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 Funding Resources
First 5 Matching Grant
Proposals Due May 11! If you already have a grant working with the 0 to 5 population (or those who serve them) and health-related concerns, then this would apply to you. First 5 is offering up to $200,000 a year for up to two years as a matching grant. Read more about the eligibility, requirements and submission guidelines.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Call for Proposals
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has announced a call for proposals for its Public Helath Services and Systems Research (PHSSR) grants. The deadline for proposals is May 24, 2011.
California Council of the Humanities Grant
The California Story Fund (CSF) is a competitive grant program that supports community-centered, story-based public humanities projects that contribute to our evolving understanding of Calfornia, past and present. Deadline for applications is June 15, 2011. A webinar for academic insititutions interested in applying will be held on May 6, 2011. Registration for the webinar is limited.
List of Grant Resources
The Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) released a list of research and grant resources that we thought you would all find hepful. Here is also a link to the LINCS website. |
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Some Thoughts from our OCE Partners
Robert M. Cooper M.D.
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Kaiser Permanente - Los Angeles
We feel very fortunate to have the support of the CTSI in expanding access to our Survivorship program for pediatric oncology patients at Kaiser Permanente. Currently survivors are seen by their primary oncologists where they receive education and follow up as per the Survivorship Guidelines created by the Children's Oncology Group. The Survivorship progam is expanding to develop a programmatic approach to follow children as they transition from tertiary care back to primary care and from Pediatric care to Adult care. We will be using the advantages of a vertically integrated health care system, an electronic medical record, and population care management expertise to centrally follow the survivors along with their primary care providers. With this approach we will be able to track these patients and ensure that they receive the monitoring recommended by the Survivorship guidelines. Our program will also create a database within the electronic medical record that will serve as a platform for conducting survivorship research internally and in collaboration with our partners. The CTSI funding has allowed us to identify and abstract hundreds of older patients who may otherwise have been lost to follow up. We look forward to continuing to work with the CTSI to better understand the needs of this very high risk group of patients. We hope that with this expanded access to the program more Kaiser patients will be able to participate in trials sponsored by the Children's Oncology Group and local consortiums.
Glovioell Rowland, Ph.D. MPH
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
Enviromental Genomics
University of Southern California
Member of the OCE's Community Engagement Advisory Council (CAC) Our nutrition and physical activity thrust was pre-millennial! The California Nutrition Network funded our faith-based initiative in 1999! Seven staff members across five churches formed a 'Body & Soul Coalition. Church parking lots became a full size basketball court open to our entire low-income, densely populated African American and Latino community! We revamped our Afterschool and Saturday School itineraries with treks to the beach, canyon hikes and hula hoop contests. Snacks comprised of fruit, string cheese, turkey tacos, 100% juice, veggie pizzas and carrot sticks. Parents took guided tours through local supermarkets learning nutrition facts and collecting ingredients for healthy 5 A Day recipes; and they returned to the churches to make fresh smoothies in blenders.
The Church Fellowship Halls became sites for Gospel Aerobics, Cholesterol/Glucose Screenings and trainings in breast self exams! Men learned the benefits of blueberries as antioxidants while listening to the guest oncologist discuss the PSA/DRE exams. It's called policy-engineered transformation!
I was appointed Co-Chair of the California Nutrition Network Executive Committee in 2002. There were no serious 'bills' on Nutrition in the State Legislature. People scoffed when we broached the subject! The Department of Health Services released data on Childhood Obesity. I was a spokesperson quoted in the June 24, 2000 Los Angeles Times article entitled "Most Californian's are Fat Study Finds".
In the meantime, I completed a Master's in Public Health from USC in 2008. After witnessing the early demise of so many African American men from Prostate Cancer (I buried one last month), I chose to investigate prostate cancer in my role as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Genomics at USC.
The American Association for Cancer Research selected my scientific work for its Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award in 2010. Genetic laboratory and biostatics research, along with duties as Chair of the Medically Underserved Constituents Group for the American Cancer Society's Los Angeles Region, and the CTSI, Office of Community Engagement Adivsory Council keep me enthused and fulfilled! |
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Announcements OCE Consultation Service
- Matching Making- e.g. identifying areas of expertise, interests and needs; introductions and/or meetings will be coordinated as requests are made
- Training.Technical Assistance - e.g. community partnered, community based participatory reseach methodology, etc.
- One-On-One Consultations - assessing needs, developing proposals/designing studies, developing partnerships, IRB assistance/referrals, link to CTSI
Gaming 4 Life: Eat Longer, Move Well, Live More
The CTSI is sponsing an exciting lunchtime seminar on ExerGames:
The presenter is Dr. Alasdair G. Thin from Heriot Watt University. Monday, May 16, 2011 12:00 - 1:00 (Lunch will be provided), USC Health Science Campus, 2250 Alcazar St. CSC 250. Space is limited; please RSVP to Hope Montague.
Free CBPR Workshop
Save the Date- June 14. 2011!
The OCE is hosting a FREE day-long training by the California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP). This one-day workshop will focus on CBPR workshops on breast cancer, the environment and disparities. Specific topics include a discussion about the initial stage of collaboratie research and an introduction to the community research collaboration (CRC) awards and application process. This workshop is designed for community members, researchers and health-care providers. This training will hosted at USC's Health Science Campus in the Harkness Auditorium. Please contact Lisa Jones to regiser or for more information.
Join us for a Free Training
Save the Date - June 21, 2011!
The Community Engagement Consultative Service (CECS) is providing the OCE and its partners a free workshop. The focus of this one-day workshop and workshop presenters include:
1) Linking community engagement and policy making support - Victor Rubin -Oakland, CA
2) Evaluation, with a focus on the impact our OCE can have on outcomes related to community health and well-being and how to measure those outcomes - Julie Rainwater- Davis, CA
This training will take place at USC's Health Sciences Campus. For more information or to register for this event, please contact Marisela Robles.
New Health Literacy Website
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently lanched a health literacy web site. The Health Literacy: Accurate, Accessible and Actionable Health Information for All, features health literacy organizations by state and planning tools to use the National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy. This site also provides online trainings and research and evaluation tools for measuring health literacy among other resources.
"CBPR and Health Equity"
San Francisco State University announced the 2011 Community Based Participatory Research Summer Institute offered jointly with the University of California, Berkley, Agust 8- 12, 2011. Registration, schedule and more information can be found in the San Francisco State University website.
Doctors for Global Health 16th Annual General Assembly
Is taking place on , July 29th-31st at Loyola Marymount University, entitled "Community Action for Health and Social Justice: Health begins where we work, live, and play". The keynote speaker is America Bracho, founder of Latino Health Access, and there will be a panel discussion on the themes of immigrants' rights, food security and reports from global partner communities.
Register now online before June 1st for an Early Bird Discount.
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Recommended Reading
by: Patricia Bowie, M.P.H.
"This paper highlights the efforts of the people involved in the experiment that is taking place within the Magnolia Place Community Initiative. It also presents the collective actions and the learning that is at the heart of what it will take to ultimately get beyond the elusive goal of getting to scale and to actually achieve it".
by: Sue Read and Maslin-Prothero
In this article they explore the challenges to researchers intending to involve vulnerable populations in health and social care research, and provide evidence-based recommendations to support the proactive inclusion of these populations in the research process.
Integrating Social Epidemiology and Community-Engaged Interventions to Improve Health Equity
by: Nina B. Wallerstein, DrPG, Irene H. Yen, PhD, MPH and S. Leonard Syme, PhD
"The past quarter century has seen an explosion of concern about widening health inequities in the United States and worldwide. These inequities are central to the research mission in 2 arenas of public health: social epidemiology and community-engaged interventions. This article recommends ways to promote transdisciplinary training, practice, and research through creative academic opportunities as well as new funding and structural mechanisms". |
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