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8/13- Front Desk/Billing Conference Call
8/17- Mega Memo webinar
8/20- Mega Memo webinar
8/25- Clinical Conference Call
8/27- I&E Committee meeting
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Quote of the Week
"Try to see the world through the eyes of a child. Eyes that are not yet cynical or skeptical. Eyes that marvel at everything they see. The lessons we learn from children about life are so much more important than the lessons we teach them. Think happy thoughts."
~Leslie Inner Calm Reiki
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| Mega Memo SFY 2016 | |  Mega Memo SFY 2016
Title X State Fiscal Year 2016 Budgets are due September 25th
Sub-recipient Directors should have received an email from A.C. Rothenbuecher regarding next steps
Chris Brave and A.C. Rothenbuecher will be offering two training webinars for Directors and financial staff to go over some of the changes to this year's budget and FAS. It is ideal that the individuals that do the FAS and budget (if different) are present at the same training. These will be recorded.
Monday, August 17: 1-1:30 pm
Thursday, August 20: 9-9:30 am
Login information can be found in the Mega Memo. Questions, contact A.C. Rothenbuecher, arothenbuecher@mt.gov
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| UPDATED! Title X: ICD-10 Training July/August | |
 ICD-10 Training
WMHS, in collaboration with the Title X grantees from North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming will be hosting 4 webinars in July and August on ICD-10 and family planning. These webinars will be available to all Title X staff in Montana free of charge. Here are the details:
Webinar Dates and Content
Webinar 4 - August 24 from 12 - 1 pm - "Diagnosis coding and ICD-10"
Webinars will include case studies. For webinar #2, a coding and compliance handout will be provided. In Webinar #4, an ICD-10 Forward Map (Cross-walk from ICD-9 - ICD-10) will be provided.
Webinar Recording
Please see the links below for the recorded version of the webinars from the ICD-10 in Family Planning. You do not need to have a login for Dropbox, you can just press Download. Note: If you have an email address that ends in "mt.gov" you will need to contact your IT department to get Dropbox access approval.
To watch the entire version, you must click Download.
Webinar 1: Revenue and Cycle Management
Webinar 2: CPT Coding and Compliance.
Recording:
Webinar 3: Diagnosis coding and ICD-9
Recording:
Capacity
The capacity for the web-based system will be approximately 100-125. The webinars will be recorded for those who cannot attend on the days offered. It is absolutely ok for staff to share logins so that multiple staff can view the webinars on one computer. Login information will be sent out as the dates approach.
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| HPV Vaccine Rates Still Lag | |  HPV Vaccine Rates Still Lag
While HPV vaccination rates for teens were up slightly in 2014, they still remain considerably lower than vaccination coverage for Tdap and meningococcal conjugate vaccines, according to data from the CDC's national immunization survey.
Sarah Reagan-Steiner, MD, of the CDC, and colleagues found that HPV vaccination coverage for teen girls was 27.6 percentage points lower than overall Tdap coverage and 19.3 percentage points lower than overall meningococcal conjugate vaccine coverage, with the disparity even greater among teen boys.
Compared to 2013, vaccination rates of teens who received ≥1 dose of the HPV vaccine increased 3.3 percentage points for girls (to 60.0%) and 8.1% percentage points for boys (to 41.7%), they wrote in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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| Need for publicly funded family planning services rose 5% between 2010 and 2013 | | Need for publicly funded family planning services rose 5% between 2010 and 2013
Twenty million U.S. women were in need of publicly funded family planning services in 2013, an increase of 5%, or 918,000 women, between 2010 and 2013, according to "Contraceptive Needs and Services, 2013 Update." The services provided by Title X-funded clinics allowed women to avoid one million unintended pregnancies, which would have resulted in 501,000 unplanned births and 345,000 abortions. Without the contraceptive services provided at these clinics, levels of unintended pregnancy and teen pregnancy would be 30% higher.
The report provides state-level data for 2013 on the:
- number of women in need of publicly funded family planning services;
- percentage of women in need who are uninsured;
- number of women receiving services from safety-net family planning providers, and the number receiving care from Title X-supported centers;
- number of unintended pregnancies, births and abortions averted among clients of publicly funded family planning centers overall, and the number averted among clients of Title X-funded sites; and
- number of unintended pregnancies, births and abortions averted among teenage clients of publicly funded family planning centers overall, and the number averted among teenage clients of Title X-funded sites
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| National Immunization Awareness Month | | National Immunization Awareness Month
Each year in August, National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) provides an opportunity to highlight the value of immunization across the lifespan. Activities focus on encouraging all people to protect their health by being vaccinated against infectious diseases. In 2015, the National Public Health Information Coalition (NPHIC) is coordinating NIAM activities.
Visit the online NNSAHC calendar and click on National Immunization Awareness Month to find links to CDC's online toolkit and a NEW downloadable Health Observance Quick-Guide from The Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health at the University of Minnesota! The Guide gives you tips on promoting National Immunization Awareness month with Social Media - including tips on related hashtags, and tips for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube! The Guide also includes suggestions for weekly adolescent related immunization themes!
Visit the NNSAHC calendar now!
If link is not active, you can access the calendar via NNSAHC's website - from the Featured Resource box on home page.
www.nnsahc.org
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| Strategies for Encouraging Family Communication About Healthy Sexuality | | |
Strategies for Encouraging Family Communication About Healthy Sexuality
Thursday, August 20, 2015
12:00 PM (PST) - 1:00 PM (PST)
LIVE Webinar
Training Overview
Studies have shown that increased communication between a child and their parent or guardian will lead to safer sexual behavior among teens. Parents or guardians should be the primary source for young people to learn about their changing bodies, sexual and reproductive health and healthy relationships. Family communication about sex helps young people become comfortable thinking and talking about sex which helps them have better health outcomes and healthier, more respectful relationships.
Encouraging two-way communication between parents and youth allows for more open and honest discussions about traditional harm-reduction topics of STD, abuse and pregnancy prevention and a broader range of sexuality and relationship topics. This webinar will cover how parents and guardians can educate youth and encourage them to make healthy decisions about sex and relationships. It will also share strategies for how youth can bring up conversations with parents, guardians and other family members. Helpful resources will also be shared like CFHC's Talk With Your Kids (TWYK) website and PPLA's "A Parent's Guide to Talking with Your Teen."
After this session participants will be able to:
- Identify the positive impact family communication about sexuality can have on the healthy sexual development of young people
- List sex-related topics that families can discuss to help youth become sexually healthy adults
- Teach parents and guardians ways to initiate sexual health conversations with kids at different ages
- Introduce youth to strategies for engaging parents and other family members in discussions about sexuality and relationships
- Identify expert recommended and award winning books, videos, websites and other resources on healthy sexuality that parents or guardians can share with youth
Who Should Attend?
- Health + Sexuality Educators
- School + Community-Based Educators
- Counselors + Social Workers
- Youth Educators
- Family Planning Staff
- Medical Assistants
- Clinicians
- Nurses
- Parents + Guardians
Continuing Education Units included for Nursing, LCSW, and CHES
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| Guiding Teens and Young Adults to Successful Relationships | | |
The Dibble Institute:Guiding Teens and Young Adults to Successful Relationships
Did you know that a "dibble" is a garden tool used to plant seeds? No small coincidence that our founder, Charlie Dibble, recognized the need to help youth grow healthy relationship skills.
Join the staff of The Dibble Institute as we explore the "inside scoop" on effective tools to help youth develop the skills and knowledge needed for growing satisfying and healthy romantic, family, and work relationships.
At the end of this webinar, participants will learn:
- Who is behind The Dibble name and what is our mission,
- How The Dibble Institute achieves our mission, and
- What services The Dibble Institute provides to help you meet your goals for teens and young adults.
Presenters: The Staff of The Dibble Institute
Who should attend: Anyone new to The Dibble Institute - staff involved in pregnancy prevention, sexual assault prevention, violence reduction, workforce development, sex education, expecting and parenting teens, relationship education, responsible parenting, and anyone who would like to learn how The Dibble Institute can help you reach your goals with young people.
When: Wednesday, August 12, 2015, 4:00 pm Eastern/1:00 pm Pacific
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost:Free!
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| Trauma-Informed Nation: Save the Date | | Trauma-Informed Nation: Save the Date
The Women and Trauma Federal Partners' Committee is pleased to share the attached SAVE-THE-DATE flyer for our September 29-30, 2015, national event: Building a Trauma-Informed Nation: Moving the Conversation into Action. This meeting is designed to expand the conversation about trauma-informed approaches and create a national action agenda. People can attend the main event in DC at the U.S. Department of Labor's Cesar Chavez Auditorium, or they can join virtually from amplifier sites across the county.
This is the third major event sponsored by the Women and Trauma Federal Partners' Committee. This meeting will spotlight effective implementation of trauma-informed approaches in four major areas: education, health care, the justice system, and communities and congregations. Within each of these areas, workplace and employment approaches will be addressed. There will also be time to engage in strategic action planning.
More information on how to access the event registration page, how to create an amplifier site, and logistics for hotel block and more is forthcoming.Feel free to contact Mary Blake at mary.blake@samhsa.hhs.gov or by phone at 240-276-1747 for further information.
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| Transgender Independent Study Series | | 
INDEPENDENT STUDY SERIES:
Clinically Competent and Culturally Proficient Care for Transgender and Gender Variant Patients
Part 1:
Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in a
Health Care Setting
About this Course
This course gives people who work in health care settings tools to better
understand their patients' needs and to provide culturally proficient care
to transgender and gender variant patients.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:
* Describe sex and gender continuums.
* Define terminology used to describe transgender and gender
variant people.
* Identify health disparities experienced by transgender and gender
variant people.
Part 2:
Clinical Care for Transgender and Gender
Variant Patients
About this Course
No matter what level of services you provide, you can serve the health
care needs of your transgender patients. This course will cover preventive
care, health education and health promotion, reproductive health
services and medical management of gender transition.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this webinar participants will be able to:
* Describe accepted medical protocols for gender affirmation.
* Describe models of informed consent for gender affirmation.
* Determine which primary care services to provide to patients
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| Clinical Care for Gender Nonconforming and Transgender Adolescents | |
Clinical Care for Gender Nonconforming and Transgender Adolescents
September 10, 2015 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM MST
How can you help your adolescent clients who are exploring gender issues? When should you consider providing or referring your clients for hormonal gender affirmation? How can you facilitate a dialogue between adolescents and their families?
Gender nonconforming youth are emerging at increasingly
younger ages, and those experiencing gender dysphoria are seeking medical care at the onset of puberty, or sometimes even before. Youth with gender dysphoria are at high risk for depression, anxiety, isolation, self-harm, and suicidality at the onset of a puberty. Existing strategies for treating transgender youth depend on the developmental stage at which these youth present for care.
Few health care providers are familiar with how children and adolescents who are exploring or struggling with gender issues might present in their practices. This webinar will help increase your awareness and screening of these clients and give you tools to support them and their families. It will cover standards of care and timelines for prescribing GnRH analogues to suppress endogenous puberty. It will also cover standards of care for gender-affirming hormonal treatments during adolescence.
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| Social Determinants of Breastfeeding: Policies, Trainings, and Programmatic Strategies | |
 Social Determinants of Breastfeeding: Policies, Trainings, and Programmatic Strategies
Please join us for a webinar on policies, trainings, and programs that are advancing breastfeeding support in the South.
Thursday, August 20, 2015
12:00 - 1:30pm EST
Audience
Healthcare providers, public health leaders, program managers, agency directors, and community leaders with an interest in maternal and child health
Learning Objectives
At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the sociocultural, economic, and political impacts of women's infant feeding decisions;
- Identify national and regional resources to advance breastfeeding-friendly healthcare initiatives ;
- Describe lessons learned from effective program strategies in promoting breastfeeding among young moms; and
Identify ways to support and participate in the 2016 Breastfeeding and Feminism Conference.
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