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Mark Calvin, site director at Haysville Learning Cafe, includes what he learned during the community mental health training sponsored by Facts Not Fear ICT to help advise Kathleen Faber on potential career courses. "I appreciated that this training was taught by people outside academia who spoke from real life experiences. The role playing with specially trained 'clients' was great practice for future interactions at my job." — Mark Calvin, site director, Haysville Learning Café Facts Not Fear ICT utilized information shared by community members in those interviews to inform other project eorts such as training to improve provider- patient communication and the assessment of 16 clinic and community organization patient/client-facing materials in Wichita. Facts Not Fear ICT supported these sites by providing recommendations and translation of materials to improve access to, use of and understanding by priority communities. "We share some of our lessons learned," Aguila-Gonzalez said. "We share evidence-based strategies for health literacy, we share cultural considerations and we share evidence-based communication strategies that have been proven to be eective to improve communication and interactions between providers and patients within the FNFICT priority communities and others." More than 1,000 people attended the sessions, which were presented in English and Spanish by community health facilitators. FNFICT provided interpreters at sessions to address language barriers for those who speak English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Thai and Lao. Content from the interactive sessions will be made available at factsnotfearict.com in English, Spanish and Vietnamese. Facts Not Fear ICT also partnered with community organizations to host mobile vaccine clinics. This year alone, Aguila-Gonzalez said, more than 200 people from the grant's priority populations were vaccinated along with others outside those populations. Interviews with more than 200 community members around the topics of substance abuse and mental health were also conducted. Angela Scott, COPE community health worker field supervisor E N G A G E M E N T O U T R E A C H C O M M U N I T Y P U B L I C A T I O N S