NACHC Health Center Advocacy in Minutes

The NACHC Advocacy Team updates Community Health Centers Advocates on the latest from the Hill, States, and more. Learn more at www.hcadvocacy.org.

The NACHC Advocacy Team updates Community Health Centers Advocates on the latest from the Hill, States, and more. Learn more at www.hcadvocacy.org.

Former CEO of Community Health Development, Inc. and current NACHC Senior Vice President of Western Operations, Rachel Gonzales-Hanson discusses the evolution and growth of Community Health Centers from the perspective of her own experience running a health center in rural Texas.

Music: Join the Song by Benji Jackson

Pictured: U.S. Representative Will Hurd (TX-23)and Rachel Gonzales-Hanson

Susan Burton, NACHC Director of Grassroots Advocacy, joins us to share the National Health Center Week 2019 theme, why it was chosen and what's new this year. Learn more about National Health Center Week here: https://healthcenterweek.org

In this podcast, we’re talking to Dr. Chris Bolling about how motivational interviewing is being used to strengthen personal motivation and commitment among patients working to meet health goals. Dr. Chris Bolling describes adapting motivational interviewing to help patients make healthy lifestyle changes.

Music featured in this podcast: Thereafter by A.A. Alto: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/A_A_Aalto/The_West/Thereafter

Health policy and political experts, Amy Jensen Cunniffe Co-founder and Principle at SplitOak Strategies and Kristi Martin Senior Vice President at Waxman Strategies, discuss the potential implications of 2018 Midterm Elections for health centers. Recorded November 12, 2018.

Music: Biking in the Park by Lee Rosevere (find it here: http://bit.ly/2TbPjvh)

NACHC Director of Health Center Operations and Army Veteran, April Lewis joins us to discuss her journey from the Army to the Community Health Center Movement. She also shares her insights, as a veteran, into why health centers are so important to the health of our nation's vets. Music in this podcast is Heliotrope by Blue Dot Sessions find it here: https://www.sessions.blue/?fwp_sessions=aeronaut

Few health centers are as familiar with what it takes to treat addiction as Fenway Health in Boston, Massachusetts. We spoke with Jane Powers, Interim Chief of Staff and Clinical Social Worker, about how the health center addresses the root causes of substance use disorder.

Music: Celestial Navigation by Blue Dot Sessions www.sessions.blue

Many health centers across the country are building partnerships with schools to expand access to quality care and address the powerful social, environmental, and economic conditions that unjustly influence health outcomes of low-income children and adolescents in their communities. Tamara Harris Clinic Manager, Mosaic Medical and Katie Condit, Executive Director of Better Together Central Oregon join us to talk about working together to create a schoolwide culture of care. Their project was recently awarded $300,000 through America's Promise Alliance and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Podcast music "Lanky" by Blue Dot Sessions, www.sessions.blue

Tina Wright, PCA Emergency Management Advisory Coalition (EMAC) Chair and Director of Emergency Management at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers joins us to talk about EMAC's work to support health centers before, during and after disasters. Learn more at www.bit.ly/nachcemp.