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National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
The community health center sector's flagship annual visibility-and-advocacy week, themed 'Building Innovative Care Where It Matters Most.' It is decentralized — individual FQHCs host their own community events, patient appreciation days, and elected-official site visits, with NACHC providing toolkits, themes, and daily focus areas. Health centers that submit their events to NACHC by July 1, 2026 are eligible for a $500 support grant.
NHCW 2026 lands in the thick of the FQHC crisis cycle — amid county-budget pressure, State-Only/UIS 2027 planning, and five months before the December 2026 triple cliff. It is the sector's best annual window to make the community-impact case to local press and elected officials exactly when advocacy leverage matters most, and the July 1 event-submission deadline gives FQHCs a concrete near-term action.
National, but acutely useful for California FQHCs building public and legislative support as State-Only/UIS planning, MCO-tax uncertainty, and county budget decisions converge — a ready-made platform to localize the stakes.