better understanding of how CHW programs can positively impact screening efforts for SDOH in health care settings and how SDOH data can help health centers.

    Objectives

    • Define SDOH, how they influence health outcomes, and how marginalized communities are disproportionately impacted by SDOH.
    • Understand how SDOH screening data helps identify important barriers to care and enables health centers to provide more well-rounded care to patients while informing payment redesign efforts and models.
    • Identify the role of CHWs in screening, identifying, and addressing SDOH among their communities.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Hannah Mesa
    Hannah Mesa, MPH, MPP
    Program Director, MHP Salud
    Speaker Image for Yuriko De La Cruz
    Program Manager, Social Drivers of Health, NACHC
    Speaker Image for Nalani Tarrant
    Nalani Tarrant, MPH, PMP
    Deputy Director, Social Drivers of Health, NACHC
  • Thumbnail for Effective Health Center Board Member Orientation and Ongoing Education
    Date
    May 6, 2021

    Ensuring robust board orientation and ongoing board education ensures all members of a health center board feel comfortable contributing to board oversight and strategic deliberations. This session will highlight various approaches for orienting and engaging board members. Various resources available to support health center boards will be highlighted and time will be dedicated for participants to consider components of a board training plan and effective modes of delivery. Presenters will also discuss the challenges and strategies to recruit and engage consumer board members as the pandemic continues.

    Objectives

    • Discuss techniques for orienting and engaging board members.
    • Outline various resources available for health center boards.
    • Consider components of a training plan for your health center board.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Emily Heard
    Associate Vice President, Health Center Governance, NACHC
    Speaker Image for Katie O'Malley
    Curriculum Development and Training Coordinator, National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc.
    Speaker Image for Edelmiro "Eddie" Garcia
    Vice Chair, Brownsville Community Health Clinic
    Speaker Image for Deborah Morrison
    Board Chair, Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center
  • Thumbnail for Concurrent Sessions
    Date
    May 6, 2021
  • Thumbnail for 2021 Migrant Health Awards Presentation
    Date
    May 6, 2021

    2021 Outstanding Migrant Health Center Board Member and 2021 Outstanding Migrant Health Public Service Award. Video Tour of Migrant Health Center: North Carolina Community Health Center Association.

  • Thumbnail for Ensuring Agricultural Worker Access to Care in 2021 - Update on Immigration / Health Policy and Advocacy Opportunities
    Date
    May 6, 2021

    As frontline essential workers, agricultural worker communities have been disproportionately affected by COVID, an impact exacerbated by social determinants of health such as immigration status. The Biden Administration’s commitment to health equity creates opportunities to promote and increase health care access for agricultural workers and their families as we continue to navigate the COVID pandemic. Since January 2021, numerous policies have been enacted or proposed which would expand health care access, improve occupational safety and health protections, and address social determinants of health. This session, featuring subject matter experts from the National Immigration Law Center, Farmworker Justice, the California Primary Care Association, and MICOP will share information from the federal, state, and local perspective. We will provide updates on public charge, immigration policy, the Affordable Care Act, and COVID relief legislation, among other policies that impact agricultural worker communities and migrant health centers. Speakers will identify resources and strategies for health centers and agricultural workers to promote health care access during COVID and beyond.

    Objectives

    • Gain basic knowledge and understanding of key federal policies affecting agricultural worker families and broader immigrant communities.
    • Learn what specific strategies and plans health centers have developed to promote health care access.
    • Identify key resources, webinars, and toolkits available from National Immigration Law Center, Farmworker Justice, California Primary Care Association, National Protecting Immigrant Families Campaign, NACHC and American Association Pacific Community Health Organizations and sign up as a member of the National Health Center Immigration Workgroup.

    Speakers

    Speaker Image for Alexis Guild
    Director, Health Policy and Programs, Farmworker Justice
    Speaker Image for Arcenio Lopez
    Executive Director, Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project
    Speaker Image for Elizabeth Oseguera
    Associate Director, Policy, California Primary Care Association
    Speaker Image for Gabrielle Lessard
    Senior Policy Attorney, National Immigration Law Center

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