February 2013  
     
NACCHO MCAH Newsletter
News, Resources, Updates, and Events for Local Health Departments
In This Issue
Show Your Love Campaign from CDC
March 10 is National Women and Girls HIV/Awareness Day
MCH Library Releases Resources about Stress During and After Pregnancy
The State of Mental Health among U.S. Adolescents
Authors Examine Medical Home Status among U.S. Adolescents
PREEMIE Reauthorization Act
The Institute for Equity in Birth Outcomes Request for Applications
CDC Funding Opportunity Announcement for Adolescent and School Health
Access WIC Training Courses from USDA through TRAIN
Eastern Virginia Medical School 'Safe Sleep Practices' Video
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Show Your Love Campaign from CDC

The Show Your Love campaign from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention educates consumers, health professionals and policymakers about preconception health. The campaign includes resources, materials, and information about preconception health and health care. Learn more about the campaign here.  

March 10 is National Women and Girls HIV/Awareness Day 

Visit the National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD) Group Space microsite where you can easily download promotional materials. Event planning guides and templates are also available for download via the NWGHAAD website.   

MCH Library Releases Resources about Stress During and After Pregnancy

The Maternal and Child Health Library (MCH Library) at Georgetown University presents a new knowledge path, Maternal Distress in the Perinatal Period and Child Outcomes. The knowledge path, which was developed with support from the William J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Foundation, points to policies, programs, and practices that enhance a woman's ability to cope with stress, provide social and emotional support for pregnant women and new mothers, and build protective factors in new families. Health professionals, program administrators, policymakers, and researchers can use the knowledge path to learn more about maternal distress and child outcomes, to integrate what they know into their work in new ways to improve care, for program development, and to locate training resources and information to answer specific questions. View the knowledge path online here.

The State of Mental Health among U.S. Adolescents

One in five adolescents has a diagnosable mental health disorder. This month, Child Trends has issued three briefs in its Adolescent Health Highlights series on adolescent mental health, which offers strategies and approaches to reducing mental health disorders among adolescents: Mental Health Disorders, Access to Mental Health Care; and Positive Mental Health: Resilience.

Authors Examine Medical Home Status among U.S. Adolescents

An article in the American Academy of Pediatrics analyzes data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health to examine past-year medical home use among adolescents ages 10-17. The authors state that infants, children, and adolescents should receive their healthcare in a medical home-an environment in which care is accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and  culturally effective. The abstract is available here.   

PREEMIE Reauthorization Act

On February 7, the PREEMIE Authorization Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate. This bipartisan legislation will advance federal research and promote known interventions and community initiatives to reduce preterm birth and infant mortality caused by prematurity. Similar bills passed the House and the Senate during the 112th Congress, however Congress adjourned before the Senate could reconsider its version with House amendments. The original PREEMIE Act (P.L. 109-450) brought the first-ever national focus to prematurity prevention and has generated a public-private agenda to spur innovative research at NIH and CDC. Learn more about the act here   

The Institute for Equity in Birth Outcomes Request for Applications

CityMatCH, with funding from The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, has announced the Institute for Equity in Birth Outcomes, a national initiative of urban communities that brings a scientific focus to increasing equity in birth outcomes. Institute teams will be placed in local urban health departments. Click here to apply. Deadline is Mar. 1.   

CDC Funding Opportunity Announcement for Adolescent and School Health 

CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health released a new funding opportunity announcement (FOA), RFA-1308: Promoting Adolescent Health Through School-Based HIV/STD Prevention and School-Based Surveillance. The primary purpose of this funding is to build the capacity of districts and schools to effectively contribute to the reduction of HIV infection and other STD among adolescents; the reduction of disparities in HIV infection and other STD experienced by specific adolescent sub-populations; and the conducting of school-based surveillance through YRBS and Profiles implementation.

Access the FOA here and supporting materials here. The deadline for letters of intent is Mar. 15. The deadline for receiving applications is Apr. 26

Access WIC Training Courses from USDA through TRAIN

The Public Health Foundation and the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program have hosted seven educational WIC modules on TRAIN, the premier learning management system for professionals and volunteers who protect the public's health.  

Eastern Virginia Medical School 'Safe Sleep Practices' Video

The regional fetal and infant mortality review team and regional Child Fatality Review Team in Eastern Virginia joined efforts to develop a Safe Sleep for Babies Task Force, aimed at decreasing and eliminating deaths associated with unsafe sleeping practices.  View the video here.