Jun 1, 2011 | Case Management, Patient Centered Medical Home, Program Planning & Evaluation, Resources
As a result of escalating medical care costs and national health care reform, community health centers are receiving well-deserved praise and attention for their cost-effective and high-caliber health services. Community health centers are particularly well suited to...
May 1, 2011 | Program Planning & Evaluation, Resources, Sustainability
Because outreach program funding is oftentimes limited, your outreach program should prepare itself to compete for available grant opportunities. Rather than wait for a funding opportunity to arise, assess your program’s readiness for fundraising. ...
May 1, 2011 | Resources, Sustainability
Results from Health Outreach Partners’ (HOP) 2010 National Needs Assessment Report on Farmworker Health Outreach highlights outreach programs’ need to seek additional or diverse funding. HOP asked organizations to report the two greatest financial...
May 1, 2011 | Advocacy, Community Outreach, Health Education, Resources
The Problem Affecting Our Communities This accident could happen to any family: A mother is taking her hypertension medication in the kitchen while cooking dinner after a busy day of work; her young son playing on the floor. Just as she is about to screw the cap back...
Apr 1, 2011 | Collaboration, Resources
This is the final article in a series of three highlighting health education and community organizing strategies from the Safe and Healthy Children Training-of-Trainer (TOT) Curriculum. In rural communities, farmworker families may be directly exposed to toxins such...
Apr 1, 2011 | Community Outreach, Health Education, Resources
This article is the second in a series of three highlighting tips from the Safe and Healthy Children Training-of-Trainer (TOT) Curriculum, which will be made available on our website later this spring! Imagine this scenario… A child is playing outside with...
Apr 1, 2011 | Program Planning & Evaluation, Resources
Outreach programs do phenomenal work assisting hard-to-reach, vulnerable populations in accessing and utilizing available health resources. The value of this work is evident to outreach professionals; however, the practice of evaluating outreach efforts allows program...
Mar 1, 2011 | Community Outreach, Health Education, Resources
Did you know that a child is much more susceptible to dangerous environmental toxins than you are? The Safe and Healthy Children’s Initiative does, and it needs your help to educate families throughout the United States about why and how children are more...
Mar 1, 2011 | Advocacy, Resources
Health Outreach Partner’s released its fourth annual needs assessment Breaking Down the Barriers: A National Needs Assessment of Health Outreach this past spring. HOP hosted three focus group discussions, with farmworker parents attending either one of two...
