Million Hearts Learning Collaborative
CLAS
Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services are essential for advancing health equity and eliminating health disparities. Understanding a patient’s social, cultural, and economic context is an important component of providing accessible services and care plans. This 30-minute education and discussion session explores CLAS standards, the role of language access in social vulnerability, and connections between Limited English Proficiency and food security in the District.
Grantees will be asked:
- What strategies does your health center use to address patients or consumers who need cultural or language access accommodations?
- How do you engage with community organizations that provide culturally and linguistically accessible downstream supports?
- What barriers or challenges do you face when sustaining these relationships and how do you overcome them?
- Do you anticipate changes to your engagement with community supports with new and/or more routine use of online referral platforms?
Speakers: Kristina Ramos-Callan, Senior Consultant, Health Management Associates
Intended Audience: QI leads, care coordinators, and clinical providers
SNAP-Ed Update
DC SNAP-Ed is up to recompete our grant in FY24, and we are looking to incorporate community feedback into the updated Request for Applications to support SNAP-Ed programming in meeting the needs of DC residents. This 15-minute feedback session is to understand healthcare provider nutrition education needs in DC.
Grantees will be asked the following questions during the session:
- What barriers do you face to connecting patients into nutrition education programs?
- What are your patient needs for nutrition education? (e.g., referrals to programs, budgeting tips, resource information, etc.)
- Do you currently partner with other organizations to provide nutrition education?
- What is your ideal system for providing nutrition education across DC?
- What additional resources beyond healthy eating would your participants find helpful? (e.g., physical activity, food resource management, etc.)
Speakers: Lauren Marr, MPH, Nutrition Program Specialist, DC SNAP-Ed
Intended Audience: QI leads, care coordinators, and clinical providers