Our Impact

Increase Access to Care (IAC) Program

Through our Increase Access to Care (IAC) Program, NCFH is contributing to the Ag Worker Access Campaign in providing IAC trainings and helping health centers modify their current systems and registration processes to better identify, classify, and report agricultural worker patients to the Uniform Data System (UDS).

• In 2023, there was a 29% increase in Ag Worker Access Campaign members, resulting in a total of 629 members.
• To learn more about the Ag Worker Access Campaign and IAC Trainings, please click here.

Efforts to Combat Infectious Diseases

Since 2020, NCFH has collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support outreach and education services to community-based organizations around the country.

• In 2023, NCFH a network of 27 farmworker-serving organizations provided over 300,000 outreach and education interactions to farmworkers in their community, supported the distribution of over 24,000 vaccine doses, and provided more than 299,000 referrals to farmworkers seeking COVID-19 testing.
• To learn more about combatting infectious diseases, please click here.

Call for Health (CFH) Program

Through our Call for Health (Una Voz para la Salud) nation-wide program, NCFH offers free, bilingual health information and referrals to farmworkers and their families.

• In 2023, NCFH provided support to more than 2,500 individuals through CFH by connecting them with primary care services, supporting interpretation needs, identifying transportation resources, and assisting them with financial support for healthcare costs.
• To learn more about Call for Health and donate to this initiative, please click here.

Training and Technical Assistance

One of NCFH’s primary areas of focus is to function as a subject matter expert on agricultural worker health issues for the network of health centers and other organizations serving the agricultural worker community. NCFH provides technical assistance, training, and engages in a variety of collaborative activities with both Health Centers and other organizations serving farmworkers.

In 2023, NCFH provided the following to health center program grantees in order to enhance their ability to address the health needs of farmworkers and their families:

227 Trainings  completed with 11, 578 participants

217 Technical Assistance encounters with 4,162 participants

661 Attendees provided 94 sessions at Regional Stream Forums

Learn more about our Training and Technical Assistance services here.

• New Agricultural Worker Symposia: NCFH, in partnership with the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC), is excited to announce a new era for agricultural worker-specific workforce development training opportunities, as we transition from the Regional Stream Forum format we have historically offered. To keep up with the ever-changing needs of the health center workforce, we will host two national Agricultural Worker Health Symposia a year moving forward. Each training event will focus on a topic area of high priority to staff and board of health centers and other agricultural worker-serving organizations.
  • To learn more about this new training opportunity, please click here.
  • To view past Midwest Stream Forum events and materials, click here.

Learning
Collaboratives

Learning collaboratives (LC) provide participants with regular training sessions, technical assistance, and time to strategize with and learn from peers around the country.

Our Learning Collaboratives have had 366 Participants!

• In 2023, NCFH offered health center staff the opportunity to participate in ten different learning collaboratives. Topics included healthcare access; diabetes and chronic disease management; governance; social drivers of health; voucher service delivery models of care; language access and Indigenous communities; health education and outreach; and professional development.
• Learn more about our Learning Collaboratives here.