PRAPARE® 201: Moving Beyond the Basics to Strengthen Screening, Workflows, and Referral Impact

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This interactive session provides practical guidance for implementing effective screening processes to identify and respond to patients’ non-clinical factors of health. Participants will explore evidence-based strategies for conducting empathic conversations and for connecting patients to appropriate internal and external supports, while also supporting care team members in the screening process. The session will highlight best practices for integrating referral programs into existing or new internal initiatives, as well as approaches to building more standardized, sustainable workflows. Finally, participants will examine how policy and funding changes may drive increased demand for non-clinical factors of health screening and referrals, often before resources are fully in place, and identify actions health centers can take now to prepare.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Use patient-centered screening practices to identify non-clinical factors of health and support meaningful, respectful conversations.
• Strengthen screening and referral workflows that connect patients to internal programs and community resources in practical, sustainable ways.
• Prepare for growing demand for screening and referrals by understanding how policy and funding changes may affect needs and capacity

Target audience: Community Health Workers and other health center staff for whom PRAPARE is relevant to their role.

For more information, contact Leslie Lorentzen: llorentzen@mepca.org.