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INFORMATION RESOURCES

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CityMatCH has published an article on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) in the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation’s Health Update: Women, Children, and Adolescents. Over the past 18 months, CityMatCH has been working with 6 local public health departments to prevent substance-exposed pregnancies. Many CityMatCH member health departments have reported an increase in the misuse of prescription painkillers—mostly oxycodone and oxycontin—and a notable increase in the incidence of NAS in local hospital NICUs.

Local Perspectives and Recommendations on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

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Interprofessional Education Portal

Website

High-quality, peer-reviewed, competency-based learning modules for interprofessional health education are now available through a new innovative online portal launched by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC). The materials are designed to provide tools to prepare tomorrow’s health professions workforce for interprofessional, team-based, patient-centered, and community- and population-oriented care. The IPE PORTAL collection is open for submissions: mededportal@aamc.org.

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Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents

MCH Library Knowledge Path

Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents  directs readers to a selection of current, high-quality resources about the prevention, identification, management, and treatment of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents in homes, schools, and communities. Health professionals, program administrators, policymakers, and researchers will learn more about overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, to improve care, for program development, and to locate training resources and information.

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TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES - Webinars

Communities Creating Healthy, Active Environments

January 17, 2013
11:00am - 12:30pm PST

This Public Health Institute Dialogue4Health Web Forum will share lessons learned from different communities that increased opportunities for both children and adults to walk, bike, exercise, and play through policy and environmental changes. It will also provide evidence on how having access to parks, open space, trails, and other venues for physical activity is related to better health. Representatives from 2 communities will share their experiences in underserved neighborhoods to improve safety, aesthetics, and access to places to be active.

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Interdisciplinary Training and Systems Integration through Distance Learning

March 1, 2013
11:00am - 12:00pm EST

Join the MCH Training’s Distance Learning grantees the first Friday of each month through March to learn about methods and strategies to effectively train MCH audiences through online learning. Each Webinar will focus a “Big I:” Innovation, Quality Improvement, Systems Integration, Investments, Interdisciplinary Training, and Impact. The webinar will include background information, promising practices from the field, and where to go for more information.

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Online Peer-Review and Publishing Webinar

February 1, 2013
12:00pm EST

CES4Health.info is a mechanism for peer-reviewing, publishing, and disseminating products of health-related community-engaged scholarship. Why was CES4Health developed and by whom? How do you submit products to it? What is the peer review process like? Find out about actual products published and evaluation findings in this webinar presented by Cathy Jordan, Editor of CES4Health and faculty with the University of Minnesota Clinical & Translational Science Awards.
Register for the CES4Health Webinar today!

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TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

2013 AMCHP Annual Conference

February 9-12, 2013
Washington, DC

With over 700 attendees, this largest gathering of state-level MCH leaders nationwide will feature skill-building sessions, power workshops, networking receptions, regional meetings, and general sessions focused on a multitude of topics of interest to MCH health professionals. Themed “Advancing Maternal & Child Health Vision: Leadership, Quality, and Action,” it will feature topics on workforce and leadership development, advocacy, health equity and social justice, quality of care, life course, cultural competence and family-centered care, using technology to advance MCH outcomes, and measuring the impact of MCH investments. Affiliated conferences:

  • February 12: Home Visitation and Domestic Violence: State-level Strategies to Meet the Federal Benchmark
  • February 13-14: National Summit on Quality Home Visiting Programs
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Developing Education for an Evolving Health System

March 11-12, 2013
Washington, DC

The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research meeting will address important issues in prevention and public health education and bring together a collaborative community from across the health professions. Attendees will explore opportunities and challenges in advancing prevention from health reform implementation, promote integration of public health and clinical health sciences in population health teaching, training, and practice, and share innovative approaches and trends in curriculum design, new technologies, and academic scholarship.

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DiversityRx - Culturally-Diverse Health Care

March 11-14, 2013
Oakland, CA

DiversityRx’s mission is to “improve the accessibility and quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and indigenous communities” by educating and supporting health care stakeholders. Themed “Achieving Equity in an Era of Innovation and Health System Transformation,” this conference will feature practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and advocates for health equity discussing how diverse populations are affected by changes to state and national public health programs and health insurance programs, innovative technologies, social determinants of health, and other practice and financing developments. Conference topics include language access, cultural competence training and staff development, culturally-competent organizations, culturally appropriate care, and policy and research related to health equity and cultural competence.

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SOPHE 64th Annual Meeting

April 17-19, 2013
Orlando, FL

Themed “The Magic of Health Education: Vision, Imagination & Transformation,” the Society for Public Health Education’s (SOPHE) 64th annual meeting will focus on analyzing characteristics of successful cross-sector public health collaborations that have implemented policy, system, and environmental changes at the community level; emerging technological approaches and evaluation designs addressing current and future health education and promotion opportunities and needs; participatory approaches to transform health parity efforts and create new models in the field; and school-based and school-community collaborations designed to improve health literacy and equity.

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Autism Identification in Latino Children

Archived Podcast

This edition of the MCH Research Program’s Research Dialogue Podcasts is an interview with Bruno Anthony, PhD on improving the early identification of autism in Latino children. The program focuses on Dr. Anthony’s project to develop and test methods to increase the number of Latino children who are screened in primary care at an early age for autism and other developmental delays, using evidence-based measures. The podcast covers the importance of community involvement in autism awareness and outreach, the role of family navigators, and ensuring that programs are sustainable.

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

HRSA - Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Research

February 4, 2013

The purpose of the Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Research Network is to foster a national scientific and clinical research network that will promote and coordinate research activities in behavioral, psychosocial, and developmental aspects of pediatric care to improve clinical services and health outcomes for, but not limited to, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities. The network infrastructure will support the design of multi-site, interdisciplinary research that focuses on the translation of research to practice; provide the mentoring environment in which to train a new generation of developmental behavioral pediatric researchers; and foster the implementation of research studies through both MCHB and external funding sources.

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CDC - Incentive-Based Smoking Cessation for Pregnant Women

February 4, 2013 (Letter of Intent)
March 4, 2013 (Application)

This solicitation for proposals for a study to assess the cost-benefit of a smoking cessation intervention that targets pregnant smokers should evaluate a high-intensity and low-intensity contingency management (CM) intervention on prenatal smoking cessation. The suggested approach is a 3-arm randomized controlled trial to assess smoking abstinence at end of pregnancy and cost-benefit of different intensity levels of CM on prenatal smoking cessation. The estimated total program funding is $2.8 million.
CDC PGO TIMS: 770-488-2700 or PGOTIM@cdc.gov

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CDC - Medicaid Expansion and Reproductive Health Care for Women

February 4, 2013 (Letter of Intent)
March 4, 2013 (Application)

The intention of this FOA is to study the use of medical services and health outcomes among low-income women of reproductive age before and after expansion of Medicaid eligibility. This research will require linkage of state Medicaid data with other key MCH health datasets including birth certificates, death certificates, and hospital discharge data. The expected total program funding is $1.25 million.
CDC PGO TIMS: 770-488-2700 or PGOTIM@cdc.gov

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HRSA - Integrating Newborn Screening

February 19, 2013

This solicitation is for applications for the demonstration program “Integrating Newborn Screening: Long-term Follow-up into Primary Care Provider Practices.” Applicants will investigate the feasibility of implementing the long-term follow-up responsibilities outlined in the 2011 report, “What Questions Should Newborn Screening Long-term Follow-up Be Able to Answer? A statement of the US Secretary of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (SACHDNC)” and will utilize grantee networks to contribute to the long-term follow-up information collection on patients identified by newborn screening. The expected number of awards is 3, with an award ceiling of $110,000.

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HRSA - MCH Autism Intervention Research

February 19, 2013

Applicants are encouraged to propose research studies that address the unique and very important needs of underserved populations, including low-income, racial/ethnic minorities, immigrants, and individuals who are not already readily included in current research on children and adolescents with ASD and other developmental disabilities. Also encouraged are proposals that address the unique barriers to identification, diagnosis, and receipt of interventions for underserved populations, including issues pertaining to insurance coverage and reimbursement for evidence-based interventions for children and adolescents with ASD and other developmental disabilities. The expected number of awards is 10, with an award ceiling of $300,000.

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SAMHSA - Mental Health Services for Children

March 1, 2013

The purpose of these grants is to develop a comprehensive strategic plan for improving and expanding services provided by systems of care (SOC) for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances and their families. The expected number of awards is 13, with an estimated total program funding of over $10.7 million.

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SAMHSA - Preventing Underage Drinking

March 1, 2013

The purpose of this program is to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth in communities throughout the United States. The expected number of awards is 15, with an estimated total program funding of $756,000.

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NIH - Support of Competitive Research Awards

March 4, 2013

The SCORE Program is designed to increase the research competitiveness of faculty at minority-serving institutions and institutions with a historical mission of training students from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical research. SCORE offers 3 funding opportunities for individual investigator-initiated research awards according to their developmental level:

  • Research Advancement Award (SC1) - provides research support to faculty who are at the most advanced formative stages of their research career and are seeking to transition to non-SCORE support.
  • Pilot Project Award (SC2) - allows investigators in their earlier stages of development to test a new idea or gather preliminary data to establish a new line of research.
  • Research Continuance Award (SC3) - allows investigators in their intermediate stages of development to continue to engage in meritorious research projects of limited scope in a given biomedical/behavioral area within the NIH mission.
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HRSA - State Support for Oral Health Workforce

April 3, 2013

The purpose of this program is to help states develop and implement innovative programs to address the dental workforce needs of designated dental health professional shortage areas in a manner that is appropriate to the states’ individual needs. Applications for this program should describe innovative approaches to addressing and measuring oral health workforce needs at the state level. Applications must address at least one of 13 activities outlined in the grant. The expected number of awards is 9, with an award ceiling of $500,000.

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