This month, Adam Carbullido, AAPCHO director of policy and advocacy, will share insights on the current state of COVID-19 funding. He will provide an update on the status, timing, and impacts of policy delays on funding as well as collect health center, patient, and community health worker stories to share with policymakers about COVID-19 funding needs and impacts. Please DO NOT DISTRIBUTE this announcement outside the AAPCHO membership network.

Asian American (AA) populations face unique challenges with respect to Type 2 Diabetes. While AA populations appear to have one of the lowest rates of diabetes compared to other racial/ethnic groups, disaggregated, specific subgroups have significantly higher rates of diabetes. What is behind this disparity and what can health centers and other organizations do to support AA patients with pre-diabetes and diabetes? Join us for a Learning Collaborative (LC) to gain in-depth knowledge about empowering AA patients at health centers through strategies that effectively address diabetes disparities in the AA community. Participants will have an opportunity to engage in peer learning to share challenges and promising practices. Guest speakers are from Joslin Diabetes Center’s Asian American Diabetes Initiative, Lowell Health Center, and University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.

The Association for Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) is excited to announce the Telehealth Screening Strategies for Improving Whole Person Care Learning Collaborative. This learning collaborative will explore Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) screening strategies in telehealth and highlight innovative care models for virtualizing SDOH screening in community health centers.

In observance of AA and NH/PI Heritage Month, the Epilepsy Foundation and AAPCHO are hosting a Seizure Recognition and First Aid Certification course tailored toward AA and NH/PI populations. The course focuses on approved procedures for recognizing seizures and responding to someone having a seizure.

The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) and AAPCHO will be convening a virtual listening session to provide an opportunity for American Indian (AI), Alaska Native (AN), Asian American (AA), Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NH/PI) communities to ask questions about the CDC’s COVID-19 mask guidance and learn how to receive free COVID-19 rapid kits and masks.

AAPCHO member clinical leaders, providers, community health workers, and communication staff are invited to the COVID-19 Roundtable series. Every month, health centers are encouraged to share effective strategies, challenges, and resources among members and partners. 

AAPCHO holds COVID-19 Roundtables each month for AAPCHO members and CHW Workforce Collaborative partners. Our member health centers discuss COVID-19 vaccine, prevention, and treatment strategies for AA and NH/PI communities.

AAPCHO cordially invites you to this annual webinar where we will share our data analysis of the 2020 Uniform Data System (UDS) and recommendations to increase access to care and improve health outcomes for Asian American (AA), Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (NH/PI) patients. Presenters will share preliminary findings from AAPCHO’s upcoming report, “The Health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Served at Health Centers: An Analysis of the 2020 Uniform Data System”