NC-AHEC Organizational Description:

The North Coast Clinics Network (NCCN) is a consortium of community health centers (CHC) working to improve access to high quality medical, mental and dental health care for all people, regardless of their ability to pay, through information sharing, community education, shared administrative activities and direct services projects. Our service area extends three counties across Northern California-Humboldt, Del Norte, and Trinity Counties. Each year NCCN member clinics, together, provide over 190,000 patient visits to nearly 56,000 people - 1/3 of the region's population. NCCN supports the and recruitment and retention of sufficient health care providers and staff to underserved communities on the North Coast by posting job vacancies, creating promotional videos, funding health care professional education, applying for Health Professional Shortage Area designations, and posing National Health Service Corp positions. For a list of NCCN’s member clinics, current programs and job listings visit North Coast Clinic's webpage.

North Coast Clinics Network was designated as the North Coast Area Health Education Center (NC-AHEC) in 2008. As the North Coast Area Health Education Center (AHEC), NCCN is committed to providing medical professionals with informative current education resources as well as supporting and promoting linkages for health professions training for students.


Upcoming Training Events:

• Humboldt-Del Norte GRAND ROUNDS CALENDAR

• Stanford Geriatric Education Center Webinar Series. Free registration.

• Personality Disorders - May 27, Mental Health Branch

• Spare Change SRPP - Community Shows

• CPCA - On-Demand Trainings

• CPCA - Registration Calendar

• HIMSS ARRA Archived Webinar Series

• Train the Trainer: Problem Behavior & Dementia and Reducing Falls (May 20, 2010)

• NHSC Expanded Loan Repayment

Do you have a suggestion for a training that will benefit you, your practice, patients, or your fellow health center team members? Please submit your suggestion, by completing this questionnaire.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NCTrainingNeeds2010

Current Activities:

• Provide education to medical professionals by sponsoring education costs and offering health education events
• Support on-site learning for medical students at NCCN member clinics
• Educate nursing students to provide health education to community members
• Develop and sustain pipeline programs which encourage disadvantaged youth to pursue health careers, i.e. Spare Change