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PRINCIPLES and PRACTICES OF PUBLIC HEALTH
SOCIAL WORK
January 23-24, February 20-21, and March 20-22,
2007 in Chapel Hill
This seven-day curriculum is competency-based and
designed to prepare social workers, employed in
public health settings, to function as skilled
professionals. It was developed with regard to the
specific competencies identified by the North Carolina
Continuing Education and Training Advisory
Committee for Public Health Social Work (CETAC), as
being necessary for social workers in public health
settings, to practice effective social work with
families. Special attention will be directed towards
assisting the participants in understanding their role
in the public health setting and in developing the
assertiveness and the ability to effectively
communicate their role to others. This class is
limited to 35 participants. This program will be
offered twice this year. For more information click here.
HIV/STD Prevention in Rural Communities: Sharing
Successful Strategies V
This fifth national conference focusing on HIV/STD
prevention in rural areas features current, topical
information and strategies applicable for use in rural
settings and includes plenary speakers, oral
presentations, and a poster session.
Dates: April 5-7, 2007 Location: Bloomington, IN.
For more information, visit , or contact Bill Yarber,
RCAP senior director at yarber@indiana.edu or (812)
855-7974.
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FROM THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN:
Youth in foster care are at significant risk for teen
pregnancy. A recent research brief published by the
National Campaign indicates that teen girls in foster
care are 2.5 times more likely to have been pregnant
by age 19 than those not in foster care. Even so,
foster youth have been largely overlooked in terms of
teen pregnancy efforts.
The National Campaign has been working with partner
organizations for over two years now to highlight the
connection between teen pregnancy and foster
care. This focus on foster care youth has already
helped spark new attention at the national, state,
and local level to a population at very high risk of
teen pregnancy and we hope that it will forge
stronger partnerships between those working in the
child welfare and teen pregnancy fields.
Just released by the National Campaign in support of
this effort is, Ten Tips for Foster Parents. The brief,
user-friendly guide offers some ideas to help foster
parents strengthen their relationships with foster
youth and how best to communicate about sex, love,
and relationships. It reflects input from foster
parents as well as practitioners who work with them.
Please visit www.teenpregnancy.org/fostercare to
read or order the new publication. The foster care
webpage also has related materials, including the full
report Fostering Hope: Preventing Teen Pregnancy
Among Youth in Foster Care and the research brief
Science Says #27: Foster Care Youth.
NEW STUDY AND FORUM ON MEDIA
MULTITASKING AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE
The Kaiser Family Foundation released a new report and hosted a forum on media multitasking among young people. The report – Media Multitasking Among American Youth: Prevalence, Predictors, and Pairings – is based on data from seven-day media use diaries collected from 694 young people age 8 to 18 years old, and quantifies the actual amount of time young people spend multitasking when using media or doing homework. Click here for key findings. Improving Public Health Through Youth
Development
The purpose of the supplement is to acquaint public health practitioners with the basic concepts of youth development and to provide guidance about how to put them into practice. As well as an outstanding framework, the supplement includes commentary on policy and prevention, an overview of youth development science and strategies, youth engagement, case studies in New York state and evaluation approaches. For more information, click here. The 2006 CHILD HEALTH REPORT CARD is
out
Every year ACTION FOR CHILDREN (formerly the North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute) compiles indicators and 'grades' for child health in the state and produces the Child Health Report Card. They also have county specific data available and recommendations for where we can focus our efforts. I just noticed a new fact sheet too - titled: Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll:What Teens Do, What Parents Assume, and What Parents Can Do. Check out this valuable resource! U.S. TEEN PREGNANCY RATES DECLINE AS
RESULT OF IMPROVED CONTRACEPTIVE USE
November 30, 2006 -- Eighty-six percent of the
recent decline in U.S. teen pregnancy rates is the
result of improved contraceptive use, while a small
proportion of the decline (14%) can be attributed to
teens waiting longer to start having sex, according
to a report by John Santelli, MD, MPH, department
chair and professor of Clinical Population and Family
Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and
published in the January issue of the American
Journal of Public Health. The scientific findings
indicate that abstinence promotion, in itself, is
insufficient to help adolescents prevent unintended
pregnancies.
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Ameriquest Mortgage Company -- Create Your
Legacy Grant Program
Create Your Legacy is an after-school and neighborhood-improvement grant program. Each year, grants are awarded to after-school programs across the country to help fund projects that improve their programs and their neighborhoods. The Create Your Legacy grant program is open to after-school programs with current 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. Eligible after-school programs should offer youth services that emphasize leadership training, mentoring, community service, academic enrichment, or the arts. Schools, for-profit organizations, and churches or other religious organizations are not eligible unless the grant submission is specifically for a program offered to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis and without regard to religious affiliation. Funding Amount: Up to seventy-five $15,000 grants Deadline: January 15 each year. Click here to learn more. ING UNSUNG HEROES PROGRAM
Financial services company, ING, seeks to help K-12
educators and their schools fund innovative
classroom projects through its annual Unsung Heroes
awards program. All K-12 education professionals,
whether or not they are clients of ING, are eligible.
All awards must be used to further projects within a
school or school system. Each of the one hundred
finalists will receive an award of $2,000. Of the one
hundred finalists, three will be selected for additional
financial awards, with the first-place winner receiving
$25,000, the second-place winner receiving $10,000,
and the third-place winner receiving $5,000.
Deadline: April 30, 2007. Click here for more
information.
American Academy of Pediatrics -- Community
Access to Child Health (Deadline: 1/31/07 )
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is accepting applications for its Community Access to Child Health program. The purpose of this program is to implement projects that increase access to medical homes and other needed services. Click here for more information. Bayer Foundation -- Community Outreach Grants
(Deadline: Rolling)
The Bayer Foundation is accepting applications for its Community Outreach Grants program. The purpose of this program is to focus on public health issues and areas of great medical need. Click here for more information. 3M Foundation -- Community Giving Grants
(Deadline: Rolling)
The 3M Foundation is accepting applications for its Community Giving Grants program. The Foundation's goal is to positively impact communities by investing in youth and families. Current priorities include health and human services and K-12 education. Click here for more information. Girls 4 HOPE HIV Grants
Through a partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Adolescent and School Health (CDC DASH), AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families' Girls 4 HOPE (Health, Opportunities, Prevention & Education) program is offering capacity building assistance to help community-based organizations initiate, expand, or improve HIV prevention programs for African American and Latina teen girls, ages 13-18. There are currently three openings for community-based organizations to receive comprehensive capacity building assistance through this new program. For more information, contact xmarquez@aids- alliance.org or cwebb@aids-alliance.org. Disadvantaged Population Empowerment
Grants
Awards ranging from $10,000-$50,000 are available to support services to disadvantage populations and work for lasting improvements in the delivery of services that meet basic human needs including youth development. Deadline: Rolling Click here for more information. |
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National Birth Defects Prevention Month and
National Folic Acid Awareness Week
January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month, and January 8--14 is National Folic Acid Awareness Week. Birth defects affect approximately one in 33 newborns in the United States. The cost of lifetime care for infants born in a single year with one or more of 17 severe birth defects has been estimated at $6 billion (1). CDC has issued recommendations for all women and men of childbearing age to improve their health throughout their lifespans, especially if they are planning to have children (2). Health-care professionals should encourage men and women to adopt healthy behaviors, such as having regular medical check-ups, planning their pregnancy with their partner, and avoiding alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs. For women, taking the B vitamin folic acid before and during early pregnancy can prevent serious birth defects of the spine and brain; however, folic acid use has not changed substantially (3). Information about CDC's birth defect--prevention activities is available here, and information about National Birth Defects Prevention Month is available here. Also, you can find lots of good information about folic acid and get education materials from the North Carolina Folic Acid Council website. The Kids Aren't Alright
Amid the heated, fiercely politicized debate between sex ed that teaches condom use versus sex ed that preaches abstinence, young people who have contracted HIV through sex share what they wish they’d learned beforehand. Read this article by Tim Murphy posted on POZ - a website for HIV positive people and everyone else who cares about the unique challenges of living with and helping to prevent HIV. Living with HIV/AIDS: Students Tell Their Stories
of Stigma, Courage, and Resilience
Supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH), this publication is intended to remind readers that schools have a significant role to play in addressing HIV/AIDS through education and services. To view the report, click here. |
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Mark your 2007 calendars for the premiere of the
new documentary, "Generation Next: Speak Up.
Be
Heard." The show airs on PBS stations on Friday,
January 12 and is hosted by journalist and National
Campaign Board member Judy Woodruff. The
documentary consists of interviews with young
people aged 16-25 from across the country.
Woodruff and the Generation Next crew spent the
summer touring the United States and gauging the
views of young people, a group they describe
as "massively diverse, exceedingly tolerant, and
extraordinarily informed." Read more.
Disney Minnie Grants
Funded by the Youth Service America and Disney, this grant opportunity is designed for youth ages 5- 14 to plan and implement service projects in their community. Deadline: January 24, 2007 For more information, click here. Promoting Tolerance - Mix It Up Grants
Mix It Up grants are $500 grants to support youth- directed programs and projects that address social boundaries in schools or communities. Youth must serve as decision-makers in the project, and create and implement them. Grants are sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Study Circles Resource Center. Deadline: Rolling. For more information, click her e. |
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Send an E-Condom
These electronic postcards are from Advocates for
Youth's condom normalization campaign, "Respect
Yourself. Protect Yourself." Check out the designs,
and send an e-
card to a friend to raise awareness about
condoms.
Policies on Adolescent Health and Development:
A Guide for Policy-Makers
This document from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights the importance of investing in adolescent health and gives a broad overview of how to respond to adolescent health needs. It also draws attention to Policy Makers as a targeted audience. To view the report, click here. Stand Up for Youth
Thanks to an outpouring of letters, emails and phone calls from people like you, the Tom Osborne Federal Youth Coordination Act was passed and signed into law in October 2006. This landmark legislation creates a Federal Youth Development Council that will provide leadership and focus to the Federal government policies on youth, elevating the needs of young people on the national agenda. The next important step is to ensure that Congress provides the resources for the Council to start meeting as soon as possible. Take action to alert your local media about the importance of the Federal Youth Development Council and the need for it to start its work right away. To take action, click here. |
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Sally Swanson
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina
email:
sswanson@appcnc.org
phone:
919-932-9885
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