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Upcoming Workshops
Fall Regional Roundtables: Networking for Professionals
Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm
Date: October 20 - Florence, SC
October 21 - Orangeburg, SC
October 22 - Spartanburg, SC
Fee: $10 (lunch included)
REGISTER NOW!
For more registration information please contact Bernetta Cooper at (803) 771-7700.
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Let's Talk Month
October is
nationally recognized as Sex Ed Month of Action, a
time set aside to encourage young people and their allies across the United
States to show their support for comprehensive sex education; and Let's Talk Month,
a time to promote effective communication between
young people and the adults they trust, especially their
parents.
To
celebrate, the SC Campaign has several activities planned and hopeS you will take
part where possible.
1. Parent Portal of the Campaign website will be dedicated to Let's Talk
Month starting October 5. Here you will find weekly entries from our resident
panelists; a series written by Melisa Holmes, M.D. on how to talk with your
children (of all ages) about love, sex, and relationships; and other helpful
tips and resources. We encourage you to take part by submitting
questions/comments to our panelists.
2. Look
for an OpEd piece in South Carolina newspapers written by Forrest Alton,
Executive Director and other guest columnists. You may also spot a SC Campaign
official on a TV station in your area as well.
3. Mini
"Road Show" to honor our mini-grant recipients.
4. We
hope you will follow us on Twitter and Facebook as we
will dedicate many of our posts to Sex Ed Action Month and Let's Talk Month!
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The Buzz: Latino Teen Generated Pregnancy Prevention Digital Media Project
To help
celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (from now until October 15), The National
Campaign would like to invite all Latino youth serving organizations to
participate in the Latino Initiative's newly developed teen pregnancy prevention
digital media project.
The
National Campaign is seeking video submissions on teen pregnancy prevention
created and produced by Latino teens to share and distribute through online and
traditional media outlets popular in the Latino community.For more information on this project please visit the Latino Initiative's Digital Media webpage.
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H1N1 Flu: A Guide for Community and Faith-based organizations
The
Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the Department of Health
and Human Services is proud to bring to you H1N1 Flu: A Guide for Community
& Faith-based Organizations. This guide provides specific action steps
that community and faith-based organizations can take to help keep communities
healthy during flu season, including:
- Communicating important
information about flu
- Supporting vaccination
efforts
- Linking vulnerable and
hard-to-reach populations to vital information and resources
- Expanding and adjusting
organizational activities to help people stay healthy
Click here to download a copy of the full guide.
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Research Corner
Engaging Youth...On Their Turf: Creative Approaches to Connecting Youth through Community
This new publication
from Healthy Teen Network focuses on how adolescent health
professionals can utilize creative approaches to engaging youth in
positive youth development. The publication highlights six examples of
programs that reach out to youth in non-traditional communities through
parental engagement, athletics, service-learning, art, mentoring, and
youth empowerment approaches. The publication provides some next steps
for professionals to develop or adapt creative approaches like those
described here in existing programs for youth.
Click here to download a copy of this publication.
The Changing Portrait of Teen Childbearing Over Time
The DCR
Report (Data, Charts, Research) provides in-depth answers to some critical
questions about teen and unplanned pregnancy. The latest section, The Changing Portrait of Teen Childbearing Over Time, explores
the distribution of teens giving birth by age, race/ethnicity, nativity, marital
status, and education, as well as the proportion of teen births resulting in low
birth weight and premature delivery.
Click here to read the latest section or full report.
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Workshops and Events
 APPCNC Annual Hispanic Symposium
The Hispanic Symposium focuses on helping health providers and educators increase their knowledge of Hispanic culture and Hispanic health and learn from the experiences of those who are implementing successful programs for Latino youth in North Carolina and other areas of the US.
Date: November 9
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: The Friday Center
Chapel Hill, NC
Cost: $60
For more information or to register, please click here.
Stewards of Children WorkshopPresented by Aiken Youth Empowerment, Stewards of Children is a revolutionary sexual abuse prevention training program
that educates adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child
sexual abuse. The program believes and teaches that child safety is an adult's
job. Stewards of Children is designed for organizations that serve children and
youth. Dates: October 20 and November 13Time: 8:30am - 12:30pmLocation: The Aiken Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Services - Community RoomFor more information or to register, please click here.
 Healthy Teen Network 30th Annual ConferenceJoin HTN in beautiful Tampa, FL as they celebrate 30 years of working on behalf of America's youth. This year's conference theme is "Celebrating Healthy Teens and Young Families: 30 Years of Making a Difference," and promises to be a great opportunity for you to gain new skills, learn about the latest tools in working with youth, and meet people from all over the country in the adolescent health field.Date(s): October 21-24Location: Hyatt Regency Tampa Tampa, FLView Preliminary Conference Brochure and register online now!
Engaging Adolescents and Adults in any Group Setting
Please join the Region One Prevention Training
Network for this workshop which will aim to enhance participant's awareness and skills in the area of engaging both adolescents and adults in a group setting.
Time: 9:30am - 4:00pm
Location: Genetic Center, Greenwood, SC |
In the News
Combo Vaccine Reduces Risk of HIV Infection Researchers Say
CNN - A vaccine to prevent HIV infection, the virus that leads to AIDS, has shown modest results for the first time, researchers have found, raising hopes that a disease that kills millions every year may someday be beaten.
In what is being called the world's largest HIV vaccine trial ever -- involving more than 16,000 participants in Thailand -- researchers found that people who received a series of inoculations of a prime vaccine and booster vaccine were 31 percent less likely to get HIV, compared with those on a placebo.
Click here to read the full article.
District Forms Bond with Nonprofit
Post and Courier - The partnership between Charleston County schools and a nonprofit
dropout prevention organization will expand this year to twice as many
schools.
Communities in Schools will work with 13 district schools this year,
up from six last year. Each partner school will receive at least one
student support specialist who will case manage up to 50 students and
work with the entire school population on issues such as teen pregnancy
prevention and life skills. Student support specialists also coordinate
the extra help coming into the school from outside volunteers and
agencies
Click here to read the full article.
FDA: Merck's Gardasil Stops Genital Warts in Boys
Associated Press - Merck's blockbuster vaccine Gardasil, which is already used to prevent cervical cancer in women, also stops viruses that cause genital warts in men, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
In documents posted online, the FDA said the vaccine prevented genital warts in males 90 percent of the time.
The vaccine works by blocking the two strains of the human papilloma virus, or HPV, which causes irregular growths and rare types of cancer in male genitals.
Merck has asked the FDA to approve Gardasil for boys and men ages 9 to 26.
Click here to read the full article.
1 in 2 HIV-positive Youth Unaware of Infection
MSNBC - Nearly half of HIV-positive U.S. adolescents and young adults are unaware of their infection, and less than a quarter of sexually active high school students are tested for the virus, said U.S. health officials.
Only 22 percent of sexually active high school students are tested for human immunodeficiency virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an analysis using data from a 2007 survey of students in grades 9-12. Click here to read the full article.
New Shot Blocks Cervical Cancer Virus, FDA Says
Associated Press - A vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline blocks the virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer, said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
In documents posted online, the FDA said Cervarix, Glaxo's vaccine against human papilloma virus or HPV, blocked the two most cancerous strains of the virus nearly 93 percent of the time. Click here to read the full article. |
Grants Available
Southern REACH/Gulf Cost HIV/AIDS Relief Fund
The National AIDS Fund (NAF), in collaboration with the Ford Foundation, is pleased to announce the opportunity for grant support through an integrated announcement of two related initiatives: Southern REACH (Regional Expansion of Access and Capacity to Address HIV/AIDS) and the Gulf Coast HIV/AIDS Relief Fund. The overarching goal of these initiatives is to protect and advance the health, human rights and dignity of persons most affected by HIV/AIDS in the Southern U.S.
The grant opportunity is designed to support strategic HIV/AIDS policy and advocacy activities led by community-based organizations, advocacy coalitions, and other allies with public policy and advocacy experience. The National AIDS Fund expects to award a total of $1.5 million in grants through this combined grantmaking initiative by March 1, 2010. Successful applicants will receive up to $75,000 in grant support, along with consideration for technical assistance, for a one-year grant period.
Grants Address Poverty Issues in South Carolina
The Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina is committed to confronting the fundamental causes of poverty and reducing its impact throughout the state of South Carolina. The Foundation's Caritas Fund provides grants to nonprofit organizations and faith-based agencies that provide outreach services in order to meet the basic needs of the poor. These awards of up to $3,000 for a one-year period are designed for organizations with annual budgets of less than $250,000. The final Caritas Fund application deadline for 2009 is November 2. Visit the Sisters of Charity Foundation's website to review the application guidelines and submit an online request.
HIV Prevention Projects for Community Based Organizations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces the availability of fiscal year 2010 funds for a cooperative agreement program for community-based organizations (CBOs) to develop and implement HIV Prevention Programs in the following two categories:
- Category A: HIV prevention services for members of racial/ethnic minority communities (e.g., African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos) in which there may be a high risk for HIV infection.
- Category B: HIV prevention services for members of groups [i.e., men who have sex with men (MSM), injection drug users (IDUs), HIV-infected persons] in which there may be a high risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV infection, regardless of race/ethnicity.
A letter of intent is due September 9 and the application is due October 26. Youth Service Projects Supported in the U.S. and Canada
Pay It Forward Foundation Mini-Grant Program
The Pay It Forward Foundation was established to inspire students to realize that they can change the world, and to provide them with opportunities to do so. Pay It Forward Mini-Grants are designed to fund one-time service-oriented projects that are identified by youth as activities they would like to perform to benefit their school, neighborhood, or greater community, and that include learning goals for the youth participants. Projects must contain a "pay it forward" focus - that is, they must be based on the concept of one person doing a favor for others, who in turn do favors for others, with the results growing exponentially. Schools, churches, and community youth groups (with an adult sponsor) in the U.S. and Canada may apply for funding. The application deadlines are September 15 and February 15 of each year; however, requests may be submitted at any time. Visit the Foundation's website to download the Mini-Grant guideline
Applications Invited for Target Field Trip Grants
The Target Corporation has announced that it will award 5,000 field trip grants of up to $800 each for the coming K-12 school year. Grant funds may be used for visits to art, science, and cultural museums; community service or civics projects; career enrichment opportunities; and other events or activities away from the school facility.
Grants will be awarded in February 2010. Applications can be completed online anytime between August 5 and November 3, 2009.
Click here for complete application instructions.
National AIDS Fund and Johnson & Johnson Invite Applications for Generations: Strengthening Women and Families Affected by HIV/AIDS
The National AIDS Fund and Johnson & Johnson have announced the availability of funds through the Generations: Strengthening Women and Families Affected by HIV/AIDS program.
This third grant round (GEN III) will award six to eight grants to community-based organizations to create or adapt evidence-based HIV/AIDS prevention interventions that reduce the spread of HIV among at-risk women and girls. GEN III funds will be targeted to geographic regions with high HIV/AIDS incidence and prevalence rates in women based on state or local epidemiology as well as in areas with emerging epidemics. Priority areas include urban epicenters and other highly impacted regions, including the Deep South.
The program will consider two types of proposals: 1) Proposals that seek to adapt previously tested, evidence-based HIV prevention interventions; and 2) Proposals that seek to implement innovative or emerging HIV prevention interventions that are grounded in established theories of behavior change or based on scientific evidence and can be evaluated and replicated in other communities.
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Website of the Week: Child Trends
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development. Their mission is to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children, including program providers, the policy community, researchers and educators, and the media. Highlights of their research areas include marriage and family, education, teen sex and pregnancy, youth development and education.
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DHEC WORKSHOPS & INFO  The STD/HIV Division is now accepting registration for the following training opportunities:
- SC HIV/STD Laws - October 6, 2009
- Project RESPECT - October 7-8, 2009
- SC HIV/STD Conference - "Embracing Challenges, Embracing Change" - October 14-15, 2009
- Using Process Evaluation to Strengthen EBI's - October 27-28, 2009
- Fundamentals of HIV Prevention Counseling - November 12-13, 2009
- HIV 101: A Basic Knowledge-Based Course - November 12, 2009
Location Information: All training(s) are currently scheduled to be held in Columbia. Site locations will be provided in the confirmation letter with directions
For More Information: All communications regarding training should be directed to James Harris, Jr. STD/HIV Division Training Coordinator, at 803-898-0480 or by e-mail at harrisj@dhec.sc.gov | |
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