FYI: Weekly Health Resources for March 30, 2016

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March 30, 2016

Every Community Deserves Good Health. This April we celebrate National Minority Health Month.

Submit your National Minority Health Month events to the Office of Minority Health's

Events Calendar.

In This Issue:

Funding

OMH Grants

  • HHS/Office of Minority Health (OMH): National Health Education Lupus Program (NHELP). A technical assistance webinar was held March 8, and can be accessed here. Deadline is April 18, 2016. Learn more.
  • HHS/OMH: Communities Addressing Childhood Trauma (ACT). A technical assistance webinar was held March 9, and can be accessed here. Deadline is April 18, 2016. Learn more.
  • HHS/OMH: Re-Entry Community Linkages (RE-LINK) Program. A technical assistance webinar was held March 10, and can be accessed here. Deadline is April 21, 2016. Learn more. 

Federal Grants

  • HHS/Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration for Native Americans (ANA): Native Youth Initiative for Leadership, Empowerment, and Development (I-LEAD). Deadline for Letter of Intent (LOI) is April 13, 2016. Learn more. 
  • HHS/Office of Adolescent Health (OAH): Pregnancy Assistance Fund Program. Awards funds to states and Tribal entities so they can provide support services to expectant and parenting teens, women, fathers, and their families. Deadline is April 29, 2016. Learn more.
  • HHS/National Institutes of Health (NIH): Multidisciplinary Studies of HIV and Viral Hepatitis Co-Infection (R01) Research Project Grant. Deadline is May 7, 2016. Learn more.  
  • HHS/NIH, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Collaborative Hubs to Reduce the Burden of Suicide among American Indian and Alaska Native Youth (U19) Research Program – Cooperative Agreements. Deadline for LOI is June 7, 2016. Learn more.
  • HHS/NIH, National Library of Medicine (NLM): HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Project 2016. NLM solicits quotations from organizations and libraries to design and conduct projects for improving HIV/AIDS information access for patients and the affected community as well as their caregivers and the general public. Deadline is June 13, 2016. Learn more.  
  • HHS/NIH, Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives: Population Health Interventions: Integrating Individual and Group Level Evidence (R21) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant. Deadline is June 16, 2016. Learn more. 

Scholarships / Fellowships

  • Atlantic Philanthropies: Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program, 2016-2017 Class. Deadline is April 15, 2016. Learn more. 

Internships / Mentoring

  • Georgia Institute of Technology: Bee-INSPIRED, INtegrating Service Projects Into Research and Design Summer Undergraduate Research Experience. Intended for undergraduate STEM majors, this program will focus on honey bees and their role in urban agriculture. Deadline is April 1, 2016. Learn more.
  • University of Connecticut/Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (CICATS): Young Innovative Investigator Program (YIIP). Provides academic training to underrepresented minority students pursuing careers in biological and biomedical science. Deadline is April 11, 2016. Learn more. 

OMHRC at Local Conferences

American Indian/Alaska Native Health

Events

  • HHS/Indian Health Service (IHS), National Council on Behavioral Health, and the National Indian Health Board (NIHB): Call for proposals for the National American Indian/Alaska Native Behavioral Health Conference, Creating Trauma Informed Systems in AI/AN Communities. Event to be held in Portland, OR. Deadline is April 15, 2016. Learn more.  

Capacity Building

Events

  • Governor's Grants Office/Governor's Office of Community Initiatives, in  partnership with Maryland Non Profits: Training. Grant Training for Maryland's Faith-Based Registered 501(c)3 Non Profit Organizations. April 8, 2016, 8:30 am ET in College Park, MD. Register. 
  • Governor's Grants Office/Governor's Office of Community Initiatives, in  partnership with Maryland Non Profits: Training. Grant Training for Maryland's Faith-Based Registered 501(c)3 Non Profit Organizations. May 10, 2016, 8:30 am ET in Wye Mills, MD. Register.      

Clinical Trials

  • HHS/NIH, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), in collaboration with PaxVax: Study of Safety and Immunogenicity of Ad4-HIV Vaccine Vectors in Healthy Volunteers (NACHO), Phase I. NIH seeks HIV negative, 18-49 years old volunteers to test an experimental HIV vaccine. The study vaccine will not expose volunteers to HIV infection. Trial to be conducted at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. Learn more. 

Disability and Rehabilitation

Health Disparities

  • HHS/Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Call for nominations for members of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2030. Deadline is April 18, 2016. Learn more. 
  • HHS/Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of Minority Health: New interactive tool. Mapping Medicare Disparities (MMD). This online tool identifies disparities in health outcomes, utilization, and spending by race and ethnicity and geographic location. Learn more. 

Events

  • HHS/OMH, National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (NPA), Federal Interagency Health Equity Team (FIHET), and the Association for State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO): Promoting Health Equity through Programs and Policies webinar series. Voice Your Vision: A Community Engagement Initiative. March 30, 2016, 3:00 pm ET. Register.
  • CityMatCH/Equity Action Group: Conference call. Reducing Health Disparities. To join the call, please dial 1-866-740-1260 and enter password 5617579. March 30, 2016, 3:00 pm ET. 
  • The Family Tree Information, Education & Counseling Center: 2016 Minority Health Awareness Summit. Awareness to Action: Accelerating Health Equity in Acadiana. April 20, 2016, 10:00 am CT in Scott, LA. Register. 

HIV/AIDS

Events

  • National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC): Call for abstracts for the 20th Annual US Conference on AIDS (USCA). Deadline is April 8, 2016. Learn more.  

Men's Health

  • National Fatherhood Initiative: Updated resource. Fatherhood Program Locator. This free online tool helps fathers and organizations locate father-serving organizations in their community. Learn more. 

Mental Health

Events

  • HHS/NIH, Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR) and the Behavioral and Social Science Consortium for Medical Education: Workshop. Implementing Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) into Healthcare Education. April 22, 2016 in Bethesda, MD. Learn more.

Peer Educators

Events

  • HHS/OMH, OMHRC: Preconception Peer Educators (PPE) webinar. The Geography of Health: How Race-Based Policies and Real Estate Practices Shaped Today’s Health Inequity Hot Spots. March 31, 2016, 3:00 pm ET. Register.  

Public Health

  • HHS and the American Public Health Association (APHA) recognize April 4-10, 2016 as National Public Health Week (NPHW) with the theme "Healthiest Nation 2030." For toolkits, fact sheets, events, infographics and other downloads, and other resources, please see NPHW and the CDC.
National Public Health Week / An Initiative of the American Public Health Association / www.nphw.org

Refugee and Immigrant Health

Events

  • HHS/OMH, in partnership with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the African Services Committee: Save the date for the 4th US Conference on African Immigrant Health (USCAIH-4), Social Determinants of African Immigrant & Refugee Health: Rethinking Integration, Challenges, and Empowerment. September 15-18, 2016 in East Elmhurst, NY. For further information please contact Margaret Korto.

Substance Abuse

  • HHS/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): New resource. Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People with Stimulant Use Disorders: Counselor's Family Education Manual. Provides substance abuse treatment professionals with a year-long intensive outpatient treatment model for clients with dependence on stimulant drugs such as methamphetamine and cocaine. Learn more | Download full manual (PDF, 1 MB)

Violence

National Child Abuse Prevention Month / childwelfare.gov/topics/preventing/preventionmonth
  • HHS/ACF recognizes April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month with the theme "Building Community, Building Hope." For a resource guide, tip sheets, events, outreach materials, and social media messaging samples, please visit the Child Welfare Information Gateway.

Job Opportunities

Federal

  • HHS/ACF, Office of Public Affairs (OPA) is recruiting for a Public Affairs Specialist (GS-1035-13) position in Washington, DC. Deadline is April 4, 2016. Apply as a US Citizen. 

@ The Knowledge Center - Recommended Reading

  • HIV Among Asians is a fact sheet published and distributed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This document contrasts the increased numbers of HIV diagnoses among Asians, and the corresponding growth of the Asian population in the United States, with decreased HIV infection rates. To view this title and find additional information, search our online catalog.