Providing Transportation Services to Seniors by Investing in Collaborations and Community Resources
Community-Based Organization: Seniors First | Auburn, CA Contact: Amy Bakker, Transportation Coordinator | www.seniorsfirst.org Many senior residents of Placer County, California have reduced transportation options due to financial or physical limitations....Using Volunteer Drivers and Partnerships to Provide Transportation Services
Community-Based Organization: Helping Our Women (HOW) | Provincetown, MA Contact: Nancy Lynch, Executive Director | www.helpingourwomen.org The Outer Cape Cod area in Massachusetts consists of a series of four small towns located in a remote, rural, and medically...Medical-Legal Partnership Resource Guide for Farmworker-Serving Health Centers and Legal Services Organizations
Our nation’s farmworkers endure unsafe living and working conditions. Yet they are often reluctant to seek out help due to fear of employer retaliation, lack of health insurance, or documentation status. FJ and HOP developed this resource to encourage health and...Working with Interns and Volunteers to Reach Retired African American Farmworkers
Community Health Center: Piedmont Health Services, Inc. | Prospect Hill, North Carolina Contact: Patricia Morales, Migrant Health Program Coordinator Every year HOP presents the Sister Cecilia B. Abhold Award to three organizations demonstrating excellence in health...Making Medication Accessible Through the Patient Assistant Program
Five years ago, MHSI established a Patient Assistance Program (PAP) so farmworkers have access to medication that would otherwise be unaffordable. Through the PAP, MHSI works with 14 different pharmaceutical companies to provide farmworkers with medications at little to no cost. As of November 2013, there were 51 patients enrolled in the program with 40-45 patients actively participating…
Outreach and Enrollment Metrics
Health Outreach Partners created a brief training and technical assistance resource to help community health centers in defining and tracking outreach and enrollment metrics. The resource, developed in response to numerous requests from health centers seeking guidance...Tracking and Evaluating Outreach to Improve Performance
Tracking and evaluating outreach programs enables organizations to measure success, identify areas for improvement, and maintain accountability to funders, staff, clients, and the community. CareSouth Carolina utilizes tracking and performance improvement methods to strengthen and sustain its outreach efforts…
Understanding Health Concerns and Barriers to Accessing Care Among Underserved Populations
Findings from HOP’s 2012-13 National Needs Assessment ‘Underserved populations’ is a broad term that is used to describe groups of people that face social, economic, and cultural barriers to accessing health care and social services. Community health centers (CHCs)...Using Patient-Centered Mobile Health Care to Serve Chronically Homeless Individuals
Mobile health programs are one way that organizations can bring critical health services directly to patients where they live and work. Public Health – Seattle & King County uses a mobile health program to connect unsheltered and chronically homeless individuals to medical, dental, and mental health services…