HRSA Funding Opportunities

Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Innovation Award – General Data/Technology Innovations (Track One)

Applications due: November 26, 2021

The purpose of this award is to fund the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovations by MIECHV recipients that leverage new technology and/or data collection and sharing strategies to improve MIECHV service delivery and extend the impact of MIECHV-funded voluntary early childhood home visiting services.

Track One aims to leverage data- and technology-driven innovations in key priority areas to improve MIECHV service delivery consistent with the service delivery model(s) being implemented.

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ARP Act MIECHV Innovation Award – COVID-19 Related Data/Technology Innovations (Track Two)

Applications due: November 26, 2021

The purpose of this award is to fund the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovations by MIECHV recipients that leverage new technology and/or data collection and sharing strategies to improve MIECHV service delivery and extend the impact of MIECHV-funded voluntary early childhood home visiting services.

Track Two aims to leverage data- and technology-driven innovations in key priority areas to improve MIECHV service delivery, including virtual service delivery, in order to address the impacts of the COVID-19 public health emergency, consistent with the service delivery model(s) being implemented.

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Family-to-Family Health Information Centers

Applications due: January 5, 2022

The purpose of this program is to provide information, education, technical assistance, and peer support to families of CYSHCN and the professionals who serve them.

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Informational

American Academy of Pediatrics

Resources on School-Based Health Centers, Classifying Infant Deaths, Bright Futures

School-Based Health Centers Serve a Critical Role in Many Communities

Children and teens who are healthy do better in school, leading more communities to establish school-based health centers for comprehensive care, such as help with chronic conditions like asthma, routine immunizations, or a mental health check. The AAP recommends families take advantage of school-based health centers where they are offered.

Uniformity in Classifying Unexpected, Unexplained Infant Deaths

When an infant dies, it is important for medical and forensic professionals to use consistent terminology to describe and classify infant death. The AAP and National Association of Medical Examiners agree on the need for a shared set of terms to define cases historically called SIDS.

Bright Futures Activity Book, 2nd Edition

The Bright Futures Activity Book, 2nd Edition provides a fun, informative, and interactive overview of the 12 Bright Futures themes, including nutrition, physical activity, oral health, and social needs that can be explored together by children and their parents. The activity book provides instructions in English and Spanish.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

Charting the Course to Better Care for Children with Medical Complexity: The CMC CoIIN – Capturing the Journey (PDF)

Journey Maps

In this 4-year project, multi-disciplinary teams from across the country consisting of family leaders, pediatric and specialty care clinicians, leaders of integrated health care delivery systems and/or freestanding children’s hospitals, state Title CYSHCN program staff, and Medicaid leaders work together to test strategies and build evidence for optimizing high quality, cost-effective, family-centered care for CMC. The journey maps are individualized and conceptualize where teams have been, where they are going, and what they need to achieve their goals.

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Child Trends

Resources on School Employee Wellness, Post-Natural Disaster Toolkit

A Comprehensive School Employee Wellness Approach Can Reduce Staff Stress and Attrition

To help education leaders implement more effective employee wellness initiatives and better leverage federal pandemic relief funds, leaders should align their efforts with Child Trends’ proposed Comprehensive School Employee Wellness Framework, which uses 5 core components of wellness to address three critical gaps in school systems’ current approach.

A Toolkit for Child Welfare Agencies to Help Young People Heal and Thrive During and After Natural Disasters

The information and resources contained in the toolkit aim to support child welfare staff and administrators in their efforts to enhance state, Tribal, territory, and county-led efforts to promote healing and resilience among system-involved children and youth who are exposed to a natural disaster.

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CityMatCH

Resources on Perinatal Periods of Risk Approach, Common MCH Epidemiology Measures, and Community Data Sources

Perinatal Periods of Risk Approach

Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) is a comprehensive approach to help communities use data to reduce infant mortality. Designed for use in U.S. cities with high infant mortality rates, PPOR brings local stakeholders together to implement systems changes based on their local vital records data and other information sources.

Measures Commonly Used in MCH Epidemiology

This resource defines basic MCH measures, as well as newer measures of maternal morbidity and mortality, life course indicators, and racism.

Sources of Local Data

This compilation of data resources includes county-level summary health data that are free and easy to access, including information on births and infant deaths from vital records data, socioeconomic factors from the US Census Bureau, health risk measures from Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS) and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and health care data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP-net).

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Every Child Thrives

The Promise of Farm to Early Care and Education

Resources

Farm to early care and education is an incredibly promising community-based solution that nurtures young children’s cognitive, physical, and social-emotional development, improves community nutrition and builds local, sustainable food systems. Every Child Thrives launched a set of resources to bolster and broaden farm to early care and education initiatives.

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National Academy for State Health Policy

States Address School Vaccine Mandates and Mask Mandates

Resource

As of August 6, 2021, the CDC has recommended that all children 12 years and older get vaccinated against COVID-19 and that all students wear masks in schools regardless of vaccination status. A number of states are addressing vaccines and masks in schools.

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National Institute for Health Care Management

Infographics on COVID-Related Disability Challenges and Artificial Intelligence Racial Bias

Disability, Health Equity, and COVID-19

People with disabilities have been uniquely impacted by the pandemic as they face greater risk of poor health outcomes, reduced access to routine services and care, and adverse social outcomes. This infographic highlights the COVID-related challenges facing the disability community as well as clear steps that can be taken to support the health and well-being of this community.

Racial Bias in Health Care Artificial Intelligence

AI tools such as algorithms are increasingly being used to determine who gets health care. These tools can unintentionally increase the impact of existing racial biases in medicine through the explicit use of race to predict outcomes and risk. This infographic highlights strategies to address bias in algorithms and the potential for AI to support health equity.

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Training & Educational

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Training & Educational – Webinar Archives

Association of University Centers on Disabilities

Accessibility and the COVID-19 Vaccine Experience for People with Disabilities

During this September webinar, AUCD and the National COVID-19 Resiliency Network (NCRN) co-presented on the intersectionality of how race, ethnicity, and disability connect and the importance of COVID-19 vaccines for people with disabilities.

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

At the Heart of the Matter Virtual Event Series

American Heart Association's HBCU Scholars Program

In this September 2021 panel session, 3 students from the American Heart Association’s HBCU Scholar Program discussed the social impact that health disparities and inequities have on the Black community.

Where’s the Money? Finding Resources to Support HBCU Community-Engaged Work

In this September 2021 webinar, speakers discussed public and private funding opportunities, including the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to support community-engaged work in HBCU communities.

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Dialogue4Health

Law and Health Equity: A Pathway for Moving Forward

In this September webinar, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Public Health Law Program (PHLP) and the National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health (NLAPH) explored key competencies for public health leaders in utilizing legal epidemiology as an effective tool for planning and decision-making.

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Got Transition

Preventive Care and Health Care Transition: Bringing Them Together

This hour-long September 2021 webinar discussed ways to incorporate health care transition into preventive care for adolescents. Strategies to align the transition and preventive care national performance measures were presented. The Hawaii Title V team discussed their experience, and included examples of trainings, tools, and plans for the future.

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Lucille Packard Foundation for Children’s Health

Knowledge Gaps in the Care of Children with Medical Complexity and Neurodisability

In this September webinar, panelists discussed findings from a 2020 international study that identified clinical research questions related to CMC, including: irritability and pain, child mental health, disorders of tone, poly-pharmacy, sleep, aspiration, behavior, dysautonomia, and feeding intolerance.

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National Institute for Children’s Health Quality

Connecting Providers and Community-Based Organizations to Improve SCD Appointment Attendance

During this September webinar, speakers focused on developing a strong relationship between SCD clinics and the community-based organizations supporting people living with SCD.

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National Institute for Health Care Management

Who Gets Health Care and Why: AI, Race and Health Equity

This webinar explored the scope and impact of clinical AI on health disparities and guidelines for considering race in diagnostic algorithms, how experts can design clinical AI algorithms that can improve health equity and reduce the impact of systemic racism on health, and the role health care organizations and health plans can play in creating AI that supports health equity.

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