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UPCOMING TRAININGS...
Designing and Evaluating Programs that Work:
BDI Logic Model and Evaluation Basics
GOALS:
To increase the capacity of participants to develop BDI (Behavior-Determinant-Intervention) Logic Models to design and improve programs to reduce adolescent sexual risk-taking behaviors. Participants apply these concepts to build a BDI Logic Model step-by-step.
To increase the capacity of participants to evaluate the effectiveness of adolescent reproductive health programs using basic evaluation tools, and to use evaluation information to make appropriate program modifications.
When: November 7, 2007
Where: APPCNC Offices
3708 Mayfair Street, Suite 310
Durham, NC 27707
Cost: $35 (includes lunch)
Please register by November 2.
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STILL TIME...
Parent-Child Connectedness
from the fabulous researchers at
ETR Associates:
The overall goal of this one-day training is to enhance the capacity of program developers and front line educators to incorporate parent-child connectedness activities into their adolescent reproductive health programming.
When: October 23, 9:00am-4:30pm
Where: APPCNC's new offices
Cost: $35 (includes lunch)
Please register by October 15th.
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The 17 Characteristics of Effective Programs
October 24, 2007
from the fabulous researchers at ETR Associates:
The overall goal of this two-day training is the strengthen the capactity of participants to use the Characteristics of Effective Programs to select, adapt, improve, and develop adolescent pregnancy and STD prevention programs/curricula.
When: October 24, 9:00am-4:30pm
Where: APPCNC's new offices
Cost: $35 (includes lunch)
Please register by October 15th.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND BOTH OF THESE TRAININGS, THE JOINT COST IS $50.
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EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
In America, where up to 95 percent of the annual 800,000 teenage pregnancies are unintended and quality sexual health services for young women are often limited, activists like you must take action to make emergency contraception more widely available for ALL women.
Advocates for Youth and Choice USA urge you to Take Action! It has been one year since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) ruling to make over-the-counter sales of EC available only to women ages 18 and older.
Sign the petition and demand that the FDA rescind its decision and make EC available without a doctor's prescription for ALL women, including young women under age 18.
The goal is to collect 50,000 signatures by the 2nd anniversary of the FDA's restrictive decision in August 2008.
Sign the online petition!
Download and print the petition and get everyone you know to sign it.
ASK CONGRESS TO OVERRIDE VETO OF CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE
Next week the U.S. House expects to vote whether to override President Bush's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which funds N.C. Health Choice, a sliding scale affordable health insurance program for children in low-income families. It is not clear if the U.S. House has enough votes to pass the override. Two-thirds of the North Carolina congressional delegation-10 of 15 congressional representatives-voted against SCHIP.
North Carolina's 282,000 uninsured children need you to call on the state's congressional representatives to vote to override the veto. Without the passage of the SCHIP bill, children who are currently enrolled in Health Choice may be at risk of losing their coverage.
Why are North Carolina's Representatives Voting Against Children's Health Insurance?
Many of North Carolina's congressional representatives cite the increase in the tobacco tax that would be used to fund the program. They argue that this tax will hurt North Carolina. However, increasing funding for SCHIP will mean 3 to 4 times more money for North Carolina than will be lost from the increase in the cost of cigarettes. Furthermore, tobacco farmers and quota holders already have received $11 billion in buyouts and settlement funds.
Why Should You Call?
You can make a difference. North Carolina's children cannot vote and need you to speak up for them. North Carolina has experienced the fifth largest loss of employer provided health coverage in the nation. Protecting our children's health should be the top priority of our representatives.
CALL 1-800-828-0498
They need to hear from people who live in their districts. Representatives Etheridge, McIntyre and Hayes are targeted as most likely to change their vote.
ASK to be connected to the office of your representative.
TELL THEM: Please vote to provide health care to our children. Vote to override Bush's veto of the expansion of the children's health insurance program.
TELL THEM: A 61 cent increase in the federal cigarette tax to fund the program means 3 to 4 times more money for North Carolina in increased funding for children's health insurance than we will ever lose from the increase in the cost of cigarettes.
TELL THEM: North Carolina farmers and quota holders have been awarded over $11 billion in direct payments from the tobacco buyout and the national tobacco settlement.
TELL THEM: Children's health should be their priority.
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| Funding Opportunities |
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National AIDS Fund -- Southern REACH Grant Program (AL, AK, Northern FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN) (Deadline: 11/16/07)
The National AIDS Fund is accepting applications for its Southern Regional Expansion of Access and Capacity to Address HIV/AIDS (REACH) grant program. The purpose of the program is to fund organizational support, program support, or policy and advocacy for projects by community-based organizations in nine southern states that focus on improving community capacity to address HIV/AIDS among marginalized, at-risk, and underserved populations, such as high-risk youth (e.g. gay/questioning youth, runaways, youth of color).
National Assembly on School-Based Health Care -- State-National Technical Assistance & Training Partnership (Deadline: 11/19/07)
The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care is accepting applications for its State-National Technical Assistance & Training Partnership to improve states' capacity to provide technical assistance and training for one or more of the following topics: quality improvement in school-based health centers; social marketing; school-based health center basics, financing, marketing, and operations; practice management improvement (PMI); coding; productivity; costing model; academic success; mental health and primary care integration; motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy; family engagement; adult learning theory and techniques; using the internet for training and technical assistance.
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Statehealthfacts.org, a resource from the Kaiser Family Foundation, was recently updated to reflect data collected for the March 2007 Current Population Survey (CPS). This website has information about children's health insurance coverage, including SCHIP, and a tool to compare data between states.
New HIV/AIDS Fact Sheets on Specific Populations The Kaiser Family Foundation updated fact sheets highlighting the impact of HIV/AIDS on Blacks and Latinos in the US, providing current data and trends over time. More info...
Women and HIV/AIDS in the US Tutorial The Kaiser Family Foundation presents key trends in HIV and women in the US and discusses which groups of women are at higher risk for HIV, perinatal transmission, and access to treatment and testing. More info...
2007 KIDS COUNT Data Book The Annie E. Casey Foundation has updated its annual KIDS COUNT Data Book. KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children. Read more... |
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Science Matters |
Quality Time After School: What Instructors Can Do to Enhance Learning Public/Private Ventures highlights key findings from the study, "Quality Time After School: What Instructors Can Do to Enhance Learning." Read more...
Practice-Based Intervention Has Sustained Benefits for Children and Families
Healthy Steps for Young Children: Sustained Results at 5.5 Years
According to a follow-up study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, benefits from the Healthy Steps for Young Children program were sustained more than two years after participation ended.
ABORTION DECLINES WORLDWIDE, FALLS MOST WHERE ABORTION IS BROADLY LEGAL
Eastern Europe Sees Most Significant Decline, First Global Review Since 1995 Shows
Unsafe Abortion Remains a Major Global Health Challenge
London, UK: The number of induced abortions worldwide declined from nearly 46 million to under 42 million between 1995 and 2003. Abortion rates fell most significantly in Eastern Europe, a trend that corresponds with substantially increased contraceptive use in the region, according to "Induced Abortion: Rates and Trends Worldwide," a new report by the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization (WHO) published in the 13 October 2007 issue of the Lancet.
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NEWS |
SWORN IN:
Dempsey Benton, a former chief deputy in the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources, has been sworn in as the state's top health official. Benton succeeds Carmen Hooker Odom as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Odom said in May that she would step down after 6 1/2 years to join a New York-based health research foundation, but not until the legislative session ended in early August. Benton spent 17 years as Raleigh's city manager before he was appointed to the No. 2 post in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in 2001. He left the post in January, and Gov. Mike Easley named him to head the health department in May. Benton will oversee the state's second largest department in terms of state spending. The 19,000-employee agency manages Medicaid, mental health and substance abuse programs, and oversees social services offices and public health initiatives. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, 9/05/07)
by the Campaign for Youth.
The Campaign for Youth has developed a national strategy outlining opportunities for federal investment in disconnected youth. These two documents--the full strategy document and its accompanying executive summary--have been circulated to all 2008 presidential candidates. 8 pages.
Gardasil Adopted by Vaccines for Children Program. Merck's HPV vaccine Gardasil has been adopted by all 55 of the CDC's Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program immunization projects, now available in all 50 states. More info...
Statement by James Wagoner on the Extension of Title V Abstinence-Only Programs
WASHINGTON, DC (September 27, 2007) Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to extend funding for the ineffective Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage program. The Senate is also scheduled to extend funding before the end of the week.
Last April, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc released the findings of a 10-year, congressionally-mandated evaluation of abstinence-only programs. The evaluation clearly stated that "Youth in the [abstinence-only] program group were no more likely than control group youth to have abstained from sex and, among those who reported having had sex, had similar numbers of sexual partners and had initiated sex at the same mean age [as the control group]." In short, the PROGRAMS DON'T WORK!
First, Congress funds the abstinence-only programs. Then, they commission a study that showed the ineffectiveness of the programs. Then, they ignore the findings of the study. And, now, they continue to fund the programs. Their actions defy logic and common sense.
By failing to eliminate abstinence-only programs, the Democratic leadership has signaled that, in their minds, political expediency trumps the health and well-being of America's youth.
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