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Posted 4/28/2021 (updated 4/10/2024)
The National CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by establishing a blueprint for health and health care organizations to:
Principal Standard: Provide effective, equitable, understandable, and respectful quality care and services that are responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and practices, preferred languages, health literacy, and other communication needs.
Posted 4/7/2021 (updated 4/5/2024)
Your First 48 Toolkit is a Durham County resource guide for successful reentry within 48 hours after incarceration and beyond by connecting you to resources and service providers that help overcome the barriers to a successful reentry. Returning to your community with a criminal record can be a difficult task due to the collateral consequence of incarceration that limits access to employment, housing, healthcare, and education.
Your First 48 Toolkit promotes social and economic independence through relationship building, strong community involvement, education and public support. The Toolkit will help you foresee barriers to a successful reentry and identify likely solutions by informing you of who to connect with and what questions to ask.
Posted 11/9/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
This webinar will provide an overview of racial and ethnic minority members of rural communities; describe the relationship between social determinants of health, health disparities, health equity, and rural racial and ethnic minority populations; and propose characteristics for an effective engagement and collaboration plan for working with these populations. The presenter will discuss strategies for enhancing engaging and collaborating with rural racial and ethnic minority populations and review available resources and tools.
Posted 9/18/2020 (updated 3/29/2024)
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) hosted the Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B Vaccination Efforts in People Who Inject Drugs webinar last week, September 10, 2020. The session featured Centers for Disease Control and Prevention subject matter experts who discussed the epidemiology of hepatitis A and hepatitis B in people who use and inject drugs and the rationale for the vaccination recommendations. The session also featured several jurisdictions and partner organizations who shared their lessons learned and best practices for reaching and implementing vaccination services in this community.
Posted 7/13/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
In Minnesota, American Indians have five to six times the opioid overdose death rate of other groups—the largest such disparity in the United States. This webinar occurred on July 10, 2020.
Posted 8/25/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The RCORP-TA sponsored webinar "How Cultural and Linguistic Competence can reduce Health Disparities in Latinx Communities" was held on August 18, 2020. The recorded webinar and presentation slides are contained in this resource. Please click the link above for more.
Posted 8/21/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The Virtual Town Hall on Health Disparities Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations in Rural America was held on August 12, 2020. The presentation and recording of the webinar are included in this resource.
Posted 8/12/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The Recognizing and Addressing Rural Homeless in Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Programs webinar took place Tuesday, August 04, 2020. The presentation and video recording are included.
Posted 12/12/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
Given the epidemic of increased maternal mortality and morbidity in the U.S., there is growing sentiment on how to mitigate preventable causes, including that of addressing substance use disorder (SUD). This webinar provided information on the complications of SUD in pregnancy, along with methods for effective intervention and management for clinicians and collaborators.
Posted 11/23/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
This webinar provided RCORP grantees with the tools to complete a disparities impact statement, to support efforts to address populations in rural communities that have historically suffered from poorer health outcomes and health inequities as a part of the prevention, treatment, and recovery of SUD/OUD.