Health center governing boards are required by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) to ensure that health centers provide high quality, patient-centered care to the communities they serve. Community representative board members play a key role in this effort, bringing the voice of their communities to each board meeting.
NCFH is and has been committed to Health Center board development for many years. It is an important component of our work, as shown by board training, resources, and collaborations with other National Training and Technical Assistance Partners.
This webpage includes a variety of resources related to board governance and training including publications, templates, online e-learning modules, short videos, discussion guides and trainings.
Becoming a Leader in Migrant Health: A training toolkit developed by NCFH to help health centers build capacity among patients and community members to for board membership by increasing the recruitment, orientation and successful integration of agricultural workers and other health center consumers into health center boards.
NCFH and the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) have worked collaboratively on many fronts, including the delivery of training to consumer board members. Health Centers have requested short, digestible content that can be used in board meetings or board orientation, especially in Spanish. In partnership with NACHC, NCFH has translated their English e-learning modules into Spanish and adapted them for a low literacy audience. NCFH has also developed accompanying Discussion Guides for each independent learning module in Spanish that can be utilized to facilitate individual or group discussions.
The five Spanish e-learning modules include:
English and Spanish modules are accessible through the Health Center Clearinghouse:
NCFH Board Finance Training Discussion Guides:
Short Video Modules and Discussion Guides
NCFH also offers Board Governance Trainings that include the following topics and can be customized to your training needs.
For additional information or training requests, please contact training@ncfh.org.