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 Funding Opportunities
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention have announced a call for applications due July 31, 2012 for the Community Transformation Grants. The overarching purpose of this program is to prevent heart attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes and other leading chronic disease causes of death or disability through implementation of a variety of evidence based programs, policies, and infrastructure improvements to promote healthy lifestyles in small communities that improve health and health behaviors among an intervention population. For more information visit the Grants.Gov website.
The Sociological Initiatives Foundation is dediated to the belief that research and action are inseparable. They invite concept proposals for projects that link an explicit research design to a concrete social action strategy. A limited number of concept applications will be invited to submit full proposals in the fall 2012. Complete guidelines, information on past funded projects, and the on-line concept application are available on their website. Deadline for applications is August 15, 2012.
Healthy Eating Research (HER): Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program supports research on environmental and policy strategies with strong potential to promote healthy eating among children to prevent childhood obesity, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic populations at highest risk for obesity. Findings are expected to advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. This call for proposals is for two types of awards aimed at providing key decision- and policy-makers with evidence to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. The award types are: Round 7 grants and RWJF New Connections grants awarded through the Healthy Eating Research program. Deadlines for receipt of invited full proposals are July 31, 2012 and October 4, 2012. For more information, visit The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
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Community Engagement Projects
Vision y Compromiso in Collaboration with Dr. Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati and the SC CTSI, Receives Funding to Improve Heart Health Among the Latino Community in
Los Angeles (SPA 4) and Kern County
The NHLBI's Community Health Worker Health Disparities Initiative Awards Prevention Efforts
Vision y Compromiso received funds from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support activities that aim to promote heart health by preventing and controlling heart disease risk factors among underserved and minority populations. Vision y Compromiso is a statewide organization dedicated to improving outcomes associated with underrepresented communities through the support, enhancement, and advocacy for the Promotoras and Community Health Workers (P/CHW) Network. A promotor is a trained community leader that serves his/her community by providing health information and increase access to local resources through one-on-one and family support and group workshops.
As trusted members of their communities, promotoras can play a key role in reducing health disparities by teaching community members about healthy lifestyle choices and skills to adopt heart healthy behaviors.
The purpose of this Initiative is to reduce health disparities by implementing science-based educational programs delivered by promotoras in underserved and minority communities. This project seeks to train 15 promotoras in Los Angeles and 15 in Kern County on the NHLBI curriculum. These 30 promotoras will in turn each engage 30 community members in educational workshops. Other activities include pilot testing the use of webinar trainings among promotoras and other innovative dissemination strategies informed by a community advisory board.
Vision y Compromiso is one of 10 organizations across the country that received funding from NHLBI over the next 16 months. Supported activities will include training and sustainable implementation strategies to expand the reach of the initiative. The other funded communities include Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Colorado Springs, CO; Columbia, SC; Denver, CO; Holyoke, MA; Kern County, CA; Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Worchester, MA; the states of Arizona and New Jersey; and Navajo Nation. |
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Announcements
Call for Presenters
Vision y Compromiso invites you to submit your proposal to present a workshop and share new, useful and interesting information with promotores and community health workers at their Annual Promotora Conference in Los Angeles. December 7 and 8, 2012. The goal of the conference is to create a space where experiences and ideas can be exchanged among Promotores that foster the learning of new skills and acquiring new knowledge and bring us together to advocate for our communities. The due date to submit proposals is August 1, 2012.
Call for Papers
Progress in Community Health Partnerships, CES4Health.info and Albert Einstein College of Medicine have released a call for papers and products on the theme of "Maximizing Community Contributions, Benefits and Outcomes in Clinical and Translational Research" to understand the accomplishments, best practices and challenges that community partners have experienced in their engagements with Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) and other research institutions. Deadline is August 6, 2012. More information is available on the University of Washington website.
Summit
Join Latinas Contra Cancer for the 2012 National Latino Cancer Summit in San Francisco on July 23-25, 2012. Cancer researchers, health care providers, community based agencies and community health educators from across the country will turn the spotlight on the environment, from science to social justice. Register for the Summit, submit an abstract or apply for a scholarship.
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Recommended Reading
Preventing Eye Injuries Among Citrus Harvesters: The Community Health Worker Model
by: Paul F. Monaghan, Linda S. Forst, et. al
" Although eye injuries are common among citrus harvesters, the proportion of workers using protective eyewear has been negligible. Study focused on adoption of worker-tested safety glasses with and without the presence and activities of trained peer-worker role models on harvesting crews. Observation of 13 citrus harvesting crews established basline use of saftey eyewear. Nine crews subsequently were assigned a peer worker to model use of safety glasses, conduct eye safety education, and treat minor eye injuries. Intervention crews with peer workers had significantly higher rates of eyewear use than control crews."
Effects of a Promotor-Based Intervention to Promote Physical Activity: Familias Sanas y Activas
by: Guadalupe X. Ayala, PhD, MPH and the San Diego Prevention Research Center Team
" This within-participants, single time-series study tested a train-the trainer, promotor-based physical activity (PA) intervention to improve fitness and health indicators. Thirty unpaid promotores were trained to promote PA through free exercise classes. Measurements of 337 female community participants at baseline, 6 month and 12 month assessed changes in health indicators, including systolic and diastolic blood pressure, waist circumference, body mass index, aerobic fitness, and hamstring flexability, as well as self-reported health indicators and psychosocial factors. Mixed effects models showed intervention participation improved systolic blood pressure, waist circumference, fitness and hamstring flexibility." |
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