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3/30-31- Lewistown Program Review
3/31- I&E Materials Due
4/14- I&E Committee meeting
4/17- Medical Clinical Standards Meeting
4/28- Health Educator Conference Call |
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Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
~Robin Williams |
| National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy | |  Save the Date!
The 15th annual National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy will take place on May 6, 2015. On the National Day and throughout the month of May, teens nationwide will be asked to visit StayTeen.org to participate in our popular National Day Quiz, which challenges teens to think carefully about what they might do "in the moment." The message of the National Day is simple and straightforward: Sex has consequences. Get them while they're hot.
National Day buttons and pens are now available!
Redesigned for 2015, hand out our National Day buttons to the teens you know and encourage them to take the National Day Quiz. Available in bundles of 20. Click here for details and ordering information.
National Day pens are red and silver retractable ballpoint pens that say: "How do you score? #StayTeen" Available in bundles of 20. Click here for details and ordering information. If you are interested in placing a purchase order for National Day materials, please contact Carla Paredes. National Day items sell out year after year, so place your orders early and often! |
| Clinician QFP Implementation | |  Virtual Conference Focuses on Clinician QFP Implementation
May 8 from 8:00 a.m-5:00 pm Central
Join us for a virtual conference to help clinicians implement the Quality Family Planning (QFP) recommendations. Clinicians will have the opportunity to view video presentations, participate in topical chat sessions, and gain access to valuable tools and resources focused on applying QFP in realistic clinical scenarios.
National experts including Susan B. Moskosky, acting director of the Office of Population Affairs, will present the latest critical content in each of the family planning domains and provide insight into how participants can use the QFP in conjunction with other critical guidelines, including the U.S. MEC and SPR, STD Treatment Guidelines, and USPSTF Recommendations. For event times and topics, view the agenda. Up to six continuing education contact hours are available.
Participate in the conference from any Web browser. It does not require special plug-ins or downloads, and we encourage you to participate from the comfort of your home, office, or staff room! This conference is open to both Title X and non-Title X agencies. Special pricing is available for Title X. Register by April 3 to receive early bird pricing ($39 Title X rate; $49 regular rate). |
| Connections Between Bullying and Other Types of Violence | | |
Connections Between Bullying and Other Types of Violence: Family Violence, Sexual Harassment, and Dating Violence
Thursday
March 26, 2015
3:00 - 4:00pm Eastern Time
Learning Objectives:
- Explore the ways in which bullying and family violence, sexual harassment, and dating violence interrelate
- Understand other predictors and risk factors for bullying and how it varies by age group, gender, and race/ethnicity
- Clarify the factors that must be taken into consideration in designing and implementing effective bullying prevention interventions
This webinar series is being conducted in conjunction with a series of blogs that will appear on the StopBullying.gov website. To read the blogs, visit: http://www.stopbullying.gov/blo. g
Click here to register |
| Save the Date Hepatitis C Webinar | | |
Hepatitis C Prevention Opportunities among People Who Inject Drugs - Confronting the Growing Epidemic
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm EDT (10:00-11:00 am PDT)
Guest speakers will include:
- Jon Zibbell, PhD, Health Scientist; Medical Anthropologist, Prevention Branch, Division of Viral Hepatitis, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Holly Hagan, PhD, MPH, RN, Co-Director, Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, New York University and Professor, NYU College of Nursing
Registration and additional information will follow. Please share this save-the-date notice with your networks and plan to participate. We look forward to having you join us. |
| Women Connected: Families and Relationships in Women's Substance Use and Recovery | | |
Women Connected: Families and Relationships in Women's Substance Use and Recovery
April 9, 2015 at 3:00-4:30 PM ET
(2:00 CT, 1:00 MT, 12:00 PT)
Click here to register!
Family and relationships play an important role in women's lives, including in substance use, treatment, and recovery supports. This webinar offers service providers specific strategies to address women's need for connection with others, especially children and family. Participants will gain knowledge and resources to help engage women in substance use treatment and recovery, including an array of family-based interventions. The session will discuss clinical interventions and recovery supports related to relationships with children, partners and families, and interpersonal dynamics. Tools and techniques for establishing therapeutic alliance, involving family and building a community of support will be discussed. |
| Addressing Gender and Power | | Addressing Gender and Power Increases the Likelihood of
Positive Reproductive Health Outcomes for Sexuality and HIV Education Interventions
According to "The Case for Addressing Gender and Power in Sexuality and HIV Education: A Comprehensive Review of Evaluation Studies," by Nicole Haberland of the Population Council, curriculum-based programs that address gender and power are more likely than those that do not to show reductions in rates of STIs and unintended pregnancy. Among the studies from various countries included in the review, fully 80% of the evaluations of interventions that addressed gender or power were linked to significantly lower rates of STIs or unintended pregnancy, compared with 17% of those that did not. These results, the author asserts, provide strong evidence that gender and power should be considered a key component of sexuality and HIV education programs.
REMINDER: IPSRH is published online only. In 2015, IPSRH is available free to all readers through no-cost online institutional subscriptions from the JSTOR/Current Scholarship Program (CSP) and through the Guttmacher Web site |
| May is Hepatitis Awareness Month | | | May is Hepatitis Awareness Month
May is Hepatitis Awareness Month!Please help us spread the word about viral hepatitis during May. Please consider the suggestions below for your agency and/or for your grantees, partners and constituents; connect with your colleagues to post viral hepatitis content on your home page; and help disseminate these resources widely via list serves and networks.
- Post a Hepatitis Awareness Day button or badge on your website during the month of May.
- Share viral hepatitis resources with your federal colleagues and partners, including training resources, fact sheets, and clinical tools.
- Share materials from the Know More Hepatitis campaign, which focuses on educating people born 1945-1965 on the importance of getting tested for hepatitis C.
- Share the Know Hepatitis B campaign, with materials available in English, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, as well as other Asian languages. The campaign strives to educate Asian Americans about the importance of getting tested for hepatitis B.
- Promote the online Hepatitis Risk Assessment with those involved in patient care. The quick and easy online tool asks ~15 questions and provides a tailored message containing CDC's recommendation for hepatitis A, B and C vaccination and/or testing.
- Include a Hepatitis Risk Assessment button/badge on your website.
- Send your educational materials and training resources to cnewcomer@danya.com so they can be added to the databases on CDC's National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) website. NPIN wants to include more resources from federal, state, and local agencies.
- Consider registering for GovDelivery email updates from the Division of Viral Hepatitis. Sent out monthly, these emails notify subscribers about new publications, recommendations, materials, and significant events related to viral hepatitis.
- Follow @cdchep on Twitter to receive information from CDC about hepatitis resources, tools, publications, campaign updates, and events.
- To help spread the word about National Hepatitis Testing Day on May 19th, consider participating in a Thunderclap. Thunderclap allows supporters to share a unified message simultaneously across social media platforms to create a wave or "thunderclap". Interested social media managers can contact imy3@cdc.gov for more details.
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| CMS and HRSA ICD-10 Webinar | | |
CMS & HRSA ICD-10 Webinar
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) are hosting a free Webinar,"Road to 10: A Small Physician Practice's Route to ICD-10," on March 27th, 2-3 pm ET.This webinar will highlight the benefits of ICD-10 for your practice. In addition, concrete tools and strategies for transitioning to ICD-10 will be discussed. You can check out this webinar online and by calling 1-800-603-1774, conference ID: 2164597. |
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