As a part of the the “#WhoWeAre: Immigrant and Refugee [...]

Join us for two trainings on “SMART Goals and Evaluation” [...]

Join us to identify SDOH screening tools, and hear from Nashia Choudhury, MPH from MyCare Health Center.

Join AAPCHO and the CA TB Controllers Association to recognize World TB Day/Public Health Awareness Week, and hear from Jackie Cuen, TB Survivor and Peer Support Navigator.

AAPCHO provides monthly roundtable discussions for AAPCHO member health centers [...]

In the US, just 25% of adults are fully vaccinated against hepatitis B infection. Please join us for a virtual briefing. Panelists will discuss how we can work towards achieving health equity by increasing adult hepatitis B vaccination rates. The expert panel includes representatives from the community, clinical, and federal sectors.

AAPCHO holds COVID-19 Vaccine Roundtables on the third Wednesdays of each month. Our member health centers discuss COVID-19 vaccine efforts for patients and community, including AAs, NHs, and PIs. Interested in becoming an AAPCHO member? Learn about our member benefits here. Already a member? Reply back to this email, so we can send you the registration link.

With generous support from the Epilepsy Foundation, this live certification training is being provided at no cost. Participants will learn about general seizure first aid and become Seizure First Aid Certified.

Join AAPCHO and the National Association of Community Health Centers invites you to this webinar to learn how training and technical assistance (T/TA) providers can better assist health centers in implementing patient-level SDOH screening for special and vulnerable populations. Register »

AAPCHO and The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center are hosting a five-part learning collaborative on data collection principles and protocols for social determinants of health (SDOH) and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). The LC will focus on AA, NH, and PI populations who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and all sexual and gender minority (LGBTQIA+) people served in health centers. Apply now »

Join AAPCHO to learn about the two pandemics impacting Asian and Asian American community members: anti-Asian racism and COVID-19. This Learning Collaborative will explore diverse perspectives of the two pandemics and highlight innovative care models for Asian- and Asian American-serving community health centers. Applications are due on Tuesday, June 1 at 5:00pm local time. Apply now »

AAPCHO holds COVID-19 Vaccine Roundtables on the third Wednesdays of each month. Our member health centers discuss COVID-19 vaccine efforts for patients and community, including Asian American (AA) and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NH/PI) communities. Come share your community health center’s strategies to encourage families to vaccinate adolescents.

Join Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), AAPCHO, Philippine Nurses Association of America Foundation (PNAAF), NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH), Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), and Papa Ola Lokahi. During the training, AA and NH/PI infection control champions for a presentation and discussion around COVID-19 strains and how mutations happen, as well as what infection control means for those who do not experience COVID-19 symptoms. This event will have bilingual champions speaking in Tagalog, Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese, and Bengali. Register »

KFF is hosting a webinar on the effects of pandemic-related racism and immigration-related fears due to policy and regulatory action of recent years. Listen in as Adam P. Carbullido, director of policy and advocacy of AAPCHO, Sunshine Monastrial, vice president of strategic initiatives of International Community Health Services and Thu Quach, chief deputy of administration of Asian Health Services, join the panel. Congresswoman Judy Chu will also be sharing keynote remarks. Register »

Join the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) [...]

Join the National Association of Community Health Centers, in partnership with AAPCHO, for the second webinar to learn more about training and technical assistance (T/TA) strategies for supporting community health centers in implementing patient-level social determinants of health (SDOH) screening that addresses structural racism, improves health equity, and responds to social needs that have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Register »

AAPCHO cordially invites you to this webinar where we will share our data analysis of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) 2019 Uniform Data System (UDS) and recommendations to increase access to care and improve health outcomes for AA and NH/PI patients served at HRSA-funded health centers.

Join the Tuberculosis Elimination Alliance with speakers Tenzin Kunor from We Are TB and Dr. Sheldon Riklon from UAMS Health Family Medical Center in Fayetteville, AR and Community Clinic NWA to learn more about a patient survivor experience with TB, and discuss successful strategies for chronic disease management and latent TB infection/TB screening, testing, and treatment in high need populations in community health care settings. Register now »

AAPCHO holds COVID-19 Roundtables on the third Wednesdays of each month for AAPCHO members. Our member health centers discuss COVID-19 vaccine efforts for patients and community, including Asian American (AA) and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NH/PI) communities. Starting in August, we will focus on COVID-19 clinical care needs by AAPCHO members and resources to support the care of AA & NH/PI communities. 

NACHC CHI is the largest annual gathering of health center managers, clinicians, employees, board members and leaders. Planning to attend? Be sure to check us out at the following events here. 

The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Philippine Nurses Association of America Foundation (PNAAF), NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH), Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), and Papa Ola Lokahi invite AAPCHO members to attend a Project Firstline training. Speakers will discuss COVID-19 prevention at health care facilities through ventilation and source control.

AAPCHO holds COVID-19 Roundtables on the third Wednesdays of each month for AAPCHO members. Our member health centers discuss COVID-19 vaccine efforts for patients and community, including Asian American (AA) and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NH/PI) communities. Starting in August, we will focus on COVID-19 clinical care needs by AAPCHO members and resources to support the care of AA & NH/PI communities. Interested in becoming an AAPCHO member? Learn about our member benefits here. Already a member? Reply back to this email, so we can send you the registration link.

Join the Special and Vulnerable Populations Diabetes Task Force for the first webinar in our Fall 2021 Diabetes in Special and Vulnerable Populations. In this webinar, AAPCHO, Health Outreach Partners, MHP Salud, and National Network for Oral Health Access share the role of enabling service staff and social determinants of health plays in diabetes management. Register now »

AAPCHO holds COVID-19 Roundtables on the third Wednesdays of each month for AAPCHO members. Our member health centers discuss COVID-19 vaccine efforts for patients and the community, including Asian American (AA), Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (NH/PI) communities. Interested in becoming an AAPCHO member? Learn about our member benefits here. Already a member? Reply back to this email, so we can send you the registration link.

AAPCHO and the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) are hosting a webinar on effective quality improvement and prevention strategies that center around the patient experience and community voice, including trauma­-informed care, cultural humility, and racial health equity. Speakers include Dr. Nathan Tan, Associate Clinical Director at Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services and Dr. Deborah Washington, DEI Health and Community Partnerships Manager at Massachusetts General Hospital. Participants are also eligible for 1.5 CME/CNE credits. Register now »

AAPCHO and Farmworker Justice invite you to join us for a webinar focused on language access at community health centers. Participants will hear from three community health centers, as they share challenges, promising practices, and innovations in language access amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Register now »

AAPCHO holds COVID-19 Roundtables on the third Thursdays of each month for AAPCHO members.  This month, Syreeta Wilkins from the National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants (NCR-RIM) will provide insights on creating culturally and linguistically relevant COVID-19 vaccine materials. Join this roundtable to learn how to use NRC-RIM's templates to create COVID-19 vaccine campaigns in more than 40 languages, or create your own campaign in partnership with your local community. Our member health centers discuss COVID-19 vaccine efforts for patients and the community, including Asian American (AA), Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (NH/PI) communities. 

Join AAPCHO and the Coalition for a Tuberculosis (TB)-Free California [...]

AAPCHO and NACHC are co-facilitating a series of rapid-cycle, peer-driven [...]

Join AAPCHO, members, and partners for a Twitter chat celebrating APAHM and uplifting health equity to support AA and NH/PI health. The Twitter Chat will use #AANHPIhealth and #OurAANHPIStories

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), AA and 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.

The Unity March is a multicultural event, sponsored by Asian Americans Advancing Justice, APIAVote, Gold House, Indian American Impact Project, the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates, and Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund to advance socioeconomic and cultural equity, racial justice, and solidarity. Join advocates from across the country to bring together people who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, immigrants, women, and/or LGBTQIA+.

AAPCHO, Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) invite you to our HRSA-sponsored webinar to explore strategies to screen special and vulnerable populations for social determinants of health (SDOH) and build effective practices to begin addressing SDOH through outreach and enabling services (ES).

Health centers are encouraged to apply to a learning collaborative following the “Acting on SDOH Screening Data to Address Barriers to Health” webinar. This learning collaborative will highlight best practices and facilitate interactions among health center program participants to share strategies, challenges, and successes.

The TB Elimination Alliance will offer up to fifteen mini-grants to organizations to enhance LTBI/TB community engagement and education, provider education, and quality improvement. Additional preference is given to organizations currently serving A/AA and NH/PI populations and interested in expanding to non-US-born Latino American and US-born African American communities.

The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) will facilitate and lead this learning collaborative. This is an opportunity for health centers serving special and vulnerable populations to explore effective strategies to screen for SDOH and utilize data to build effective practices of addressing SDOH through the provision of outreach and enabling services. 

Join AAPCHO and COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases Health Equity Response Network (CHERN) for the first of a four-part learning series designed for clinicians, clinical supervisors, and other clinical staff. The series will cover unique COVID-19 topics, including long COVID/PASC, therapeutics, clinical guidance for vaccines, and promising practices for outreach. Please note that the time and topics are subject to change.

The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) will facilitate and lead this learning collaborative. This is an opportunity for health centers serving special and vulnerable populations to explore effective strategies to screen for SDOH and utilize data to build effective practices of addressing SDOH through the provision of outreach and enabling services. 

The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) will facilitate and lead this learning collaborative. This is an opportunity for health centers serving special and vulnerable populations to explore effective strategies to screen for SDOH and utilize data to build effective practices of addressing SDOH through the provision of outreach and enabling services. 

Special and vulnerable populations often face additional barriers to care and are often compounded by social determinants of health (SDOH). While screening for SDOH is a necessary first step in identifying these disparities, responding to the data in practice is the ultimate goal in addressing SDOH. The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) will facilitate and lead this learning collaborative. This is an opportunity for health centers serving special and vulnerable populations to explore effective strategies to screen for SDOH and utilize data to build effective practices of addressing SDOH through the provision of outreach and enabling services.

Join AAPCHO and COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases Health Equity Response Network (CHERN) for the second of a four-part learning series designed for clinicians, clinical supervisors, and other clinical staff. The series will cover unique COVID-19 topics, including long COVID/PASC, therapeutics, clinical guidance for vaccines, and promising practices for outreach. Please note that the time and topics are subject to change.

The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) will facilitate and lead this learning collaborative. This is an opportunity for health centers serving special and vulnerable populations to explore effective strategies to screen for SDOH and utilize data to build effective practices of addressing SDOH through the provision of outreach and enabling services. 

Special and vulnerable populations often face additional barriers to care and are often compounded by social determinants of health (SDOH). While screening for SDOH is a necessary first step in identifying these disparities, responding to the data in practice is the ultimate goal in addressing SDOH. The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) will facilitate and lead this learning collaborative. This is an opportunity for health centers serving special and vulnerable populations to explore effective strategies to screen for SDOH and utilize data to build effective practices of addressing SDOH through the provision of outreach and enabling services.

Join AAPCHO and COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases Health Equity Response Network (CHERN) for the third of a four-part learning series designed for clinicians, clinical supervisors, and other clinical staff. The series will cover unique COVID-19 topics, including long COVID/PASC, therapeutics, clinical guidance for vaccines, and promising practices for outreach. Please note that the time and topics are subject to change.

The Clinical Directors Network (CDN), AAPCHO, and other partner organizations welcome you to join this live webinar on Accelerating Health Equity and Eliminating Diabetes Disparities in Community Health Centers (AHEAD-CHC). In this session, participants will be learning about the role of social determinants of health in community health centers, exploring diverse research methodologies used for diabetes health research and the core services offered by AHEAD-CHC that can be accessed by diabetes health researchers worldwide.

Join AAPCHO and COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases Health Equity Response Network (CHERN) for the final part of a four-part learning series designed for clinicians, clinical supervisors, and other clinical staff. The series will cover unique COVID-19 topics, including long COVID/PASC, therapeutics, clinical guidance for vaccines, and promising practices for outreach. Please note that the time and topics are subject to change.

Join the Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patient Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE)’s Tiger Team workgroups for all social determinants of health matters. The group is a consortium of stakeholders including PRAPARE users, vendors, payers, and developers. The goal of the sessions is to develop content, obtain feedback, and create a comprehensive roadmap for PRAPARE implementation in health centers.

On behalf of Hep B United (HBU) and the Tuberculosis (TB) Elimination Alliance (TEA), we would like to invite you to the joint virtual summit! Join HBU and TEA members, partners, and other national advocates for three days of workshops, panels, networking and celebrating the achievements and progress towards hepatitis B and tuberculosis elimination.

On behalf of Hep B United (HBU) and the Tuberculosis (TB) Elimination Alliance (TEA), we would like to invite you to the joint virtual summit! Join HBU and TEA members, partners, and other national advocates for three days of workshops, panels, networking and celebrating the achievements and progress towards hepatitis B and tuberculosis elimination.

On behalf of Hep B United (HBU) and the Tuberculosis (TB) Elimination Alliance (TEA), we would like to invite you to the joint virtual summit! Join HBU and TEA members, partners, and other national advocates for three days of workshops, panels, networking and celebrating the achievements and progress towards hepatitis B and tuberculosis elimination.

Join CHERN and the Community Health Worker (CHW) Workforce Collaborative for the Strategies to Build Parent and Caregiver Confidence in COVID-19 Boosters for Asian American (AA), Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (NH/PI) youth. AA- and NH/PI- serving healthcare partners will share strategies for increasing booster uptake and improving vaccine confidence among health center staff, providers, and patients after the recent FDA-Approval of new bivalent COVID-19 boosters.

The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) and Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organization (AAPCHO)’s COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases Health Equity Response Network (CHERN) will be convening a webinar on COVID-19 guidance for the holiday season. Infectious disease specialist, Chia Wang, MD, MS will share evidence-based strategies for infection prevention while traveling and gathering. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will provide interim guidance and community resources during the call. This is an opportunity for American Indian (AI), Alaska Native (AN), Asian American (AA), and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NH/PI) communities to ask questions about the CDC’s COVID-19 travel guidance and seek clarity on precautions to take.

AAPCHO and MHP Salud will present four culturally relevant My Healthy Plate brochures that include the cultural traditions and dietary preferences of Filipino/a/x and Hmong MSAW communities as critical tools in preventing diabetes. In this webinar, speakers will share the importance of culturally relevant My Healthy Plate educational resources, a national survey and health center collaboration efforts, and promising practices.

Join the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Farmworker Justice, National Center for Farmworker Health, and the National Network for Oral Health Access for the final session of the Diabetes Continuum of Care National Learning Series! This session will provide an overview of the impacts of climate change on the health and well-being of historically marginalized communities. Speakers will discuss the intersection of environmental justice with diabetes care and management, strategies for health centers to address the issue of climate change, and tools to support patients and staff in promoting access to care.

Asian American (AA) populations face unique challenges with respect to Type 2 Diabetes. AA populations appear to have one of the lowest rates of diabetes compared to other racial/ethnic groups. However, when the AA populations are disaggregated, specific subgroups have significantly higher rates of diabetes compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Join Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Farmworker Justice, and the National Network for Oral Health Access for this Learning Collaborative which will focus on environmental justice and the impacts of a changing climate on diabetes management and access to care. Guest speakers will discuss the intersection of environmental justice with diabetes care and management in health centers, strategies to support patients impacted by climate-related natural disasters, and practical steps and tools to support health center staff in promoting access to care.

Asian American (AA) populations face unique challenges with respect to Type 2 Diabetes. AA populations appear to have one of the lowest rates of diabetes compared to other racial/ethnic groups. However, when the AA populations are disaggregated, specific subgroups have significantly higher rates of diabetes compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Join Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Farmworker Justice, and the National Network for Oral Health Access for this Learning Collaborative which will focus on environmental justice and the impacts of a changing climate on diabetes management and access to care. Guest speakers will discuss the intersection of environmental justice with diabetes care and management in health centers, strategies to support patients impacted by climate-related natural disasters, and practical steps and tools to support health center staff in promoting access to care.

Join us for a Learning Collaborative (LC) to learn more [...]

Asian American (AA) populations face unique challenges with respect to Type 2 Diabetes. AA populations appear to have one of the lowest rates of diabetes compared to other racial/ethnic groups. However, when the AA populations are disaggregated, specific subgroups have significantly higher rates of diabetes compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Join Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Farmworker Justice, and the National Network for Oral Health Access for this Learning Collaborative which will focus on environmental justice and the impacts of a changing climate on diabetes management and access to care. Guest speakers will discuss the intersection of environmental justice with diabetes care and management in health centers, strategies to support patients impacted by climate-related natural disasters, and practical steps and tools to support health center staff in promoting access to care.

Asian American (AA) populations face unique challenges with respect to Type 2 Diabetes. AA populations appear to have one of the lowest rates of diabetes compared to other racial/ethnic groups. However, when the AA populations are disaggregated, specific subgroups have significantly higher rates of diabetes compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Join Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Farmworker Justice, and the National Network for Oral Health Access for this Learning Collaborative which will focus on environmental justice and the impacts of a changing climate on diabetes management and access to care. Guest speakers will discuss the intersection of environmental justice with diabetes care and management in health centers, strategies to support patients impacted by climate-related natural disasters, and practical steps and tools to support health center staff in promoting access to care.

Join the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) for a Learning Collaborative (LC) to learn more about diabetes and pre-diabetes disparities among the Asian American community. Guest speakers from Joslin Diabetes Center’s Asian American Diabetes Initiative, Emory University, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and University of California, Santa Cruz will share in-depth knowledge and effective strategies to support Asian American patients at health centers through non-clinical approaches. Participants will engage in peer learning to share challenges and promising practices.

Join the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) for a Learning Collaborative (LC) to learn more about diabetes and pre-diabetes disparities among the Asian American community. Guest speakers from Joslin Diabetes Center’s Asian American Diabetes Initiative, Emory University, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and University of California, Santa Cruz will share in-depth knowledge and effective strategies to support Asian American patients at health centers through non-clinical approaches. Participants will engage in peer learning to share challenges and promising practices.

Join the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) for a Learning Collaborative (LC) to learn more about diabetes and pre-diabetes disparities among the Asian American community. Guest speakers from Joslin Diabetes Center’s Asian American Diabetes Initiative, Emory University, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and University of California, Santa Cruz will share in-depth knowledge and effective strategies to support Asian American patients at health centers through non-clinical approaches. Participants will engage in peer learning to share challenges and promising practices.

Join the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health and the National Association of Community Health Centers for a webinar that will provide a fresh look at the state of oral health equity data. An expert panel, including Rosy Chang Weir, PhD of AAPCHO and Dr. Huong Le of AAPCHO Member Asian Health Services, will discuss data collection tools and standards, and then offer solutions on how to turn that information into practical solutions that can meet the needs of specific patient populations.

The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) cordially invites you to this annual webinar to learn about AAPCHO’s data analysis of the HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care’s 2021 Uniform Data System (UDS) Data. The webinar will include recommendations to increase access to care, improve health outcomes, and promote health equity 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 2021 Uniform Data System.”

Hep B United, co-founded and co-chaired by the Hepatitis B Foundation and the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), is excited to announce its new Community Health Center Learning Collaborative (LC) module, “Getting to Protected.” The “Getting to Protected” module will focus on strategies for improving hepatitis B screening and vaccination, and keeping patients engaged. This virtual LC will foster a small cohort of community-based health centers, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), and/or FQHC look-alikes serving Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, African Immigrant, and/or drug-using communities in the US and/or its territories. The goal is for attendees to improve their capacity to implement hepatitis B education, screening, vaccination, and linkage to care programs and promote cross-sector partnerships with community-based organizations. The collaborative will have selected community health centers with model hepatitis B community engagement, prevention, and control programs, share their best practices, skills, strategies, and tested resources.