What's New
 National
Health Service Corps (NHSC) Opportunities
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NHSC State Loan Repayment Program
(SLRP) Notice of Funding Opportunity
Eligible state and U.S. territory entities may apply for the NHSC SLRP to
assist them in operating their state educational loan repayment programs for primary
care providers serving in Health Professional Shortage Areas in their state.
This year, SLRP has added a new discipline, substance abuse counselors, to the
list of health professionals who may apply for the program in their state.
Applications are due Monday, May 7, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Prospective applicants
should visit the NHSC SLRP page for more information or the HRSA
Grants page to begin the application
process.
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NHSC Scholarship
Program
Students in eligible
health disciplines can receive payment for tuition, fees, and other educational
costs as well as a living stipend in exchange for serving two years at
NHSC-approved sites in medically underserved rural, urban, and tribal
communities. Applications are due Thursday,
May 10. Learn
more about the NHSC Scholarship program.
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Fiscal Year 2018 Title X Services
Funding Opportunity Announcement
The HHS Office of Population Affairs (OPA) recently released the fiscal year
(FY) 2018 funding opportunity
announcement for the Title X program. This funding opportunity is for all 60
geographic service areas. Applications are due Thursday, May 24, at 6:00 p.m.
ET. View a webinar recording and resources.
U.S.
Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Updates
USPSTF seeks comments on a draft recommendation statement and draft evidence
review on screening for intimate partner violence, elder abuse, and abuse of
vulnerable adults. Clinicians should screen all women of reproductive age for
intimate partner violence and provide or refer those who screen positive to
ongoing support services. The Task Force found that there is not enough
evidence to determine the benefits or harms of screening for elder abuse or
abuse of vulnerable adults. Both the draft recommendation statement and draft
evidence review are available
for public comment until Monday, May
21.
USPSTF also recently released a final recommendation
statement on vitamin D, calcium, or combined supplementation for the primary
prevention of fractures in community-dwelling adults. The Task Force found
insufficient evidence to recommend for or against vitamin D and calcium
supplementation to prevent fractures in most adults at higher doses and
recommends against them at lower doses. Read
the recommendation and the evidence
on which it is based.
Resources
CDC
Hepatitis Awareness Month Resources and Activities
The Hepatitis Awareness Month site and Testing
Day Resource Center provide helpful
tools for supporting your awareness activities and testing events. Saturday,
May 19, is the 7th annual Hepatitis Testing Day. Encourage people to get
recommended hepatitis vaccinations and testing by promoting the Hepatitis Risk Assessment with free resources for your
website.
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CDC’s Be #HepAware Thunderclap!
To
further raise awareness and promote testing during May, please consider
participating in the Be #HepAware Thunderclap on
Saturday, May 19.
Thunderclap is a tool that allows supporters to sign up in
advance and share a unified message simultaneously across social media
platforms to create a wave or “thunderclap.” One hundred supporters are needed
for the Thunderclap to take effect, so please sign up!
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National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day 2018: “Partnering
for Help and Hope Following Trauma”
National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day shines a spotlight
on the importance of caring for every child’s mental health and reinforces that
positive mental health is essential to a child’s healthy development. Learn
how your organization can get involved.
SAMHSA will host a live
event and webcast focusing on the importance of an integrated health approach
to supporting children, youth, and young adults who have experienced trauma.
Use the hashtag #HeroesofHope to participate in the Awareness Day conversation
on social media. Speakers include HHS Secretary Alex M. Azar II; HHS Assistant Secretary
for Mental Health and Substance Use Elinore McCance-Katz, MD, PhD; and First Lady
of Wisconsin Tonette Walker.
Thursday, May 10
7:00-9:30 p.m. ET
Register for the live webcast, or to attend in-person at The Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, The George
Washington University Marvin Center, Washington, D.C.
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Promising
Practices for Health Centers: Serving Youth Experiencing Homelessness
The Corporation for Supportive
Housing, a HRSA-funded NCA, compiled promising
practices for addressing the needs of
homeless youth. It outlines innovations for connecting them to housing and
serving their health needs.
Development of Community Partnerships – Key
Components of Integrated Behavioral Health Care Roundtable Discussion for
Health Centers
Join CIHS for a regionally-focused and interactive roundtable
discussion on the key components of behavioral health integration with a
special focus on the development of community partnerships. This roundtable
discussion includes specific intervention topics to help providers meet the
needs of their community.
Wednesday,
May 9
3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Register
here
2018 Uniform Data
System (UDS) Reporting Changes Technical Assistance Webinar
This technical assistance webinar will provide an
overview of the changes for the calendar year 2018 UDS data collection and
reporting activities. HRSA will summarize the approved changes for 2018 UDS (for reports submitted by February 15, 2019), then share
possible changes for 2019 UDS and revised clinical measures resulting from
continued alignment with electronic specified clinical quality measures.
Thursday, May 10
1:00-2:30 p.m. ET
Join the webinar the day of
the session
Call-in: 888-469-3349
Passcode: 8611626
Health Center Care Delivery Models for Primary Care Integration of
Viral Hepatitis and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Webinar
This HRSA-hosted webinar will
feature primary care integration health center models for hepatitis B and
hepatitis C services. Join to learn effective workflows for hepatitis B
screening and management and how nurse care managers can drive patient care for
hepatitis C and substance use disorder treatment.
Tuesday,
May 15
2:30-3:30 p.m. ET
Join
the webinar the day of the session
Call-in: 888-829-8676
Passcode: 7634999
Consultation Services for Treating Pregnant Women with
Opioid Use Disorder
HRSA
is hosting a free webinar featuring experts reviewing SAMHSA’s “Clinical
Guidance for Treating Pregnant and Parenting Women with Opioid Use Disorder and
Their Infants.”
Speakers will discuss a sample case study using the fact sheets in the guidance.
Resources will be provided, including the Clinician Consultation Center’s Substance Use Warmline, which provides free and confidential
clinician-to-clinician telephone consultation on substance use evaluation and
management.
Wednesday, May 16
1:00-2:00 p.m. ET
Register here
Workshop Series: Do It Together
(DIT) Strengthening Connections to Housing Resources
The Corporation for Supportive
Housing, a HRSA-funded NCA, is hosting a series of open calls with Primary Care
Associations and Health Center Controlled Networks to explore, critique, and
design a range of training resources to build quality health and housing
partnerships. Upcoming dates and related resources:
Thursday,
May 24
12:00-1:15 p.m. ET
Register here – Log in to register and access a complementary
online tutorial, “Health Centers and Supportive Housing”
Thursday, June 14
12:00-1:15 p.m. ET
Register here
Related article: “Resources for
Building Health Center & Housing Partnerships: Literature Review &
Resource Bank”
In
case you missed it:
read last week’s Primary Health Care Digest.
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