FYI: Weekly Health Resources for February 14, 2018

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February 14, 2018

African American Heart Health Twitter Chat, Feb 14, 2 pm ET #LoveYourHeartChat

In This Issue:

Funding

OMH

  • HHS/Office of Minority Health (OMH): Youth Health Equity Model of Practice (YHEMOP) Summer 2018 Health Equity Fellowship. As part of YHEMOP, OMH supports the placement of Health Equity Fellows to assist in meeting the needs of diverse organizations by completing short-term health equity projects.
    Deadline is February 19Learn more.

  • HHS/OMH: National Lupus Training, Outreach, and Clinical Trial Education Program. For assistance with your application, please watch the Technical Assistance and Evaluation Basics webinars.
    Deadline is March 30, 6:00 pm ET. Learn more.

Federal Grants

  • HHS/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Law Enforcement and Behavioral Health Partnerships for Early Diversion Grants. The purpose of this program is to establish or expand programs that divert adults with a serious mental illness or a co-occurring disorder from the criminal justice system to community-based services prior to arrest and booking.
    Deadline is March 5. Learn more.

  • HHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Improving Student Health and Academic Achievement through Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Management of Chronic Conditions in Schools. Eligibility is limited to State Education Agencies.
    Deadline is March 5. Learn more.

  • HHS/SAMHSA: Treatment for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness, Serious Emotional Disturbance or Co-Occurring Disorders Experiencing Homelessness.
    Deadline is March 9. Learn more

    Scholarships / Fellowships / Internships / Mentoring

    • HHS/National Institutes of Health, Office of Intramural Training & Education: Summer Internship Program (SIP) in Biomedical Research. SIP is open to students (sixteen years of age or older) enrolled at least half-time in high school or an accredited college or university as undergraduate, graduate, or professional students. 
      Deadline is March 1. Learn more.
       
    • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Clinical Scholars Program 2018 Cohort. This is a leadership development opportunity for practitioners from diverse fields of health care who seek to tackle complex health problems in their communities.
      Deadline is March 14. Learn more.

    Webinars, Trainings and Conferences

    Black History Month, February 2018


    Webinars

    • National Center for Health and Public Housing: Hepatitis C Infection: Updated Information for Front Line Workers in Primary Care Settings. This webinar will review the ABCs of HCV infection as well as HCV drug therapy management in primary care.
      TODAY, February 14, 2:00 pm ETRegister.
        
    Preconception Peer Educators
    • HHS/OMH, Office of Minority Health Resource Center (OMHRC): Preconception Peer Educators webinar. What's Love Gotta Do With It? Intimate Partner Violence. This webinar will promote the awareness and understanding of intimate partner violence as a public health issue faced by many college students and young adults on campuses across the county.
      February 15, 12:00 pm ETRegister.
    • March of Dimes/Every Woman NC: North Carolina Preconception Health Campaign webinar series. Tobacco Use in Women of Reproductive Age: Risks and Consequences. This series of five free webinars will focus on improving the health of women prior to pregnancy and aiming towards better birth outcomes.
      February 21, 11:30 am ET. Register.
       
    • HHS/Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships: Creating a Culture of Compassion and Action in Response to the Opioid Crisis. Join the HHS Partnership Center, Kay Warren (Saddleback Church), and Marla Kaufman (Jewish Addiction Awareness Network), and learn ways to offer a compassionate invitation that clearly affirms that the work of recovery belongs in your community. 
      February 21, 12:00 pm ET. Register.

    • Association of American Medical Colleges: Teaching Medical Spanish to Improve Population Health. This webinar will highlight the impact of patient-provider language concordance on clinical practice and health care delivery in an increasingly diverse population.
      February 22, 1:30 pm ET. Register.

    Hidden Casualties Webinars. Part 1: State Government Perspectives. Feb 22, 3 pm ET


    • HHS/Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy (OHAIDP): Hidden Casualties webinar series. National Partners' Response to the Opioid Epidemic & Infectious Diseases - Part 1: State Government Perspectives. Throughout this two part series, panelists will describe the use of existing federal guidance, policies, and resources that support their efforts–at the local, state, and national levels–to respond to the opioid epidemic and its infectious disease consequences. 
      February 22, 3:00 pm ETRegister.

    • American Planning Association/Planning and the Black Community Division, in partnership with the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice: Equitable Development webinar. Planning for Environmental Justice and Healthy Communities. For this webinar, environmental justice and land use experts will explain the intent and history behind California's SB 1000 law, and they will discuss how and why communities can integrate environmental justice into local planning efforts. 
      February 23, 1:00 pm ETRegister.

    Conferences

    • American Public Health Association (APHA):  Call for abstracts for the APHA 2018 Annual Meeting & Expo, Creating the Healthiest Nation: Health Equity Now.
      Abstract deadlines range from February 19-23 and March 1-2. Learn more.
    APHA 2018 Annual Meeting & Expo. San Diego, Nov. 10-14

    Resources

    Health Campaigns

    • The HHS/National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and OMH recognize February as American Heart Month. Join NHLBI and its The Heart Truth program in encouraging everyone to move more and #MoveWithHeart.

    Every doctor has the power to fight the flu. Vaccinate your patients. #FightFlu. cdc.gov/FightFlu
    • During this flu season, CDC has created the Digital Media Toolkit: 2017-18 Flu Season to assist partners in communicating about the importance of vaccination. The toolkit includes sample social media and newsletter content, graphics, web assets, and media prep material. Learn more

    Opportunities for Public Comment

    • HHS/Administration for Community Living (ACL), National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR): Request for information on Opioid Use Disorder among People with Disabilities.
      Deadline is February 20. Learn more

    Job Opportunities

    OMHRC

    • AMTIS is recruiting for a FT Senior Media and Communications Specialist at the Office of Minority Health Resource Center in Rockville, MD. Open until filled. Apply

    Community-Based Organizations / Non-Profits

    • The Praxis Project is recruiting for a FT Policy Coordinator for their Oakland, CA or Washington DC office. Deadline is February 28. Apply

    @ The Knowledge Center - Recommended Reading

    • The book Heart-Sick, subtitled The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease, studies disparities based on class, race, and gender that impact the mortality rates of people with heart disease. Using a collection of data from literature reviews, along with interviews with cardiovascular epidemiologists and patients with heart disease, the author, Janet K. Shim, shows how people of color with heart disease navigate health care, coupled with ways epidemiologists provide individualized health care. Heart-Sick shows how different views of heart disease causes can develop between doctors and the people they treat, and how all of these factors can impact research on heart disease. 

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