February 14,2017 FHV Tuesday Topics

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Minnesota Department of Health

Family Home Visiting Tuesday Topics

A weekly update for Family Home Visiting Professionals

For the week of February 14, 2017

 

Contents

  • Announcements
  • Meetings and Events
  • MDH FHV Training
  • Other Training
  • Resources

 Announcements

Call for Presenters for Addressing the Challenges of Poverty Conference

Aha! Process is accepting proposals for presentations for the 2017 “Addressing the Challenges of Poverty” conference scheduled for September 24-26, 2017 in St. Louis, MO. Practitioners from communities around the country will come together during this conference to share best practices, strategies and tips for eradicating poverty, methods to build the resources of individuals and promote community sustainability. Share your success, and learn from the success of others using the work. Visit this link for more information about the conference and this link to submit a proposal.

 

Minnesota Coalition against Sexual Assault (MNASA) Seeking feedback from Home Visitors & Supervisors through a survey of professionals who work on behalf of children, as part of a project to better understand Minnesota’s system for identifying and responding to children with sexual behavior problems. This survey asks about your experience with children’s sexual behaviors including both behaviors that are developmentally expected and those that are concerning or potentially harmful. This survey should take no more than five minutes of your time. Your answers will be used to help us improve current practices and systems for identifying and responding to children with sexual behavior problems. Your answers will be kept confidential. Everyone who completes the survey will have the opportunity to enter a drawing to win one of four $50 Amazon gift certificates. Here is the link to the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RalHV. If you have any questions or concerns about this survey, please contact Jessica Jerney, Evaluation and Research Coordinator at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MNCASA) at jjerney@mncasa.org. Thanks for sharing your time and input.

Healthy Families America (HFA) Updates

The following are February 2017 updates for Minnesota’s HFA programs:

 

  • Registration is open for the 2017 HFA Community of Practice (CoP) event on April 4, 2017, at Camp Friendship in Annandale, MN. To register for the CoP click here. 

  • Please see these notes for highlights from the recent HFA National Directors Call. Once the recorded webinar link is available, it will be shared in Tuesday Topics.
  • At the HFA Leads meeting in January, many comments were expressed about the HFA Site Survey. Sites are encouraged to send feedback to Kathryn Harding at HFA about the survey.   Sylvia Cook will be compiling responses and sending them as well, so please e-mail any feedback to Sylvia at sylvia.cook@state.mn.us to share as aggregate Minnesota data. 

Meetings and Events

MIECHV CQI Learning Collaborative: Early Identification and Connection to Services Quality Improvement Project

On February 2, 2017, MDH hosted an informational webinar for FHV programs participating in the CQI Learning Collaborative. Click this link for a recording of the webinar.

 

For programs participating in the CQI Learning Collaborative, please register by February 17, 2017, for the Kick-off Learning Session scheduled for March 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the New Brighton Community Center. Participating programs should have received a link to register for the event. If you have additional questions, please contact Meredith Martinez, meredith.martinez@state.mn.us.

 

 

MDH FHV Training

 

Training Opportunities Remain for Non-HFA Home Visiting Programs

Registration slots remain for the following trainings supported by the MDH FHV program. These trainings are for staff who are not working in the Healthy Families America (HFA) home visiting model, but are interested in attending training in Integrated Strategies and Parent Survey. Supervisors and Program Managers who register for either Integrated Strategies or Parent Survey training should note there is a separate supervisor training day and registration required for each of these courses. For more information and to register for these classes, click on one of the links below.

 

GGK Training Registration Now Open

Registration opened last week for Growing Great Kids (GGK) training in Minnesota. Priority registration is being given to HFA-affiliated or accredited program staff who require curriculum training within six-months of hire and/or site affiliation/accreditation. If you are not HFA-affiliated or accredited, please e-mail health.fhv@state.mn.us to be placed on the wait list. Click this link for more information and to register for one of the following GGK trainings:

  • March 20-24, 2017 in Willmar, MN
  • April 24-28, 2017 in Litchfield, MN
  • May 8-12, 2017 in Fergus Falls, MN
  • June 19-23, 2017 in Two Harbors, MN
  • September 18-22, 2017 in Waite Park, MN
  • October 2-6, 2017 in Bloomington, MN
  • November 13-17, 2017 in Waite Park, MN

 

 

Other Training

 

(REPEAT) e-Learning Courses in Healthcare Data Analytics, Population Health, and Value-Based Care

Normandale Community College has partnered with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to offer these free (and short!) e-Learning courses. Learn more about these critical healthcare topics, earn a certificate, CEUs and/or CMEs, and support quality activities, practice improvement and transformation. Courses are appropriate for all roles and levels of work within healthcare and also those that support the operations or ecosystem of healthcare services. To learn more or to register, visit this MNHealthIT link.

 

 

 

Resources

 

MIECHV and IDEA Part C

The link below is to an Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Joint Statement on Collaboration and Coordination of the MIECHV and IDEA Part C Programs. Much of the information is on background for each program that you are most likely knowledgeable about but of particular interest is the section on recommendations for the programs to work together at the state as well as at the local level. This section begins on page 9 of the document. There is also a nice table that compares the two programs side by side in Appendix A.

 

Integrating Home Visiting in State and Tribal Early Childhood Systems

This ZERO TO THREE framework outlines strategies states and tribes can take to better integrate home visiting into comprehensive early childhood systems and shares examples of how states and tribes are implementing them.

 

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s (NCTSN) Updated Refugees and Trauma Webpages

New information has been added to the refugees and trauma webpages of NCTSN.org.

These pages offer guidance for providers in schools, primary care, mental health, and those who work with immigrant, refugee, or migrant children. Resources on refugee rights, trauma experienced by refugees, core stressors refugees endure, and a link to the core stressor assessment tool can also be found on this page.

 

Affordable Care Act (ACA) Repeal Information Online

A few weeks ago, more than 250 members of the community attended Innovation, Coverage and Access: A Public Forum on the Repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

Read about the forum, access the information shared and keep up on the state’s latest analysis on this Department of Human Services webpage.

 

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Recommended Immunization Schedule for Adults Aged 19 Years or Older — United States, 2017

On February 7, 2017, this report was posted online as an MMWR Early Release

Authors: David K. Kim, MD; Laura E. Riley, MD; Kathleen H. Harriman, PhD; Paul Hunter, MD; Carolyn B. Bridges, MD

In October 2016, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to approve the Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule for Adults Aged 19 Years or Older—United States, 2017. The 2017 adult immunization schedule summarizes ACIP recommendations in two figures, footnotes for the figures, and a table of contraindications and precautions for vaccines recommended for adults. Read more here.

 

Peer Support Toolkit

The Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and disAbility Services is pleased to announce the release of our interactive Peer Support Toolkit. This innovative toolkit was developed in partnership with Achara Consulting and the Yale Program on Recovery and Community Health, with support from Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center (Great Lakes ATTC). The toolkit presents promising practices and tested tools gleaned from more than a decade of pioneering work by providers, peers, and other stakeholders in Philadelphia's behavioral health system. For more information and to access the tool kit, visit this website.

 

 

Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit

The Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit is designed to teach basic knowledge, skills, and values about working with children who are in the child welfare system and who have experienced traumatic events. The toolkit gives strategies for using trauma-informed child welfare practice to enhance the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families. The toolkit was developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, in collaboration with the Rady Children's Hospital, Chadwick Center for Children and Families, the Child and Family Policy Institute of California (CFPIC), the California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC), and the California Institute for Mental Health (CIMH). To access the toolkit, register at this site.